Publications
The University of Granada in Spain recently hosted the international conference “Russian Language and Literature in International Education: The Current Status and Prospects”, an event that was supported by the Russkiy Mir Foundation and attracted Russian specialists from 32 countries around the world. We spoke with the organizer of the conference, Professor Rafael Guzman Tirado of the University of Granada.
The professor’s interest in Russian culture began in his childhood years, when he read many Russian classics, albeit in Spanish. His passion for Russia led him to degree in the country’s language at university in...
On September 19, 1923, the USSR adopted a resolution concerning the ringing of bells. Among other things, this resolution includes the following: “Those guilty of assembling the population with warning bells, sirens and other such methods with counter-revolutionary aims are to be handed over the revolutionary tribunal.”
There was nothing here about the ringing of bells as part of religious services, but you just try and prove to the Chekists what kind of bell ringing is counterrevolutionary and which not, particularly if you are a church worker, who were considered alien to the working class. Thus, the ringing of church bells was...
Kirsti Sutinen, director of the Institute for Russia and Eastern Europe in Helsinki, spoke with Russkiy Mir on the eve of the opening of the first Russian Center in Finland.
– Why do you think the Foundation chose the Institute of Russia and Eastern Europe to as the site of the Russian Center?
– The Russian Center will be opened by the Russkiy Mir Foundation in the library of our institute, which was created in 1949. The library collection includes a very broad spectrum of Russian-language popular and literary works as well as numerous periodicals and audiovisual materials. To express this in numbers, the library has 70,000...
The release of The Grand Design has caused quite a ruckus. Its authors – the British physicist Stephen Hawking and his American colleague Leonard Mlodinow – tell the story of the origin of the universe. This is not their first joint effort – they earlier collaborated on A Brief History of Time.
Stephen Hawking is a living legend. This scientist, who is confined to a wheelchair and has lost his ability to speak, has made a number of amazing discoveries and he himself represents a victory of “the mind over the body”. Hawking is a master of the popular science genre and his books are a sure bet to become best...
“And passengers can…” I said, cutting myself off in midsentence as I caught the startled look on the face of the lady behind the counter. “We don’t use that word here,” she explained to the Englishman who was travelling with me. “Workers of the railroad are strictly instructed not to use it. We must say ‘customers.’”
The privatized British railroads differ in this sense from Russian and French railroads, where they still remember that transport exists not for the purpose of “offering services to customers” but very specifically for the purpose of transporting...
Pathos (Greek: The return home has been depicted by many poets and novelists, illustrated by numerous artists. In Rembrandt’s Return of the Prodigal Son, he projects a tragic scene: a son returns home after an absence of many years, and his father, who can no longer see, is able to forgive him. The scene is full of dark shades, and its players mourn over lost time and the misunderstanding between the father and son. A bright ray of light shines down on the blind father’s face showing us his enlightenment – he finally “sees” the essence of the quarrel with his son.
When emigrants return to visit their homeland,...
