Do You Know Bulgakov Mikhail Fortune & Fate? Where are Master & Margareth in Kiev, Ukraine?
Welcome to Ukraine: Bulgakov Mikhail Fortune and Master & Margareth, Kiev, Ukraine 05.07.2014 (STORY IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE) = = VIDEO LINK = Entomologist, biologist Victor Fursov tells the story of the writer Mikhail Bulgakov - the story about the Museum of Mikhail Bulgakov (Mikhail Bulgakov Museum) and it was told near the monument to Bulgakov at Andreevsky Descent in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. Энтомолог, биолог Виктор Фурсов рассказывает о судьбе писателя Михаила Афанасьевича Булгакова - рассказ около Музея Михаилу Булгакова (Дома Турбиных) и памятника М.А.Булгакову на Андреевском спуске в Киеве, Украина.
Do you know - Who was Mikhail Bulgakov?
Is he Ukrainian or Russian Author of many books?
Was he soviet writer or white guardian writer?
Was he a really white guardian'?
Who was white guardian' in a soviet time?
Do you know - Where is House of Tubriny family located in Kiev, Ukraine?
Do you know his books, written in Russian and translated in Ukrainian, English and other languages?
Do you know his Master and Margarita ?
Do you know about his mistical fortune?
Do you know about his only one talk with powful soviet leader of USSR, Iosif Stalin?
Do you know his writing A Dog's Heart?
Recorded: July 05-th, 2013, Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.
Булгаков М.А. Белая гвардия. Мастер и Маргарита. Повести. Рассказы. -- М.: ОЛМА-ПРЕСС Звездный мир, 2003. -- С. 195-462.
Булгаков М.О. Майстер і Маргарита / Пер. з рос. М.А. Білоруса. -- Харків: Фоліо, 2006 (а). -- 415 с.
Булгаков М. Майстер і Маргарита / Пер. з рос. Ю. Некрутенка. -- Львів: Кальварія, 2006 (б). -- 432 с.
Bulgakow M. Der Meister und Margarita / Übers. аus dem Russischen von Thomas Reschke. -- 4. Auflage. -- Sammlung Luchterhand, 2007. -- 511 S.
Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita / transl. from Russian by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor. -- Picador, 1997. -- 367 p.
Ю. Некрутенко. Екзегеза. — В кн. М. Булгаков. Майстер і Маргарита. На українську переклав, упроводом та коментарями спорядив Юрій Некрутенко. — Львів: Кальварія, 2006. — С. 400.
Ю. Некрутенко Экзегеза. Комментарии к роману Михаила Булгакова «Мастер и Маргарита». — Киев: Альтерпресс, 2007. — С. 112—113.
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UKRAINE, KIEV: GOLDEN GATES & Maidan 15 March 2014
VIDEO LINK = UKRAINE, KIEV, CENTER of the capital of UKRAINE, at YAROSLAVOV VAL Street NEAR MONUMENT OF GOLDEN GATES - on 15.03.2014
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UKRAINE, Kiev 2014: Who Was Vladislav Gorodetskiy in Kyiv? (ENG)
VIDEO LINK = Story about the monument (sculpture) of Vladislav Gorodetskiy which was done at Passazh Shopping Center, near Kreschatik Street, in 5 minutes near Maidan, or Square of Independence, at the center of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine (ENG). December 22nd 2014, Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.
Історія пам'ятника Владиславу Городецкому у Києві.
Лешек Дезидерій Владислав Городе́цький (Leszek Dezydery Władysław Horodecki, 23.05.(4.06.) 1863, с. Шолудьки, Україна — 03.01.1930, Тегеран) — український і польський архітектор.
RECORDED: 22.12.2013, Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, recorded by Victor Fursov, Entomologist in Ukraine.
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Vladimir
Vladimir is a city and the administrative center of Vladimir Oblast, Russia, located on the Klyazma River, 200 kilometers to the east of Moscow. It is served by a railway and the M7 motorway. Population: 345,373 (2010 Census); 315,954 (2002 Census); 349,702 (1989 Census).
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UKRAINE, Kiev: Taras Shevchenko Park & Ukrainian Babushka (Grandmather)
VIDEO LINK = UKRAINE: sculpture of Funny Ukrainian Babushka was built in Shevchenko Park, in the center of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.
