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Well, here we are. “This means that new subjects of fundamental research will be formed by scientific and educational organisations, taking into account the priorities for developing regional economies under sanctions, and will be reviewed by governors before being sent for examination by the Russian Academy of Sciences”
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Vladimir Zhirinovsky with the class of 1964. The elderly lady in the photograph is Zhirinovsky's favourite teacher, Serafima Filatovna Nikonova. Vladimir Volfovich spoke of her repeatedly in his interviews, even quite late ones, when he was already advanced in years, saying that he remembered her as a highly
Almaty · Education · People
The legendary School No. 25 in Alma-Ata, from which Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky graduated. In those years it was Secondary School No. 25 named after Dzerzhinsky, with a language bias (once the school named after Comrade Yezhov, directly opposite the KGB building). One of the city's old schools,
Aristocracy · Education · People · Saint Petersburg
At the Leningrad University philological faculty, Tatyana Gnedich, great-great-grandniece of the translator of the «Iliad», was accused, in her postgraduate studies, of concealing her noble origins. When the accusation reached Gnedich herself, she objected: how could she possibly have concealed her nobility with the surname Gnedich, when the
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The mural is the work of the Naples-born street artist Jorit, known to the Russian public for his mural with the face of Yury Gagarin on the firewall of a twenty-storey building in Odintsovo. The portrait of Dostoevsky has been painted over a text taken from Pier Paolo
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Having looked upon Russia in a moment of her repose, let us now consider one of her deeds, accomplished before our very eyes. All Europe, having made ready for several years and gathered its forces, in the persons of twenty tongues, burst through undefended frontiers into the very heart of
London · Observations · Education · Society
Under £20,000 a year for a job that requires a doctorate and full-time commitment. And this offer comes from Oxford. How does that strike you, siiiir? New College, one of the most prosperous in Oxford, invites historians to take up a one-year post as something between a
Education · Pop Culture · Ethnography
The Krestetsky pattern is bound to the hand labour of its needlewomen and cannot be replaced even by the most modern machines. In Russia this is perhaps one of the few cases in which a traditional craft has turned so quickly, and with such respect for tradition, into a large
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien became a professor at Oxford at 30, and this is what the academic dress of a Doctor of Letters (DLitt) of the University of Oxford looks like: a scarlet gown with bell-shaped sleeves of grey silk. Tolkien received this honorary degree in 1972, a year
NB! · Art · Observations · Education · Paris · Humour
Voltaire at the École nationale des chartes, or proof that, given a set of eyelash extensions, any dried apricot can pass for a second-hand peach. Though in Russia, I dare say, some criminal case or other might well be opened over such embellishment of one of the national symbols
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Work by a VKhUTEIN student, 1924