Sergey Medvedev is the managing director of Dekabristen e.V., a German-Russian NGO that aims to build exchange programs for young professionals and social innovators from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and regions in the South Caucasus. While interviewing Sergey we learned much about his journey from Russia to Germany, why he loves working for the Dekabristen e.V. as well as why drinking Samogon and singing Russian Perestroika rock songs at the bonfire back in Russia form some of his fondest memories. Where are you from? I come from Voronezh, a town on the Voronezh river south-western Russia. What is the strongest memory…
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Olga Vaulina is a PR publicist and an ambassador for zagran.me, an international community of Russian female professionals living abroad. We met Olga in Schöneberg-Friedenau, sat down for some coffee and asked her a couple…
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WHAT: The picture book project for adults Through personal objects and stories, searching for thoughts, words and images about your own „I“ : — which parts do I consist of — what is my…
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Young Russian cinema from Berlin – a film screening in the presence of directors and actors. Young Russian-speaking filmmakers based in Berlin will present their recent works exclusively at Panda-Theater. The screening includes seven different short…
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Mitja Vachedin was born in 1982 in today’s St Petersburg. He spent the first twenty years of his life in communist, and then the following capitalist Russia, until he moved to Germany where he…
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Diana Vishnevskaya & Igor Zwetkow, our favorite artist couple from St. Petersburg, are in town to present their latest video work for the exhibition “Vineta” at Gallery for Fresh Art from 24th August to 22nd…
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Kombinatrotweiss Gallery is presenting the first solo exhibition of Russian-Berliner illustrator and artist Ekaterina Koroleva entitled Bosco. With ink, watercolor and pencil, Ekaterina Koroleva creates abstract female images in intense colors. Ekaterina’s fascination is the silhouette…
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Victoria Filina is the owner of studio Tineola in Kreuzberg from where she has developed her brand of the same name which features several lines of accessories. The first line of accessories has been…
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Panivalkova is a female multi-instrumental trio from Ukraine formed by Ira Luzina, Irina Kulshenko and Daria Pugachova. The band started performing in 2013. Their first European tour brings them to Berlin on 14th June 2017.…
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Ukrainian contemporary world music band DakhaBrakha will present their new album “The Road” at Festsaal Kreuzberg on 13th June 2017. DakhaBrakha is still somewhat of a cult phenomenon in Ukraine. For the past five years,…
