Greetings, and welcome to our bulletin full of information on exciting Russian events!
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 November and job vacancies and announcements.
RCS Haven is welcoming anyone who is interested in studying Russian language, literature and culture. We have English, Russian and Polish language lessons. Admission for Ukrainian language is now open. There is a library and art studio for children. Also, the centre provides consultations in law, finance and other aspects of work and business in Russia and Britain.
RCS Haven is welcoming anyone who is interested in studying Russian language, literature and culture. We have English, Russian and Polish language lessons. Admission for Ukrainian language is now open. There is a library and art studio for children. Also, the centre provides consultations in law, finance and other aspects of work and business in Russia and Britain.
Art lessons for children have been resumed in Russian Centre Haven. Children study the basics of drawing and painting, language development and drama. All children are welcome on Wednesdays from 5 till 7 pm. 11 DukeStreet, Glasgow, G4 0UL. [email protected]
Contents:
Jobs in Scotland
Russian-speaking jobs
Regular events in Scotland
Events in Glasgow
Events in Edinburgh
Events in the rest of the UK
Jobs in Scotland
Salary: Neg. Location: Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll & Bute, Clackmanshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Dundee, East Ayrshire, East Dumbarton, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Fife, Glasgow, Highland, Inverclyde. Job Type: Contract/Interim. My client offers world-class services enhancing the safety, integrity, reliability and performance assets in the oil & gas industry. They develop and deliver innovative solutions throughout the asset lifecycle from conceptual design to asset decommissioning by providing a challenging, diverse and rewarding environment for their employees.
Salary: £30k - £40k pa + Bonus & Benefits. Location: Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll & Bute, Clackmanshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Dundee, East Ayrshire, East Dumbarton, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Fife, Glasgow, Highland, Inverclyde. Job Type: Permanent. Salesforce.com Developer, £30-40k + Bonus & Benefits, Scotland My client is well known in the market for the development and endorsement of their employees on the Salesforce.com platform. If you have at least 12 months Salesforce.com Developer experience and are familiar with working with Apex and Visualforce then my client will have a strong interest in speaking to you.
Salary: £30k - £45k pa. Location: East Dumbarton, East Renfrewshire, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Fife, Glasgow, Inverclyde, Midlothian, North Ayrshire, Renfreshire, Stirling, West Dumbarton, West Lothian, Scotland. Job Type: Permanent. Java Developer Central Belt Permanent - £30,000 - £45,000 Java Developer with several years of commercial experience and demonstrable skills in the Java Enterprise edition, Subversion, Eclipse and Hibernate. If you are tired of applying or working for large multi-national banks.
Salary: £30.00 - £40.00 p hour. Location: East Dumbarton, East Renfrewshire, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Fife, Glasgow, Inverclyde, Midlothian, North Ayrshire, Renfreshire, Stirling, West Dumbarton, West Lothian, Scotland. Job Type: Temporary/Seasonal. A chemical company are looking to recruit a Project Manager on a contract basis within the Design & Projects Group. The group manages both capital projects and larger maintenance type activities e.g. vessel replacements, whilst also providing design services. The successful candidate will be expected to manage a number of projects ranging from small sustenance type activities.
Salary: £30000 to £35000. Location: Scotland, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Paisley, East Kilbride, Livingston, Cumbernauld, Hamilton, Fife. Job Type: Permanent. Regional Sales Manager Working on behalf of a Card Processing Systems provider of merchant services to SME retailers. The Role: To build and manage a sales team of 5 in Scotland and 2 in Northern Ireland and then to manage the team to targets. The team will be selling merchant services to SME businesses, usually retailers/restaurants and forecourts.
Russian-speaking jobs
OfficeTeam is actively recruiting for a Business Development Manager with sound experience selling IT solutions and software. You will need to be fluent in Russian for this exciting London based role within Financial Services. OfficeTeam can offer the experienced candidate £30,000 to 33,000 + £10k-£15k commission and excellent benefits.
Based in Docklands, this global financial services organisation is seeking an experienced individual to provide the highest levels of client care to its Russian speaking clients. You are seen as being a key part of the sales and relationship management team, working to promote client retention /satisfaction and sales growth within the organisation. This will be done visiting the clients, conducting training sessions to promote product use, providing a central point of contact for client queries and generally ensuring that all client interactions are productive and efficient.
