2012 June 14, Alex Hoban, “A Big Night Out with... Moscow's Young Elite!”, in Wired[1]:
So, in the name of getting to the heart of the modern Russian psyche, I spent every last penny I saved from re-selling my North Korean holiday snaps on the ultimate night out in VIP Moscow: a place where mortals from outside the oligarch Slavosphere are rarely deemed rich enough to tread. It was transformational.
2019 January 21, Tom Ball, “The master programmers of Eastern Europe”, in Prospect:
Demand for slavosphere expertise is now so high that native outsourcing companies are having to set up their own in-house universities to train new programmers.