Original Video, recorded by Entomologist in Ukraine: December 2013
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UKRAINE, Kiev: Cars & Shops, But No Metro, 18.02.2014
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UKRAINE: Kiev, the capital of UKRAINE. People are coming at home at the evening of February 18th 2014 when metro was closed about 4 p.m. and clashes at the EuroMaidan extremely increased.
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Askwith Forums – Still Separate and Unequal
Speakers:
Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, and Member of the Faculty, HGSE
Paul Reville, Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration and Founding Director of the Education Redesign Lab, HGSE; former Secretary of Education, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
William E. Spriggs; Professor of Economics, Howard University; Chief Economist to the AFL-CIO
Moderator: E.J. Dionne, W. Averell Harriman Chair and Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, The Brookings Institute; syndicated columnist, The Washington Post; University Professor, Georgetown University
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Alan Curtis, President and CEO, The Eisenhower Foundation
Bridget Terry Long, Dean and Saris Professor of Economics, HGSE
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In 1968, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders – known as the Kerner Commission— issued a report with a stark warning: The United States was becoming two societies, one white, one black, separate and unequal. Critics observed that the nation was already separate and unequal. The Commission called for sweeping investments in jobs, education, and housing to reduce poverty, inequality, and racial injustice.
Fifty years later, a new report from the Eisenhower Foundation finds that things aren’t much better — and in some cases, things have gotten worse. Schools are more segregated, income and wealth inequality has dramatically increased, opportunity gaps remain, and poverty and incarceration rates are unacceptably high. Society is more unequal.
Yet one thing has changed: we know what works — and what doesn’t. The question is, do we have the will to use that knowledge? Can we build the will to take what works and bring it to scale? Can we create the multiracial, multi-class economic justice coalition that Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy were advocating when they were assassinated in 1968?
In this essential Askwith Forum, an all-star panel of scholars, educators, media experts, and practitioners will explore the Eisenhower Foundation’s newly released update, Healing Our Divided Society. Panelists will discuss the economic investments, the education policy changes, the electoral and criminal justice reforms, and other commitments we need to significantly reduce poverty and racial injustice in order to fulfill the promise of equality in the United States.
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Eastern Ukraine Military operation - ATO - Ukraine Crisis Media Center 16th Feb 2015
Today - the second day of the ceasefire. The intensity of the fighting in most areas has decreased significantly. However, despite Minsky agreements do not cease fighting in Debal'tsevo direction: the last day militants fired 88 times our position in the sector of defense. The enemy uses against active Ukrainian soldiers MLRS BM-21 Grad, tanks, artillery and mortars. According to current information, the bandits got their Russian curators order on any price to Debaltseve and provoke our military. This militants committed to the city. Debaltseve representatives of the OSCE, in flagrant violation of the agreements Minsk. This was told at a briefing today a spokesman for anti-terrorist operations, Colonel Andrei Lysenko.
In Luhansk enemy broke the truce in Popasnaja near artudariv suffered towns Popasna, Chornukhyne, and Golden Mountain. In Mariupol direction most tense situation in towns Shyrokyne.
As of February 16 11:00 NFP made at least 129 attacks positions and roadblocks forces ATO for depletion and gradual displacement from their territories. The troops opened fire only in response.
Dynamic enemy air reconnaissance - over the past day ATU forces recorded 6 enemy UAV flight, including 3 of them - in the n.p.Hnutove and Shyrokyne near Mariupol. However, last month air defense Armed Forces of Ukraine downed 7 UAVs with the West zone of TU.
For the past day Ukrainian servicemen killed 5, 25 - injured.
On the territory of Ukraine invaded another humanitarian convoy of Russia. After Russian checkpoints Donetsk and Matveev Kurgan on the territory of Ukraine entered 176 trucks. Note that in a note that the Russian authorities sent Ukraine, noted only about 150 trucks. Much of vehicles carrying goods nehumanitarnoho nature, including fuel and lubricants, typographical paper in rolls and printed materials of unknown content. Traditionally, the caravan was divided into two columns: more than 90 cars went toward Donetsk, the rest - in the direction of Lugansk. Moving cargo carried in violation of international and domestic law, Ukrainian border and customs group made only visual observation of the passage of vehicles. Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross also participated in the design and review of the cargo.
Ukrainian security forces neutralize enemy agents. Near Mariupol Ukrainian border patrol detained a man who has to take photographs surrounding area and possible approaches to position forces ATO. Documents in possession he had but a detainee seized binoculars and camera.
