Oasis near Sarykum dune Dagestan

Memories of uncharted terrain

We just crossed the border from Azerbaijan into Dagestan, the most southern and one of the most infamous autonomous Russian republics. Together with Ossetia, Chechnya and a bunch of even more tiny, would-be independent states in its neighborhood, hopefully Dagestan won’t live up to its reputation of ethnic instability, terrorist attacks or kidnapping while we […]

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