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Tag: Insider’s Russia: Moscow & St. Petersburg Rediscovered

5 Tips: How to Travel Like an Insider in Moscow, Russia

5 Tips: How to Travel Like an Insider in Moscow, Russia

Douglas Grimes / January 29, 2016
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Russia is a “strange, alluring, enthralling, wonderful world,” in the words of author Nikolai Gogol. The domed Orthodox churches, world-renowned museums, high culture and down-to-earth street life make up a whole that is at once well-bred and wild, huge and intimate, formal and free-wheeling. You need an insider to help you make sense of it all. And who better to be your guide than Douglas Grimes, the man who founded MIR in 1986? In the past 30 years, he’s been to Russia more than 100 times. Here are Doug’s 5 tips on how to travel like an insider in Moscow... Read More

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