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On December 14, 1610, two Tatars who had fled from Kaluga brought news to Moscow of tragic events that had erupted three days earlier: “a thief drove from Kaluga on Tuesday, December 11, walked outside the prison, and with him went Yurt Tatars ... and he killed a Yurt Tartar thief ... on a hill near the cross the killed one lies, his head cut off and his right arm cut from the sword.”
So ended the life of one of the main characters from Russia’s Time of Troubles – “Prince Dmitry Ivanovich,” who would go down in history as False Dmitry II or the Tushino Thief. His killer was the head of his own guards, a...
Vyacheslav Nikonov, Executive Director of the Russkiy Mir Foundation told Vesti TV channel about the foundation’s operations to date and its plans for the future.
“This year has been very successful and positive for the foundation and for the whole Russian World, which comprises a great number of people, who think in Russian, speak Russian, love Russia and are learning Russian," said Vyacheslav Nikonov. "... In the 1990ies Russian became the sixteenth most popular language to study in Poland – it was taught at various educational institutions, at schools and universities. Now it comes in second after English,...
On December 14, 1610, two Tatars who had fled from Kaluga brought news to Moscow of tragic events that had erupted three days earlier: “a thief drove from Kaluga on Tuesday, December 11, walked outside the prison, and with him went Yurt Tatars ... and he killed a Yurt Tartar thief ... on a hill near the cross the killed one lies, his head cut off and his right arm cut from the sword.”
So ended the life of one of the main characters from Russia’s Time of Troubles - “Prince Dmitry Ivanovich,” who would go down in history as False Dmitry II or the Tushino Thief. His killer was the head of his own guards, a baptized...
Recently, a team of authors from the Pushkin State Russian Language Institute and their counterparts from several Italian universities prepared a textbook on reading and conversation development for Italian students of the humanities. The textbook is called “Russia – Italy: A Dialogue of Cultures” and was created with financial support from the Russkiy Mir Foundation. The manuscript of the book is already finished and is now being prepared for publication. The description of the textbook states that the dialogue of cultures is presented as “a process and the result of the emergence of texts of one culture with...
The Indonesian Orthodox Church (GOI – Gereja Ortodoks Indonesia) unites more than 2,000 believers and consists of 13 parishes on the islands of Java, Bali, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Timor and New Guinea. The church is headed by Archimandrite Daniel, who is canonically subordinate to the Bishop of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.According to some reports, in the 7th and 8th centuries, the first missionaries from Antioch – (Syrian) Christians – began preaching in Sumatra, although after the last remaining representatives of these clergymen died, local residents found themselves in...
The unexpected death of Yegor Gaidar has already managed to stir up passions in those places in today’s Russia allocated by him as boiling points. The blogs were filled with various entries – sincere regrets, outright malice, and often, satisfaction with what had happened. To a large extent, this applies to materials devoted to Gaidar in the media, especially the electronic media. While the necessary formalities and the laws of the genre have generally been met, one can notice that the authors have personal opinions on Gaidar, as well as on the issue of how he will go down in history. And these opinions are usually quite...
