Month: March 2018
Moscow State University at night
Moscow State University’s (MSU) main building, located at Sparrow Hills south of Moscow river, offers an exciting view both at day and night-time. Constructed from 1949 to 1953, it kept the record of being the tallest building in Europe until the 1980ies. And it is still the tallest higher education facility on the globe. A […]... Read More
Five new metro stations put into operation on Moscow’s 2nd belt line
Yet an updated metro plan sticker in all the cities metro carriages (pictured above). Four new station on the yellow line in Moscow’s north-east recently were put into operation. Besides extending the yellow line the four new station interconnect with the light blue line, the violet line and the dark green line. Parts of the […]... Read More
Moscow Swimming Championships
Moscow’s annual swimming championships on the long course (50m) have been taking place from March 13-16, at CK Olympisky, the former Olympic pool next to Metro station Prospekt mira. Demonstrating strong performance in the competition will yield sportmen and women a ticket for the Moscow team within the Russian national team. Day 3 in the […]... Read More
Proactivity v muddling-through
In a post from in October last year (2017) I praised Paris city government’s plans to ban diesel-engine cars from entering the Paris capital. But in a blog post yesterday, 6 months later, in Feb 2018, I argue that imposing diesel bans to combat polluted air in German cities is neither a novel idea nor […]... Read More
Vote where it suits you most
On March 18, presidential elections will take place in Russia. Today, I saw a poster sticker in the metro. It reads (own translation): “Vote where it is convenient for you! Application takes less than 5 minutes. If on March 18 you will not be around your residential adress, or you are not registered at all, […]... Read More