A conference on the life and work of Princess Maria Pavlovna Demidoff was held at the Villa Medici-Demidovs near Florence with the participation of the Russian Center of Pisa University on July 26. The conference was meant to honor the 64th anniversary of Demidoff death. 
Russian Center in Dresden together with Russian House of Science and Culture in Berlin organised seminar-training on developing corporate values. 
Pushkin World event dedicated to the 220th anniversary of the poet’s birth and to the three-year anniversary of Russian Center was held at Soka University in Tokyo. About 30 students attended it, including Russians, graduates and local residents. The event began with a half-hour documentary on the life of Pushkin with subtitles in Japanese.
The conference was dedicated to the problems of interpretation and translation in the 21st century. 
Meeting of several Russian Associations representatives in Toscana and Liguria took place at the Honorary Consulate of Russia in Pisa. 
The Spiritual Journey of Tchaikovsky book was presented at the Library of the Tchaikovsky Russian Center in Hamburg on June. The book author is musicologist and senior Research employee of Tchaikovsky State House-Museum Galina Sizko. 
The Archbishop of Podolsk Tikhon, who heads the Berlin-Germany diocese, held a liturgy and consecrated a sculpture erected on the temple in honor of the righteous patron of the Hamburg community in the church of St. John of Kronstadt.