Notes for an article on Seliger 2010
International youth camp Seliger 2010, July 1 – July 8, Russia.
Preliminary notes written on a bus from Seliger to Moscow. Pictures will follow in the next few days.
Seliger is the location where in the last couple of years the Russian government, through its Federal agency for youth affairs, has been organizing summer camps for young people from all over Russia. The same location was previously used by the much discussed youth organisation “Nashi”.
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…
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.
