Russia’s small but educated middle-class is leaving the mother country in search of opportunities and freedoms By Julian Evans, photo by Vladimir Atapin Konstantin Gaaze is a bright young Russian. The 30-year-old is the political editor of Moskovskie Novosti, a leading daily newspaper, and was previously an adviser to the minister of health. He is [...]
By Galina Toktalieva Dear Vlad, Thanks for your concerns and for being always there for me. Now after 10 years of relapse we can correspond again, as before, when we were Moscow students. In your last letter you write that your girlfriend feels so upset by illness of her dog that she stopped painting, and [...]
By Galina Toktalieva For thousands of years living without electricity and toothpaste, our forefathers, free of matrimonial restraints forced later by patriarchate, used to choose intimate partner by smell, as many mammals do. Probably the ability of humans to perceive odors partly degenerated with time. But even now in epoch of commercial odorants and perfumes, [...]
In vier Bezirken Wiens Migranten als Mehrheit WIEN – Obwohl wir in Österreich in einer multikulturellen Gesellschaft leben, sind es nur wenige Journalisten und Publizistikstudenten, die sich ernsthaft journalistisch mit MigrantInnen beschäftigen. Viele haben Angst oder schämen sich, MigrantInnen zu kontaktieren. Was zu Unwissenheit führt und die direkte Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema verhindert.
Galina Toktalieva for die Wiener Nachrichten Jetzt_mit_Übersetzung Whenever I go to Main Square with idea to make good photo of a horse, the blinders – leather flaps of bridle to keep horse from seeing anything on both sides – abash me. They say horses need those blinders to drag carriage with tourists forward. They also [...]
Werner Braun für Die Wiener Nachrichten Wenn man sich der Urania vom Stadtpark her nähert, dann sieht man deutlich, dass sich zumindest in einer Himmelsrichtung das relativ neue UNIQA-Gebäude über dem Donaukanal dem spähenden Teleskop in den Weg stellt, welches dann vielleicht statt ferner Welten die Unterlagen auf den Schreibtischen der Versicherungsbeamten entdeckt. Diese sitzen [...]