Publications
“They lived a long and happy life and died in one day.” So begins many a fairytale. And perhaps there is no embellishment here: these words are true of the Peter and Fevronia, who lived some eight centuries back. As is so happens, the name day of these saints – July 8 – is also the day we celebrate the Day of Family, Love and Fidelity.
This holiday was introduced, with not too little pomposity, in 2008, which had earlier been declared the Year of the Family. The initiators of this idea were residents of Murom, where the remains of these much loving spouses are enshrined. This initiative was support by deputies of the...
The 33rd Moscow International film Festival has come to an end. The jury, chaired by the renowned actress Geraldine Chaplin, awarded the main prize to the young Spanish director Alberto Morais for his film Waves. Only one of our compatriots received an award – Sergei Loban, creator of Chapiteau Show. His efforts earned him the Special Jury Prize. But now that the festival passions have died down, we can take a calm and measured look at its competitive program. It included a number of films on a subject both important and tragic for our peoples – the Second World War. And it was interesting to see how different directors tackled...
On June 23, 1894, in Sorbonne a rather nonacademic issue was on the agenda. The International Athletics Congress voted to support the proposal of French sports enthusiast Baron Pierre de Coubertin to revive the Olympic Games.
On this day the first International Olympic Committee (IOC) was selected. Baron Coubertin ceremoniously announced the names of the members. Second to be named was a representative of our country. “General Butovsky for Russia” – that’s how it sounded in the original.
Truth be told, Butovsky wasn’t in Paris at the time. He couldn’t get away from his duties. But he had become acquainted...
As long as we fail to raise the level of education, upbringing and culture to a higher level, we will continue reap the consequences, says Professor Konstantin Rusnak, head of the UNESCO office in Moldova. It was this lack of an adequate appreciation for culture among high-level government officials that placed the Pushkin House Museum in Chisinau under threat. The building is one of only two surviving buildings where aPushkin once lived. The other is located in St. Petersburg and thankfully is not facing any threats. In Chisinau, the Pushkin house came under threat when a construction crew began digging a foundation just seven meters from...
We spoke with Dr. Sergei Goncharov, head of the Zaschita Center for Emergency Medicine, about why provision of first aid should be mandated by law, how emergency medicine is leading to new treatment methods and other important issues.
– Following the summer fires flared up again and arms depots exploded in Bashkiria and Udmurtia, you spoke of the need to obligate people by law to provide first aid to the injured. Don’t you think you’re going overboard here?
– The law on provision of first aid was amended to stipulate this a year and a half ago. The problem is that few people know this. And even fewer are prepared to...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited the Alexander Pushkin State Russian Language Institute on the poet’s birthday. The President laid flowers at a monument to the poet on the square in front of the main entrance, and was present during the defense of master’s degree theses. President Medvedev met at the institute with academics and teachers, members of Russian linguists’ associations, staff from the Russkiy Mir Foundation, young Russian studies specialists, and specialists on promoting Russian language on the internet. The President announced at the meeting that he has signed an executive order making June 6 Russian...
