And we will preserve you, Russian speech,
The great Russian word.
We will keep you free and pure,
And pass you on to our grandchildren,
Free from bondage forever! Anna Akhmatova





 

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Events
10.03.10
March 7 a charity concert featuring young Russian and Greek scholarship holders of Vladimir Spivakov Foundation took place in Thessalonica, Greece.
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05.03.10
March 3, the Reading Room of the Pedagogical University of Krakow hosted the opening of a month-long exhibition entitled “Icon – Holy Space”.
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04.03.10
The opening ceremony was attended by the leading Ukrainian politicians, public figures and scientists.
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20.02.10
A new scandal has appeared in Russia’s mass media – public discussion of an internal document of the United Russia party which proposes “Orthodoxy as a moral foundation for modernization”.
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18.02.10
Old age is better in America – easier and more peaceful.  But, it seems, my friends don’t want this.  They want real life, with its ups and downs, a life of normal people. 
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12.02.10
A large collection of the works of Vladimir Timirev, son of Admiral Kolchak’s second, common-law wife, can be found in the Savitsky State Museum of Art in the Uzbek city Nukus.
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10.02.10
Universities and colleges throughout the United States are seeing consistent growth in the number of students enrolling in Russian language classes and Russian studies programs.
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Interviews
24.02.10
The report The Moral Foundation of Modernization, published on the website of the Institute for Development of a Modern Ideology, has received largely negative reviews in Russian mass media. The document was developed by experts of the institute for a meeting of the Center for Social-Conservative Policy of the United Russia Party.  A rather critical review of the report has already appeared on this site.  To provide another viewpoint, we spoke with Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Synod Department for Relations between the Church and Society.

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04.02.10
Vyzcheslav (Slava) Polunin spoke with RusskiyMir.ru about what theater means to him, what he finds difficult to do and what he dreams about doing.
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18.01.10

How do Americans today perceive Russia? What kind of image does our country have overseas, and what can be done to improve it?

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Diaspora Communities
15.02.10
It was Peter I who truly opened up Belgium to Russia. In 1717, during his second trip to western Europe, the Russian reformer tsar made an official visit to these lands.
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29.01.10
Late last year in Yasnaya Polyana the ashes of Leo Tolstoy’s son Mikhail were reburied. For many years he had lived in Morocco, and it was in the capital city of Rabat that he had died. In the first half of the 20th century, this North African country, at the time a French protectorate, became a second home for many of our fellow citizens, including representatives of prominent aristocratic families who by the will of fate found themselves in this strange land.
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15.01.10
It is well known that the largest Russian diasporas were established only recently - less than twenty years ago. Their formation was associated with the collapse of the Soviet Union, which resulted in nearly twenty-five million Russians and Russian-speakers being separated from their homeland virtually overnight.
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Announcements
January 21 - April 15 – The 10th International Pushkin Competition
March 2-4 – Online Conference – The First International Online Linguistic Conference “Linguistics-2010: Language. Culture. Modernity”
March 4 - Ukraine - Opening of the Russian Center in Kiev ”
April 15-17 – Hungary – International Conference “Russian Language in European Cultural Capital – 2010””



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Russkiy Mir Foundation Announces International Competition "Russkiy Mir – Forever in Our Hearts":  Entries accepted until April 10, 2010.
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First Russian Room Opens in Egypt

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