Mar 2nd, 2010
by simoncolumbus.
I am currently back in Novosibirsk for a week-long exchange organized by djo, Sibirischer Bär and Jugendbund dealing with “freedom of media and the press”. Special thanks to Ira for the invitation!
Today was packed with talks on both main stream media and the blogosphere in Russia. While the country’s blogosphere is extremely huge – a [...]
Sep 14th, 2009
by simoncolumbus.
Every time you leave a hotel room to depart, at least for a short moment your awareness flashes up, asking if you didn’t forget anything. It wasn’t any different when I stepped onto the third floor of the Centralnaya in Novosibirsk. For a second I halted. I had glanced at my bedstand twice, anxiously making [...]
Sep 14th, 2009
by simoncolumbus.
“Vera Polozkova cares about aesthetics.”
This sentence instantly popped up in my head when I heard Vera speak during our debate on “Blogs and Education”. She argued with fervor for learning the unnecessary, defending its ability to induce the creation of something beautiful against all materialistic circumcisions of the education system.
Although she is a VIP [...]