Archive for June, 2011



“I see Russia as the successor state of the Empire of Byzantium.”

Saturday, June 11th, 2011

La Revue Défense Nationale launched, in March 2011, its first Russian issue, directed by Olivier Védrine and Vassillii Badouline. Below are some of Mr. Védrine’s responses to Le Courrier de Russie (LCDR), on the diplomatic relationship between France/ Europe and Russia (read complete ... More

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Russian ecclesiastical chants of the medieval period

Friday, June 10th, 2011

Professor Anatoli Viktorovich Konotop is a musicologist and has been working for 35 years on deciphering and transcribing ancient Russian ecclesiastical chants as they were sung in monasteries in the 16-17th centuries, before the liturgical reforms of the 18th century. These monophonic chants, ... More

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