Our Client is a leader in the rapidly expanding field of online currency trading. FX Sales Executives will have the opportunity to build advanced sales skills in the FX Market as part of the Sales Team. FX Sales Executives must follow world financial markets while interacting in real-time with current and prospective clients. Key Responsibilites & Duties: drive sales for Retail products and services; building and maintaining relationships with clients; develop new opportunities within existing client base; use an intelligent soft sales approach to communicate the benefits the trading platform, and the FX market to prospective clients; discussing financial markets and major factors that move them; providing support for self-trading FX clients from all over the world.
We are looking for an experienced Hotel Contractor to join this leading tour operator within their Hotel Contracting team, based in central London. This Globally recognised company have an unrivalled reputation in the Industry and offer a professional and fun working environment. Successful candidates must have experience of Hotel Contracting and speak Russian. Hotel Contracting - Russian Speaker Duties: contracting hotels in Russia; negotiating rates and allocations with suppliers; travelling to meet with suppliers directly.
Russian Customer Services Specialist Travel Peterborough £17,300 £15000 + (£2,300 Shift Allowance) Do you Speak Russian and English to Mother Tongue Standard? Do you Have Travel and Tourism Education and Experience in working within Travel? Do you have excellent customer service skills? Then we want to hear from you!!!
Localization Editor, Russian Team : Quality Assurance Blizzard Entertainment is seeking an enthusiastic, organized, and highly motivated localization editor to create, maintain, and ensure the application of localization style guides in Russian. This person will be in charge of proofreading and editing translated assets. The ideal candidate is an experienced individual with professional writing or editing background. Excellent language skills in Russian are required for this position.
Please also note that RCS Haven is always looking for volunteers and qualified staff to work at the centre. If interested, please email your CV to [email protected]
Regular Events in Scotland:
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 have been resumed 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.
Russian Centre Haven, 11 Duke Street, Glasgow, G4 0UL
Тел. 0141 5522144 More..
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 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
Events in Glasgow:
Thursday 3 November 2011, 17.30 GHRN & European Parliament Office in Scotland: Sakharov Prize 2011 Panel Discussion
The European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought is awarded annually to honour exceptional individuals who combat intolerance, fanaticism and oppression. Like Andrei Sakharov himself, all the winners of the prize have shown how much courage it takes to defend human rights and freedom of expression.
The European Parliament Office in Scotland and the Glasgow Human Rights Network host this event at which students will mirror the process by which MEPs choose the winner of the Sakharov Prize. Students will present and argue the case for each nominee to receive the prize. Presentations will be followed by a discussion and vote among those present to determine the shortlist. After a further discussion, a vote will be taken to choose a winner - and we will see if the choice in Glasgow is the same as the choice made in Brussels!
University of Glasgow, Wolfson Medical School Building, Seminar Room 2 (Hugh Fraser)
Location C8 on Campus map: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_1887_en.pdf
Location C8 on Campus map: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_1887_en.pdf
Event is free of charge. The event will conclude with a reception in the Wolfson Atrium. To register please email [email protected]
Saturday 12 November 12 noon Meeting with a family psychologist at Adelphi centre
A meeting with a PhD Valentina Shatalina, will take place at the Adelphi centre on the 12th of November. She will be in Glasgow for one day only for the conference held by Caledonian University. Valentina specializes in the field of family development.
AdelphiCentre, 12 Commercial Road, Glasgow, G5 0PQ
Ñ 12-00 до 14-00
One of Scotland’s leading amateur orchestras, the Glasgow Sinfonia, returns to the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and invites you to join it for its 25th Anniversary Concert.
Russian Festival celebrates the excitement of Russian music with works by Borodin, Rachmaninov and Prokofiev. The orchestra is joined by piano soloist Lauryna Sableviviute and is under the tutelage of conductor Gerard Doherty.Tickets: £10 (£8; Under 16s £6)
Sunday 20 November: Moscow nights. Master of violin, Lev Atlas, starts the winter season with some all time Russian favourites from Sviridov's Romance to Monti's Chardash.
Thursday 24th November 7.30pm: BBC SSO Thursday Night Series Russian Classics and Prokofiev Piano Concerto 1
Young Russian piano virtuoso Denis Kozhukhin embarks on the second stage of his Prokofiev journey with the youthful, barnstorming Piano Concerto No.1.
Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room
Writer and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Stephen Johnson talks about the impact that Stravinsky’s Petrushka had on the musical world of 1911.
Post-Concert Coda (approximately 10 minutes after the main concert):
Denis Kozhukhin performs Schoenberg’s Six Little Piano Pieces, Op.19 of 1911. Tickets: £23, £19, £16, £10
Events in Edinburgh:
11am, Scotland-Russia Institute, 9 South College St, Edinburgh EH8 9AA
Tel. 0131 668 3635. 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.
Tel. 0131 668 3635. 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.
Theatre in the western world today owes everything to the two giants of the Russian revolutionary period - Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vsevolod Meyerhold. First working together at the Moscow Art Theatre, they forged a complex relationship which contained as much mutual affection and admiration as it did professional jealousy and personal bile. Their careers took them far apart, artistically and politically, but brought them together again at the last, when Stanislavsky was Stalin's darling and Meyerhold was subjected to torture and judicial assassination. This extraordinary story will be explored in detail in Robert Leach's talk. Robert Leach was Reader in Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham, and Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Edinburgh University. He is also a professional theatre director, who has worked in Moscow where he directed the previously-banned I Want a Baby by Sergei Tretyakov. He is the author of a number of books on the Russian theatre, including Stanislavsky and Meyerhold and Revolutionary Theatre, and he co-edited the Cambridge History of Russian Theatre. This talk accompanies our exhibition "Russian Theatre in Performance. Photographs by Ken Reynolds". 6.30pm, Conference Room, David Hume Tower, George Square. Donations £2 (SRF members), £5 (non-members), payable at the door. No charge for Edinburgh University students and staff.
5 November 2011 – 28 January 2012:Russian Theatre in Performance. Photographs by Ken Reynolds. Inspired by a performance of the Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg directed by Lev Dodin at the Tramway, Glasgow in 1992. Ken Reynolds has been continuously exploring Russian theatre ever since. From the beginning the desire was to capture the essence, atmosphere, vitality and originality of Russian theatre in performance or dress rehearsal.
Since the turn of the century he has had two major exhibitions in the Bakhrushkin State Theatre Museum in Moscow. The exhibition includes images from the major productions of Dodin, Fokin, Ginkas, Butusov, Kramer, Kozlov, AKHE and others taken in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Edinburgh, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Paris, Weimar, and New York.
Since the turn of the century he has had two major exhibitions in the Bakhrushkin State Theatre Museum in Moscow. The exhibition includes images from the major productions of Dodin, Fokin, Ginkas, Butusov, Kramer, Kozlov, AKHE and others taken in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Edinburgh, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Paris, Weimar, and New York.
Thursday 24 November 5:15 pm: A talk. Samantha Sherry (the University of Edinburgh)
Censorship and translation in the Soviet Union: Literary Translation from English to Russian. Conference Room. 14 Buccleuch Place.
The Rest of the UK:
Tuesday 1 November 2011 – 7.30pm: Lecture/Talk. Evgeny Baratynsky’s Poetry.A talk and readings by Peter France. Writing of his friend, contemporary and brother-poet, Pushkin remarked: ‘It is high time that Baratynsky finally got the place on the Russian Parnassus that has long belonged to him’. Tickets: £7, conc. £5.
Wednesday 2 November 2011 – 7.30pm: Lecture/Talk. He Who Works, Eats: Samara’s Factory Canteen and Other Masterpieces of Russian Provincial Constructivism. Samara-born architect, Vitaly Stadnikov, looks at Constructivism in the Russian provinces and the fate of some of the more important buildings today, including Samara’s Factory Canteen, which has a ground plan in the form of a hammer and sickle and has been under threat of demolition for almost two decades. Tickets: £7 per lecture; £25 for the whole lecture series, conc. £5 per lecture; £17 for the whole lecture series.
Thursday 3 November 2011 – 4.00pm: Exhibition. Whisper of the Stars.Exhibition open to the public from Thursday 3 November until Friday 11 November 2011, Monday to Friday 4.00pm – 7.00pm. Forty years ago this year, a young British photographer, Bryan Alexander, used a Royal Society of Arts travel bursary to visit North West Greenland where he lived in an Inuit community for four months. For Alexander this was the beginning of a lifetime documenting the Arctic and its people and the start of Arcticphoto. Admission free.
Wednesday 9 November 2011 – 7.00pm: Presentation. Igor Savitsky—Artist, Collector, Museum Founder By Marinika Babanazarova, Director of the Nukus Museum. The Nukus Museum is one of the unsung jewels of Russian cultural history. Its vast collection of Russian 20th Century art is second only to that at the Russian Museum. Marinika Babanazarova, Director, presents her biography of the Nukus Museum’s founder Igor Savitsky. Admission free.
