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Song of the Month: January 2020
…where the birds fly free. This song will remain as a classic for many years to come, as it shows a natural state of the human psyche such as archetypal figures and a relation between the known and the unknown. “If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow why, oh, why can’t I?” Maria K. January is the middle of long, dark winter, and it’s already ha…
31.01.2020
Social Sciences in the Era of Social Networks: Studying Selfies, Likes and Geotags
…. We would have called this sphere a virtual reality before, but nowadays this term is outdated and the very concept of virtuality is lost for good. The philosophy of networks and networks as philosophy The internet is in its core a network, an extremely complex system of connections b
31.01.2020
Smart Cities, Robot Bureaucrats: Japanese Digitalization Expert on Building the Right Kind of Society 5.0
…Speaking on this topic, Mr. Zamma also mentioned that digitalization is impossible in the framework of just one agency or city. Cooperation is integral to this process – both between countries and between smart cities all over the world. “We have to change our thinking, there’s no point in losing your time on fears. Leaders have t…
31.01.2020
Yimer Getnet: Food Biotechnology is a Promising Field and I Want to Be Part of It
…n interesting question. When I arrived to Russia for the first time, it was very difficult for me to communicate with other people. There were a lot of communication barriers between me and Russians. I thought it was cultural or that I didn’t pay enough attention to learning the Russian language so I began to study Russian at Kazan National Research Technological Uni…
30.01.2020
How to Teach in English: EMI Teacher Training Course for Lecturers of Russian Universities
…e. Quite often, lecturers just translate their slides in Google translate, without changing their approach to teaching at all, despite the fact that there’s a huge difference between teaching non-native speakers of a language, and native speakers. So the main purpose of this course is to show how you can adapt your teaching approach to a non-native English speaking a…
28.01.2020
Bioinformatics Specialist Alexey Komissarov on Gaps in Genomic Studies and Plans to Close Them
…ting because their genomes practically haven’t been sequenced. The Felidae, for example, are very well-studied, you could say that the research of this group has been divided between the scientists of the world, it’s rather difficult to discover something new here. But there are some blind spots remaining in the research of the Mustelidae group. We’ll focus on su…
27.01.2020
Siege of Leningrad: 900 Days of Courage
… noon and from 5 pm till 11 pm. An interactive program featuring historic and modern military equipment, as well as music of the time will take place at the Palace Square between 10 am and 9 pm. The pinnacle of the events will be a reconstruction of the victory fireworks that took place 76 years ago. A historic reconstruction “Leningrad Fireworks 1944” will st…
27.01.2020
FAQ: Registering Ownership And Protecting Intellectual Property
… recordings); objects of patent law (inventions, prototypes); means of identification (trademarks, brand names); other objects (know-hows). There are distinctions between these groups, but they are rather arbitrary. One and the same piece of work could be classified as various intellectual property types. When choosing the form of protection, you shou…
24.01.2020
Mahdi Akhlaqi: The Attitude We Have Towards Ourselves Makes Us Who We Are And Who We Will Be
…are extremely polite, lovely and charming, but they just smile in different social situations compared to other societies. Are there other main similarities or differences between your home country and your experience in St. Petersburg, Russia? Now that I've lived in St. Petersburg for quite some time, I would say that there seems to be more differences than si…
23.01.2020
Author and Musician Viacheslav Kovalev on Dreams, Music, Engineering Skills and Business
…songwriting. My guitarist and I were once invited to perform at a concert in Velikiye Luki, and the fee was a 15-kilogram bag of pasta. We gave a concert and shared the pasta between us. There was nothing funny about it. On the contrary, it was a very serious attitude. My family was also grateful: I was their breadwinner. What did you do when you didn’t have conce…
23.01.2020