35 years ago “Yaseni”, the House-Museum of Ivan Turgenev, was opened in the community of Bougival near Paris. The year of the writer’s 200th birthday anniversary has become the most eventful one in the Yaseni Museum history; thousands of compatriots and France residents have visited exhibitions and performances conducted here. According to Marc Zvigilskiy, the Museum Director, whose father founded the museum in the estate where Turgenev spent eight last years of his life, the anniversary celebrations in Bougival enabled the French to discover the Russian classic writer anew.

Archbishop Antony of Vienna and Budapest shared in his interview to the Russkiy Mir about activities of the Moscow Patriarchate Office for Institutions Abroad and how parishes of Russian Orthodox Church assist compatriots abroad to preserve their language and culture.