Looking for interview partners

[u/SirRackaroll]

Hello everybody

I am a student from Switzerland and going on a solo trip to Riga for an elective module in university. One of my goals is to interview 3 people there.

I am very interested on how life changed since the fall of the soviet union, how the relationship between latvians and russians works or how life is there as a young person. But i'm open to any other topics that interest you to talk about.

Is there anybody that has time and is willing for a meetup somewhere in Riga during 10th - 12th of september for about 1-2h?

As a thank-you you would receive 500g of swiss chocolate:)

Pls feel free do dm me or leave a comment.

[u/_teatea]

You need to interview 3 persons for one of those topics or 1 person per 1 topic? Your University is OK with such sampling and vague topics? For example:

How life changed - you need someone who was adult during soviet times (so basically 50+), also there were huge differences how it was in various periods of Soviet occupation, if you will interview 70+ you will get totally different answers than 50+. Huge differences also based on what was that person status, etc. There were no equality in Soviet union.

How relations worked - here you cant rely on single Latvian or Russian interview, depend on person, those will be totally opposite.

[u/SirRackaroll → u/_teatea]

Thank you for asking. This is a small non-mandatory elective module we can do over summer holidays while combining it with traveling to eastern europe. I will hand in a written report of my trip on what I experienced and what i learned by talking to local people.

It is not a scientific paper and it is not meant to be one. I will not work with any scientific methods or statistics.

But i will earn ECTs if I achieved all set goals.

[u/Olive2252]

Why does every foreigner who is interested in Latvia only cares about Soviet Union and Russians that live here? Why is nobody interested in Latvian culture?

[u/SirRackaroll → u/Olive2252]

My apologies if I my request sounded like I wasn't interest in Latvian culture. Since the Soviet Union ended quite recently it sounded like something interesting to talk about. But i'm also very interested to talk about Latvian culture

[u/Warm-Scientist1067]

I’d be down, you can DM and set up a day and time :)

[u/rizhais]

even 35 years later the west looks at us like post-soviet country..... :)

good luck with your research, nevertheless!