People continue lining up opposite the Christ the Savior Church – this time they are eager to get into the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. After the sumptuous Picasso, Dior and Dali expositions, the paintings of two rioters in art – the great Caravaggio and enigmatic William Blake – are now on display. Last week the Caravaggio (1571-1610): Paintings from Italian and Vatican Collections exposition opened in the museum. The master’s eleven canvases for the first time arrived in Russia from Italy and Vatican. “It is next to impossible to organize such an exhibition and yet we did it,” said Director of the...
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Black Friday and the accompanying holiday hysteria have launched another season of Christmas sales in America. “At such times I am ashamed to be an American,” says one reporter, commenting on the crowds stampeding into Wal-Mart in search of discounts. Shopping mania in the form that is has developed in America remains something rather exotic for Russia. At the same time, many Russians, and the children of immigrants in particular, take playfully part in this short but demanding sprint for new items, and they do so with pleasure.
The remains of the turkey peak out from the pile of fragrant apples and celery. Cranberry sauce...
Writer Mikhail Shishkin, as is characteristic of “living classics”, is quite focused, exacting and unhurried. He diligently puts out one novel every five years, but each one is highly regarded by readers and critics alike. The winner of numerous literary awards, Shishkin has spent the past 15 years of his life living in Zurich. Recently he visited Moscow, where it was announced that he had won first prize of the Big Book Prize for his most recent novel Letter-Book. Here we republish an interview with the author from 2010. Mikhail Shishkin explains how he manages to get by outside his native language and cultural environment and...
Russkiy Mir Foundation Executive Director Vyacheslav Nikonov gave an interview to Rossiyskaya Gazeta. He commented on Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev’s statement in which he announced Russia’s position concerning plans for the deployment of a European antimissile security system.
– Why was Dmitriy Medvedev's statement made specifically now? What was the last straw that made Russia formulate its position so harshly on the US national holiday, Thanksgiving Day?
– The Russian president's statement did not spoil the holiday for ordinary Americans – they are not very interested in politics.
The fact that...
Last Thursday, November 24, the names of the laureates of the Enlightener Prize were announced. The award in the Humanities nomination category went to Vladimir Plungyan for his book Why Languages Are So Different and the award in the Natural Sciences nomination category went to Alexander Markov for The Evolution of Man, a book in two volumes – Monkeys, Bones and Genes (I) and Monkeys, Neurons and the Soul (II).
“In recent years the greatest contribution to the development of our comprehension of anthropogenesis has come from three areas of science – paleoanthropology, genetics and evolutionary psychology. Here we are...
On November 24, longtime television host Alexander Maslyakov celebrated his 70th anniversary and also the jubilee of the KVN show. Earlier in the month this broadly popular game celebrated its fiftieth anniversary since its first broadcast on television. Columnist Anna Loshchikhina reflects on how the game has evolved and at the same time remained both timely and trendy as other comedy projects rise and fail on Russian-language television.
For many years, just before the next birthday of the ‘lord’ – Maslyakov’s nickname among several generations of KVN participants – rumors have been circulated...