by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | Russian Culture, Russian Zone
Joel Roberts (University of Brighton) INTRODUCTION Peter the Great’s establishment of Saint Petersburg as a ‘window on the West’ opened Russia to a host of European influences. As a city built on Finnish marshland, a celebration of European culture and an ostensible...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | Russian Reviews, Russian Zone
The following titles are reviewed in issue 38 of Rusistika, autumn 2013. Susie Beattie, Genevieve Gerrard and Persephone Lock (editors), Collins Russian Dictionary and Grammar. Reviewed by Andrew Jameson. Serge Sharoff, Elena Umanskaya and James Wilson, A Frequency...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | Russian Reviews, Russian Zone
Svetlana MacGillivray, Reviews Editor I am delighted to be taking over the reviews editorship of Rusistika. Andrew Jameson, the previous reviews editor, will be a hard act to follow, having carried out the task for many years with great thoroughness: ALL is extremely...
by Wendy Newman | May 3, 2013 | German Culture, German Practice, German updates, German Zone
Paul Francis Barrie (VKV Koç Özel İlköğretim Okulu ve Lisesi, İstanbul) GERMAN, GERMANY AND TURKEY Germany and Turkey have a long and intertwined history, which is just as relevant today as it was in the 1960s, during the Ottoman Empire and before. This relationship...
by Wendy Newman | May 3, 2013 | French Culture, French Updates, French Zone
Jean-Benoît Alokpon (Président de l’APFA-OI) L’ASSOCIATION L’Association des Professeurs de Français pour l’Afrique et l’Océan Indien (APFA-OI) est l’une des huit Commissions que compte la Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Français (FIPF). Les sept autres...
