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Martin Luther, 1520. Looking at what goes on in the Western university, one sees that a quotation five hundred years old has proved immune to the passage of time
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In Krasnoyarsk, an airport and the state opera and ballet theatre are named after Dmitri Hvorostovsky. At this theatre Dmitri Hvorostovsky was a soloist from 1985 to 1990. Krasnoyarsk is Hvorostovsky's native city: here he studied at a music school and in the music department of a teacher
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The Russian part of the Unified State List of Scientific Publications, the "White List", has recently been compiled. In all, 3120 journals have made it onto the list, which is to say practically the whole of the former "VAK list". We are told that "the
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Hugh Grant turns 65 today; he took up acting, incidentally, after a failed attempt to obtain a doctorate in art history. It must be admitted that humanity has lost a most artistic scholar
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150 years ago Baron von Derviz, the creator of the Trans-Siberian Railway, bought a plot of land of 10 hectares in Nice, built the Château de Valrose and lived there with his wife and three children. The grounds of the villa were laid out with grottoes, cascades, a great
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Once, at a job interview, I was asked how I understood the phrase "from dream to realisation is but one step". To be honest, I don't understand it at all. It is one step from dream to realisation only if, say, your dream is to get
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Why do parents send their <children> away from home to the gymnasium? It suddenly became clear to me. If parents kept their <children> at home, they would see the consequences of their own immoral life in their children. Leo Tolstoy
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In the Russian Academy of Sciences' Russian Orthographic Dictionary, biennale and b'ennale are recorded as nouns of masculine or feminine gender. The dictionary of foreign words, by contrast, makes biennale neuter. In practice, meanwhile, we see that biennale is most often used as a feminine word. Though
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From 1 September 2025, Russian schools will begin cutting the hours devoted to foreign languages. In Years 5 to 7, the number of lessons will fall from three to two a week, while the total number of hours for the subject in Years 5 to 9 will drop from 510
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I drew a very lucky ticket in my fate, because at the end of 1944, while the war was still going on, I was sent to the Moscow Choir School. This was preceded by the wartime years and then a rather painful evacuation. My father had already sent my papers
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Did you cover this at school? Or at the very least, do you remember Sandra Bullock's talent-show number in the film "Miss Congeniality"?