Wednesday 9 November 2011 – 7.30pm: Lecture/Talk. Painting St.Petersburg. The Birth of a National School of Art by Dr. Rosalind Blakesley, Senior Lecturer in History of Art and Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. Tickets: £7, conc. £5.
Thursday 10 November 2011 – 7.30pm: Lecture/Talk. Building the Revolution: Destroying the Past.Using archival photographs and witness reports, campaigner and writer Clementine Cecil looks at the historic buildings that were destroyed by war or the bulldozer to make way for the Soviet Avant-Garde’s ‘architecture of the future’. Tickets: £7 per lecture; £25 for the whole lecture series, conc. £5 per lecture; £17 for the whole lecture series.
Wednesday 16 November 2011 – 7.15pm: Lecture-Screening. The Youth of Peter the Great.Introduction by Ludmila Gromova and Vitaly Yerenkov. The first of the two films dedicated to Peter the Great, based on the eponymous novel of Alexei Tolstoy. Young Peter has to demonstrate his ability to survive and fight multiple enemies, from some of the powerful Boyars to mutineers to his own sister Sofia. Tickets: £7, conc. £5.
Friday 18 November 2011 – 7.30pm: Performance. An Evening with Arkady Arkanov “Шут Ñ Ð’Ð°Ð¼Ð¸”.Arkady Arkanov comes to Pushkin House to talk about life, love, work and to answer your questions. Organised by Red Square PR. Tickets: £30.
Tuesday 22 November 2011 – 7.30pm: Lecture/Talk. The Men Who Fell to Earth: How Russia's Pilots, Parachutists and Pioneers Won the Space Race by Simon Ings and Doug Millard. In the 1950s and 1960s Sergei Korolev and the Soviet space programme laid a path to the stars. Simon Ings is joined by Doug Millard, Senior Curator of ICT & Space Technology at London’s Science Museum, to trace Russia’s centuries-old obsession with flight. Tickets: £7, conc. £5.
Friday 25 November 2011 – 08.00am: RBCC-CEELBAS Seminar: International Courts and Russian Commercial Disputes: the Russian Perspective
The keynote speaker at the seminar will be Professor Valery Musin, who teaches Commercial Law at St. Petersburg State University where he taught both Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev and sits on the Board of Directors of Gazprom. Professor Alena Ledeneva (SSEES Professor of Politics and Society and CEELBAS Co-Director) will also speak and the session will be moderated by Stephen Dalziel (RBCC Executive Director).
This seminar will take place at UCL's School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
Charge for participation:For RBCC members: £25+VAT; For non-members: £35+VAT
Friday 25 November 2011 – 12.30pm: Parliamentary Lunch
RBCC London will hold our bi-annual Parliamentary Lunch in the House of Lords on Friday 25th November 2011.
This event will see top-level RBCC members and partners gather to network, dine and discuss Russo-British business. They will enjoy a three-course meal followed by coffee and truffles in the grand surroundings of the House of Lords' Attlee Room.
We will be hosted by Baroness Cox of Queensbury, with a special guest speaker to be confirmed. Previous speakers at this event have included Neil Buckley of the Financial Times and Ronald Freeman, Board Member at Severstal and Volga-Gas.
This highly prestigious event is sure to be popular and is strictly limited, so please book your place early.
Participation Fee:For RBCC Members: 200 GBP+VAT; For non-Members: 250 GBP+VAT
Sunday 27 November 2011 – 11.00am:Christmas Stars. Russian Festive Fair. Chance for Life.
Charity Foundation Chance for Life invites you to the first Russian Festive Fair “Christmas Stars” at Pushkin House. 11am – 5 pm. Admission free.
Charity Foundation Chance for Life invites you to the first Russian Festive Fair “Christmas Stars” at Pushkin House. 11am – 5 pm. Admission free.
Tuesday 29 November 2011 – 7.30pm: Performance. Traditional Russian Songs
Polina Prouskova, ethnomusicologist and a performer of Russian traditional songs, introduces the audience to Russian traditional music and guides it through various genres and local traditions. Tickets: £7, conc. £5.
Polina Prouskova, ethnomusicologist and a performer of Russian traditional songs, introduces the audience to Russian traditional music and guides it through various genres and local traditions. Tickets: £7, conc. £5.
Thank you for reading this bulletin; we hope you have found it interesting, useful and enjoyable. If you have any news or events that you would like us to highlight in future editions, please contact us at the address below.
- 0141 552 2144
Events listings compiled by: Elena Moore
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