Day: 21 July 2012
Russian dance kings conquer Ireland and the rest of world
21.07.2012Ireland is represented at the world championships in ballroom dancing by a Russian couple, Vitaly Sevastyanov and Anna Stepunina. They are the champions of the Emerald Isle.
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Alexander Baburin Ireland’s only chess grand master
21.07.2012Alexander E. Baburin, professional chess player, coach, chess journalist, author and publisher, was born on 19th February 1967 in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod). He has been living in Dublin since 1993. Alexander is a chess Grand Master and has won many international tournaments. From 1996 to 1998 he was ranked one of the 100 strongest […]
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TCD Russian Society
21.07.2012When the current Russian society of Trinity College Dublin was set up it was already the fourth attempt to create a club for the promotion of Russian language and culture in Ireland’s oldest university. Established in April 2009 by a group of students at TCD’s Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, the society organises various […]
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“Russian” University College Dublin
21.07.2012The popularity of Russian language and culture in Ireland is growing, it is quite obvious! Russian business, music, movies, newspapers, radio, shops, and much more not only unite the Russian-speaking community, but also involve the Irish in the communities. One of the most accessible ways to do so for students is to get themselves involved […]
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Eurolog Ireland
21.07.2012Eurolog Ireland is an association of schools, Russian language courses and Russian culture centres of all sorts, teachers of Russian language and literature, Russian-speaking parents and parents who have adopted Russian children, and enthusiastic activists: all those interested in teaching and learning, safeguarding and promoting the Russian language.
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The Galway Alliance
21.07.2012More than 1500 nationals come together under the Alliance cultural centre. The Alliance is involved in organizing various projects: holidays, family boat trips, group park meetings and trips to Dublin for Russian-language events. We also organize charity actions, collect items and send them to orphanages in Moldova and Ukraine, and release a monthly Russian newspaper. It […]
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Russian school in Cork
21.07.2012The Russian school in Cork, the second largest city in the republic, is an officially registered volunteer organization, created by parents in order to help their children to study Russian language and Slavic culture.
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A Rainbow above the land of Celts
21.07.2012A school called “Rainbow”, organized by two women with real Russian spirit, has existed for two years now. “At the beginning it was very difficult. We didn’t know anyone and nobody helped us”, said Svetlana Usovich, the principal of “Rainbow”. “But we really wanted to make something good for our children”. Svetlana is from Belarus. […]
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Father Michael Nasonov
21.07.2012Rector of the patriarchal monastery of the Church of Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Dublin, Father Michael Nasonov was born in 1973 in Sevastopol. He studied theology in St. Petersburg and in Paris at the St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute. After receiving religious education the priest worked in the seminary in Kostroma and then taught […]
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Rev. George Zavershinsky
21.07.2012Many Russian-speaking inhabitants of Ireland are well aware of Fr George Zavershinsky, who was one of the first priests of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ireland, and for many years served in the Peter and Paul Church Patriarchal Compound in Dublin. The priest George (Yuri) A. Zavershinsky was born October 2, 1961 in Severodvinsk, in […]
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