Ukrainian soldiers demonstrate the coherence of actions and mutual assistance in the fight against the invader. Recently one of the roadblocks Armed Forces near the city. Horlovks attacked militants…
Continues technical re-equipment of our defenders. Ukrainian soldiers on the front line received a shipment of armored vehicles Shrek.
Armored cars produced in domestic enterprises and KrAZ have advanced booking for safe transportation spetspryznachentsiv. Protection System Shrek can provide protection against mines undermine equivalent to 6 kg TNT under any wheel or underneath the car.
Ukrainian military help civilians Donbass. February 14 group coordinating civil-military cooperation headquarters ATO delivered humanitarian aid to the socio-psychological rehabilitation of children Krasny Liman.
The officers gave the children food, warm clothes, dishes, toys, daily necessities.
Ongoing restoration of peaceful life in the Donbas. From 28 January pyrotechnics DSNS Ukraine examined almost 20 hectares of territory and seized 689 weapons in the east…
However, in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions continue to operate mobile heating points where people have the opportunity to warm up, enjoy hot tea and eat. Also one can get psychological help and information.
Ongoing delivery of humanitarian assistance to civilians frontline cities. In particular, in the context of cooperation between Ukraine and German International Cooperation (GIZ) coming to the East German trucks with humanitarian aid. In particular, yesterday came to Donetsk German truck with appliances.
Ukrainian patriots support their defenders. Teachers and students of the Faculty of Philology Kirovograd State Pedagogical University Vynnychenko visited wounded soldiers who are treated at a military hospital Kirovograd. Students wounded soldiers brought food and basic necessities.
In downtown Alexandria in Kirovohrad launched an exhibition entitled Museum of Glory dedicated to the counterterrorist operation…
Ongoing rotation in the ranks of soldiers ATO. Consolidated transport police detachment returned from the East Lviv Ukraine to its location. Within a month, police carried out their duties in the area of TU.
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Eastern Ukraine Military operation - ATO - Ukraine Crisis Media Center 16th Feb 2015
У Памятника М.Драгоманову на улице Пирогова в Киеве, УКРАИНА
VIDEO LINK = Рассказ о студентах, педагогике и образовании в Украине - около памятника Михаилу Петровичу Драгоманову у входа в Национальный педагогический университет им. М.Драгоманова в Киеве, УКРАИНА.
Original Video was recorded: February 17th 2014.
Михайло Петрович Драгоманов (або Драгоманів) (6 (18) вересня 1841, Гадяч — 20 червня (2 липня) 1895, м. Софія) — український публіцист, історик, філософ, економіст, літературознавець, фольклорист, громадський діяч.
Пам'ятник Михайлові Драгоманову біля входу до Національного педагогічного університету ім. М.Драгоманова в Києві.
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in ENGLISH CC - екскурсія по Києву - Kyiv Tour - Киев KIEV Київ Ukraine
экскурсовод Ирина Алексеевна
Legend has it that three Slavic brothers and their sister founded Kyiv. The eldest, Kyi, gave the city its name. The names of brothers Shchek, Khoriv and sister Lybid now appear in its topography. An iconic statue of the four siblings - the Foundation of Kyiv Monument - stands on the banks of the Dnipro River.
In 989 Kyivan ruler Volodymyr decided to forge a closer alliance with Constantinople, marrying the emperor's daughter and adopt-ing Orthodox Christianity. Kyiv’s pagan idols were destroyed and its people were driven into the Dnipro for a mass baptism - an event still commemorated during Epiphany. (Eastern churches, following the Julian rather than the Gregorian calendar, have celebrated Epiphany (or Theophany) in conjunction with Christ's baptism by John the Baptist and celebrated it on January 19.)
In 1240 Mongol raiders sacked Kyiv.
The city shrank to the riverside district of Podil, which remained its center for centuries. Only when Ukraine formally passed into Russian hands at the end of the 18th century did Kyiv again grow in importance, as tsar-ist policies encouraged Russian immigration. The city went through an enormous boom at the tum of the 20th century because of an upsurge in nearby sugar milling. Many new mansions were erected at this time, including the remarkable House of Chimeras.
Kyiv’s modern centre and old city are on the Dnipro River’s west bank - called the ‘right bank’ because it’s on the right as you travel down the river. If you were to sail downstream into Kyiv from the north, your first port of cali on the right bank would be Podil, which sits below the rest of the city on the river plain. Continuing south, the woodsy, park-covered hills of the Pechersk district rise up from the river, ex-tending south to Kyiv’s main attraction, the Kievo-Pecherska Lavra.
