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• Grant Applications No Longer a Headache: Potanin Scholarship Lifehacks from Successful Contestants

  … standard HeadHunter-style format too much when applying for an academic contest. It’ll be better if you describe your experience in an explanatory, comprehensive way. You may want to have not one, but several resumes at your elbow: some are more suitable for international academic activities, others for grant competitions. The set can also include project pitches…

  08.11.2018

• Yandex Product Manager Anna Lopatukhina: on Scrum, Agile and Trying New Things

  …it leads, to Wikipedia or a banking website. If users click on it often enough, we make it. If they don’t, then it’s not worth it. Here’s another example: let’s say you want to make your website faster because you think it’ll make people use it more often. But such things cost money. In this case, you can try the opposite: make your site slower and see how tha…

  08.11.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: November 10-11

  …A must-visit for everyone who wants to be hip and in style! From October 6 to December 3, St. Petersburg’s Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art is hosting an exhibition of the WOW award winners’ works. WOW, which stands for the World of Wearable Art, is an annual design competition that attracts hundreds of artists from all over the globe. For designers, this contest pr…

  07.11.2018

• Indigenous Languages and Fun Science: ‘From Volunteering to Social Engineering’ Forum

  …e project will be implemented, learning the Komi languages will no longer be compulsory for school children, which means that parents will be able to decide themselves if they want their kids to learn it or not. The project’s coordinators, in their turn, want to demonstrate the importance of learning these languages. As part of the p…

  07.11.2018

• Travel Tips: Exploring Riga

  …d and souvenirs Finding places to eat in an unknown city is always a challenge for me, so here are some of my personal favorite eating places in Riga: LIDO: if you want to experience some authentic Latvian cuisine, head to one of the many LIDO restaurants in Riga. The one I visited is situated right in the Old Town. Don’t be put off by the cafeteria-style…

  06.11.2018

• VR and the Future of Digital Art: The Fourth International Animation Assembly in St. Petersburg

  …. They shared insights about working in the game industry, changing up styles in digital painting, and combining 2D and 3D. Rinat Khabirov, a digital artist and tutor, doesn’t want to be complacent and seeks out new creative tools. “I’m excited about the future and the new tools it will bring. The 3D software we use today is the future we dreamt of just ten year…

  06.11.2018

• ITMO Graduate Anastasia Svarovskaya on Promoting Space Science

  …ts sitting in a military tent speak about physics. I think that this experience has become ground zero for my future path. I decided that science journalism was exactly what I wanted to do. I've started focusing on this field since my very first year at the university: I communicated a lot with Grigory, went to different science events, wrote about universities and r…

  06.11.2018

• A Different View: 10 St. Petersburg Instagram Accounts for a New Perspective

  …Leningrad modernism? Historic railroad stations? Anatomy of bridges? Neat stuff. erarta_museum A private modern art museum can afford to play with colors and anything it wants really. Incredible wearable art? Colors and textures that form new dimensions? John Lennon? You got it. restorating Wondering where to get your love confession (or president’s portr…

  05.11.2018

• Movie Fridays: Studio Ghibli, Nuff Said

  …new home until they take a wrong turn and bump into a deserted all-you-can-eat buffet. While the parents are devouring all the food that catches their eye, their daughter goes wandering around and discovers a peculiar gigantic bathhouse. At this moment, the film suddenly turns topsy-turvy and Chihiro finds herself in a bizarre spirit world reigned by Yubaba, a powerf…

  02.11.2018

• State Hermitage Photographer Yuri Molodkovets on Running an Instagram for World-Famous Museum

  …huge response and lots of comments. On the whole, those come in two categories. Some say: "Why take children to a museum? They make lots of noise, and I doubt that they really want to". Others argue: "Why? Where else should you take them?". I never participate in these discussions, as it would take too much time. Also, I believe that it has to be the Director or some…

  02.11.2018