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• Moscow vs. St. Petersburg: Which Russian Capital is Better?

  …e capital. The head offices of Yandex, Sberbank and other huge Russian companies are located in Moscow, as well as the only Russian offices of many worldwide companies. If you want to build a career, Moscow is a better choice for you. Both cities have their own beautiful historical buildings, but only St. Petersburg has almost saved its pristine appearance. Wh…

  03.03.2020

• A Belgian Student in Russia

  …le the most is money… I won't give you the euro equivalent for the price of bread, or for a kilo of apples, I think it would be terribly boring and probably irrelevant. What I want to say is that, when you come to Russia and keep the same Belgian lifestyle, if you spend the same budget, you would be amazed by all the possibilities offered to you here! Being in Russia…

  20.02.2020

• A Train to Vyborg!

  …e, which took ages to come but did in the end. We ended up sitting there for almost two hours. Mr. A: Did you go back to the castle again after your coffee break? Me: We wandered a little farther to the side of the castle this time. It was still snowing, though, so we quickly made our way back. We arrived at the train station, bought the tickets and boarded a t…

  11.02.2020

• ITMO University Newcomer’s Guide: Student’s Perspective

  … some time for you by explaining important things you need to know. We have this thing called the dean's office (or now the student office). This is the place you don’t really want to go to as its usual business is regarding student’s transfer between faculties or, you guessed it, expulsions. However, this place also provides certificates stating your affiliation wit…

  30.01.2020

• Who Are Our Graduates?

  … managed to graduate with honors), I had been employed at Yandex for two years. Being an employee of a major IT company is a great opportunity for those who seek stability and want to be involved in one particular kind of tasks. I soon realized that this wasn’t for me. Working at a major company, you don’t always feel responsible for a certain project — you are just …

  28.01.2020

• My Impressions After 5 Months in St. Petersburg

  …ifetime on my own. Partly because of my yearning to go back to my country and see my beloved ones, but partly because it also is quite extraneous to the reality I knew. When I wanted to make Brazil’s reality assimilated, most of the time it was easily misunderstood or missed completely. Behaviorists would say — and I agree — that people create their behavior and unde…

  27.01.2020

• Coconut, peach or mango?

• Meeting and Talking with International Students

  …Firstly, I’d like to tell you about a Taiwanese girl Ho. We met in a kitchen and she asked me what room I lived in. A few days later someone knocked at my door, I opened and saw Ho holding out traditional taiwanese tapioca sweets. I gave her Russian candies and she was over the moon. Actually, the biggest difficulty in communicating wit…

  02.12.2019

• Yagodnoe Trip: A Chance to Strengthen Ties Between Russian and Exchange Students

  … It was two o'clock when the outdoor activity started: it was a team building competition. Since I come from a tropical country, I was very cold but, at the same time, I wanted very badly to win the contest. Listening to the rules, I realized we had to play some Russian games. Personally, I found them very funny, since they were creative and unexpected for me. …

  20.11.2019

• Travelling. Is it Worth it?

  …he real feeling of it will come after the first time you really travel. Of course, there are a lot of complications including financial ones, but everything is possible if you want it. There are many lifehacks on how to travel cheap. For example, taking a flight from Finland is much cheaper than from St. Petersburg. And going to Lappeenranta (Finland), for example, i…

  08.10.2019