Reporting from: a month as a volunteer in a Russian kindergarten

My Scholarship entry - A Russian island on the Baltic sea. Kaliningrad

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A child from a kindergarten for poor families. He just moved in Kaliningrad from Ukraine with the family. Being so close to the heart of Europe, Kaliningrad is the destination of a lot of immigrants still today.

A typical soviet building in the suburbs of Kaliningrad. Formerly Prussian, the city became Russian after WWII. Massive immigration policies, led by Stalin, repopulated the razed region.

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The Curonian spit. Beyond this strip of sand, between the Baltic sea (on the left) and the lagoon (right), is the wealthy European Union, broadening eastwords. During the Soviet era, citizens were forbidden to leave the 15000 km2-wide region.

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Reporting from: a month as a volunteer in a Russian kindergarten

My Scholarship entry - A Russian island on the Baltic sea. Kaliningrad

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