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We spoke with Natalya Rimashevskaya, Director of the Institute of the Socio-Economic Problems of Demography, about what happened to the institution of the ‘Russian babushka’, the prospects for sustained birthrate growth and how to preserve the family. – How long did you believe the growth in birthrates will continue? – This should not be called growth but rather an upswing in birthrates, as it still remains lower than the mortality rate. Alas, as the 2010 census showed, the natural decrease of the population that began approximately in 1992 continues. It’s another matter that due to the fact that more children...

01.06.2011
Rubric: Interview
Subject: Общество

Today, nearly five centuries after his birth, Prince Andrei Kurbsky remains probably no less a controversial and talked-about figure than he was during his own lifetime and that of the terrible tsar. It is no surprise that he is something of a symbolic if not emblematic figure in Russian history. Terror of the Livonians and scourge of Kazan, Kurbsky was a significant figure because he changed an important vector in Russian history. Prior to the rule of Ivan the Terrible, we find historical chronicles filled with stories about how certain key figures from the Tatar, Lithuanian and Polish kingdoms fled to Russian in search of a better life or...

13.05.2011
Rubric: Articles
Subject: History

On May 12, a Russian Center of the Russkiy Mir Foundation is opening in the city of Maribor, the second largest city in Slovenia. We spoke with Igor Romanov, director of the Russian House in Maribor about the opening of the center and the growing interest in Russian language and culture in Slovenia. – In Slovenia, the study of the Russian language is on the rise. The largest center for Russian studies is at the University of Ljubljana. The Russian language is taught in 11 gymnasiums and 6 high schools in the country, and linguistic exchanges of university students and schoolchildren are held. Within the framework of the Slovenia-Russia...

11.05.2011
Rubric: Commentary
Subject: Education

Statistics are cruel. Over the past year, the number of veterans of the Great Patriotic War now alive – those whom we can look in the eyes and thank for our lives – has been cut in half. When we now visit on May 9, on Victory Day, those places in Moscow where veterans of that war traditionally gather, places that 20 or 30 years ago were packed with frontline soldiers, breasts full of medals, we painfully see how cruel time can be. Our correspondents visited places where the veterans of that most awful war continue to gather… The all too aggressive and political declamations ringing out on Mokhovaya street were not audible...

10.05.2011
Rubric: Articles
Subject: Общество

On May 5, a monument to poet Alexander Pushkin and his great grandfather Hannibal was opened in Vilnius Lithuania. The unveiling ceremony was attended by Pavel Lavrinets, head of the Russian Philology Department at Vilnius University. We spoke with him about this event and the Pushkin families’ ties to the city of Vilnius. – What significance does this monument have for the city of Vilnius and its residents? – All monuments are an expression of the values held by the given society, state or group of people. This symbol of such values plays a big role: this is the manner in which it is materially expressed in the...

05.05.2011
Rubric: Interview
Subject: Culture

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Photo credit: mos.ru (CC BY 4.0) Orthodox Epiphany was celebrated in Russia and abroad. The holiday and its tradition of diving in blessed water united Russians and residents of many countries around the world. Queues lined up at the illuminated Epiphany... .
Photo credit: mos.ru (CC BY 4.0) Holocaust Remembrance Week started in Russia on Thursday, January, 18, RIA Novosti reports. It is being held for the 10th time. The organizer is the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC). It is planned that commemorative events will cover almost... .
The course of Russian as a foreign language, created by the Mir Society of Russian Compatriots with the support of the Russian World Foundation, came to an end in Kragujevac, Serbia. The course participants included high school and university students, as well... .