Joe Ragan

Well, today is April 7th in Kiev. It is a little after 8 a.m. and when I opened my curtains this morning I got a little shock.

The weather here has been warm and all the snow has been melted for a couple of days. It clouded up yesterday and rained off and on [...]

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There is only one major highway in Kazakhstan that runs from Almaty (the former capital) to Astana (the new capital) and it runs through Karaganda. The Kim’s and I drove the 1,000 kilometers to Almaty for a retreat. The landscape is non-descript except to say it was the same for over 800 of [...]

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Well, they weren’t exactly Dunkin Donuts like in the US, however, they were VERY tasty! It seems that a Korean businessman couldn’t get a Dunkin Donuts franchise license for Kazakhstan and so he opened a Domino Donuts store with the same logo, etc.

The donuts were a great treat, however expensive. The donuts are [...]

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