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The Moscow Art Theatre Museum, together with the School of Historical Sciences and the School of Design of the Higher School of Economics, has prepared a multimedia online exhibition about Stanislavsky's legendary 1909 production of Turgenev's "A Month in

The exhibition is a journey through interactive locations recreated from the original sketches of Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, who was the designer of the 1909 production. And one can not only wander about the display but also interact with the principal characters of the play, and if not father children with them,

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A Snowy Day, Ronald Lampitt

A snowy day, Ronald Lampitt. One can go endlessly goose-pimpled watching Englishmen, certain continental Europeans and Americans stroll about in shorts in winter. Some will write it off as plain folly, others will recall ancient traditions, still others will put the wardrobe at odds with the weather down to

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The struggle against the revision of history and the want of patriotism could not logically fail to widen the domains of censorship and to prompt attempts to regulate the various branches of intellectual activity

The struggle against the revision of history and the want of patriotism could not logically fail to widen the domains of censorship and to prompt attempts to regulate the various branches of intellectual activity. A law is now being pushed through on what enlightenment may be and what it may

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I See No Grounds for Obtaining a Higher Education in Such Conditions

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The 17th "Baltic Seasons" Arts Festival Continues in Kaliningrad until 8 December

In Kaliningrad, the 17th "Baltic Seasons" arts festival continues until 8 December. The festival, a theatrical showcase, presents productions by Russian theatres and university drama companies, and its programme is in two parts: "Modern Classics" and "The Future of Theatre. The Fruits of Enlightenment"

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At university, in philosophy classes, I positively loathed Rousseau and metaphysics in general, considering it meaningless chatter that stole time from proper authors like Kuhn and Popper

At university, in philosophy classes, I positively loathed Rousseau and metaphysics in general, considering it meaningless chatter that stole time from proper authors like Kuhn and Popper. But, all things considered, Jean-Jacques is a rather agreeable fellow. Especially in the guise of a citizen of Geneva in this portrait

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Russian Orthodox Church proposes adding sacred texts to the school literature curriculum

The Russian Orthodox Church proposes adding sacred texts to the school literature curriculum. Moreover, in the view of the Church's representatives, the foundational texts of "traditional" religions should carry no age rating.

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In the Russian Academy of Sciences' Orthographic Dictionary of Russian, biennale and b'ennale are recorded as nouns of masculine or feminine gender

In the Russian Academy of Sciences' Orthographic Dictionary of Russian, biennale and b'ennale are recorded as nouns of masculine or feminine gender. The dictionary of foreign words, however, makes biennale neuter. In practice, meanwhile, we find that biennale is most often used as a feminine word. Though

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What interests us about Golubitskoe is not so much its vineyards, which also have a rather gripping history, as the activity of the Golubitskoe art foundation, which has established a residency for artists, curators, art historians…

What interests us about Golubitskoe is not so much its vineyards, which also have a rather gripping history, as the activity of the Golubitskoe art foundation, which has established a residency for artists, curators, art historians, journalists, critics, writers, historians, archaeologists and other creative and humanities specialists, who have the

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Julia Koricheva, Professor of Ecology at Royal Holloway, University of London, has photographed the label on a cork oak in the university arboretum

Julia Koricheva, Professor of Ecology at Royal Holloway, University of London, has photographed the label on a cork oak in the university arboretum. Note the spring that holds the sign loosely on its screw, so that no foreign object presses too tightly against the bark. In short, the damage done

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On the resignation of the rector of MGIMO I made the following observation: in the 46 years from 1944 to 1990 the institute changed 14 heads, and not one of them held the post to the last day of his life, all continued working after retirement, the longes

On the resignation of the rector of MGIMO I made the following observation: in the 46 years from 1944 to 1990 the institute changed 14 heads, and not one of them held the post to the last day of his life, all continued working after retirement, the longest term as

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Back in my postgraduate days I noted with vexation that the overwhelming majority of Moscow museums did not count a postgraduate card as a student one, and not only denied free entry, although one would think that a history faculty should be able to visit

Back in my postgraduate days I noted with vexation that the overwhelming majority of Moscow museums did not count a postgraduate card as a student one, and not only denied free entry (although one would think that a history faculty should be able to visit at least the historical museums