Publications
The Russian Pavilion has opened at the 65th Cannes Film Festival. This is the fifth year for the Russian Cannes Pavilion and the second year in which Sberbank has sponsored it. Adhering to its primary objective – promoting Russian films on the international market – the pavilion opened with the presentation of 10 new films that will either hit the screens this year or are likely to do well on the festival circuit.
Judging by the Cannes presentation, the main hope of contemporary Russian cinematography is Boris Khlebnikov, who is concurrently coming out with two films. One is titled The Long Happy Life, which was described by...
It is likely that the creators of Slavic writing, Cyril and Methodius, would have difficulty comprehending the present-day realities in which Slavic languages exist.
Today, according to UNESCO, one of the Slavic languages – Russian – has fallen, in terms of international influence, from fifth place, where it stood for many decades prior 1991, to somewhere between 6th and 8th place. Of course back in the day of Cyril and Methodius, the Russian language had yet to be mentioned. The brothers created written language for the Slovenes, Bulgarians, Czechs and Croatians.
The Eastern Slavic tribes were rather disconnected then, and the...
On May 21 the new lineup of the Russian Cabinet was announced. Dmitry Livanov, who for the past five years has served as rector of the National University of Science and Technology MISiS, was appointed Minister of Education and Science. The following interview was published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta.– According to the most recent surveys, high school graduates with barely satisfactory grades are planning to apply to technical universities. What do you make of this?
– Such students have no place in engineering schools. That’s quite clear. If they are accepted somewhere they will make poor engineers. The quality of the...
The awards ceremony for the Gorky Prize, an international literary competition, will take place for the fourth time on the island of Capri (Italy). Initially conceived as a means of promoting Russian literature in Italy and Italian literature in Russia and to promote literary translations, the prize has reached a new apogee in its scope.
This year the Special Gorky Prize for “outstanding contribution to the development of world culture” did not go to a man of letters but rather to man of music, maestro Valery Gergiev. Similarly, last year this prize went to world-renowned Italian opera diva Cecilia Bartoli.
“This is an...
The Russian national ice hockey team became world champions, having defeated Slovakia 6:2 in the finals. Russians played at the top level during the entire championship – they did not lose a single game, having won in all 10 matches and three years later returned the title of the world’s best national team.
In the run-up to the ice-hockey world cup, the Russian team was repeatedly criticized for rather unconvincing performances in the preparation games and few seemed to believe in ultimate victory. Yet there were not many reasons for criticism – the head coach invited different players to decide on the optimal roster using...
Who could think that The Night of Open Doors held for the first time 16 years ago in Germany would become so popular with the cultural managers of the whole world? Now the Museum Night is held in 157 countries within the International Day of Museums celebrated on May 18. As a matter of fact, the very holiday appeared in the world calendar at the suggestion of the USSR submitted to the International Council of Museums in 1977. But how has modern Russia modified it “in the spirit of creativity and innovation”?
The Museum Night was originally conceived and now conducted in Germany and the EU as a free of charge feast of culture for...
