I’m pretty sure that I’m not the only one who was surprised about names in Russia. Firstly, they can be very long and hard to pronounce. Secondly, Russian names consist of ...
Learning Russian for absolute beginners
So, you have just decided to learn Russian and look for a helping hand? Congratulations, stop searching - you’ve landed on the right ...
What do Rasputin and Raskolnikov have in common? Apart from the alliteration of their names, they both lived in a particular type of apartment building. Both the infamous and ...
The Russian cuisine may not have the best reputation when compared to other cuisines, like Italian cooking. But what is a stay abroad without discovering the local cuisine? ...
The winter holidays season has already started. For religious Russians, this means that a 40 day fasting period which began on the 28th of November. Nevertheless, not least ...
Andreas Bitzi is the founder of Quality Partners and the chairman of the AEB in the Northwest. In this interview, he takes us through the difficulties that foreigners can ...
It’s certainly one of the first things you read about while searching the internet to get an overview before you travel to St Petersburg. And as I had already heard from so ...
Yayyy, finally! Nooo, not again! It’s this day of the year again when opinions tend to differ sharply in Russia and the rest of the world – День Знаний (“Knowledge Day” - 1st ...
In today's society eating healthily and doing sports have become higher priorities, although taking care of your body has not always been that important. A few years ago this ...
I'm a new intern at Liden & Denz and I would like to say hello to you. My name is Max, or just Maxi, and I'm from the wonderful city Baden near Vienna. So why am I going ...
