Welcome to our bulletin full of information about exciting Russian events in Glasgow and UK!
This issue contains a round-up of Russian or connected to Russia events in Scotland and throughout the rest of the UK in the month of December and job vacancies. RCS Haven is welcoming anyone who is interested in studying Russian language, literature and culture. We have English, Russian and Polish language lessons. There is a library and art studio for children. A new group for learning Russian language has been opened for teenagers (13 and over) at Adelphi centre on Saturdays at 1 pm. Also, the centre provides consultations in law, finance and other aspects of work and business in Russia and Britain. Please note that our centre will be closed between 22nd December 2011 and 5th January 2012. Wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Russian school is holding a Christmas party for children
at Adelphi Centre on 17th of December at 12 noon.
RCS Haven is looking for volunteers and qualified IT staff to work at the Centre.
Contents:
Jobs in Scotland
Russian-speaking jobs
Russian-speaking jobs
Regular events in Scotland
Events in Glasgow
Events in Edinburgh
Events in the rest of the UK
Contact us
Jobs in Scotland
1. Chemist - NPD (New product Development) - Fluent Russian speaker
Multi million pound investment has resulted in highly ambitious growth plans for this market leading organisation. Firmly established in Scotland, recent relocation to stunning new premises has seen them develop a purpose built manufacturing more...
Multi million pound investment has resulted in highly ambitious growth plans for this market leading organisation. Firmly established in Scotland, recent relocation to stunning new premises has seen them develop a purpose built manufacturing more...
2. Temporary Special Teacher (EAL)
Job Vacancy SummaryChildren & Families Temporary Special Teacher (EAL) EAL Westwood House, EH11 Salary: £21,438 - £34,200 Hours: Full and part time positions available Salaries will be in accordance with the Scheme of Salaries and Conditions more...
Job Vacancy SummaryChildren & Families Temporary Special Teacher (EAL) EAL Westwood House, EH11 Salary: £21,438 - £34,200 Hours: Full and part time positions available Salaries will be in accordance with the Scheme of Salaries and Conditions more...
3. Senior Test Equipment Engineer
A leading Defence and Aerospace client in Scotland is looking for an additional 4 Electronic Design Engineers to support with Test Equipment design for a world leading airborne radar system. Please note that a 4 day week / flexible working more...
A leading Defence and Aerospace client in Scotland is looking for an additional 4 Electronic Design Engineers to support with Test Equipment design for a world leading airborne radar system. Please note that a 4 day week / flexible working more...
4. Trainee Marketing/Projects Co-ordinator
Discovery Flexibles Limited based in Dundee is Scotlands leading flexible packaging converter and is equipped with state of the art equipment and a team committed to serving the customers needs in full. Our marketing philosophy centres on supplying more...
Discovery Flexibles Limited based in Dundee is Scotlands leading flexible packaging converter and is equipped with state of the art equipment and a team committed to serving the customers needs in full. Our marketing philosophy centres on supplying more...
5. OPTOMETRIST
We are currently looking to recruit a number of Optometrists to work in various locations in Scotland, including this position in Tayside. As modern life becomes increasingly stressful and urban areas more crowded and polluted, many people are more...
We are currently looking to recruit a number of Optometrists to work in various locations in Scotland, including this position in Tayside. As modern life becomes increasingly stressful and urban areas more crowded and polluted, many people are more...
Russian-speaking jobs
1 Software Support / Product Support Engineer - Russian Speaking
Software Support / Product Support Engineer - Java, UNIX, Windows (Russian Speaking) London SE1 £Competitive Plus Pension, Health Insurance, Life insurance, Cycle to Work Scheme, Discounted Gym Transforming entire industries and revolutionising more...
Software Support / Product Support Engineer - Java, UNIX, Windows (Russian Speaking) London SE1 £Competitive Plus Pension, Health Insurance, Life insurance, Cycle to Work Scheme, Discounted Gym Transforming entire industries and revolutionising more...
2. Russian/ CIS Fixed Income Structurer/ Solutions Sales
Our client a European investment bank with is keen to immediately hire an individual with 4-6 years experience of fixed income structuring to be based in London. This role would be suitable for Russian speaking structurers who have an excellent more...
