allthingseurope:

Odessa Opera, Ukraine (by dmytrok)

I REALLY want to go to Odessa!!!!!

"It is clear by now that Russia’s government has dug in against outside intervention in Syria, its longtime partner and last firm foothold in the Middle East. Less well known is the position taken by the Russian Orthodox Church, which fears that Christian minorities, many of them Orthodox, will be swept away by a wave of Islamic fundamentalism unleashed by the Arab Spring."

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The New York Times on the Russian Orthodox Church’s influence on the Kremlin. (via fyeaheasterneurope)

Very interesting article!

(via fyeaheasterneurope)

This is my life: I go on YouTube and find videos in Ukrainian and listen to them. That’s how much of a language nerd I am.

Haven’t you always wanted to hear a reading of Taras Shevchenko’s great poem Заповіт?

malinkibear:

russiaukraine:

Picture of the day - Tobolsk/Тобо́льск, Russia

Russia

I am so homesick for you

Even though I’m British

Malinkibear, I seriously think we are siblings who were somehow separated at birth or something. Because what you said is basically what I think EVERY SINGLE TIME I see a photo of Russia. (Except I’m not British. But you get the idea. I’m not Russian, yet I am homesick for Russia.)

malinkibear:

I dream every day that he’ll reply to my tweets.

I’ve been trying to get him to reply to me since he started using Twitter. It hasn’t happened yet. BUT I HAVE NOT LOST HOPE. Someday he will reply to both of us.

eyes-of-the-beholders:

Saint Petersburg

Красивый город!

(via shapka-ushanka)

allthingseurope:

Dubrovnik, Croatia (by kexi)

Yes. I need to go here very soon.

"You are exactly where you are supposed to be."

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Dove chocolate wrapper.

(Am I the only one reminded of that scene from the end of Blood Diamond?)

khodorkovsky:

Whenever a job application asks me to show them how I am a committed person I tell them that I have three thousand pictures of Khodorkovsky, dammit. I swear to God that finding a picture of him and Dvorkovich is the greatest achievement of my life. My parents are so proud of me.

This is possibly the best Tumblr post I have ever read.

С днем победы!!!