“Privet” and “Kak dela” Russians – with Spain cooperation?

Now I am speaking about the university cooperation, like exchanges or investigation. I have thought already for some years that the Russians and the Spanish have something in common, eg. that they plan far more less than eg. the Finns. I mentioned this observation of mine to my Finnish colleague, who said to me: “Actually you are right...Pravyi...I know one Spanish-Russian couple and they are somehow getting along very well…”. Speaking about “for some time”, I have been cooperating with the Russians already now more or less 15 years and with the Spaniards more or less 12 years. But this observation of mine comes from the last 5 or 4 or 3 years…

So the Russian higher education institutions, if you are interested in more cooperation with Spain, you can contact me. I have Networks in Spain…

But to finalize this story of mine, get relaxed and get to know Spanish popular music…Spanish popular music…some classic groups (press the link)...Požaluista! Later during my blog you can listen to my all time favourites, one by one......

Near Russia...also in a "musical way"???

Yes, in Finland we have a long border with Russia. And I am at the moment traveling to the eastern part of Finland to my home town... My hometown, more or less 80 km from the Russian border.

If you want to feel the spirit of Russia, come to eastern Finland and to Finland. It is the right place to begin your eastern adventures, and then visit from Helsinki on by train St.Petersburg (Pietari in Finnish). Culturally wonderful city! I myself, I am traveling once again to the east...one of my business trips in a week or so. St.Petersburg "ahoi" here I come"!

Yes, Finland. We have here also eastern cooking traditions, as well as western. So in my opinion, we are lucky to live between east and west - And I am proud of that. The culture far more interesting than in Sweden. Sweden is also okay, but they do not have these eastern characters as Finland do. Up to cooking traditions you can see some eastern type of architecture in Helsinki, for example. One of them I call "Russian-Retro"...

I like visiting the "east"....The Russians, they have certain type of melancholy in their music as do we. May be it is too melancholic to the Spaniards? What do you think of this piece performed first of the Finnish artist Kirka and later also one of the Russian artists called Alexander Laminsky. "The Stolen Happiness" in Russian (SkipAd), and the original one in Finnish "Surun pyyhit silmistäni". Yes, I am almost crying now. How wonderful sad!