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28 février 2018

Family Habits

The Russian Family Family relations in Russia are based on paternalistic principles. The Russians feel almost Oriental reverence for the old folks at home and disapprove of the people who send their old relatives to hostels for the elderly. If appropriate,...

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27 février 2018

National Celebrations

January OLD NEW YEAR (СТАРЫЙ НОВЫЙ ГОД) January 13th. January 13, bears the oxymoron name of "old New Year". It is, indeed, the date of the new year in the old calendar. On this day, the Russians are cooking varenikis. It is a Slavic dish of unleavened...

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27 février 2018

Student interaction, social life, sports, clubs ...

At the Financial University, there are not many associations. We wanted to be part of one. Foreign students who absolutely want to integrate one, find out from other universities. I have, for example, a friend who is climbing, a friend who does handball....

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25 février 2018

Sergiev-Possad

Sergiev-Possad This is one of the cities of the Golden Rings, it has been nicknamed "the Orthodox Vatican". We went on a Sunday taking the train. The journey takes about 1h30. It was very cold but finally, with the beauty of the place, the cold disappears....

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25 février 2018

Cultural differences in the classroom

The classes at the university are similar to those in France. These rooms can contain about 30 students or amphitheater. It has happened to us that we have no room and therefore to spend the lesson in a chair. We are in the same class as Russian students....

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20 février 2018

Discovering food

This article aims to make you discover Russian food. Here, first of all, are some dishes found in the cafeterias of the university: We also went to test a great Russian restaurant: Cheburechnaya, great ;).Pelminie: For connoisseurs, this is the famous...

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20 février 2018

External regional conflicts or tensions

Relations with countries with a neutral or pro-Western orientation AZERBAIDJAN Since Azeri independence in 1991, Russia has been engaged in a new dialogue despite the clearly pro-American position of the Azeri Republic. Talks about the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan...

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19 février 2018

Class Content

MY SCHEDULE I'm going to talk to you here about my schedule. It was quite complicated to understand at first. Indeed, the financial university has provided us with the timetable of each year (bachelor + master) but everything was in Russian. I, therefore,...

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18 février 2018

Maslenitsa

Maslenitsa For Maslenitsa, we went to the Gorky Park (one of the best known of Moscow) to celebrate with Muscovites! If you don't know what is Maslenitsa, you can go to see my explanation on the "social rituals".

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13 février 2018

Welcoming and integration

We arrived, with Édouard, on Monday, 05/02/2018 at 11pm at Sheremetyevo airport. Fortunately the airport is only 15 minutes away by taxi. My bodie, aleksandra, wait for us in the hall of the school. We were given an electronic card (which should not be...

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