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Iran is still presented as a symbol of backwardness and fanaticism of the Muslim, leader of the "axis of evil" and a threat to world peace. It is said that the truth usually lies somewhere in between, but in this case there are perhaps two truths. Just as one can speak about two Irans and at least two masks worn every day by its citizens....

Karelia, North of Russia. This is a strange, no-man's land. And it doesn't mean there are no men. There are, once in a hundred kilometers there is a village, sometimes even a town. they are all surrounded by vast spaces, dense forests, cold seas and swampy lakes. This is no place for men. Maybe that's why it is here where was born probably most oppressive labour camps system in the world. Remote monastery on Solovetsky Island (surrounded by White Sea,...