Publications

Sergey Vinogradov The Arktika Icebreaker. Photo credit: https://www.atomic-energy.ru/ Russia is a land of icebreakers, just as much as it is a land of cosmonautics and ballet. When it comes to the development of the Arctic fleet, Russia now holds countless records and breakthroughs. It has so many prominent figures in the field of icebreaking who rank just like Gagarin and Plisetskaya in cosmonautics and ballet respectively that its status as a leading power in this field could hardly be challenged. The Russians began to build the icebreaker fleet more than hundred and fifty years ago....

Photo: Roger Waters, The Wall. Performance in Ottawa, 2012. Photo: Brennan Schnell / wikimedia.org Roger Waters, the founder of the legendary rock band Pink Floyd, was condemned for blaming Washington in military operation in Ukraine, for saying that the Western media have turned into a fake factory. The coming European tour was under a threat. In Krakow, his concert has already been canceled, the Munich authorities have also announced that they are not expecting for Waters, whose concerts attract tens of thousands of spectators around the world. "The dissident", "the forbidden artist", "the...

Alexander Ryazantsev Photo: Ratish Nair Quite recently, the Russkiy Mir Foundation concluded an agreement to open the Russkiy Mir Office in the Indian city of Trivandrum. The office to be set up at the Pushkin Center for the Russian language, which is headed by Ratish Nair, director of the Russian House Trivandrum and Honorary Consul of Russia in that city. We discussed with him why Russian literature is popular in southern India and why parents give their children Russian names. Trivandrum is the state administrative center of Kerala, India. It has a population of about 750,000 people. It should...

Photo: Temietan Jerry Ololo with his family. Photo from the personal archive of Tim Ololo An unusual headman was elected in Kaluga region. His name is Ololo Temietan Jerry, but the locals call him Tim. He moved from Africa to Russia more than 30 years ago. Few years ago he bought a house with his family in the village of Rogachevo. Tim was graduated as a civil engineer from Moscow Institute of Civil Engineering. However, he didn’t work much as an engineer. Currently he is a part of a logistics center team, before he worked in restaurants. Tim speaks Russian very well, though with an accent. Tim has five...

Alexander Svetlov 10.10.2022 Tatyana Kuzmich. Photo credit: ruscrimea.ru Tatiana Kuzmich, deputy minister for education and science of the Kherson Region, former suspect under the SBU investigation, and dedicated teacher of Russian language and literature, describes the thorny path within the educational system, as well as the oppression of the Russian culture and language in Kherson. – Tatyana Alexandrovna, we know you were actually persecuted in Ukraine. Tell us please about that. What was happening? And why did the Ukrainian authorities dislike you? – Being a teacher of Russian language and...

Svetlana Solovyova Photo: One of the leaders of the atomic project Yulii Khariton next to RDS-1, the first Soviet atomic bomb. Photo credit: https://www.culture.ru/ Hitler's Germany was actively developing new weapons, but those plans went down in flames with the end of the war. The Soviets and the United States competed with each other. They took from Germany uranium and scientists that would help them create superweapons. According to a report by two CIA agents on March 17, 1946, "Most of the (German) scientists stay in the Soviet zone in Germany and even in Russia voluntarily and enjoy their special...