Publications

Svetlana Smetanina The RF Presidential Decree declared the year 2022 the Year of Vladimir Arsenyev, an explorer, scholar, ethnographer, researcher, and writer. September 10 marks the 150th anniversary of his birth. He lived 30 out of 58 years of his life in the Far East. He spent that time exploring this almost unknown region and filling in the blank areas on the map of our country's new lands. His works are still used by ethnographers, geologists, biologists, and archeologists. His series of books "Along the Ussuri land" and "Dersu Uzala" had 120 editions and were translated into 30...

Svetlana Smetanina The well-known Brazilian blogger Cristiano Alves de Lima once learned the Russian language thanks to friendship and communication on the Internet with the inhabitants of Russia. Today in his blogs, he talks about international politics in Portuguese and Russian and fights Russophobia to the best of his ability. – Do you talk about events in Russia on your youtube channel? - I'm talking about events almost all over the world, not only about Russia. However, the special military operation topic is now one of the hottest. At the moment...

Anna Loschikhina Photo: Russian Federation of Skateboarding Grand Skate Tour, the second international festival of extreme sports, was held in Moscow from 5 to 12 September. Representatives of 28 countries have participated in the festival. For a whole week, the territory of the VDNKh park was turned into a huge space for young people to socialize and ride skateboards, roller skates, scooters and bicycles. The main space of the exhibition was decorated with a giant skate park over 900 square meters large. Skateboarding has become not only a popular sport but recently it was...

Vladimir Emelianenko Photo: Foundation to Battle Injustice  As many as 600 journalists from around the world have addressed the UN through the Russian Foundation to Battle Injustice. They were all added to the lists of Mirotvorets, a Ukrainian nationalistic website. Their entries bear the notations of either "To be liquidated" or "Warned of being banned from entering Ukraine". The journalists demand to declare the Mirotvorets website a terrorist organization. Journalist Alina Lipp (Germany) was added to the list of "enemies of Ukraine" on the...

Sergey Vinogradov 150 years ago, Mathilde Kschessinska, a prominent Russian ballerina and a vivid figure in Russian history at the turn of the century was born. Today she is commonly referred to as the mistress of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II. However, Kschessinska was not only the main character of gossip during her lifetime and screen romances after her death. She promoted Russian ballet and was the star of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. During World War I, she used her own funds to set up infirmaries, performed for the wounded and visited the front lines. Dancing Dynasty Mathilde...

Svetlana Smetanina The unique Russomobil project was launched in Germany more than 10 years ago. Project manager Oksana Kogan-Pech tells us how to involve German schoolchildren in choosing Russian as a second or third foreign language. – As we have learned, the Russomobil project continues its go on, despite all the difficulties of today. So happy to know that! How has the project survived the last two years? Did the coronavirus affected your work? – Of course, it was difficult. We realized that planning in advance is almost impossible, and learned to be able to rearrange plans. ...