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Taste of Zabaikalye Tour 2018, No. 3

CHUCK RITCHIE WRITES: August 24: Today we were treated to a visit to a community of Old Believers in the Tarbagatay region. The Old Believers are a group whose ancestors refused to accept new...

Taste of Zabaikalye Tour 2018, No. 2

CHUCK RITCHIE WRITES: August 21: One of our outings here in Listvyanka was dinner in the home of Sergei and Irina Beznosov. The Beznosovs often open their home to foreign visitors so that we...

Vitaly and Zoya Will Go to Paris After All

Vitaly and Zoya Will Go to Paris After All

We Will Go to Paris After All This is the story of two children from the Children’s Center “Edinstvo” in Zabaikalye, Zoya Chizhkova and Vitaly Tolochkin. They were finalists in the vocal talent show...

Young Stars from Zabaikalye

Young Stars from Zabaikalye

More than five months of work and preparation for the competition. Several complications, emotions, and finally – a second-place finish and the award of audience favorite. Zoya Chizhkova and Vitaly Tolochkin, participants from the...

Annual Get-Together, December 3.  Join us!

Annual Get-Together, December 3. Join us!

Save the afternoon of Sunday, December 3rd for our annual Get-Together at the Mayflower Church, 106 E Diamond Lake Rd, Minneapolis from 3 – 5pm in the Chapel.  The party will again be preceded...

posed photo of friends in the airport

My summer in Chita: 13. Leave-taking

This was my 12th visit to Chita in all these years, and for most of them leave-taking has been a wonderful comedy of scheduling, generosity, and impossible luggage.  This time was no exception. It...