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• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: January 26-27

  …75th anniversary of the end of the Siege of Leningrad Lasting for 872 days of devastation and horror (and, at the same time, of human bravery, compassion, and valor), the Siege of Leningrad is one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history, and a hardship our city will never forget. Commemorations are held every year, 2019 being no exception, with a ran…

  23.01.2019

• Moscow Topography of Terror, Geography of Holocaust and Gulag Retrospective: Digital Humanities Projects That Remind of the Horrible Past

  …t. The project aims to make sense of the state of unfreedom in the Soviet Union. Open List Open List is the most comprehensive database of the victims of political repressions in the USSR (from 1917 to 1991), with the same layout as Wikipedia. The authors aim to collect as much data on every person as possible and publish it in open access: both information fro…

  23.01.2019

• Science Day at ITMO University

• Ins and Outs of Modern Animation

  …ld be cheap and it would be crummy because at the time maybe 99.9 percent of the superhero animation was done very quickly and on really low budgets for Saturday morning television.” But Bird was able to convince Jobs about the project’s ability to change people’s minds, in large part thanks to Pixar’s RenderMan software engine that uses the Reyes algorithm to c…

  22.01.2019

• Biggest Anthropology Breakthroughs of 2018

  … decoded up to that point, with a revelation that humans populating the cave shared some DNA with the Denisovans, a hominini said to have lived in the Altai region. That conclusion proved incongruous to some as it was generally believed that Sima de los Huesos natives were ancestors of the Neanderthals. The 2018 nuclear DNA foundlings arranged the hypothesis back to …

  22.01.2019

• Nanophotonics' Most Topical Fields: Research on Hybrid Metal-Dielectric Structures

  …th the lecturer is next to impossible. Here in Russia, things are different. There are fewer students, so you can always inquire about some topics in detail or have a discussion with the one giving the lecture. What is more, and I can say this about our laboratory and faculty in particular, all lectures are dedicated to the topics of our research. For example, whe…

  21.01.2019

• Russian Pelmeni: Not Just Student Food

  …re also the all-in-one meal that most people can afford and have enjoyed for generations. It’s believed that the concept of dumplings originated in China, but there are versions of the same thing in pretty much every culture. In Russia, they’re thought indigenous to the Siberia region where they’d be used as a way of preserving meat via freezing. The dough for…

  21.01.2019

• 24-Year Old Millionaire on Cryptocurrency and Personal Development

  …bitcoin as their operations are legal and they don’t have the necessary tools. Now everyone is waiting for the EFT certification by SEC (the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) to be approved. When it’s clear that officially operating companies are given green light to invest in bitcoin, the field will start seeing growth.. Another key problem is that man…

  18.01.2019

• Nights in a Library, History Lessons and Stress Relieving Dogs: Academic Exchange at Seoul National University

  …On the decision to go to South Korea Since childhood, I’ve dreamed of studying abroad, and I've always been interested in studying in Asia. When I was in the 8th grade, me and my mother started looking through different opportunities to do so; I thought about Malaysia, but the changes on the exchange market made us reconsider these plans. When I started looking fo…

  18.01.2019

• Movie Fridays: Black Books, or The Good Old Telly of Yore