The commercial heart of modern-day Kyiv -vul Khreshchatyk and maydan Nezalezhnosti (Independence square) - is above Podil and the river, west of Pechersks hills. The cit/s ancient centre, located around Zoloti Vorota and St Sophia’s Cathedral, is perched on a long hill overlooking, and running parallel to, vul Khreshchatyk.
Памятники Пам'ятник Київська русь
Золоті ворота Лавра Дніпро Центр 2,600,000 людей 10 районів
Хрещатик Бульвар Шевченка Саксаганський
Театр Купол Київський вокзал Полководець Щорс
Поділ бульвар Ботанічний сад Київський університет університет Драгоманова Володимирський собор Вознецов Врубель Нестеров Укр Пимоненко Сведомский Катордимский
Прахов Соборна площа Композитор Леонтович вул Богдана Хмельницького Центр науки і культури По вулиці Леонтовича Старокиївського центра Площа театральна Національного театру опера Головну вулицю Богдана Хмельницького Національна Опера України Вулиця Володимирівська
Ярославий вал 11 віці границі древнего города
Реконструкції Дивіться на право Вдоль служебных помещений Древний Киев был со всех сторон окружен
Ворота Ворот было Было трое Львовские Лядські ворота Золотые Старом валу Золотые ворота
Южние ворота Сквер Вал Музей Воротами были
Ярослав Мудрый Улица Прорезная Львовскою площади
Исторического центра Паралельно Крещатику
Древние оборонительные валы Много памятников истории 1900 году Ярослав Гашек Белый мраморный Грушевского
СБУ Мемориальная плита Вознецов Площадь Софиивская
Песенегами Софийский собор Софиивский государственный
Экскурсия В 11 веке в Софии Там был открыт первый центр
библиотека Богатых феодалов Дочерей которые стали
Королевами Франции Фрески И мозаики
В 37 году Возрадили Михайловский Внуке Ярослава Мудрого Михайловский Колокольню Куранты Православная Фронтоне
Архистратига Михаила Братьев Кличко Княгине Ольге
Кирилу Мефодию 200 метров Крещатик Бессарабская Майдан Незалежносты Реконструкция Анатолий Кущ Берегини
Ветку калины Первым киевлянам Консерватория
Козаку Мамаю глобус 5 почтовых годлубей
Трамвай Храм рождества Христова
Перевозили в Канны Улица
Гетмана Петра Конашевича Сагайдачного
Апостол
Киевомогилянской академии
И во всей восточной Европе
Желтое здание
Контрактовый дом
Встречались декабристы
Блок Сковороде Педагогу академии
Водопровод – фонтан Самсон
Солнечные часы
Под куполом
На Подоле были два огромных пожара
В 18 веке район
В 19
Старые – Липки – липового гая
Консульства и посольства
В 40-е 50-е годы
Корнейчк Головко Пащенко
Посольство Китая
Дом офицеров
USSR anti-religious campaign (1928–1941) | Wikipedia audio article
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The USSR anti-religious campaign of 1928–1941 was a new phase of anti-religious persecution in the Soviet Union following the anti-religious campaign of 1921–1928. The campaign began in 1929, with the drafting of new legislation that severely prohibited religious activities and called for a heightened attack on religion in order to further disseminate atheism. This had been preceded in 1928 at the fifteenth party congress, where Joseph Stalin criticized the party for failure to produce more active and persuasive anti-religious propaganda. This new phase coincided with the beginning of the forced mass collectivization of agriculture and the nationalization of the few remaining private enterprises.
Many of those who had been arrested in the 1920s would continue to remain in prison throughout the 1930s and beyond.
The main target of the anti-religious campaign in the 1920s and 1930s was the Russian Orthodox Church, which had the largest number of faithful. Nearly all of its clergy, and many of its believers, were shot or sent to labour camps. Theological schools were closed, and church publications were prohibited. More than 85,000 Orthodox priests were shot in 1937 alone. Only a twelfth of the Russian Orthodox Church's priests were left functioning in their parishes by 1941.In the period between 1927 and 1940, the number of Orthodox Churches in the Russian Republic fell from 29,584 to less than 500.The campaign slowed down in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and came to an abrupt end after the commencement of Operation Barbarossa. The challenge produced by the German invasion would ultimately prevent the public withering away of religion in Soviet society.This campaign, like the campaigns of other periods that formed the basis of the USSR's efforts to eliminate religion and replace it with atheism supported with a materialist world view, was accompanied with official claims that there was no religious persecution in the USSR, and that believers who were being targeted were for other reasons. Believers were in fact being widely targeted and persecuted for their belief or promotion of religion, as part of the state's campaign to disseminate atheism, but officially the state claimed that no such persecution existed and that the people being targeted - when they admitted that people were being targeted - were only being attacked for resistance to the state or breaking the law. This guise served Soviet propaganda abroad, where it tried to promote a better image of itself especially in light of the great criticism against it from foreign religious influences.
