The regional festival “Slavic Soul” will be held in the village of Liskinskoye Shchuchye Posting in CHAT: Russia The regional folk art festival “Slavic Soul” will be held in the village of Liski Shchuchye on Saturday, May 25. The artists will perform on the stage of a local cultural and leisure center. The head of the regional department of culture, Larisa Lyutikova, told a RIA Voronezh correspondent that the festival will be held for the first time in the village of Shchuchye. The concert program contained 34 vocal and choreographic numbers, which the competition commission selected as part of a regional review-competition of creative reports from rural cultural centers and clubs - The festival is traditionally dedicated to the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture, so the concert program will be thematic. In addition, an exhibition of decorative and applied arts will be held here, the cultural department of the district administration reported. The festival starts at 14:00 (0+). The exhibition will open at 13:00. Duty-free import. Address of the cultural and leisure center: Shchuche village, Sovetskaya street, 74a. In 2003, the regional folk art festival “Slavic Soul” took place. Then this began to happen every year in different villages of the region. In 2024 it will take place for the 21st time. Did you notice the error? Select it with the mouse and press Ctrl+Enter. Source link Source link
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How a girl found her soul mate on a speed date » I’m tired – Russia today Posting in CHAT: Russia Time for amazing stories. I attended your speed dating event and am now sharing my experience. This was the first time for me, I wondered for a long time what it would be like, I took my military friend and we went on an adventure. I really love people, I like to communicate, talk, discuss, study, it’s always interesting. for me and I'm never bored. But I’m not such a social extrovert that it’s difficult for me to get lost in communication, especially with strangers. That's why I thought speed dating was a great way to connect with people I probably wouldn't meet in normal life. In fact, this is what happened, however, a disclaimer! Girls, if you are under 35 and you are not desperate, I would not recommend considering this format of pastime as something serious; I myself did not take this event seriously, and therefore I decided to approach this excursion from a research point of view. And here's what I learned after talking with 30 men*: The average age of men and women is 38+. Despite the fact that the organizers promised a range of 28-38. Most of the people who go to such dates are: 1 IT specialists 2 Engineers 3 Research institute scientists 4 Those whose work is related to motor transport 5 Hypermarket employees Out of 30 people. , only 6 people were not native Muscovites. Almost all men named their favorite cuisine – Russian cuisine. Chops, potatoes, soups. At the same time, only one in five knows how to cook and can come up with something more complex than scrambled eggs. The most common hobby is learning English. Moreover, most have been studying it for a long time and, it seems, without much success. Perhaps they are just saying it to say something. The second most popular hobby is something related to sports: running, samba, volleyball. If a man comes to such an event in a suit and tie, most likely he is a researcher and he simply does not have other clothes that a woman is looking for: kind, honest, caring. Most men say that the most important thing in a relationship is respect. Out of 30, 9 turned out to be readers (mostly employees of research institutes), and one said that he had read only five books in his entire life and this is normal for him. 4 out of 30 men aged 32+ want to change their work activities and are not satisfied with their work (which is not the same as not being satisfied with their salary! 2 out of 30 men have a pet - 12 out of 30 men were married). Two reported having children 2 out of 30 noted that they do not smoke or drink, lead a healthy lifestyle and believe that this is the most important fact about them 1 out of 30 was completely inappropriate and said every word I said I 1 out of 30 started crying in front of me The reasons remain unclear. I'm betting on conjunctivitis *information is based only on my survey of 30 specific men. You must understand that someone may be lying and the data does not apply to other men. Source link Source link
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So that our soul does not rust. Yuri Selivanov – Russia today Posting in CHAT: Russia The attitude towards Russian military-technical history, including our military trophies, must be fully and even progressively consistent with the state tasks and fatal challenges that Russia faces today. Samples of Western military equipment captured during a special military operation, in particular presented. at the exhibition on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow are of great value as museum exhibits. And it is advisable to leave them in museums for the historical education of young people, the head of the Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin said in an interview with TASS. “I would not underestimate the importance of museum exhibits. This is a question about the future. The question is what we will pass on as museum exhibits to future generations. We must build a correct narrative about the events that are now taking place,” Pushilin said. Despite all the evidence and even the little things that the head of the DPR said about the value of these trophies as museum exhibits, the topic he declared is not at all devoid of importance and even some kind of retrospective comprehension. Especially for a country with an unpredictable history like ours. Alas, such seemingly self-evident things as the preservation of military-historical heritage, not only trophies captured by the enemy, but also one’s own remains, in our not so distant past were not an immutable imperative for everyone. Including those on whom the relevant decisions depended. During the Great Patriotic War, more precisely in 1943, an exhibition of trophies captured by the Red Army also opened in Moscow. The scale of this exhibition was truly enormous, corresponding to the scale of the war itself. And the period of its operation was quite suitable, because it existed for five whole years and was closed only in 1948. But this is exactly our first question - why exactly was it closed? After all, she was the most visible and, moreover, unique embodiment of the military glory of our victorious people. But these are things that, by definition, have no expiration date or expiration date. More precisely, they shouldn't have. But someone at the top decided that this was not so. And the only visual evidence in the world of the complete military defeat of German Nazism was