QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF PRESCHOOL EDUCATION IN RUSSIA Disclaimer: this article is based on the author’s personal experience of 10 years working in the educational system of Russia and represents the personal opinion. The question of assessing the quality of education itself is not new. However, in the period “before FES” (Federal Education Standart), almost all […]
Raisa Gorbacheva – Remembering the First Lady of the USSR By Stephen M. Bland This year marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of Raisa Gorbacheva. The wife of Mikhail Gorbachev, Raisa was a brilliant sociologist in her own right, and as the first visible First Lady of the Soviet Union, became a sensation in […]
“IN ORDER TO LIVE WELL, YOU NEED TO WORK HARD” INTERVIEW: NIKOLAJ IVLEEV OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work. Nikolaj Ivleev: I was ashamed of our miserable existence in the USSR, the richest country in the world, unable to feed itself, which had 2/3 of the planet’s […]
The new educational business platform “Reputation” will start on the 10th of December at Crocus City Hall Speakers: Araz Agalarov, Emin Agalarov, Arkady Dvorkovich, Dmitry Rogozin, Viktor Vekselberg, Arkady Novikov, Irina Viner-Usmanova, Mikhail Kusnirovich, Pashu, Valery Meladze, Bakhtiyar Aliev (Bahh Tee), Elmar Murtazaev Aiselle Trudenikov, , Marina Zhigalova, Irek Fayzullin, Dmitry Grishin, Alexander Yakhnich, Ernesto […]
“I arrived at my station in Kaliningrad as if posted there by an army of desires entering through the gate with a firm set jaw into the guarding teeth of iron girders driven into the soft soul of the soil by hammering heels as bold as yours approaching a fateful encounter quite naughty amidst ghosts […]
This interview with portrait painter Sergey Pavlenko was recorded by Oksana Karnovich, Director of the Galina Ulanova Museum-Apartment in Moscow, and Maria Lvova, Member of Russian Heritage in the United Kingdom. We are in the very centre of London, on the busy, but cozy High Street Kensington. The reason was for the participation in the […]
On the Day of National Unity, 4th November 2016, the representative office of Rosstorudnichestvo in London hosted the International ethnographic festival-competition “Ethno Art Fest” organised by the “Ethnographic Art” section and the company «Ethno Art Fest». The event was dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Various events took place in […]
OCA #22 SUMMER 2016 WWW.OCAMAGAZINE.COM In the modern world one of largest scale initiatives is abruptly changing the face of the world, forming a new paradigm of economic and geo-strategic development and is revitalizing a zone of the Silk Road by land and sea. The project has been named “One Belt One Way.” The intention […]
Born and brought up in Hawick, in the Scottish Borders, Baroness Alison Suttie is perhaps not the most likely of fluent Russian speakers you might expect to meet. However, having graduated from Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University in 1990 with a degree in French and Russian she then went on to study at Voronezh University in the […]
