Geo answer
Okay ? we head due east from Ukraine to answer our Geo Quiz. Let’s see ? we were looking for a Russian region where schoolchildren are required to learn chess ? where the music is a combination of Turkic, Caucasian and Russian throat singing. And where the President says he was taken on board a spaceship that had come to planet Earth to take samples.
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