Today is the International Women’s Day, still seen as a day celebrating traditional feminine values and roles, i.e. that of a mother and a beauty. This year, prompted by political activity, Russ...
Protests in Pushkin Square, March 5, 2012 (Ridus/RIA Novosti) The elections took place. So did the protests of the Russian opposition. Snob.ru published an article contemplating what Mikhail Prokhorov...
On Friday I went to renew my reader’s card at the French Cultural Centre at the Foreign Literature Library in Moscow. The most wonderful thing happened: the librarian who greeted me remembered m...
Sandro Botticelli, Primavera (1482) My congratulations to all of you on the occasion of the first day of spring! Today, in fact, was a wonderful day: I learnt that two of my former colleagues have got...
Blue orchids, Vietnam A friend of mine has recently been to Vietnam. In the Soviet times you could see quite a lot of Vietnamese in Moscow, and even in my district there lived several families. I don&...
Leeds – A Henry Moore Sculpture, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. On February 22 Moscow citizens and visitors will see the opening of the event dedicated to the 20th c. Michelangelo w...
The exhibition by Svetlana Konegen "Nome. Cose. Citta" (Names. Things. Cities) follows several Italian towns where the lnguist travelled...
This section of the Multimedia Art Museum is located in the same place as the House of Photography, so naturally many exhibitions are geared towards Photography as the main art medium. The latest few ...
Image: Thoughful India. I couldn’t resist including it… 🙂 Some time ago I took part in a research project conducted by a Russian Psychology student that seeks to explore the phenomenon of ...
Newton can rest on his laurels all he likes, but it looks like the most popular – as in pop-culture terms – discovery belongs to Dmitry Mendeleev. The story has it that the great Russian c...