In October 2019, the jury of the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women In Science award designated the winners. Their names were announced at the solemn ceremony which took place in Moscow, as in previous years.
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Our Sport is Violin
A new era of the Delphic Games began in Moscow, where the National Delphic Council of Russia (NDC Russia) held the First World Delphic Games of our time. Since 2006, they have been held under the auspices of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO.
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To Bergamo — for food, to Kazan — for music
In October 2019, Odre Azule, Director-General of UNESCO, declared 66 cities as UNESCO Creative Cities. Now there are 246 such cities around the world. Music, literature, arts and crafts, gastronomy — each creative city is interesting in its own way.
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The Ancient Craft of the «Blueprint»
The UNESCO headquarters in Paris hosted the international exhibition «The Indigo Way», dedicated to one of the oldest forms of decorative art — indigo woodblock printing.
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Secrets Of the Old Castle
The Mir Castle Complex (Mirsky zamok), located in the Grodno Region in Belarus, is one of the few surviving examples of East European Gothic. Its history, the secrets that the old walls keep — like a plot for an unwritten novel. Mir Castle is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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On Papyrus Across The Atlantic
In 2019, we marked 50th anniversary of the Thor Heyerdahl journey, the great Norwegian scientist and navigator, in papyrus boat Ra. “Seven courageous” tool part in the expedition across the Atlantic Ocean. One of them was our fellow countryman — Yuri Senkevich, a doctor, journalist and traveler.
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Life Begins with Marriage
The Udmurts (Finno-Ugric people) thought, life means three weddings: birth — a wedding with life, wedding — an alliance with another person, funeral — a wedding with death.
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Common Goddess
January 8, 2020 marks the 110th anniversary of the birth of Galina Ulanova, the legendary Russian ballerina. She embodied the best traditions of Russian classical ballet in the dance, becoming its soul and symbol, and, like no one else, with all her creative personality she was able to show the beauty of simple human feelings.
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One Day of the Soviet Country
The Moscow Metro was designed as the most convincing proof of the tremendous capabilities of the USSR. Its sheer scope, engineering features, architectural and artistic masterpieces that were implemented during the construction — it all stunned the passengers’ imagination.
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Вестник Комиссии Российской Федерации по делам ЮНЕСКО. Октябрь 2019 г.
Редакция «Вестника Комиссии Российской Федерации по делам ЮНЕСКО» рада вновь приветствовать своих читателей во всем мире! Небольшой перерыв в издании «Вестника» никак не сказался на активности работы…
View More Вестник Комиссии Российской Федерации по делам ЮНЕСКО. Октябрь 2019 г.