Publications
What’s the most difficult thing in providing guidance to children? Being convincing…
When a dogmatist starts the just struggle for the truth, he often does more harm than good. Let’s consider this point on the example of St. Valentine’s Day.
What arguments are kept in store year after year for the young in order to wean them from the habit of celebrating the ‘Day for Those in Love’ that developed in Russia some 15 years ago?
First of all, they tell them that this is a Catholic and not an Orthodox holiday; the next point is that this is not a holiday, but rather a memory day of the Saint who was a tragic,...
Russia is a social welfare state. We have a much higher level of social guarantees than countries with a comparable level of labour productivity and per capita incomes. In the past few years, spending on the social sphere has accounted for over 50% of overall budgetary spending. In the past four years alone, it has gone up by 50% in absolute terms. Its percentage share of GDP has increased from 21% to 27%. The 2008-2009 downturn failed to undermine any of these social guarantees. Moreover, during this period the wages of public sector employees actually went up, as did pensions and other social payments. But Russian citizens are by no means...
Now many parents are puzzled as they choose a school for their preschoolers: what school is better and what should be the language of studies? In the words of Professor Andrei Krasnoglazov, the founder and irreplaceable principal of the Pushkin Institute, bilingualism is a definite advantage. Yet those parents, who think their kids going to Estonian school will learn Russian automatically at home, are mistaken.– What problems are faced by a Russian child going to an Estonian school?
– Such a child lands between two fires. On the one hand, special preparation is needed for him or her to be able to study at this school. From the...
Sustainable social development is impossible without a competent state, while genuine democracy is a fundamental condition for developing a state designed to serve public interests.
Real democracy cannot be created overnight and cannot be a carbon copy of some external example. Society must be completely ready for using democratic mechanisms. The majority of people must see themselves as citizens of their country, ready to devote their attention, time and efforts on a regular basis to taking part in the process of governance. In other words, democracy is effective only when people are ready to invest something in it.
In the early 1990s, our...
Well-known scientist, Director of the Institute of Thermal Physics of Extreme States at the United Institute of High Temperatures (UIHT) and RAS Academician Vladimir E. Fortov ponders the condition of Russian science and the causes of its stagnation. From 1996 to 2001 he was Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). In August 1996, he was appointed Chairman of the RF State Committee for Science and Technologies and later – the Minister of Science and Technologies. Concurrently he had been Vice Chairman of the Russian Cabinet until March 1997 and since 2010 he has been a member of the Advisory Academic Panel of the...
“A literary work and opera staging are two absolutely different things,” repeated Aleksey Parin, the author of libretto, after the first night of Cherry Orchard in Paris. The Marriage of Figaro play by Pierre Beaumarchais and the eponymous opera have nothing in common. Such is the law of this genre: never judge about an opera by its compliance with the literary version!”
This view is shared by Philippe Fenelon, a French composer and author of seven operas: “Not a single play can be set to music, regardless of who its author is. A literary work is just a pretext for creating an absolutely different work of art in a...
