Society & Culture
On this episode we are going to be talking with Francis Tapon about Russia. We not only talk about visiting Russia, but we also talk about its culture, its politics, its relationship with the west and so much more. Francis is the author of The Hidden Europe - What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us, Hike Your Own Hike and he is currently working on a book entitled The Unseen Africa due out in 2020. Francis Tapon’s Websites: http://francistapon.com http://TheHiddenEurope.com http://Africa54.com Links to things mentioned in the episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masha_and_the_Bear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/?lng=en https://www.rt.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yekaterinburg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Siberian_Railway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamchatka_Peninsula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladivostok https://www.couchsurfing.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borscht https://www.bolshoi.ru/en/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Josef_Land https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard