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• Vacation With a Purpose: Science Tourism and Citizen Science

  …nteresting projects and offers on the webpage of the society’s Youth Club. AltaiNature The center offers to go on expeditions to Altai. There are ornithology and zoology weekend tours, as well as week-long expeditions that are conducted three times a year. In order to go on one, you have to write to the club’s head. The availability of tours largely depe…

  06.08.2018

• Celebrate Your Birthday Like a Russian

  …nd also a second one at school or at work. Because hospitality in many ways equals friendship here. Birthday celebrations are usually scheduled on the actual day or the weekend after it. Celebrating before is considered bad luck and isn’t done even by professors. Often people would have a party at their home, which means that guests would start arriving around…

  06.08.2018

• Movie Fridays: A Matter Of Time

  …ck in 1973. The movie is filled with en…

  03.08.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: August 4-5

  …estival aims to give its spectators both entertainment and some food for thought, displaying an array of essay-like movie reflections on modern art, culture, and society. This weekend’s program includes Saturday’s Dawson City: Frozen Time, in which a story about the Gold Rush is intertwined with the history of cinematography, and Sunday’s Austerlitz, a documentary ch…

  01.08.2018

• Interning in New York, Working in Berlin: ITMO Graduate Victoria Gorelkina On Her International Experience

  …utmost best. I was offered to work part-time when my boss saw that I was snowed under with my thesis, but I refused and decided to go all the way. I wrote my thesis during the weekends, and that was tough. You can’t just write your thesis in two weeks, it has to be a semester-long study which requires constant work and dedication. Which everyday difficulties do yo…

  30.07.2018

• Movie Fridays: Out With The New, In With The Old

  …sary, as this review points out. There’s no point in mending something that isn…

  27.07.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: July 28-29

  …display are more than 5,000 drawings by Monet, Degas, Klimt, Modigliani, Renoir, Kandinsky, Malevich and many other renowned artists. Entrance fee is 300 rub. Music This weekend is heaven for music (and especially jazz) lovers! The schedule is pretty tight: the Present Perfect Festival of electronic music and contemporary art (July 27-29, entrance fee var…

  25.07.2018

• Fulbright Recipient Vasiliy Leonenko on His Research in US

  …to travel across the country. My friends who followed my updates on social media got the impression that I traveled a lot. To say the truth, I indeed got to travel some; on weekends and holidays, that is. I spent the rest of my time in North Carolina, working on the project. Most of it was spent with Georgiy Bobashev, but I also communicated with other specialists…

  25.07.2018

• Movie Fridays: Summer in the City

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: July 21-22

  …actments of all kinds. While last week we told you about the Knights’ Castle Festival in the Vyborg Castle, and the Sentinel on the Neva Festival at the Oreshek Fortress, this weekend you can attend the Battle on the Neva Festival that will take place at the Peter and Paul Fortress! Listen to minstrel songs, watch the knights joust, take part in various workshops and…

  18.07.2018