Hip hop might have come to life in the United States, but the first rapper was really one of the Soviet Union’s greatest poets — at least according to Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky. Speaking at the Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi, Medinsky named Vladimir Mayakovsky as an original MC, claiming that rap would soon…
EFFECTIVE ENGLISH COMPREHENSION, SPEAKING AND VOCABULARY BUILDING October 21, 2018 16:00-18:00 Topic for Sunday October 21: “Travel” FREE FOR ALL FLUENTRUSSIA/MOSCOW ENGLISH CLUB STUDENTS CURRENTLY ENROLLED IN COURSESALL OTHERS WELCOME: 700 RUBLES Sushchevsky Val Street, 43 Building 2 Fifth Floor
Calvert 22 has announced it is moving to a new home in central London and will close its current exhibition space. The organisation will relocate its offices to Somerset House, a creative hub in the heart of the U.K. capital, at the end of the year. The current exhibition space in Shoreditch will shut on…
Indian Summer is a period of warm and dry weather, and it comes to visit Moscow every year. Thousands of Muscovites (москвичы) and visitors took to the parks of the Russian capital to enjoy unseasonably (несезонно) warm weather that beat a 50-year record.With temperatures about 6 Celsius degrees higher than the average (средний) for this…
EFFECTIVE ENGLISH COMPREHENSION, SPEAKING AND VOCABULARY BUILDING October 14, 2018 16:00-18:00 Topic for Sunday October 14: “English and the Arts” FREE FOR ALL FLUENTRUSSIA/MOSCOW ENGLISH CLUB STUDENTS CURRENTLY ENROLLED IN COURSES. ALL OTHERS WELCOME: 700 RUBLES Sushchevsky Val Street, 43 Building 2 Fifth Floor
It was an unusual job advert. Wanted: Cat chief. Location: Zelenogradsk, Russia: Duties: Tending to the town’s approximately 70 stray cats. Some 80 applicants (соискатели) applied for the new role with the municipality in the small town in the Kaliningrad region, which has also erected (установили) a cat statue and added a feline to its…
EFFECTIVE ENGLISH COMPREHENSION, SPEAKING AND VOCABULARY BUILDING October 14, 2018 16:00-18:00 Topic for Sunday October 14: “English and the Arts” FREE FOR ALL FLUENTRUSSIA/MOSCOW ENGLISH CLUB STUDENTS CURRENTLY ENROLLED IN COURSES ALL OTHERS WELCOME: 700 RUBLES Sushchevsky Val Street, 43 Building 2 Fifth Floor
French photographer Céline Clanet spent five years travelling across the frozen tundra of the Kola Peninsula. Her images criscross three parallel worlds of the post-Soviet Arctic: the area’s vast (широкий) military infrastructure, mining and industry, and among them both, communities of the indigenous (местный) Sami people trying to maintain their traditional lifestyles.“The complex history of…
People in Moscow reportedly spent up to five days in the bitter cold and thousands of dollars for a chance to be among the first to buy new iPhone XS models, with sales kicking off in Russia on Friday. In addition to the XS, Apple Inc. introduced its largest-ever iPhone XS Max and an aluminum…
Until Oct. 31 Amfest, the American film festival, organized by the Cool Connections agency with the support (помощь) of the U.S. Embassy, has been around for more than a decade. Amfest combines films that were never shown in Russia with some retrospectives. This year Amfest will be held for an entire (весь) month with a…