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• 10 Secrets to Expat Life In St. Petersburg

  …ou should try to learn the language, as much as you can, although learning Russian can be quite a rollercoaster ride. Also, it helps to do some research into the culture and history of the country in advance to avoid culture shock. If you do have the time to take some intensive Russian courses, a high-quality but also very expensive language institute is Liden & Denz…

  23.07.2019

• Yandex Product Marketing Director Andrey Sebrant’s Top Book Recommendations

  …of governments. The effect of smart technologies, machine learning, and robotics on the global market is explained wonderfully in this book written by a man with a unique life story: a scientist and a businessman who has worked in major US tech companies and in the Chinese venture industry. His strict comparative analysis of the development of technologies and techno…

  22.07.2019

• 10 Movies for a Summer Night-In

  …o her talent as she is recruited by the Israelis to help untangle a Palestinian terrorist plot but plagued by machinations, deceit and doubts on who’s the real good guy in the story We have already covered The Little Drummer Girl’s then-impending launch, and are now duly following up with our review. Which is, we love-love-loved it. Florence Pugh is an acting…

  19.07.2019

• How to Apply for (And Get) the Chevening Scholarship

  … cost some 20,000 GBP per year. Students also get a monthly stipend of around 1,100 GBP, which is enough to cover dorm expenses and everyday needs. The program has a long history and is very well-known, so the competition is fierce. According to the latest stats, 65,000 applications were made in the 2017/18 academic year, and only 1,650 scholarships awarded; that’…

  19.07.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: July 20-21

  …ionism and its greatest painters? Head to the Etagi creative space, which is currently hosting an exhibition about the roots of this extraordinary movement, its place in the history of art, and its most renowned figures. Bouquinistes on Fontanka July 19-21 Fontanka River Embankment 24, near KGallery Free admission Ah, to spend a weekend in Paris, we…

  17.07.2019

• Walk Like a Russian

  …troom in Telegram.  If you love to walk but this seems a little far, you could always go on one of the “themed” routes, ranging in subject from imperial gems to communist history and culinary hotspots.  Now it’s just a matter of having comfortable sneakers and an umbrella.…

  15.07.2019

• The Planets by Prof Brian Cox: The Actual Best

  …planet in question, possibly also in a nod to our own planet’s commonalities with its space neighbors.  Apart from the planets, there are other protagonists to this stellar story: the probes, the rovers, and other spacecraft, and each episode concludes with us the spectators being introduced to the incredible people who envisaged and produced these tireless cosmic…

  12.07.2019

• Historian Sergey Kuznetsov on the Stroganovs, Their Connection to ITMO, and History of Entrepreneurship in Russia

  …nov. This is a huge breakthrough that has an immense amount of work behind it. The goal of my efforts was to make the public aware that there were a lot of Stroganovs in our history, each and every one of them was unique in their own way. Just recently, I have organized a class for tour guides, and it was hard for them to process this concept. Decade after decade, th…

  11.07.2019

• Places to See: Cathedrals, Churches, and Temples of St. Petersburg

  …hes could go on and on – a signifier of just how much early St. Petes was influenced by German and Scandinavian migrants – but the city's multicultural and multiconfessional history means there are so many other, no less fascinating and beautiful examples of religious architecture here, brought to this Northwestern Russian city by people from all over the world. …

  09.07.2019

• ITMO Signs Cooperation Agreement with Coca-Cola

  …nguishes these new specialists from some more experienced staff who can share their experiences but cannot fully appreciate the changes. Generation Z is a completely different story,” says Alexander Maier. The agreement will cover a whole range of areas: ecological projects, including those aimed at the promotion of waste management; volunteer projec…

  09.07.2019