I recently learned -completely by chance- of the existence of a country I hadn't even heard of before: Kabardino-Balkaria. I was amazed at my own ignorance -I thought that by know I knew of every country on Earth, at least by name, so I had to look it up. It turns out this former Soviet repubic is not an independent contry but one of the many oblasts (a type of province) that make up the Russian Federation.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Kabardino-Balkaria
I recently learned -completely by chance- of the existence of a country I hadn't even heard of before: Kabardino-Balkaria. I was amazed at my own ignorance -I thought that by know I knew of every country on Earth, at least by name, so I had to look it up. It turns out this former Soviet repubic is not an independent contry but one of the many oblasts (a type of province) that make up the Russian Federation.
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