hidden. Or because they recognized it as unimportant, because fascism, they say, has been destroyed and the end of this story is determined forever. Is it really for completely banal reasons - like a reluctance to spend money on maintaining “useless rusty iron”. In the sense that you can’t plow on it, and it takes up a lot of space. And there is no point in storing all this fascist rubbish in the center of Moscow. But not only was the people thus deprived of one of the main and extremely visible supports of their victorious worldview, but they did not stop there. During the period of the post-war massive reduction of the army, almost all samples of not only enemy, but also domestic armored vehicles and wartime aircraft were thrown under the knife and melted down. It got to the point that in the historical museums of the greatest military power in the world - the Soviet Union - there was not a single authentic copy of the legendary Il-2 attack aircraft left. One of the most popular, by the way, wartime aircraft. I'm not even talking about rarer combat vehicles, like the Su-2 light bomber, or heavy bomb carriers like the TB-3 or Pe-8. How total and merciless this post-war purge was can be seen at least from the deplorable state of the material base of Soviet military-historical cinema. Despite the fact that the Great Patriotic War became the first theme of our country’s cinema for a long time after the war, it was almost impossible to film authentic battle scenes. Even in the top production of that time - the epic film "Liberation" - the post-war sports Yak-18 and the Czech "Moraves" were filmed as wartime combat aircraft. And on the field of the Battle of Kursk, T-34/85 tanks attacked, which simply did not exist at that time, because they appeared in service with the Red Army only in 1944. And all because the more authentic T-1 -34/76 model was from 1941, when the film was filmed. But what about the T-34, if in the same “Liberize” the German “Tigers” and “Panthers”, which, by the way, were in abundance at the above-mentioned Moscow exhibition, were quite massively replaced, albeit against a terrifying background, with Soviet tanks 60 's T-62. Despite the fact that the highest artistic and historical level of the epic itself is beyond doubt, its obvious military-technical unreliability shocked the world community even then. And today, at a time of general fascination with computer “tank battles”, on which more than one generation of truly deep researchers of the appearance and performance characteristics of military equipment have grown up, it is simply impossible to watch. I'm not even talking about other, lower budget films. There is a problem with historical accuracy. The post-war T-54 tank famously paves the way for the T-34/85 convoy in the 1968 film about the Great Patriotic War, “Fit for Non-Combat Operations.” Literally in recent years, and even then mainly by enthusiasts, it overthrew the Soviet. planes began to find tanks sunken at checkpoints in swamps and forests and restore them piece by piece until they became completely alive! More recently, the legendary Soviet fighter I-16, on which Valery Chkalov flew, and the same Il-2, which seemed to have disappeared forever, have just been returned from oblivion and even raised first from the swamp and then into the air. . . But these, alas, are almost unique cases. Even in the country’s largest aviation museum in Monino, among the dozens of fighter aircraft of all times stored there, there is not a single one capable of taking off. The apotheosis of this military-historical weakness was the recent episode with the acquisition of three dozen T-34/85 tanks in... the Republic of Laos, after the almost complete exhaustion of such in Russia itself. We remember this because of the sharply increased importance of this topic today. The next great circle of history is closing literally before our eyes. The most Russophobic circles in the West have again come to their senses after their last historical defeat in 1945 and are again sharpening the knife against Russia. The situation around our country is such that the fire of a local war in Ukraine, kindled by the West after the treacherous seizure of this part of Russia by its mercenaries, threatens almost every day to reach full scale. an invasion of Rus' similar to that of Napoleon or Hitler. And therefore, the theme of fighting the enemy for life and death and a successful battle for us reappears in public policy and public life. The first significant event of this kind, which received a worldwide resonance, was the current exhibition of NATO trophies on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow. However, this fact in itself does not mean that we have finally ceased to be a country with an unpredictable history, that we have learned all the mistakes of the past and will not repeat them. The only thing that confuses me is the planned duration of this exhibition - right up until the end of May this year! Moreover, no distant Alabino with Patriot parks will ever replace it. Simply because a rare bird, in the sense of an ordinary visitor, will fly there. It is and only in the center of a large capital, where people from all over the country constantly come, that the proper social effect can be ensured. Which can and will undoubtedly increase with the further successes of our army. We do not know the reason why the period of existence of this unique military-patriotic phenomenon was considered so insignificant compared to its socio-political significance. Perhaps the price of the capital's exhibition space is too expensive for a free patriotic initiative. Or some of the officials, out of inertia, considered this a passing event for show, of which there are many. But all this is completely untrue. Especially in comparison with the five years allotted by history to the previous Moscow exhibition of enemy trophies. It’s a different matter against the backdrop of the political, governmental and educational challenges facing Russia today. And who will determine our future not for a month or a year, but at least for a historical era ahead. Whether we like this turn of events or not no longer matters. Because history has its own laws. The only important thing is that we live with it and must correspond to this time. And not only to the soldiers at the front, but also to those who still consider themselves in the rear. Moreover, in this war there is no rear at all. And being a front-line soldier, without proper moral and psychological preparation and the received patriotic load, including thanks to such revelations, is obviously a lost cause. And since Russia cannot perish, because, figuratively speaking, the earth’s axis passes through it, we actually have no choice. Also, go ahead and win. Being fully armed with the knowledge that the glorious history and modernity of Russia gives us. Yuri Selivanovhttps://news-front.su Source link Source…