Teaching the Holodomor: Kids do homework between 11 pm & 2 am
Highlights of the scholarly conference Holodomor Education Conference: The Holodomor and Curricula - Triumphs and Challenges, Toronto, Canada, 10-12 May 2013.
- Oksana Kulynych, Google teaching about genocide returns little about the Holodomor (Голодомор)
- 0:27 New York City school system
- 0:54 TDSB (Toronto District School Board) eliminated the Holodomor in genocide courses in schools
- 1:20 Edmonton Catholic School Board actively involved in Holodomor education
- 1:50 Ukrainians are stuck on the issue of the number of deaths about the Holodomor
- 2:10 More teaching materials needed for all grade levels, French language
- 2:27 Canadian Museum of Human Rights will not prominantly display the Holodomor
- 2:40 Holodomor denial, Schindler's List
- 3:00 Mark Melnyk
- 3:20 Most kids do their homework between 11pm and 1-2 am in the morning. We don't use binders, notebooks or paper
- 3:54 Valentina Noseworthy Holodomor Education in Manitoba Curricula
- 4:30 Mennonites (Меноніти) experience with Holodomor. Mennonites come from Khortytskia (Хoртиця) and Zaporizhzhia (Запоріжжя); Other ethnic groups must be included in Holodomor history; Genocide Education Canada
- 5:35 Dr. Orest Cap
- 6:15 Technology Pedagogy
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Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta
Odessa | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:41 1 Name
00:03:30 2 History
00:03:39 2.1 Early history
00:05:45 2.2 Ottoman Silistre
00:06:23 2.3 Russian conquest of Sanjak of Özi (Ochacov Oblast)
00:10:25 2.4 Renaming of the settlement and establishment of sea port
00:16:28 2.5 Beginnings of revolution
00:19:10 2.6 World War II
00:23:42 2.7 Postwar history
00:26:49 3 Geography
00:26:57 3.1 Location
00:30:01 3.2 Climate
00:32:19 4 Demographics
00:34:06 4.1 Historical ethnic and national composition
00:34:16 5 Government and administrative divisions
00:36:47 6 Cityscape
00:41:01 6.1 Parks and gardens
00:43:26 7 Education
00:46:11 8 Culture
00:46:20 8.1 Museums, art and music
00:49:49 8.2 Literature
00:52:25 8.3 Resorts and health care
00:52:42 8.4 Celebrations and holidays
00:53:29 8.5 Notable Odessans
00:55:52 9 Economy
01:00:25 10 Scientists
01:01:09 11 Transport
01:01:18 11.1 Maritime transport
01:02:10 11.2 Roads and automotive transport
01:03:54 11.3 Railways
01:04:58 11.4 Public transport
01:06:51 11.5 Air transport
01:07:39 12 Sport
01:08:34 12.1 Athletes
01:09:56 13 International relations
01:10:06 13.1 Twin towns and sister cities
01:10:23 13.2 Partner cities
01:10:31 14 See also
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Odessa or Odesa (Ukrainian: Оде́са [oˈdɛsɐ] (listen); Russian: Оде́сса [ɐˈdʲesə]) is the third most populous city of Ukraine and a major tourism center, seaport and transport hub located on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. It is also the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast and a multiethnic cultural center. Odessa is sometimes called the pearl of the Black Sea, the South Capital (under the Russian Empire and Soviet Union), and Southern Palmyra.
Before the Tsarist establishment of Odessa, an ancient Greek settlement existed at its location. A more recent Tatar settlement was also founded at the location by Hacı I Giray, the Khan of Crimea in 1440 that was named after him as Hacıbey. After a period of Lithuanian Grand Duchy control, Hacibey and surroundings became part of the domain of the Ottomans in 1529 and remained there until the empire's defeat in the Russo-Turkish War of 1792.
