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• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: November 24-25

  …? From November 23 to February 24, the General Staff building of the State Hermitage is hosting the exhibition “Delicate Designs. Fashion 1988–2018”. Each year in the recent history of fashion is represented by a single emblematic design from such fashion houses as Givenchy, Gucci, Paco Rabanne, Giorgio Armani, and Calvin Klein, to name just a few. This exhibition wi…

  21.11.2018

• Tel Aviv University Professor Boris Malomed on Non-Linear Physics and Solitons

  …commercial applications, only a single line was ever built. It was laid down in 2002, between the Australian cities of Adelaide and Perth, three thousand kilometers apart. The story went so: the system was put in place by a British company that went bankrupt. The line was ordered by a local company that, too, went bankrupt. In the end, it was purchased by the major A…

  21.11.2018

• Movie Fridays: The Best of Edward Norton

  …American History X (1998) Tony Kaye’s crime-drama American History X is Edward Norton’s second award-winning role after his debut, Gregory Hoblit’s 1996 crime-thriller Primal Fear, for which he was awarded a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In American History

  16.11.2018

• Intercultural Nights, Legends and Movies: Erasmus+Youth Exchange Program

  …t the program is based on. So if you’re interested in literature, theater and cinema, this is exactly the place for you. The final goal of the program is to shoot a fairy-tale story, based on the legends of all the participating countries. One class was dedicated to the national literature of different countries. Participants shared about what makes their country’…

  16.11.2018

• National Technology Revolution 20.35: Universities as Driving Force of Change

  …economy. What makes our Highpark stand out from, say, Innopolis or Skolkovo is that our center is institutionally supported by a leading university with a century’s worth of history and accomplishments. Vasily Tretyakov, CEO of the University of National Technology Initiative 20.35, on the right balance between innovations and the classical education system …

  16.11.2018

• That Blockchain Life: Cryptocurrency Experts on Field’s Challenges and Opportunities

  …ue to be the case for some time in the future. A year wasn’t enough to brief the officials on the fundamentals of the field. The second big problem is the cargo cult. History shows that almost every attempt of introducing an innovative technology comes down to the reiteration of the cargo cult. It’s as if we’re members of this antediluvian tribe, and our chief…

  14.11.2018

• ITMO Student Picked as Torchbearer of 2019 Winter Universiade

  …carry the torch?” My main reason is that I come from Krasnoyarsk. By taking part in the run, even though I did it in St. Petersburg, I can make my own contribution to the history of my home region. Besides, I was excited to take part in an international event: the marathon started in Turin, Italy, and moved in our direction. I never participated in anything of tha…

  14.11.2018

• Studying Russian in Russia

  …gine my life without Russian now. Learning Russian is one of the reasons I stayed as long as I have, and it brings me joy when I sit with a sweet Russian babushka and hear her story. It makes me think how, if I didn’t know this language, all these doors would be closed and these beautiful stories would be lost on me.…

  13.11.2018

• Pick a Dream Apartment Like a Russian

  …nt windows and functional fireplaces. Some have been divided into smaller, well-upgraded downtown gems. But as the city spreads, you’re more likely to find yourself in a 15-story beehive of a house that wraps around the block and functions as its own community, complete with grocery stories and bars on the ground floor. The first question to consider is the num…

  12.11.2018

• Kunstkamera: Russia’s Bizarre First Museum

  …Historywise, this place boasts the title of Russia’s first museum. Established in 1714 by the country’s most famous (and eccentric) emperor, Peter the Great, it is still considered a part of the Academy of Sciences, and can well be called Russia’s first attempt at science communication. Most of its objects were brought by expeditions to faraway lands, which made it r…

  09.11.2018