Publications
Well-known Russian-Ukrainian businessman, Russian MP Alexander Babakov has been appointed as special representative of the Russian President for engagement with compatriot organizations abroad. Kultura talked with Mr. Babakov about his top priorities.– In the near future you are going to present your proposals regarding engagement with our compatriots abroad to Vladimir Putin. Can you name the top priorities measures? – First of all, I’d like to underline that while preparing my proposals to the president I am going to study the opinion of all Russian departments, organizations and structures involved in the work with our...
Perpetual doubt and search: if he says “yes”, it is always followed by the “but”. Head of the famous actors’ workshop, Pyotr Fomenko thinks outside the box, loves to blow up the situation and set it off in an unpredictable direction. Once expelled from the studio of MAAT (Moscow Academic Art Theatre) for “hooliganism”, he is now a living vindication of Stanislavsky’s system and custodian of a theatre whose repertoire pivots on Russian classics, yet which does not abolish hooliganism. One of the most influential figures in modern Russian drama art celebrates his 80th birthday, abstaining from...
The Estonian information and journalistic site DELFI published a note about the use of Russian. The author is an ethnic Estonian who reasons about the advantages of fluent Russian in a somewhat faltering but decent Russian language. The main advantage of Estonians over many other residents of Western Europe who try to learn Russian, in the opinion of Peeter Raudsik, is easy access to the language practice, for Russians live side by side with Estonians while the interest in the language spoken by their co-citizen neighbors will help improve the social climate inside the country.“Mom, Dad, brother and dog are at home” and...
Famous combat vehicle Katyusha celebrated its birthday on July 14. The world has known it 71 years already. On July 14, 1941, the sound of this wonder canon thundered for the first time in the battle of Orsha in Belarus. There were only two volleys, but they produced an effect comparable to an explosion of an A-bomb on the Nazis. They destroyed the enemy’s will to resist, though in ten days after the war the German war machine seemed unstoppable. In those days dozens of Soviet military trains with armaments, ammunition and fuel got stuck at Orsha. To re-conquer them, it was decided to feed the Soviet wonder weapon into battle. The...
On July 9, 1762 or 250 years ago Russia acquired an empress. Or maybe Catherine II, the spouse of Emperor Peter III, acquired Russia on that day? Both versions are legitimate and complementary.The sense of historic expertise above all revolves around hyped up and widely promoted persons and events. The figure of Catherine II or Catherine the Great undoubtedly belongs to this category of persons in the popular conscience. Who does not know something about Catherine the Great in Russia?But quite often we are caught in the snare of set patterns and trivial knowledge, when the matter regards the particularly famous and popular individuals. And...
The All-Russian Day of Family, Love and Fidelity, celebrated since 2008, this year for the first time expands the its age boundaries, as the year 2012 is devoted to middle-aged and senior people. Here is why.On June 12 twins Alexander and Dmitry were born onto the Volga family of Anatoly and Elmira Magarin. The overjoyed administration of Ulyanovsk region that announced the Give Birth to Patriot action at the beginning of the year handed over the keys from two UAZ-Patriot off-road vehicles to the young family. The action organizers had to spend quite a penny, given that in 17 districts of the Ulyanovsk region 74 babies were born on June 12,...
