Yulia Lukashina

Yulia Lukashina is a digital story teller.
She is currently developing her blog sharing notes and thoughts on working life, career, work-life balance, project management, scrum and agile etc.
You can access the blog at https://medium.com/@y.lukashina

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1968 Comes to Today's Russian Universities?

RuNet Echo  6 January 2013

Last month, on December 18, students at the Russian State University of Trade and Economics (RSUTE) began a strike and blocked the main door of their alma mater. Controversy surrounds Sergei Baburin, the school's recently sacked chancellor, whose academic tenure overlapped with a long history of political activity.

The Trouble With Russian Nationalism

RuNet Echo  12 November 2012

This year, Unity Day lived up to its name, though in a rather unexpected way. In 46 towns and cities across Russia, including Moscow, roughly 30 thousand people took part in far-right extremist rallies. While this is an infinitesimally small fraction of the country's total population, Unity Day's far-right groups have managed to attract supporters all over Russia.

Russia: Dreaming About Better Roads

RuNet Echo  8 September 2012

Prime Minister Medvedev ordered the government to auction a construction contract to build another section of a still-incomplete toll road between Moscow and Saint Petersburg. By signing the decree, Medvedev awakened a debate about the highway's negative environmental impact that only recently seemed to be subsiding.

Russia: Pro-Kremlin YouTube Sensation Gets Own TV Show

RuNet Echo  9 August 2012

Sometimes, a 90-second online video can change lives. Svetlana Kuritsyna was just nineteen last December, when she became an Internet sensation thanks to a laudatory and rambling interview celebrating the political records of Vladimir Putin and United Russia. Now she's been handed her own TV show, and Russian netizens are left wondering what it means.