Photo credit: bezkordonu.com A group of Russian schoolchildren arrived in Japan, RIA Novosti reports. Sixty people living in Kuril Islands arrived to Hokkaido Island within the frameworks of visa-free exchanges. Most of them are young people aged 12 to 17 years. They will...
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American company Bradford Exchange, manufacturing souvenirs, issued a coin for the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II with the allied countries, which did not include the USSR.
According to the information on the Bradford Exchange website, on the back of the coin are the flags of the USA, Great...
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Rasputin dramatic ballet, which will be premiered in Moscow on May 23, will be brought on tour, which will start in London on May 31. An international team worked on a large-scale production, which included representatives from Russia, Japan, Denmark, Serbia and other countries, TASS...
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Russian government approved the agreement extensions with European Union on cooperation in the fields of science and technologies. The first agreement was signed in Brussels in 2000; it is prolonged for 5 years as of now. Under the deal scientists from partner countries and conduct joint scientific...
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Slavonic literature and culture is celebrated in Croatia capital, Rossotrudnichestvo informs. On the eve of this celebration the Russian language and literature festival starts in Zagreb University. Eastern Slavic languages and literature faculty of Faculty of Philosophy organised the...
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Russian compatriots and foreign musicians will take part in the 4th International Youth Festival-competition of Russian classical music, which will be held in Barcelona on May 23-26. Under the terms of the competition, each participant will perform a work by a Russian composer of the 19th or...
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The last bell rang in Russian schools on Thursday, May 23, RIA Novosti reports. Traditionally, graduates say goodbye to their educational institutions during this beautiful and touching ceremony.
Actions are held for school children, their parents...
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Russian authorities presented Vietnam a mobile laboratory, Rossotrudnichestvo website reports. It is designed for the Vietnamese-Russian Tropical Research and Technology Center. The laboratory is equipped on the basis of a KamAZ truck. It is intended for monitoring and diagnostics.
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The opening ceremony of the Cross Year of Russia and Vietnam was held in Moscow on May 22, RIA Novosti reports. It started with My Homeland - Vietnam concert. Its program included the most interesting examples of Vietnamese music. Famous Vietnamese singers, dancers and musicians, artists of...
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The Varna Prize - the most prestigious distinction in the field of science and higher education in Bulgarian Varna – has been awarded to the research team of the Department of Foreign Language Teaching and Postgraduate Professional Development of Chernorizets Hrabar Varna Free University headed by professor Galina Shamonina. The award was received for the implementation of the project International Qualification School: Modern Pedagogical Technologies in Teaching Russian...
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The names of the laureates of the Benois de la Danse award, which is considered to be the equivalent of the Oscars for ballet dancers, have been announced in Moscow. The solemn ceremony was held on the historical stage of the Bolshoi Theater, TASS reports. The award has been...
The international festival of ceramics art dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the Gzhel State University is held in Gzhel. The program of celebrations includes an exhibition and a competition of works by creative teams and individual participants from Russia and foreign countries, round tables on issues of culture and art and industrial education, master classes in pottery...
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The motive for learning Russian today is not only love for Russian literature, but also economic reasons. The reason to learn Russian is the cooperation of foreign business with Russia, the opening of Russian restaurants and schools and other institutions. This was stated by Ekaterina Protasova, an...
Schottengymnasium in Vienna started preparing high-schoolers for the Russian-language graduate exam. The project is realised with support of Russkiy Mir Foundation, in the frames of The Russkiy Mir Professor program.
The Head of an International department of Smolensk State University, Department of German Language ...
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A graduate of Russian Academy of Ballet in South Africa Chantal de Jager is finishing her first year at the choreographic faculty of Kazan State University. In case of successful graduation from the university, she will become the first ballerina from South Africa who will receive a...
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Participants of Russian search teams help representatives of various countries in the search, identification and burial of participants in wars of the past. In Finnish Lappeenranta, the soldiers of the Finnish army of the Second World War were buried. Their remains were discovered in Karelia by...
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Russian-Vietnamese Cross Year starts on Wednesday, May 22, the website of the Ministry of Culture reports.
It will start in Moscow, where My Homeland - Vietnam concert is planned. Its program will include the most interesting examples of Vietnamese...
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Tatiana Kazzi, a Russian artist, works on a project to combine paintings of Australian Aborigines with Gzhel and Khokhloma. A native of Kaliningrad has lived on the green continent for almost a quarter of a century; and she is one of a few foreign women who were granted the right to study art of the indigenous people of Australia by their descendants. Tatiana Kazzi plans to ornament Russian Matryoshka dolls with kangaroos, snakes, birds and other symbols of Australian aborigines.
The artist told the Russkiy Mir that active work of the Russian community in recent years has facilitated popularity and awareness of Russian art in Australia. 
Robinson Crusoe is 300 years old. A novel by Daniel Defoe, an English writer, about a traveler who spent 28 years on a desert island was published in April 1719. The novel became the classics of world literature, which cannot be said about its sequel published in August 1719. There Defoe sends his central character to Russia ruled by young Peter the Great. According to the story, Robinson spent more than two years in Russia. He lived in Tobolsk and Arkhangelsk, and then he went back to his home land. 
From April 29 to May 3, the 14th Congress of the International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature takes place in the capital of Kazakhstan, Nur-Sultan. Specialists in Russian philology from all over the world participate in it. Among them is the General Secretary of the Indian Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature (IATRLL), an assistant professor at the Center for Russian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi) Minu Bhatnagar. 
For more than ten years, hundreds of volunteers have travelled to the Arkhangelsk and Vologda Regions, as well as to Karelia and Komi to preserve ancient temples from destruction and extinction. Over the years, 320 expeditions have taken place, 360 churches and chapels have been explored, and accident prevention works have been conducted in many of them. Alexei Yakovlev, an archpriest and the supervisor of the Common Cause: Restoration of Wooden Temples of the North Project, shares how the project has been implemented and developed so far. 
On April 25, 2019, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed the Bill No. 5670-d “On ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian as the state language” in its second reading. The document introduces mandatory teaching in Ukrainian in kindergartens, schools and universities; it also requires governmental officials, health care and education professionals, as well as service workers to speak the state language only. According to the document, the share of Ukrainian language on national channels should be at least 90%.