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CT48 – Travel Tips: Caucasus Mineral Waters! Mineralnye Vody, Pyatigorsk, Kislovodsk, Essentukie, & Zheleznovodsk | MRV Airport

Posted May 24, 201900:27:46

Where can you find gentle wooded mountains, miles of walking paths, sulfur baths, bubbly mineral waters, food from every part of the Caucasus, and the...

CT47 – Travel Tips to Kabardino-Balkaria! Mount Elbrus | Terek, Chegem, Baksan Valleys | Terskol, Tyrnauz, Cheget, Eltyubyu, & More!

Posted May 23, 201900:46:17

If you’re looking for expert advice on travel in Kabardino-Balkaria, today’s Travel Tips are for you. We are joined once again by our good friend...

CT44 – Chechnya “In Their Own Words!” | Abdullah the Tour Guide & Couchsurfing Expert

Posted April 2, 201900:46:43

The people of Chechnya are probably some of the least well-understood in the Caucasus to outsiders. In the spirit of our ongoing series “In Their...

CT42 – Meat & Tea | Favorite Food Pastimes in the North Caucasus, a.k.a., Shashlik and Chai

Posted March 5, 201900:59:28

Some things only improve with age. We feel that way about a few of our early releases. Today we are re-releasing one of our most popular episodes ever,...

CT38A – Ossetians “In Their Own Words!” | Interview: Asheville Sister City with Vladikavkaz

Posted December 17, 201800:33:33

In a region already teeming with diversity, North Ossetia pushes the boundary yet further. Unlike its neighboring republics in so many ways, we are...