Photo credit: 1tv.ru Stephen Cohen, an American historian and specialist in Russia, has passed away, Vesti.Ru reports. He died in New York at the age of 81. According to the wife of the scientist Katrina van den Heuvel, the cause of death was cancer. ...
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An exhibition about the fight against the coronavirus infection pandemic in Russia opened in New York, it is located in the building of the UN central headquarters. Doctors and volunteers became its main heroes, RIA...
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The burials of the remains of servicemen who died during World War II took place at the Maardus cemetery in Estonia. The remains of 151 warriors were found by local search teams. The burials of the Red Army soldiers have been held at the memorial site of the cemetery in...
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Orthodox believers on Monday, September 21, celebrate one of the most significant religious holidays - the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos or the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary, TASS reports. The day before, the head of the Russian Orthodox...
The Griboyedov Tbilisi Russian Drama Theater celebrated its 175th anniversary on September, 20. It is the oldest Russian theater abroad and the first professional creative team in...
The #RussianIsTheLanguageOfFriendship project was launched in Rossotrudnichestvo offices in Nepal, Jordan, Singapore and Malaysia. Students of the countries participating in the project, enrolled in language courses, exchange postcards signed in Russian. ⠀⠀
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Short animated films by the Russian studio Soyuzmultfilm will be shown in cinemas and educational institutions in France, Belgium, Austria and other European countries, as well as at festivals, TV channels and digital platforms in Asia. Agreements between the...
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Russian diplomats and compatriots living in Norway took part in the inauguration of a restored monument at the burial place of Soviet soldiers in the cemetery of Mo i Rana (Norway). Local authorities...
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The Polish prosecutor's office decided that it was necessary to arrest the air traffic controllers who worked in 2010 at the Smolensk airfield during the plane crash where the plane with Polish President Lech Kaczynski on board crashed. The investigation group...
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The creation of a mosaic in the Church of St. Sava in Belgrade is completed, Pravoslavie news agency reports. The total area of the images is 15,000 square meters, craftsmen and specialists from Russia were directly involved in the production...
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Russian language courses will open in the spring of 2021 at Japan University of Economics (Nikkeidai), and Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University (NSLU) will launch an online Japanese language course to prepare for the Japanese language...
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The Russia - Turkey: 100 Years of Friendship photo contest was announced by the Rossotrudnichestvo office in Turkey together with the Coordinating Council of Organizations of Russian Compatriots in Turkey in honor of the centenary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the countries, the Rossotrudnichestvo office in Turkey...
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No influence from outside can destroy the cooperation between Moscow and Beijing in strategic directions, the head of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Wang Yi is sure. He said this after his trip to Russia, RIA Novosti reports.
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The representative office of Rossotrudnichestvo in Israel will launch the Reading Room Online project on September 18. The project is going to come in handy for Russian-speaking readers, since the library of the Russian Cultural Center in Tel Aviv is closed due to the general quarantine in Israel, the Rossotrudnichestvo website...
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The Cross Year of Scientific and Educational Partnerships between Russia and Germany was a great success, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is sure. The closing ceremony took place on Tuesday, September 15, in Berlin, TASS...
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Rosatom State Corporation, the Russian Quantum Center and the Sirius University of Science and Technology have opened the first international school on quantum computing. The teachers of the school will be professors from Harvard, Oxford and other leading...
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Russia is the 40th among other countries in terms of recorded cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 people, RIA Novosti reports. According to Anna Popova, who heads Rospotrebnadzor, Russia ranks 106th in the world in terms of...
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As the Russkiy Mir reported, residents of Papua New Guinea addressed the head of the Russian Orthodox Church with a collective petition to establish an Orthodox mission in their country. This proposal was put forward after Kirill Shrakbul, a priest and head of the ROC mission in Taiwan, had visited Papua New Guinea.
On September 1, millions of children in Russia went to school. And millions of their peers in Ukraine also went to schools. Everything seems to be the same: flowers, bows, well-dressed children, excited parents... And yet there is a difference and a very significant one: children in Russia go to schools to study in their native language. However, starting with this academic year, hundreds of thousands of Russian-speaking children no longer have this opportunity in Ukraine. 
The opposition bloc won at the parliamentary elections held in Montenegro. Its position is considered pro-Serb and pro-Russian. Director of the Center for Contemporary Balkan Crisis Studies of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies Dr. Elena Guskova believes that if the opposition succeeds in uniting efforts the country's foreign policy can seriously change. 
Russian school abroad: a soft power tool? 04.09.2020
The Russian school is usually criticized for endless reforms and the notorious unified national exam. However it provides a rather high-quality consistent classical education following legacy of the very Prussian gymnasium, which was the foundation for its predecessors, schools of the Russian Empire and the USSR, to grow upon. Thus, it is a potent soft power tool abroad. However, mere financial and licensing support to private Russian schools in other countries is insufficient for this soft power to be efficient. 
75 years ago, the United States detonated nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and four years later the Soviet Union got its atomic weapons. 75 years ago, the most horrendous and destructive military action in the history of mankind took place. US dropped nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.