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The war with Japan, which began at dawn on August 9, 1945, is not remembered well in Russia. And this is not only because August is the traditional month of vacations. Simply in comparison to the victory in the Great Patriotic War, these military actions seem like a localized operation that had little practical impact on the majority of population of the Soviet Union.
But there is another reason why neither the Soviet nor the Russian leadership like to brag about the role of the Soviet Union in this war. Even despite the fact that this operation was in military terms a brilliant success and furthermore an act above and beyond the call of...
This summer the Italian director, clown, acrobat and scene designer Daniele Finzi Pasca is traveling between St. Petersburg, Moscow, Lugano and Montreal. St. Petersburg is the first stop on the European tour of Cirque du Soleil’s show Corteo, the second show of the group to come to Russia. Last autumn the troupe brought Varekai to Moscow.
Daniele Finzi Pasca came up with the idea for Corteo five years ago. It has already toured to wide acclaim in North American and Japan, and is scheduled to make runs in the Russian cities St. Petersburg, Kazan and Moscow before heading to other European cities.
In Moscow, Daniele Finzi...
Two hundred forty years ago near the Moldavian city of Vulc...
On July 22 the first Russian Center of the Russkiy Mir Foundation in Vietnam opened in the capital city of Hanoi. Earlier we spoke with Professor Nguyen Trong Do, rector of the International School at Vietnam National University, about this event and the situation with Russian studies in Vietnam.
– What is the situation with Russian language studies in Vietnam?
– The International School at Vietnam National University has a successful Russian language department. We have five highly qualified Russian teachers. The department is headed by the world-renowned Russian-language specialist Tuet Min. Currently 170 students study in the...
On July 19, 1425, the Italian architect Anton Fryazin (Antonio Gislardi) laid the first stone of the Tainitskaya Tower on the south wall of the Moscow Kremlin.Aesthetically, the tower is quite effective. It is the oldest of the towers standing today, and its creation marked the beginning of the transformation of the Kremlin from the white-wall fortress of Dmitry Donskoy to the one we see today, similar to a the Castello Sforzesco in Milan. And there is strange in this similarity, as practically all of the architects invited to Moscow by Ivan III were Italians. And an Italian at that time in Russian were called Fryazin, which is why Anton(io)...
Not so long ago I heard some rather important public figure speaking on the radio say that we are currently “at the beginning of the middle of the end of the crisis”. For the umpteenth time I was amazed by the elegance with which our experts and bureaucrats use the Russian language. So I tried to make some sense of this phrase, and after giving it some thought I came to a surprising conclusion: the phrase with surprising accuracy expresses the condition of the intellects in our country (and perhaps even throughout the world) when it comes to assessing the current social-economic situation.
To express this more clearly, then it...
