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March 21, 2005

Welcome to Belgorod

"The young, headscarfed woman glares fiercely out from the billboard, her finger to her lips. Below, her message to passers-by is stark and somewhat menacing: 'Swearing isn't our style.'

Welcome to Belgorod, a medium-sized Russian town 400 miles (650 km) south of Moscow, where austere Soviet values are still, miraculously, intact."

Posted by michele at March 21, 2005 4:11 PM

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