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Article: Minsk. (Belarus)
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- Article date:
- April 1, 1995
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A look at a real slice of the former Soviet Union, but for the adventurous traveler, a few surprises...
If you missed the opportunity to witness life in the Soviet Union and want a glimpse of what it was like, stop off in Minsk. Although even unfortunate Minsk is modernizing and Westernizing slowly, the capital of Belarus seems almost frozen in Soviet time.
"We want to show that Minsk is like any other European capital," the producer of the television magazine Kapital told me about his work. We were watching one of his shows together in his production office, a converted room in the downtown Yubileynaya hotel. Labeled "luxury class" by the government and ...