Russia - Page 2

World Cup 2018: picking the Best Eleven

If you could draft any eleven players from World Cup 2018 into your dream team, which would you pick?

More

Estonia: between North and East

/

With elements of modern utopia and Soviet dystopia, the Baltic state of Estonia is an intriguing travel destination.

More

Divisive Nationalism in today’s world

/

Is the unraveling of democracy near? Is there a globalized racism epidemic? Or are people's fears and prejudices of a different nature?

More

#GoingGlocal: “Thank you for your letter,” Part V

//

Today, Diana wraps up her series by narrating what it has been like for her to finally meet and enter the "real life" of her penpal Genia, and also to see Russia for herself.

More

#GoingGlocal: “Thank you for your letter,” Part IV

//

"My sudden love affair with Aitmatov nearly made me flunk my German exam in tenth grade. 'Heroes of Our Everyday Socialist Life' was to be the topic of our written compositions. I wrote an essay about Aitmatov’s novel The Place of the Skull. [My German teacher] managed to save me from flunking. But Aitmatov saved

More

#GoingGlocal: “Thank you for your letter,” Part III

//

"In history class, I single-handedly denigrated the Soviet Union. We were sitting with our textbooks open. I felt bored. There was a photo of Lenin on the page. With my ballpoint pen, I drew Lenin an earring and a Mohican haircut... Forty years earlier in Thuringia, a schoolgirl had adorned a portrait of Stalin with

More