In 1794, the city of Odessa was founded by a decree of the Russian empress Catherine the Great. From 1819 to 1858, Odessa was a free port - porto-franco. During the Soviet period, it was the most important port of trade in the Soviet Union and a Soviet naval base. On 1 January 2000, the Quarantine Pier at Odessa Commercial Sea Port was declared a free port and free economic zone for a period of 25 years.
During the 19th century, Odessa was the fourth largest city of Imperial Russia, after Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Warsaw. Its historical architecture has a style more Mediterranean than Russian, having been heavily influenced by French and Italian styles. Some buildings are built in a mixture of different styles, including Art Nouveau, Renaissance and Classicist.Odessa is a warm-water port. The city of Odessa hosts both the Port of Odessa and Port Yuzhne, a significant oil terminal situated in the city's suburbs. Another notable port, Chornomorsk, is located in the same oblast, to the south-west of Odessa. Together they represent a major transport hub integrating with railways. Odessa's oil and chemical processing facilities are connected to Russian and European networks by strategic pipelines.
Catherine the Great | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:39 1 Early life
00:10:30 2 Reign of Peter III and the icoup d'état/i of July 1762
00:14:34 3 Reign (1762–96)
00:14:45 3.1 Coronation (1762)
00:16:13 3.2 Foreign affairs
00:17:39 3.2.1 Russo-Turkish Wars
00:19:52 3.2.2 Russo-Persian War
00:21:56 3.2.3 Relations with Western Europe
00:23:36 3.2.4 Partitions of Poland
00:25:22 3.2.5 Relations with Japan
00:26:21 3.3 Economics and finance
00:28:16 3.4 Arts and culture
00:35:08 3.5 Education
00:42:35 3.6 Religious affairs
00:43:52 3.6.1 Islam
00:46:09 3.6.2 Judaism
00:48:16 3.6.3 Russian Orthodoxy
00:50:40 3.7 Personal life
00:52:51 3.7.1 Poniatowski
00:55:43 3.7.2 Orlov
00:57:25 3.7.3 Potemkin
00:59:20 3.8 Serfs
00:59:42 3.8.1 Rights and conditions
01:03:46 3.8.2 Attitudes towards Catherine
01:06:27 4 Final months and death
01:10:51 5 Children
01:11:00 6 Romanov dynastic issues
01:11:11 6.1 Pretenders and potential pretenders to the throne
01:13:01 6.1.1 Rise of pretenders
01:17:03 6.1.2 Pretenders and royal marks
01:19:36 6.2 Succession to the throne
01:20:22 7 Titles and styles
01:21:13 8 In popular culture
01:22:22 9 Ancestry
01:22:31 10 List of prominent Catherinians
01:23:29 11 See also
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Catherine II (Russian: Екатерина Алексеевна Yekaterina Alekseyevna; 2 May [O.S. 21 April] 1729 – 17 November [O.S. 6 November] 1796), also known as Catherine the Great (Екатери́на Вели́кая, Yekaterina Velikaya), born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, was Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796, the country's longest-ruling female leader. She came to power following a coup d'état that she organised—resulting in her husband, Peter III, being overthrown. Under her reign, Russia was revitalised; it grew larger and stronger and was recognised as one of the great powers of Europe.
In her accession to power and her rule of the empire, Catherine often relied on her noble favourites, most notably count Grigory Orlov and Grigory Potemkin. Assisted by highly successful generals such as Alexander Suvorov and Pyotr Rumyantsev, and admirals such as Fyodor Ushakov, she governed at a time when the Russian Empire was expanding rapidly by conquest and diplomacy. In the south, the Crimean Khanate was crushed following victories over the Ottoman Empire in the Russo–Turkish wars, and Russia colonised the territories of Novorossiya along the coasts of the Black and Azov Seas. In the west, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, ruled by Catherine's former lover, king Stanisław August Poniatowski, was eventually partitioned, with the Russian Empire gaining the largest share. In the east, Russia started to colonise Alaska, establishing Russian America.
Catherine reformed the administration of Russian guberniyas, and many new cities and towns were founded on her orders. An admirer of Peter the Great, Catherine continued to modernise Russia along Western European lines. However, military conscription and the economy continued to depend on serfdom, and the increasing demands of the state and private landowners led to increased levels of reliance on serfs. This was one of the chief reasons behind several rebellions, including the large-scale Pugachev's Rebellion of cossacks and peasants.
