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McDondald’s on the beach and a cruiser

yep, still in Abkhazia… I took this one in Novyj Afon, about 20 km north of Sukhumi…

On a train to Rostov

City of the dead, North Ossetia

Built in the XIV-XVIII century… beautiful, but rather difficult to reach… there are still bones and whole skeletons inside those building.

A foggy day in Nazran, Ingushetia

It takes about half an hour by mini-bus to get from Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia, to Nazran, Ingushetia. In spite of these, residents of one city apparently scarcely visit the other. Anyway, this is a long story, and I’m not going into that… The first thing one notices approaching Ingushetia is the extremely visible presence of military units. Check points at the border between the two republics. Soldiers with automatic gun machines all along the main road, all in camouflage uniforms with heavy bullet-proof vests, some even with their faced covered with balaclavas.