Tag: Russia
Apalah arti perjalanan bagi warga negara Indonesia, tanpa peliknya proses perjuangan mendapatkan visa? Paspor Indonesia memang kabarnya kini makin menguat, tapi sayangnya belum sekuat itu hingga membuat WNI…
“Mau nonton bola ya?” nyaris semua orang tanya begitu saat tahu saya akan pergi ke Rusia beberapa pekan lalu. Periode saya ke sana memang bertepatan dengan Piala Dunia…
A few days ago a surprise postcard arrived. Sent from Yekaterinburg, the date stamped is March 15th 2013. “I thought it’d arrive before or right on the 23rd,”…
Days are passing so fast now since Yoga’s around… 🙂 I haven’t even shared how he went here in the first place. It all started last year when…
A few weeks ago, the European Commission updated the Action 1 programmes list for the academic year 2012-2013. I’m happy to see Mundus MAPP was selected again. The list is still heavy on natural science, engineering, and agriculture — leaving less than 40 master programmes for social sciences, humanities, and arts. (Pardon my social-science subjectivity here, please.) But I found several master programmes to be interesting.
I can remember what happened in March 23rd 2009 vividly: As always, that night the corridor towards the lift was dimly lit. We were walking slowly to the…
Natalia Nikolaeva Magnitskaya never expected to lose her son, a corporate lawyer from Russia, Sergei Leonidovich Magnitsky. She always hoped that Sergei will be a great man and…