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Waiting My Turn in Mongolia

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The lady at the Khan-Uul District Citizen’s Hall, a “Senior Specialist Citizen’s Representative,” was supposed to be showing us around the building. We had an appointment all set up and we were on time. She, however, was blabbing with some locals while we cooled our heels on hard chairs in the Hall for maybe half an hour. I was annoyed -- until I understood what was really happening -- but I am getting way ahead of the story.

The lady at the Khan-Uul District Citizen’s Hall, a “Senior Specialist Citizen’s Representative,” was supposed to be showing us around the building. We had an appointment all set up and we were on time. She, however, was blabbing with some locals while we cooled our heels on hard chairs in the Hall for maybe half an hour. I was annoyed -- until I understood what was really happening -- but I am getting way ahead of the story.

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Lawrence D. Weiss, PhD, MS, Director of Programs for the Alaska Center for Public Policy, traveled to Mongolia to collaborate on good governance with a Community Solutions alumna.

Top Secret Submarines and the Joys of Media Development

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I realized just how incredibly far media development has come as myself and some colleagues entered the bunker-like submarine tunnels the Soviet navy built to withstand 20 kilotons of nuclear explosion (roughly twice the power of those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.)

Eleeza AgopianI realized just how incredibly far media development has come as myself and some colleagues entered the bunker-like submarine tunnels the Soviet navy built to withstand 20 kilotons of nuclear explosion (roughly twice the power of those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.) The tunnels are encased in a stone mountain in Balaklava, Ukraine, just south of Sevastopol in Crimea, and offered both a secret spot for s

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