Our client a European investment bank with is keen to immediately hire an individual with 4-6 years experience of fixed income structuring to be based in London. This role would be suitable for Russian speaking structurers who have an excellent more...
3. Russian Speaking Receptionist/ PA
Job Title - Receptionist/PA Sector - LifeStyle Agency Location: West End Salary - up to £25,000pa Skills - Fluent Russian Speaking The Job: *Answer telephones and give information to callers, take messages, or transfer calls to appropriate more...
Job Title - Receptionist/PA Sector - LifeStyle Agency Location: West End Salary - up to £25,000pa Skills - Fluent Russian Speaking The Job: *Answer telephones and give information to callers, take messages, or transfer calls to appropriate more...
4. Gaming Support Agent(s) Hebrew & Russian
Online Gaming Support Agent(s) Hebrew & English, Russian & English You will be the Frontline Customer Service / Support Agent on an gaming product, acting as first point of contact for customers via telephone and email. Candidates should have more...
Online Gaming Support Agent(s) Hebrew & English, Russian & English You will be the Frontline Customer Service / Support Agent on an gaming product, acting as first point of contact for customers via telephone and email. Candidates should have more...
5. Account Manager x 2 (German/ Russian)
Account Manager/Sales Associate x 2 ( 1 x German & 1 x Russian ) Financial Market Intelligence Location: London Salary: Up to £35,000 + £8,000 OTE A leading global provider of financial market intelligence, qualitative data, global more...
Account Manager/Sales Associate x 2 ( 1 x German & 1 x Russian ) Financial Market Intelligence Location: London Salary: Up to £35,000 + £8,000 OTE A leading global provider of financial market intelligence, qualitative data, global more...
Regular Events in Glasgow:
Orthodox Church Services:
The following Scottish churches hold regular/semi-regular Orthodox services (all welcome):
Glasgow: The Parish of St. Kentigern (Russian Orthodox). Services held in Govan Old Church, 866 Govan Road, Glasgow, G51 3UU.
Edinburgh: Orthodox Community of St. Andrew (a mixture of Orthodox faiths). Services held in the Chapel of St. Andrew, 2 Meadow Lane, Edinburgh, EH8 9NR.
Art studio for Children.
Art lessons for children are undergoing in RCS Haven. Under supervision of experienced teachers, a professional artist and a specialist in early development, children study the basics of drawing and painting, language development and drama. All children are welcome on Wednesdays from 5 till 7 pm.
RCS Haven, 11 Duke Street, Glasgow, G4 0UL
Тел. 0141 5522144
Russian Haven – studying of Russian Language and culture.
Club for those who wants to study Russian language.
Lessons on Mondays 17.30 to 19.30
Russian Centre RCS Haven, 11 Duke Street, Glasgow, G4 0UL
Live Music on Sunday nights at Café Cossachok
Cafe Cossachok, 10 King Street, Glasgow, G1 5QP
Restaurant opens: 6.00pm. Concert begins: 9.00pm
Tickets: £6.00 per person.
Bookings: 0141 553 0733
Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre
Sharmanka are a unique and award-winning theatre group. Their beautifully carved figures perform an incredible dance to haunting music and light, telling the funny and tragic stories of the human life and spirit. Booking essential.
Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre, 103 Trongate, Glasgow, G1 5HD
Bookings: 0141 552 7080
December Events Calendar
1 December Thursday. Live from NT, at cinemas all over Scotland
"Collaborators",
Moscow, 1938. A dangerous place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom. Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents, stalked by secret police, has both. And then he’s offered a poisoned chalice: a commission to write a play about Stalin to celebrate his sixtieth birthday.
Inspired by historical fact, Collaborators embarks on a surreal journey into the fevered imagination of the writer as he loses himself in a macabre and disturbingly funny relationship with the omnipotent subject of his drama.
John Hodge’s blistering new play depicts a lethal game of cat and mouse through which the appalling compromises and humiliations inflicted on any artist by those with power are held up to scrutiny.
