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A professor whose name may not be mentioned reports that, at a university whose name may not be mentioned, doctoral applicants write a special letter on the history of their vulnerability

A professor whose name may not be mentioned reports that, at a university whose name may not be mentioned, doctoral applicants write a special letter on the history of their vulnerability. A special committee, which did not exist ten years ago, awards them points on a certain scale and then

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Concluding the conference "The History of Charity and Patronage in Moscow", the Ivan Betskoy Foundation held a reception in honour of Patron and Philanthropist Day

If the conference itself was given over to discussions of the activities of patrons, the formation of museum collections and trusteeship in education and healthcare, the evening, with neoclassical compositions performed by the Force Of Music ensemble and masterpieces of Russian and foreign song classics sung by the Logos choir,

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Monument to Sparky, the Squirrel Who Sought the Light Even in the Darkest of Times

Monument to Sparky, the squirrel who sought the light even in the darkest of times. The memorial was erected by a group of students on the campus of Delaware Valley University in the United States. The students thus expressed their gratitude to the squirrel that gnawed through an electric cable,

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The "Education and Career" Exhibition at the Gostiny Dvor

The "Education and Career" exhibition at the Gostiny Dvor. Entrance through Entrance 4

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Restoration of the Krupskaya monument on Sretensky Boulevard continues in Moscow

In Moscow, the restoration of the Krupskaya monument on Sretensky Boulevard continues. Unveiled in 1976, the monument, the work of the husband-and-wife sculptors Ekaterina (Alekseyeva) and Alexander Belashov, was the first monument dedicated to an individual woman in Moscow. The sculpture portrays Krupskaya as a young revolutionary. Yet

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"I remember that in the private Tenishev studio run by Repin, a student turned up in our group who proved to be colour-blind

"I remember that in the private Tenishev studio run by Repin, a student turned up in our group who proved to be colour-blind. He drew well, but when he took up the brush, faces and objects acquired unnatural colours and shades under his hand. Repin did not know

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“When looking over the work of his pupils he spoke for the most part abruptly, in short phrases: ‘The head is too small’, ‘The hand is drawn wrongly’...

“When looking over the work of his pupils he spoke for the most part abruptly, in short phrases: ‘The head is too small’, ‘The hand is drawn wrongly’... Why too small, why wrongly, Repin usually did not explain, but demanded that his pupils grasp it for themselves. Yet at times

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The New Bauman Building

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Pupils of One of the Most Famous Jewish Religious Schools, the Mir Yeshiva in Shanghai

Founded in 1815 in the small town of Mir in the Russian Empire, on the territory of present-day Belarus, the Mir Yeshiva played a key role in the development of Jewish religious education. And although the word Mir still stands in its name, the school, which was known as

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Following last year's presidential decree on the payment of Presidential postgraduate scholarships to 2,000 recipients in the amount of 75,000 roubles, a government resolution has been issued "on the rules for awarding and paying scholarships of the Presi

Candidates for the scholarships are citizens of the Russian Federation studying full-time, with a scientific supervisor and an approved dissertation topic. The scholarship is awarded for a period of 1 to 4 years. It is paid monthly. The applicant is nominated by the scientific supervisor, and the nomination must

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Those Very Lecturers Whose Words Fly Straight Past the Ears

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Until 1956, when the sole code of Russian spelling and punctuation, approved by the authorities and the USSR Academy of Sciences, was adopted, the verbs ПРИЙТИ, ПРИДТИ and even ПРИТТИ were all considered equally valid; after the reform, only ПРИЙТИ…

Until 1956, when the sole code of Russian spelling and punctuation, approved by the authorities and the USSR Academy of Sciences, was adopted, the verbs ПРИЙТИ, ПРИДТИ and even ПРИТТИ were all considered equally valid; after the reform, only ПРИЙТИ was left as correct. So if you still spell it