Catherine decided to have herself inoculated against smallpox by a Scottish doctor, Thomas Dimsdale. While this was considered a controversial method at the time, she succeeded. Her son Pavel was later inoculated as well. Catherine then sought to have inoculations throughout her empire stating: My objective was, through my example, to save from death the multitude of my subjects who, not knowing the value of this technique, and frightened of it, were left in danger. By 1800, approximately 2 million inoculations were administer ...
Radio Preservation Task Force 2: Material & Digital Curation
Nationally recognized experts from academic, museum and public sectors discuss strategies for digital and material curation of sound-based materials. Topics of discussion include presentation of preserved historical media, public engagement and educational application. Part of the 2017 multi-day conference, Radio Preservation Task Force 2: From Archive to Classroom.
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Rachmaninoff Prelude in g-sharp minor, Op.32 No.12
Ana Stefanovic- piano
Kolarac Music Gallery, Belgrade 26.02.2014
ANA STEFANOVIC completed the Music school Josip Slavenski in the class of her mother Prof. Diana Jovanovic in 2010 and enrolled the Faculty of Music in Belgrade (Prof.Dejan Sinadinovic).
As an extraordinary young talent she has won numerous regional and international awards so far. The most important ones are: Laureate International Competition XXI-st Century Art 2007, Kiev, Laureate International EMCY Competition Memory of Vladimir Horovitz -- debut 2008, Kiev.
She has performed in the Atrium of the National Museum, Progress Gallery, Diplomatic Club, Belgrade City Hall, SASA Gallery, Art Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzoric, Belgrade Philharmonic Hall, Cultural Centre of Belgrade Art Get Gallery, Student Cultural Centre Belgrade, Russian House Hall, the Great Hall and Music Gallery of Kolarac Foundation. She has achieved significant success in the concert halls in Bucharest, Paris, Kiev, as well as in numerous concert halls all over Serbia.
She has participated in the TV and radio shows of Radio Television of Serbia
She has attended Master-classes of Prof. Paula Gulda (Austria), Michelle Soni (France), Nina Makarova (Russia), Irina Stepanenko (Ulraine). She participated in the Fifth Pedagogical Forum at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, and the concerts organized to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Mozart in Belgrade Cultural Centre, as well as in International Piano Week.
Objects, Contexts, Canons and Experiments: Four Conversations on Theory and History, Part 3
Where are we today regarding the way we produce and teach the theory and history of architecture, cities, and landscapes? Should we still give precedence to built realities, or should we focus on the agency that they reveal? What about the changes in the pedagogy to be expected from the development of digital tools? Are there still canons relevant to professional education in the design field? Last, but certainly not least, should we rethink the relationships among lecture courses, seminars, and studio? Four conversations among GSD faculty members and guest participants will deal with these questions and explore new perspectives on theory and history in design schools: (1) History of Objects vs. Study of Agency and Media; (2) Teaching Theory and History in the Digital Age; (3) Global History vs. Canon; and (4) Theory/History and Studio Teaching.
Sponsored by the Theory and History Platform and the PhD Program in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning. Organized by Antoine Picon, G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology, and Michael Hays, Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory.
Armenia | Wikipedia audio article
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Armenia ( (listen); Armenian: Հայաստան, translit. Hayastan, IPA: [hɑjɑsˈtɑn]), officially the Republic of Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստանի Հանրապետություն, translit. Hayastani Hanrapetut'yun, IPA: [hɑjɑstɑˈni hɑnɾɑpɛtutʰˈjun]), is a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located in Western Asia on the Armenian Highlands, it is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, the de facto independent Republic of Artsakh and Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and Azerbaijan's exclave of Nakhchivan to the south.Armenia is a unitary, multi-party, democratic nation-state with an ancient cultural heritage. Urartu was established in 860 BC and by the 6th century BC it was replaced by the Satrapy of Armenia. The Kingdom of Armenia reached its height under Tigranes the Great in the 1st century BC and became the first state in the world to adopt Christianity as its official religion in the late 3rd or early 4th century AD. The official date of state adoption of Christianity is 301. The ancient Armenian kingdom was split between the Byzantine and Sasanian Empires around the early 5th century. Under the Bagratuni dynasty, the Bagratid Kingdom of Armenia was restored in the 9th century. Declining due to the wars against the Byzantines, the kingdom fell in 1045 and Armenia was soon after invaded by the Seljuk Turks. An Armenian principality and later a kingdom Cilician Armenia was located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea between the 11th and 14th centuries.
