Democracy and Collaboration Institute organized a round table dedicated to October revolution at the French capital, TASS reports. Competent scientists, politicians and analysts from Russia and France discussed main reasons of the revolution and lessons learnt. Deputy of the State Duma and Executive Director of the Russkiy Mir Foundation Vyacheslav Nikonov remarked in...
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Dear Friends,
once again we are celebrating Christmas! Our traditions are inseparably associated with this beautiful winter holiday. Many of us bring Christmas fast, Communion service, and jolly festivities back to our lives.
Russia is a multi-confessional country; however, Christmas in Russia has a great unifying...
Dear friends and colleagues,
on behalf of the Russkiy Mir Foundation please accept our kindest wishes with the upcoming New Year!
We are all engaged into activities related to our historical Homeland, we are united by the love to the Russian language and to the great Russian culture. We strive for integrity and aspire to...
The Russkiy Mir Foundation has signed an agreement with the National steering committee of the 19th World Youth and Student Festival that is to be held in Sochi in autumn 2017.
They agreed on the coordination of work in the sphere of popularization and promotion of the Russian language and Russia’s culture, exchange of information and arrangement of co-events.
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<div> On 24 December the Far East branch of the Russkiy Mir Foundaion received a delegation of young Chinese ice hockey players arriving in Vladivostok on a ten-day visit. The boys of 9 years have been playing ice hockey for two years now. They came to Primorski Krai in order to improve their skills taking classes at the...
On 21 December, the Expert Council of the Presidential Directorate for Protecting Citizens' Constitutional Rights held its annual meeting, reports the official website of the President of Russia. Representatives of the federal authorities, Russian Academy of Education, research institutions, rectors of higher educational institutions, and leading legal...
6-7 December, Sochi hosts 3rd International Pedagogical Forum Russian World. Education of the Future arranged by Saint Petersburg University, the International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature (MAPRYAL), Russian Academy of Education and the Russkiy Mir Foundation.
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XI Russian World Assembly will be taking place on 3-4 November 2017 in the Nizhny Novgorod Region. This was announced by Vyacheslav Nikonov, Head of the State Duma Committee on Education and Science and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Russkiy Mir Foundation, during his meeting with the representatives of the Youth Parliament, Legislative Assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, at...
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The Russkiy Mir Foundation is totally perplexed about the resolution of 23 November 2016 on EU strategic communication to counteract propaganda...
On November 22, the Russian Language Week event has started at the Russian House of Science and Culture in Berlin. The event includes lectures, visits to partner educational organizations, classes, presentations of textbooks, film screenings, etc.
The event is organizaed by the Office of Rossotrudnichestvo in Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, HTW Berlin, Association...
On 18 November 2016, the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Turkey hosted the annual Autumn Ball organized with the support of Association of Compatriots, Office of Rossotrudnichestvo in Turkey and the Embassy.
The opening speech was delivered by Georgy Toloraya, Director of Regional Programs at the Russkiy Mir Foundation.
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Editorial office of the Russkiy Mir website received a video for "Hello Russia - My Homeland" - a new song by Iosif Fishman, Executive Director of the Kaliningrad PEN center, and poet Nikolay Rubtsov. "I believe these lines reflect the understanding of the Russian world the most," - writes Fishman.
Iosif Fishman...
On 14 November, the Russkiy Mir Foundation and Costa Rica Trade and Tourism Chamber signed a cooperation agreement. The document was signed by Executive Director of the Russkiy Mir Foundation Vladimir Kochin and President of the Costa Rica Trade and Tourism Chamber Ernesto Jimenez.
The agreement is focused on the establishment of a Russian Center in San José and the...
A meeting of Russian compatriots, alumni of Russian and Soviet universities with the delegation of the Russkiy Mir Foundation and representatives of Rossotrudnichestvo took place in Nicaragua. Vladimir Kochin, Foundations' Executive Director, and Nikolay Mikhailov, Coordinator of American Programms, spoke on behalf of the Russkiy Mir Foundation.
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On 12-17 November 2016, Jordan will be hosting 9th all-Arab alumni of Russian (Soviet) universities reunion.
The event is organized by Arab Association of alumni of Russian (Soviet) universities, Jordan club of alumni of USSR universities "Ibn Sina", Peoples' Friendship University of...
On 10 November, during a visit paid by a delegation of the Russkiy Mir Foundation to Central America, the Russkiy Mir Foundation and the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua concluded the agreement on the establishing a Russian Center at the university. The agreement was signed by Executive Director of the Russkiy Mir Foundation Vladimir Kochin and Rector...
On 7–13 November, delegation of the Russkiy Mir Foundation led by Executive Director Vladimir Kochin will be travelling through the countries of Central America in order to build bulateral cooperation and discuss joint projects in the field of education.
During this tour, representatives of the Foundation will visit Cuba, El Salvador,...
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The American Sean Quirk, who is one of musicians and the manager of the well-known in Russia and beyond Tuvinian Alash ensemble, speaks four languages. On foreign tours, he announces the songs of the ensemble in English and sings Tuvan folk songs to the public and for himself. He can please the audience with a ditty in Russian when he is asked to. Besides that, Quirk reads books in the language of his ancestors - Old Irish. 
A round-the-world expedition of three Russian sailboats - the frigate Pallada and the barges Kruzenshtern and Sedov is going to start this autumn. All three sailing ships of Russian Federal Fisheries Agency have already been on the round-the-globe trips but an event of such a grand scale takes place for the first time. 
How to motivate students to learn Russian language, especially if this is an extra one? Ireland teachers invented an unusual way to put together Russian classical literature and cuisine. As a result, kids don't only read Gogol and Pushkin, but also learn old recipes described in those books. They try to cook at home dishes described by great Russian writers. One of the authors of the Inspired by Food project Alexandra Puliaevskaya shares the “delicious reading” recipe. 
Aloi Pilioko, a Russian Polynesian who was a longtime friend with Nicolai Michoutouchkine, a French artist of Russian origin, lives on the distant island of Vanuatu in Melanesia. Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay is still remembered in Papua New Guinea; and even Russian words are used there in speech. However there is even more surprising fact: the Papuans’ life is somewhat similar to life in remote Russian villages. We spoke to Andrey Tutorskiy, an ethnographer, associate professor of the Ethnology Department of the History Faculty in the Lomonosov Moscow State University, about this distant and exotic region and about its links to Russia. 
In recent years mysteries of Tunguska meteorite have been again attracting scientists from various countries of the world to Siberia. This summer the latest International expedition has come to completion in the Tunguska Nature Reserve. Professionals from Russia, the USA, Italy and the Czech Republic took part in it. One hundred and eleven years after the meteorite’s fall into the Siberian taiga, scientists still endeavour to figure out its impact onto the ecosystem.