The Volga takes me from surprise to surprise – to be honest, I didn’t even know this city from hearsay. Cheboksary? After all, it has half a million inhabitants… and is the capital of the Russian Federal Republic of Chuvashia. With its own language, with multilingual universities (Chuvash, Russian and English), with a relaxed lifestyle. And I have to update myself: https://www.nzz.ch/international/russlands-minderheiten-tschuwaschen-kaempfen-fuer-ihre-sprache-ld.1633437 – I’m really surprised to have come across such a tidy, well-structured and modern city here in what seems like nowhere. I immediately took it to my heart!
Xenia, Olesya and Ekatarina came by, again completely unexpectedly for me, to interview me… They are employees of the press service of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Republic of Chuvashia. So we did an interview, took photos and – surprise surprise for the ladies – took a spontaneous trip on the Volga to give them an impression of how I was travelling around Europe and now through Russia. Here is their report: https://vk.com/wall-142632677_76354