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Politics: The Russo-Japanese Nuclear Deal and Pondering the Future of Security in Northeast Asia

May 25, 2009

Guest Post from Dragoman

The Moscow Times recently reported that Russia and Japan had agreed to expand their bilateral nuclear cooperation during Prime Minister Putin’s visit to Tokyo. The deal, which still awaits ratification in the Diet, will supply uranium fuel to Japanese nuclear reactors, enable Japanese firms to mine uranium in Russia, and may pave [...]

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Travel: The Trans-Siberian (Vodka) Train – Is It Worth It?

July 22, 2008

(cross-posted from my 2008 travel blog, written by two friends – the second was added later, and is at the end of the post)
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So, all in all, was the Vodka Train worth it? I blog about this question because it was helpful for us to read as much s we could about what we were [...]

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Travel: Trans-Siberian, Enter Mongolia and China

July 20, 2008

(cross-posted from my 2008 travel blog, written by my friend)
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Ironically, as Tom recently pointed out after reading our blog, our train attendant did in fact bring police officers onto the train the night I wrote our “Day 4″ post. We were actually being remarkably quiet this particular night – all but 2 people were sober, [...]

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Travel: Trans-Siberian Railroad, Day 4

July 14, 2008

(cross-posted from my 2008 travel blog, written by my friend)
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The men are restless and starving, scurvy is beginning to set in and I fear we may not make it out of this horrible wasteland…
Actually, aside from mild and relatively brief periods of boredom, all is going surprisingly well on this trip. Being cooped up on [...]

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Travel: Trans-Siberian Railroad, Day 2

July 11, 2008

(cross posted from my 2008 travel blog, posted by my friend)
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We boarded the train last night and buckled in for a four-day trip to Mongolia. The four of us are sharing a compartment with essentially two bunk beds with about two feet in the middle of the room, and the VodkaTrain group has four cabins [...]

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Travel: Russia

July 9, 2008

(cross-posted from my 2008 summer travel blog, written by my friend)
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We’re finishing up our last day in Moscow, we get on the train tonight. I’m more excited for the next few days than I was having met the people we’re traveling with – it’s basically the four of us and then a big group of [...]

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