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"When the Roman Empire fell, it was in large part the result of uncontrolled immigration. The empire could no longer control its borders ..and Europe sank into the Dark Ages, which lasted a very long time. ..it could happen again" The Prime Minister of Britain has warned of
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Irina Kudrina announces that Club 418, which she runs with Nadya Obolentseva, is ceasing its activities. At least in its customary lecture format upd *is ceasing its lecture activities for club members
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Mikhail Kozakov and Oleg Tabakov. The MKhAT hostel, 1956
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A task from a fourth-form Russian language olympiad. Lyudmila Stefanovna gave her assessment
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Dmitri Shostakovich's First Symphony. It was first performed in May 1926, having been written as his graduation project. Its first performance was a sensation, and soon it was being played all over the country and abroad, in Berlin, Philadelphia and New York. Thus the 19-year-old composer
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I remember Vladimir Annushkin from the school literature olympiads of old, where the distinguished professor was habitually the wise chairman of the jury and even strummed something on the guitar. And now, who would have thought it, we may meet again after so many years: I see him among the
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The Historical and Archival Institute. A photograph from the late 1990s: 25 October Street has only recently become Nikolskaya Street again, but has not yet become the pedestrian one we know today 1995: not yet 2000: still no 2005: no, not yet 2010: not for the moment 2013: hurrah! Nikolskaya
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Originally, the word abiturient was used to mean "a pupil finishing secondary school, a school-leaver". Today it has acquired practically the opposite sense: not one who leaves school, but one who applies for admission. As late as the 1960s, explanatory dictionaries described abiturients exclusively as school-leavers.
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Congratulations to all on the First of September! Even if you left the walls of school and university long ago, the symbolic start of a new academic year is a great holiday. And perhaps it deserves to be greeted with joy, for what in this life is more interesting than
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Dippy is one of the most famous dinosaurs in the world. Since 1979, tens of millions of people have seen him every year on visiting Britain's foremost natural history museum: the full-size skeleton stood in the museum's hall until 2017, when he was replaced by