Thinking global, living local: Voices in a globalized world

  • The Russian media follows where Fox News leads

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    This article responds to the Secrets of Transformation multimedia series, a joint project of Bertelsmann Transformation Index and Deutsche Welle.  If you Google ‘freedom of speech in Russia” in English you’ll get over 6 million results about everything from the lack of free speech and human rights violations to the Pussy Riot scandal and much […]

  • Louis Vuitton’s Golden Suitcase of Discord

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    Imagine Red Square in Moscow with the colorful snow-covered onion domes of St. Basil’s Cathedral, the red bricks of the Kremlin, and the centuries-old cobblestones. They have all witnessed the October Revolution, the defeat of Tsarist Russia and countless military parades. Now imagine a giant 30-meter long two storey high […]