Thorsten Gutmann is editor-in-chief of Ostexperte.de and co-founder of RUSummit, a conference series thematizing digital economy in Russia. We talked to the German-born Muscovite about the digital sphere in Russia, about the RUSummit 2018 and why he picked Berlin as the location for the first conference in September. Berlinograd will be a media partner at the RUSummit and will be co-hosting the Get Together event. What is the RUSummit 2018? As the editor-in-chief of the German news portal www.ostexperte.de located…
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Ani Menua is a writer and philosopher who finally found her way to Berlin after a journey that began in Yerevan, took her to Moscow and then Wiesbaden before she finally landed in the…
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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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This is Roman. Roman was born and raised in the north of Moscow, close to the metro station „WDNH“. The young Muscovite tells me that he left Russia for the first time when he…
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Hi, my name is Bea. I am German and I was born and raised in Trier, a small town close to Luxemburg. When I was a teenager I always wanted to get out and…
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This is Farida. Farida was born and raised in Kazan, Russia. When she was 18 years old she moved to Germany as an au pair. After her exchange program was finished, she decided to…
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This is Natalia. Natalia is a real Muscovite who moved to Southern-Germany when she was eleven years old. Her dad was a scientist who came to Germany on a grant for a year. One…
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This is Olga. Olga grew up in Sochi and studied Cultural History in St. Petersburg. To Berlin she came by coincidence about five years ago. “I had never been to Berlin before,” she says,…
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Meet Maxim Filimonov. Maxim is actually from Bashkiria but lived in Birsk and in Perm for a while where he studied Psychology and wrote on his dissertation. In Perm he was working as an…
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This is Svetlana. Svetlana was born in Izhevsk, Russia, but lived in the United States for more than half of her life. She came to Texas as a high school student and lived there…