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Unlikely Dissidents
06 Apr 2013 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
Two States, Three Countries, Four Opponents of Fracking
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Mountains of Gold
25 Jan 2012 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
The Rosia Montana mine is one of the oldest mines in the world, but now it threatens to destroy the ancient village it long ago built.
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The End of the Séance
26 Dec 2011 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
At the end of 1989, when the Soviet Bloc was in its death throes, a miraculous healer appeared on TV. His name was Anatoly Kashpirovsky, a Ukrainian-born psychotherapist and self-appointed guru.
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A Threat to Public Order
04 Nov 2011 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
Or, How My Love of Belarusian Tractors Got Me Arrested by the KGB
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Back in the USSR
01 Oct 2011 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
Twenty years ago, the most grandiose political and social experiment of the twentieth century, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, came to an end.
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Unapproachable Light
07 Apr 2010 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
As recently as 2005, Camp Bondsteel was purported to be a secret interrogation site for the American military. So why does predominantly Muslim Kosovo love it so much?
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Orpheus’s Error
18 Mar 2010 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
Taking cover from death, I live in a tomb. My CHU (Containerized Housing Unit) is tightly girded by twelve-foot-high concrete T-walls.
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The Life and Opinions of Captain Donald Lipscomb
17 Mar 2010 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
My Vietnamese name is Le Hoang Dung. My American name is Donald Lipscomb.
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City of Trash
14 Mar 2010 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
After the post-election glow, Baghdad is back in the real world. The streets are clogged with vehicles honking and people hawking.
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The Hurt Locker 2
10 Mar 2010 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
Three days after Iraqis voted amid a barrage of bombs and Hollywood awarded Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker six Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Director), I’m at Baghdad’s General Counter Explosive Directorate, the center of Iraq’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal programs.
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