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World champion javelin thrower Maria Abakumova
World champion javelin thrower and Olympic silver medalist at the games in Peking Mariya Abakumova holds the record for the second longest javelin throw in women’s history with 71.99 metres. Nowadays in Russia Mariya is known to have made one of the greatest achievements the sport has ever known and she is one of very few athletes of her caliber all over the world. People know and love Abakumova as a charismatic and emotional athlete and they expect to see a real show of passion and effort from her on the field. Mariya doesn’t believe in the myth that a career in professional sport and having a family are incompatible and she is ready and eager to travel abroad to Rio de Janeiro to capture gold in 2016.
В поисках культурного кода. Переславль-Залесский
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В поисках культурного кода. Переславль-Залесский
The View From Up On High. Legends of the Russian North
The Russian North is a term used to describe the lands in the north of the European part of Russia. It’s a historical and cultural, rather than geographical, designation, however. A cold climate, a territory that’s far from the state centers, a land that avoided the Tartar-Mongol Yoke and serfdom – all of this created a unique community of people, bold and freedom-loving. The nature here is so beautiful that the native inhabitants of these lands believed that everything surrounding them was animated with spirits. The mountains became shrines. The pines were idols. The forests, rivers and waterfalls were homes to mythological creatures. The poetry of this northern region to this day lives on in the ancient Karelian and Finnish runes and in Russian
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