Alex Jennings plays Bulgakov and Simon Russell Beale, Stalin. Director Nicholas Hytner
Time: 6.45 or 7pm depending on venue
Venues:
Cameo Picturehouse, Edinburgh 0871 902 5723
Belmont Picturehouse Aberdeen 0871 902 5723
Glasgow Film Theatre 0141 332 6535
Dundee Contemporary Arts 01382 909900
Tower Mill, Hawick 01450 360680
Inspired by historical fact, Collaborators embarks on a surreal journey into the fevered imagination of the writer as he loses himself in a macabre and disturbingly funny relationship with the omnipotent subject of his drama.
John Hodge’s blistering new play depicts a lethal game of cat and mouse through which the appalling compromises and humiliations inflicted on any artist by those with power are held up to scrutiny.
Alex Jennings plays Bulgakov and Simon Russell Beale, Stalin. Director Nicholas Hytner
Time: 6.45 or 7pm depending on venue
Venues:
Cameo Picturehouse, Edinburgh 0871 902 5723
Belmont Picturehouse Aberdeen 0871 902 5723
Glasgow Film Theatre 0141 332 6535
Dundee Contemporary Arts 01382 909900
Tower Mill, Hawick 01450 360680
Events in Glasgow
1 December Thursday – 15th January Sunday
Winter kaleidoscope sale
An exhibition from Cossachok’s collection of oils watercolours, pastels and prints by Armenian, Georgian, Russian, Eastern European and Scottish Artists.
All items are for sale.
Also on display will be items from collection of handmade jewellery and crafts - the perfect solution to your last minute Christmas shopping.
Russian Art and Christmas Gift Shop will be open daily from 11am until Christmas.
Cafe Cossachok, 10 King Street, Glasgow, G1 5QP
Tel.0141 553 0733
3 December Saturday, 19.30
RSNO 11:12 Season Osborne Plays Shostakovich
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall : Main Auditorium
Tickets: £34, £25, £18.50, £14, £11
Book online here
7 December Wednesday 17.30
‘Local content, regulation and household opinion in Kazakhstan’
Seminar by Christian Nygaard, School of Economics, University of Reading
Central and East European Studies Seminar Room, University of Glasgow, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens. Tea and Coffee from 5.00. All Welcome.
Central and East European Studies Seminar Room, University of Glasgow, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens. Tea and Coffee from 5.00. All Welcome.
8 December Thursday, 7.30pm
RSNO 11:12 Season A Russian Winter: The Snow Maiden and The Nutcracker
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall : Main Auditorium
Tickets: £34, £25, £18.50, £14, £11
Book online here
10 December Saturday, 19.30
A Collection of Slavonic Music for voice and piano
Oksana Mavrodii Soprano
Anna Mavromatidi Piano
Featuring music from their forthcoming CD ' Romantic Russian Songs'
Thornliebank Parish Church 61 Spiersbridge Road, Glasgow
Events in Edinburgh
1 December Thursday 18.00-19.00
Russia: The Mafia State. A discussion with Luke Harding (followed by reception at the Princess Dashkova Russian Centre)
Luke Harding, journalist and author of the recently published Mafia State. Luke will be offering fascinating and controversial insights into his time in Russia and his views of the current political situation. With the return of Vladimir Putin as a candidate for the Presidential post in the 2012 elections, Luke will argue that the country’s apparent surrender to autocracy deserves increased scrutiny. He will focus on his experiences of dealing with the secret police and official
corruption. The revival of Soviet-era practices has included the systematic intimidation of public figures who question or criticize the status quo.
-Faculty Room South (Ground Floor), David Hume Tower, University of Edinburgh
-This event is free.
corruption. The revival of Soviet-era practices has included the systematic intimidation of public figures who question or criticize the status quo.
-Faculty Room South (Ground Floor), David Hume Tower, University of Edinburgh
-This event is free.
8 December Thursday 20.00
Film Group @ SRF Edinburgh
BALLAD OF A SOLDIER
(dir Grigory Chukhrai, 1959) / Баллада о Ñолдате (РежиÑÑÑ‘Ñ€ - Григорий Чухрай)
“Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is granted a visit with his mother after he singlehandedly fends off two enemy tanks. As he journeys home, Alyosha encounters the devastation of his war-torn country, witnesses glimmers of hope among the people, and falls in love. With its poetic visual imagery, Grigori Chukhrai's Ballad of a Soldier is an unconventional meditation on the effects of war, and a milestone in Russian cinema.”
