Russia - Slow Food International

Make borscht not war: from fine dining to feeding the front line

15 March 2022 Jack Coulton

Just a month ago, 100 років тому вперед (100 years ago in the future) was one of the most coveted jewels of Kyiv’s culinary scene, a forward-thinking restaurant with room for just 30 guests.

The Mootrix: could VR simulations substitute access to pasture for cows?

2 January 2020

We all remember The Matrix, the cyberpunk sci-fi action film which took the world by storm upon its release in 1999. The premise of the film, that we are living in a simulated hyper-reality of which we are unaware, our human bodies used as an energy source by sentient machines, has its roots in the …

Indigenous Terra Madre: Land Rights, Nutrition and Resisting Climate Change

12 October 2019 Jack Coulton

The second day of Indigenous Terra Madre Asia & Pan-Pacific in Ainu Mosir saw our delegates engaged in discussion and debate on the most pressing issues common to communities around the world: the threats posed by our rapidly changing climate and reduced access to land, and the importance of preserving biodiversity in order to ensure cultural continuity and adequate nutrition.

Indigenous Peoples from Across Russia Are Coming to Indigenous Terra Madre

3 October 2019

The Russian Federation is home to well over 100 indigenous peoples, 41 of whom are grouped together in the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON), a non-governmental organization of small-numbered indigenous peoples which legally recognizes an indigenous people only when it has a population of less than 50,000 and lives in the …

Slow Food in Russia is Officially Born!

23 May 2018

On May 17, the founding congress of the all-Russian organization Slow Food in Russia took place in Suzdal (Vladimir Region). Seventy delegates from the cities of Tashtagol, Ufa, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, and Saransk, as well as other regions of Russia, took part in the congress. Paolo Di Croce, Secretary General of Slow Food, opened the congress and …