Evgeniya Tsibina from San Diego State University, US, has spent her summer on an internship at HSE Summer University as part of her international experience. She shares her impressions of Moscow in her blog.
News
As part of the Hungarian Culture Days in Russia, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, presents a retrospective of the work of classic photojournalist Robert Capa, one of the founders of the legendary Magnum photo agency.
Green HSE, a student environmental club, is taking part in the upcoming Moscow Flower Show, an international festival of gardens and flowers. As part of the HSE project ‘A University Open to the City’, students will give a presentation on mini parks, the goal of which is to revitalize one of Moscow’s abandoned mini parks or courtyards.
Geek Picnic festival is an open-air event for everyone interested in technology, science, and the arts. This year it is taking place in Russia’s two capital cities: on June 13th and 14th in Moscow, and on June 20th and 21st in St. Petersburg. The festival’s latest theme is Human-Machine. In Moscow, the festival will be in Krasnaya Presnya Park.
For the fifth time, Times and Epochs, a historical reconstruction festival, will take place this weekend in Kolomenskoye. This time it will be dedicated to the glorious era of Ancient Rome.
On May 31st, the 5th Moscow Bike Parade will take place in the Russian capital. The event aims to promote the development of bike sports and safe bike riding. Everyone can participate without the need for registration.
On May 8 and 9, the 70th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War will be remembered and celebrated in Moscow parks and streets.
On May 9th, 2015, Russia celebrates the 70th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War – this is how the part of the World War II that took place on Russian territory is called in Russia. Several Moscow museums have prepared special exhibitions dedicated to the war, in which the Soviet Union lost over 26 million people, and the victory over Nazism in Europe.
Several metro stations at Sokolnicheskaya and Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya lines will be closed due to track replacement work.