by Victoria Mitchell | Feb 2, 2018 | Language Zones, Russian Culture, Russian Zone
A selection of events across the country this spring, from or about Russia and her neighbours… 02 Feb – 04 April – Russian State Ballet and Orchestra of Siberia, throughout the UK 07-10 Feb & 01-03 March – Moscow City Ballet, Nottingham and Manchester 10 Feb – A...
by Wendy Newman | Aug 1, 2014 | Russian Culture, Russian news, Russian updates, Russian Zone
Events at the Edinburgh Festivals In Edinburgh this year there will be many international events taking place, containing interesting performances from different nationalities – providing a great place to learn about different cultures and their history: Directed by...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | Russian Culture, Russian Zone
Roger Cockrell (University of Exeter) In Chapter 13 of Что такое искусство? (1897) Tolstoi, by now fully engaged in a sustained process of demolition that has reduced the greater part of the Western world’s artistic and cultural heritage to ruins, turns his attention...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | Russian Culture, Russian Practice, Russian updates, Russian Zone
Elena Bolton (Solihull) INTRODUCTION When I decided to try my hand at teaching Russian I thought I was well prepared for the task. After all, I had experience of teaching English in Russia. I had also spent several years working as a technical translator, a job which...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | Russian Culture, Russian Zone
Joel Roberts (University of Brighton) INTRODUCTION Peter the Great’s establishment of Saint Petersburg as a ‘window on the West’ opened Russia to a host of European influences. As a city built on Finnish marshland, a celebration of European culture and an ostensible...
by Wendy Newman | Aug 31, 2012 | Russian Culture, Russian updates, Russian Zone
Jane Henderson (King’s College London) LAW AND POLITICS Lenin famously asserted: ‘Law is a political measure, it is politics’. This might sound like the cynical carping of a disgruntled former law student, which indeed he was. However, his original expression «Закон...
by charlottelr | Aug 31, 2012 | Language Zones, Russian Culture, Russian Zone
Thomas Disney (University of Birmingham) Более двух десятилетий прошло с распада СССР. Для многих учеников и учителей pусского языка и русской культуры Советский Союз является историчечким явлением, но как и у всех исторических явлений, он имеет большое влияние на...