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Alla Berezovskaya The UN Security Council held an online meeting of experts on the Situation with National Minorities and the Glorification of Nazism in the Baltic and Ukraine. The UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues Fernand de Varennes said that the rights of Russian speakers in the Baltic States and Ukraine had been violated. What else did they talk about at the meeting? Perhaps, it was the first time in the past thirty years, that such an authoritative and influential platform responsible for maintaining international peace as the UN Security Council gave the floor not merely to...

Dmitry Smolev Stepan Erzia. The Man from Chaco. Replica (tinted plaster). Photo credit: Stepan Erzia International Art Foundation The Erzia Center in Moscow houses a collection of unique sculptural replicas. Most of them are the casts from the artist's works kept in South America, although there are some originals as well. Stepan Erzia was a Mordvin sculptor who lived in Soviet Russia and Argentina. International Art Foundation after his name was based in Shcherbinka near Moscow until recently and then moved to the Moscow city. A part of the 1934 building was thoroughly reconstructed....

Polina Menshova, Aigul Yusupova There is a dialect of Russian called Alaskan Russian. It dates back to the second half of the 18th century when Alaska was owned by Russia. The locals had to somehow communicate with Russian manufacturers and merchants. As a result of this communication, a special dialect was born. And although Alaska ceased to be a part of Russia for more than fifty years, the dialect has survived. It is still used in several localities, the main one being the village of Ninilchik on the Kenai Peninsula. But the phenomenon of Alaskan Russian is not only about linguistics and not so much about it. It is...

Olga Dvoryanova First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs and Chairman of the Board of the Russkiy Mir Foundation Vyacheslav Nikonov has stated that the United States is conducting an "anti-Russian month" escalating the situation on the Ukrainian border and pushing NATO infrastructure closer to Russia in the process. Along with its claims that Russia is allegedly preparing an "invasion" of Ukrainian territory, the U.S. makes attempts to damage relations between Moscow and Kiev even more and to push the NATO infrastructure closer to the Russian borders. This is what First...

Maxim Khodykin "Superpower," "Red Empire," "Country of victorious socialism," "Colossus on clay feet," and even "Prison of nations" - just a few definitions that are still used for the country that demised 30 years ago. Although the USSR disappeared from the political scene irreversibly, it has forever remained in the memory, and not only of its former residents. For seven decades, the world used to follow the successes and failures of the Soviet experiment. There were those that feared the eastern neighbour, others attempted to adopt the Marxism-Leninism model. ...

Editor’s office of the Russkiy Mir portal MacDougall's Auction House, the British auction house specialising in Russian Russian art, has held another important auction in London on December 1. There were more than 40 lots such as items of Russian art and history. The letter from Catherine the Great on the benefits of vaccination against smallpox is particularly noteworthy. The unique document was sold for almost 1 mln. pounds. Let's take this opportunity to recall the story of how the empress had promoted vaccination in Russia. Portrait of the Empress Catherine the Great by Dmitry Levitsky, around 1793 ...