"Russian Chronicles - Ten Years Later" travel blog

[Lynda Park]

Dear Colleagues:

I am posting the following press release about "The Russian Chronicles – 
Ten Years Later" because this real-time travel blog, hosted by the 
Washingtonpost.com starting Sept. 1, could be a useful site for any Russian 
studies courses being taught this semester and also of general interest to 
subscribers of this listserv.  The 1995 "Russian Chronicles" provided 
wonderful vignettes into personal lives of ordinary Russians, and this 
follow-up ten years later should provide fascinating insights into how 
Russia has changed over the last ten years.  (For the sake of full 
disclosure, the writer Lisa Dickey is a close friend.  I hosted her and the 
photographer in 1995 when I was doing research in Irkutsk.)

Lynda Park
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
University of Illinois
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The Russian Chronicles – Ten Years Later

Between Sept. 1 - Nov. 22, you can follow writer Lisa Dickey and 
photographer David Hillegas as they journey across the whole of Russia, 
posting a daily blog about their adventures at 
www.washingtonpost.com/russianchronicles.

The Russian Chronicles – Ten Years Later reprises a trip Dickey took in 
1995, when she traveled from Vladivostok to St. Petersburg, stopping in 11 
different cities to do  “Road Stories” about the Russians she met along the 
way <http://russianchronicles.com/rc95/Russia/>. This time around, Dickey 
and Hillegas will try to track down those same people she wrote about in 
1995, to find out how they’re faring now – and more broadly, how Russia has 
changed over the past ten years.

You can find the daily blog, live online discussions and message boards at 
www.washingtonpost.com/russianchronicles.


Lynda Y. Park, Assistant Director
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
University of Illinois
104 International Studies Building, MC-487
910 South Fifth Street
Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 333-6022, 333-1244; fax (217) 333-1582
lypark at uiuc.edu
http://www.reec.uiuc.edu

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