You've downloaded from our own correspondent which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

It's introduced by Kate Aide.

Hello, today.

Be careful what you say about us.

The Russians who fear the consequences of their country's sudden surge in patriotism.

Do you need a semi-automatic rifle, perhaps a shotgun?

There are we find politicians giving them away in the United States.

A teacher at a religious school in Northern Nigeria tells us we have to change to compete with

modern society and reforming educations on the agenda in Mexico too.

Not surprising in a country where 1500 teachers all claim they're 102 years old.

Western leaders have told Russia the country's actions in Ukraine are unacceptable. They were meeting in Brussels their first summit since Russia was expelled from the G7 group after its annexation of Crimea.

They said they were prepared to impose further sanctions on Russia if it continued to destabilize Eastern Ukraine.

Richard Kendall says whatever the rhetoric emerging from Brussels,

many Russians continue to support their president and his attitude towards Ukraine.

Moscow was in the midst of a heat wave when I arrived.

The heady scent of lilac on the long warm evenings brought people out onto the streets.

One night on the embankment of the Muskva River a drunken band of

students tried to engage me in conversation and then staggered off down the street.

There's always a slightly celebratory air at this time of year, a realization that winter is

over and a few precious months of sun are here. But this year's euphoria is underpinned by a sense of having proved to the world

that Russians can come out on top, a surge of self-confidence after the humiliations of post-Soviet

collapse.

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