Category Archives: Press clips

“Liden & Denz Intercultural Institute of Languages has announced the opening of a new campus in St. Petersburg.” StudyTravel, March 2019

The article in Travel News follows the Liden & Denz press tour and covers the story of the institute, from the foundation in 1992 in St.Petersburg, to opening of the new campus in Irkutsk, as well as reasons to learn Russian in the Eastern Siberian capital and discover the magnificent lake Baikal. “Why Irkutsk? Quite ...

Last month we welcomed a group of journalists on Liden & Denz press tour, taking them from Moscow to Eastern Siberia. The article in Tages-Anzeger unveils the impressions of summer in Irkutsk. In T-shirt und Shorts nach Sibierien – Tages-Anzeiger (read the article in German) Read the summary in English here.

In T-shirt und Shorts nach Sibierien – Tages-Anzeiger

“Russian language provider Liden & Denz has celebrated its 25thanniversary with a gala dinner at the Olympia Concert Hall in St. Petersburg, the city where its first school was opened.” StudyTravel magazine, May 2017

“Inspired by post-Soviet change and a lack of language knowledge, Walter Denz decided against pursuing his academic path and moved from Switzerland to Russia to set up his own business.” StudyTravel magazine, January 2017

“Liden & Denz Intercultural Institute of Languages has announced the opening of a new campus in the Russian town of Irkutsk in Siberia, making it the company’s fourth study destination.” The Pie News, January 2017

Interview with Walter Denz at Fontanka TV from 3. February 2015 focusing on the current business climate and the need to speak foreign languages.    

On the 16th October 2014, Russian TV Channel St.Petersburg aired a feature on current issues around tourism to St.Petersburg. Liden & Denz owner Walter Denz contributed to the feature reflecting on seasonality, accessibility and transport issues (in Russian):  

This week, Julia Voevodina and Walter Denz were guests at the Breakfast Club of the english speaking radio station Moscow FM, debating the various linguistic challenges Moscow expats are exposed to if they don’t master the Russian language. The discussion closed in on different learning strategies that might or might not work for Moscow expatriates ...