The second film in our continuing SRF Film Club is this landmark humanist wartime film of the early Thaw era. Sweeping international cinemas in the early 1960s, it went on to win several prizes, including the BAFTA for Best Film (still the only Russian film to have done so).
Only £1 entry (includes snacks!). Scotland-Russia Institute, 9 South College Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AA
“Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is granted a visit with his mother after he singlehandedly fends off two enemy tanks. As he journeys home, Alyosha encounters the devastation of his war-torn country, witnesses glimmers of hope among the people, and falls in love. With its poetic visual imagery, Grigori Chukhrai's Ballad of a Soldier is an unconventional meditation on the effects of war, and a milestone in Russian cinema.”
The second film in our continuing SRF Film Club is this landmark humanist wartime film of the early Thaw era. Sweeping international cinemas in the early 1960s, it went on to win several prizes, including the BAFTA for Best Film (still the only Russian film to have done so).
Only £1 entry (includes snacks!). Scotland-Russia Institute, 9 South College Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AA
If you have any questions / ideas please contact Flip Kulakiewicz [email protected] or 0131 668 3635
15 December Thursday 11.00
Чай н Чат
All welcome to join us for sparkling conversation in Russian and English and delicious cakes. No charge but contributions of cakes and help with washing up appreciated
Scotland-Russia Institute, 9 South College St, Edinburgh EH8 9AA
Tel. 0131 668 3635
Tel. 0131 668 3635
REST OF UK
2 December Friday 18.30
I.B.Tauris Publishers cordially invite you to join them in celebrating the publication of
Edited by Birgit Beumers and Nancy Condee
at Pushkin House, 5A Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2TA
at Pushkin House, 5A Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2TA
Drinks reception RSVP to Antonia Leslie:
0207 243 1225 [email protected]
0207 243 1225 [email protected]
Tickets: admission free
Pushkin House, Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TA,
7 December Wednesday, 18.30
Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov (1907-1982) was a poet and prose writer, born in Vologda. He got involved in political opposition to Stalin, which culminated in his arrest: he served a prison sentence in Vishera Camp, Northern Urals, and then worked for industrial and technical journals for just a few short years. He was then arrested again and condemned to five years’ hard labour for ‘counter-revolutionary Trotskyite activity’ and his sentence was subsequently extended. He was imprisoned in various camps in Kolyma, Siberia, and it was on the basis of his experiences there – a total of 16 years in the Gulag – that he wrote a series of 150 stories for which he is now best known in the West – the Kolymskie rasskazy (Kolyma Tales), the fruits of some twenty years’ writing.
Pushkin House, Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TA,
13 / 20 December Tuesday
December's KinoKlub will be showing the UK premiere of Vladimir Mirzoev's contemporary adaptation of Boris Godunov, presented by the director! Only just out in Russia, this critically acclaimed film, reexamines the eternal Russian themes of crime and punishment and power and the people.
Free to KinoKlub members, £12 / 10 concs for non-members
Academia Rossica76 Brewer Street, Piccadilly Circus
London W1F 9TU
London W1F 9TU
15 December Thursday 09:00-11:00
Our next Quarterly Business Focus in conjunction with RUSSIA CONSULTING will take place on the morning of Thursday 15 December at the RBCC Offices in Victoria.
The topics to be discussed are 'Changes in Tax Legislation 2012' and 'Intercultural Aspects: UK/Russia'.
Cost of Participation:
For RBCC Members: £20 + VAT
For non-members: £30 + VAT
Click here to register : [email protected]
Phone 020 7931 6455
15 December Thursday 17:00 - 22:00
Click here to register : [email protected]
Phone 020 7931 6455
29 October til 22nd January
This special exhibition at the Royal Academy will examine Russian avant-garde architecture made during a brief but intense period of design and construction that took place from c.1922 to 1935.
Fired by the Constructivist art that emerged in Russia from c.1915, architects transformed this radical artistic language into three dimensions, creating structures whose innovative style embodied the energy and optimism of the new Soviet Socialist state.
Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD #
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