Between the 16th and 19th centuries, the traditional Armenian homeland composed of Eastern Armenia and Western Armenia came under the rule of the Ottoman and Iranian empires, repeatedly ruled by either of the two over the centuries. By the 19th century, Eastern Armenia had been conquered by the Russian Empire, while most of the western parts of the traditional Armenian homeland remained under Ottoman rule. During World War I, Armenians living in their ancestral lands in the Ottoman Empire were systematically exterminated in the Armenian Genocide. In 1918, following the Russian Revolution, all non-Russian countries declared their independence after the Russian Empire ceased to exist, leading to the establishment of the First Republic of Armenia. By 1920, the state was incorporated into the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and in 1922 became a founding member of the Soviet Union. In 1936, the Transcaucasian state was dissolved, transforming its constituent states, including the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, into full Union republics. The modern Republic of Armenia became independent in 1991 during the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Armenia recognises the Armenian Apostolic Church, the world's oldest national church, as the country's primary religious establishment. The unique Armenian alphabet was invented by Mesrop Mashtots in 405 AD.
Armenia is a member of the Eurasian Economic Union, the Council of Europe and the Collective Security Treaty Organization. Armenia supports the de facto independent Republic of Artsakh, which was proclaimed in 1991.
Anarkismens historia, del 2av3: Revolutioner och motgångar
I början av 1900-talet har anarkismen blivit en global rörelse. För arbetarna är förhållandena tuffa och behovet av förändring är stor. Anarkisterna förespråkar ett förkastande av borgerliga värderingar och skapar kollektiv där de kan leva som de vill. Statsmakterna har svårt att acceptera det och våldsamma motattacker drar igång.
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Produktionsår: 2014
Internationell titel: Neither God nor Master
Regissör: Tancrède Ramonet
Minsk | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:00 1 Etymology and historical names
00:02:08 2 History
00:02:17 2.1 Early history
00:04:11 2.2 Late Middle Ages
00:06:42 2.3 Russian rule
00:09:26 2.4 20th century
00:15:51 2.5 Recent developments
00:17:19 3 Geography
00:18:46 3.1 Climate
00:20:31 3.2 Ecological situation
00:21:48 4 Demographics
00:21:57 4.1 Population growth
00:22:09 4.2 Ethnic groups
00:29:35 4.3 Languages
00:31:23 4.4 Religion
00:32:02 4.5 Crime
00:33:42 5 Economy
00:35:30 5.1 Industry
00:39:17 5.2 Unemployment
00:39:58 6 Government and administrative divisions
00:40:24 7 Culture
00:40:52 7.1 Churches
00:42:46 7.2 Cemeteries
00:43:20 7.3 Theatres
00:43:53 7.4 Museums
00:44:34 7.5 Recreation areas
00:44:54 7.6 Cinemas
00:46:16 8 Tourism
00:46:36 9 Sports
00:46:44 9.1 Football
00:47:01 9.2 Ice hockey
00:47:15 9.3 Handball
00:47:26 9.4 Basketball
00:47:37 9.5 International sporting events
00:48:29 10 Transport
00:48:38 10.1 Local transport
00:50:41 10.2 Rapid transit
00:53:38 10.3 Railway and intercity bus
00:55:40 10.4 Airports
00:57:05 11 Education
00:57:30 11.1 Major higher educational institutions
01:02:55 12 Honors
01:03:15 13 Notable residents
01:07:04 14 International relations
01:07:14 14.1 Twin towns and sister cities
01:07:26 15 See also
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Minsk (Belarusian: Мінск, pronounced [mʲinsk]; Russian: Минск) is the capital and largest city of Belarus, situated on the Svislač and the Nyamiha Rivers. As the national capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administrative centre of Minsk Region (voblasć) and Minsk District (rajon). The population in January 2018 was 1,982,444, (not including suburbs) making Minsk the 11th most populous city in Europe. Minsk is the administrative capital of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and seat of its Executive Secretary.
The earliest historical references to Minsk date to the 11th century (1067), when it was noted as a provincial city within the Principality of Polotsk. The settlement developed on the rivers. In 1242, Minsk became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It received town privileges in 1499.From 1569, it was a capital of the Minsk Voivodeship, in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was part of a region annexed by the Russian Empire in 1793, as a consequence of the Second Partition of Poland. From 1919 to 1991, after the Russian Revolution, Minsk was the capital of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, in the Soviet Union. In June 2019, Minsk will host the 2019 European Games. Tourists who have accreditation cards or tickets to sporting events can visit the country rom 10 June till 10 July 2019 without a visa.