Articles in Art and Culture News
“Language Nest” Program to Nurture the Enets Language
A “Language Nest” program has recently opened at the local kindergarten in the village of Potapovo, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. The goal of the program is to maintain—and to some extent revive—the Forest Enets language, one of the many endangered native Siberian languages.
Geography Teachers Assaulted for Not Allowing Students to Cheat
Geography classrooms are not normally associated with violence, but that is not necessarily the case in Pakistan. Just this week, classrooms at Government National College in Karachi were ransacked and several teachers were beaten after they refused to allow students to cheat at the annual examination of a course on commercial geography.
Birobidzhan Will Host the “Many-Sided Russia” Cultural Festival
Birobidzhan, the capital of the Jewish autonomous oblast in the Russian Far East, will host a Russian cultural festival “Many-Sided Russia”.
Helsinki Guggenheim museum debates
Helsinki may soon become home to a new member of the Guggenheim museum family. The proposed Guggenheim Helsinki would focus on Finnish art, architecture, and design. Yet, debates surrounding the proposed new museum, especially the funding issues, may yet sink the proposal.
New Evidence on the Settlement of Madagascar
A new study of the genetic background of the people of Madagascar sheds light on the settlement of the island. It has long been known that the initial movement of people to Madagascar was relatively recent (1,000 to 1,500 years ago), and that it originated not from the African mainland but rather from the islands of what is now Indonesia.
Great Animation Festival Opens in Krasnoyarsk, Russia
The fifth annual “Great Animation Festival” opens on today, March 23 in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, with support from the Cultural Initiatives Foundation, a private charitable foundation of Mikhail Prokhorov, a runner-up in the recent presidential election. Russian animation has a long and glorious history.
Celebrating Buddhism in Russia
A Buddhist art exhibit opened in Saint Petersburg, Russia as a key event of the Days of Tibetan Culture in Saint Petersburg festival, which run through March 18. Elsewhere in Russia, Days of Buddhist Culture have been celebrated by hundreds of Buddhists who took a plunge in near-freezing Lake Baikal.
Norwegian No. 5,000,000 Born—and Other Norwegian Child-Related Issues
Norway has officially crossed the 5 million mark on Monday March 19, 2012. But not all child-related stories from Norway are that rosy.
South Korea Cuts University Tuition
The Korea Herald announced last week that South Korean Universities would be reducing their tuition by an average of 4.5 percent. Almost all schools cut their fees, some by more than 20 percent.
Remarkable Sardinian Statues Reconstructed
Archeologists on the Italian island of Sardinia have completed the painstaking reconstruction of “small yet unique army of life-size stone warriors which were originally destroyed by enemy action in the middle of the first millennium BC.”
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