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School closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic have affected over 1.5 billion students in 165 countries.

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“We must tackle the simple urgent mission of mobilizing literate people and combating illiteracy in Russia… We must develop a unified, systematic organization,” wrote Vladimir Lenin. When Lenin found himself at the head of a huge and mostly agrarian country, he used every possible method to≈eliminate illiteracy within the population.

View More A Simple Urgent Mission

Thanks to social media, digital billboards, and plasma displays in shopping malls and subways, information about the coronavirus, which has swept the world, is almost spreading faster than the disease itself. In the past, posters served as one of the most popular and effective means of communication between the authorities and the general public. These posters often had serious social components, including, for example, rallying cries to fight dangerous infections.

View More The louse and death are buddies

The Russian Bioethics Committee under the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO met online during one of the toughest periods of the epidemic.

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This year, International Jazz Day was held online for the first time.

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Admire Vrubel’s paintings and Stradivari’s legendary violins, read the cookbook of the renowned Chaliapin, and listen to one of the oldest organs in Russia — all within the walls of the Russian National Museum of Music.

View More Where Chaliapin, Stradivari, and Vrubel Come to Meet

Two separate researches conducted by the UNESCO and the International Council of Museums (ICOM) to celebrate the International Museum Day (May 18) confirm that museums have been especially affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, with 90% of them, meaning more than 85,000 institutions, closing their doors for various periods during the crisis. Moreover, in Africa and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), only 5% of museums managed to provide their audiences with online content. Almost 13% of museums around the world may never reopen.

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On July 7, 2020, at the 209th session of the UNESCO Executive Board, the Yangan-Tau Geopark was officially included in the list of UNESCO Global Geoparks along with 15 other new Geoparks from around the world. Currently, the global network of UNESCO Geoparks includes 147 Geoparks in 41 countries of the world.

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Often called “Eastern Paris” and “Siberian Petersburg”, Irkutsk continues to be one of the most architecturally beautiful and interesting cities in all of Russia. The city is full of stunning examples of Russian wooden architecture, Siberian Baroque, and Northern Classicism styles that can be studied by just taking a walk along the streets.

View More The True Pearl of Eastern Siberia

Since ancient times, isolating the sick has been considered the most effective method for fighting the spread of epidemics. It became common practice to ship people to special islands when they became ill, but few ever came back alive.

View More Plague in Italian Style