Europe

One of my favorite bridge-building moments was with a woman selling flowers on a street in St. Petersburg.

Behold, alongside palaces from imperial Russia, fast food joints receive royal treatment.

“The only enemy is the one whose story you have not heard.”

Christina, a single mother of an 8-year-old girl, runs her own “Women’s Entrepreneur Society” in Novosibirsk, the capital of Siberia.

People from all backgrounds stood together in solidarity to demand immediate action to address the climate crisis and devastating consequences impacting our world.

See the different ways the international URI community celebrated the International Day of Peace 2019.

If our governments persist in pointing fingers of blame, escalating misinformation, and the threat of war, the people of USA and Russia must not follow along.

It’s difficult to fathom the impact that this kind of grandiose propaganda had upon the generations of Russians who took these subways every day. Today, Moscow’s primarily younger generation stream past me glued to their phones.

This morning, we met with Dr. Vladimir Kozin, Chief Adviser and Head of Group of Advisers to the Director at the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies of the Presidential Administration.

At this precarious moment, now is not the time to ask, "Can this kind of dramatic positive change happen," but to ask, "HOW to make it happen?"