Publications
Docent of Omsk State Pedagogical University Tamara Skok is taking part in the Russkiy Mir Assembly this year for the first time. Tamara is the manager of a unique project called Modern Russian. The aim of the project is to improve the literacy of residents of Omsk. For this purpose a literary telephone service has been organized – a sort of literary first aid. Banners have also been put up throughout the city calling for citizens to speak proper Russian and televisions in municipal transport show instructional reels on language use. And special reference books have been published for businessmen outlining some of the most common...
Those speaking two languages, or bilinguals, a new reality of post-Soviet space, proved ephemeral. In point of fact it is simply a gradual transition to titular languages while Russian, as a language of international communication, is getting crowded out of everyday use. Unless Russia strengthens its humanities influence in CIS and Baltic nations, from 40% to 90% of youth in CIS won’t speak Russian, says Russkiy Mir portal’s columnist Vladimir Emelyanenko.
After five years of absence from Kiev I could not recognize the local residents. Everywhere – except in marketplaces and shops – locals responded in Ukrainian to...
We spoke with Vladimir Rodionov, a participant of the V Russkiy Mir Assembly and Director of the Institute of International Education at Voronezh State University, about how to attract foreign students to Russia.
– Voronezh State University has already held five Russian language festivals for foreign students studying at universities in Russia – Russkoye Slovo [The Russian Word]. So all the foreign students studying in Russia can participate in the festival in Voronezh. We are the permanent hosts of this festival and we, with the support of the Russkiy Mir Foundation intend to hold the sixth festival in April 2012.
– The...
On the eve of the V Russkiy Mir Assembly in St. Petersburg on November 3, the leadership of the Russkiy Mir Foundation held a meeting with journalists at Dom Knigi on Nevsky Prospekt. Executive Director of the Foundation Vyacheslav Nikonov spoke about the organizations work and achievements over the past year and the outlook for the future.
– This year the Russkiy Mir Foundation with gratitude has made use of a gracious invitation to hold our traditional, and fifth in our history, Russkiy Mir Assembly in St. Petersburg. The fifth assembly will bring together here on the banks of the Neva a large number of guests and participants. We...
Why should a foreigner travel to Russia? You cannot help thinking about it every time you leave the precincts of the capital city and drive by poor villages, plough lands that have turned into wastelands over bad roads with litter scattered over the roadsides. Why indeed? Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Gold Ring, Volga cruises are traditional destinations established back in Soviet times. Nothing new has appeared and even in the “traditional” places everything is not so smooth: few quality hotels, almost no entertainments while monuments as “the main asset” are far from being in a perfect condition. Substandard living...
On October 25, 1922, the Red Army entered Vladivostok. Even though the soldiers of comrade Uborevich bore the name of The People’s Revolutionary Army (PRA) of the Far-Eastern Republic (FER), they were actually the combatants of the Red Army. This was corroborated a month later, since already on November 22 the buffer Far-Eastern Republic was included in RSFSR, while PRA transformed into the Fifth Army of RKKA (Red Army of Workers and Peasants).
On October 25, 1922, the last White Army corps left Vladivostok. The troops of Lieutenant General Diterikhs evacuated from Primorye on the ships of the Far-Eastern Fleet bound for the Japanese...
