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 September, as well as the latest Russian-related news stories and job vacancies.
Renovated RCS Haven Duke Street centre is opening its doors for everyone interested in Russian Language, Literature and Culture. We are going to run our language and cultural classes and other services for members, such as our book/DVD lending library. We still offer specialist translation/legal/financial advice and Russian news and events listings throughout the summer via this newsletter, our website www.rcshaven.org.uk, and our Facebook and Twitter pages.
We look forward to seeing you in our centre!
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All the staff and volunteers at RCS Haven
Contents:
Jobs in Scotland
Russian-speaking jobs
News
September Events Calendar
Regular events in Scotland
Events in Glasgow
Events in Edinburgh
Events in the rest of Scotland
Events in the rest of the UK
Jobs in Scotland
Job Title: MS Dynamics NAV Senior Application Consultant. Salary: c£30-35,000 + Excellent Benefits. Key skills: MS Dynamics NAV, SQL server, client facing, C/SIDE, C/AL, Navision. An exciting Dynamics NAV company, with an admirable client base, is looking for an experienced Support Analyst to join their rapidly expanding team and help take the company to the next level. The company is well positioned for growth, looking to double their client base over the next year.
My client, a leading software house, is now looking to recruit an operations engineer to be based at one of their sites in Scotland. This is a completely new role within the organisation and is an unrivalled opportunity to make a genuine impact on a forward-thinking global market-leader.
£20K - £22.5K + £5K Overtime + Car or Van + Package + Full Product Training. The Company - Field Service Engineer (Weighing Systems). My client is a leading manufacturer of innovative weighing systems, trusted by their customers to provide 'best in class' weighing solutions. They have a strong market presence, a varied portfolio of systems and an superb reputation for providing excellent customer service.
Position: Project Manager. Location: Mid Lothian. Salary: £35,000 - £45,000. The UK arm of a world leader is looking for a Project Manager to join its expanding team in Mid Lothian, to develop and produce Company and Supplier Test Equipment for use in Stock Orders, meeting cost, programme and quality requirements.
Russian-speaking jobs
Salary: Circa £35k p.a pro rata. Location: Heathrow. Job Type: Contract/Interim. We are currently seeking a dedicated Client Manager to support our client's global marketing team. Our client is a major global player in technology solutions within the networking and communications sector offering leading edge, emerging technologies and solutions to enterprises and SMB's worldwide.
Salary: £18k - £23k pa + bonus. Location: Central London. Job Type: Permanent.
This is an office based role, with responsibility for growing and maintaining long-term relationships with the customer. Becoming the face of the brand, creating a positive impression and maintaining the customer relationship are key to this role.
Salary: Upto UKP 23000 per year. Location: Huntingdon. Job Type: Permanent. You will have the following:- Excellent communication and delegation skills Excellent organisation skills and ability to follow up on all actions Excellent people skills Bilingual Desirable Russian language Qualifications/Training NVQ3 or above in business administration Attended a course related to people skills ie psychology, counselling etc Desirable Educated at degree level, in either Business Management and or Psychology.
Salary: £15578.0 pa. Job Type: Permanent. Location: Liverpool. Our client is a major electronics firm and is looking to recruit fluent speakers of Russian to join their team on a permanent basis in Liverpool. The ideal candidate will be fluent in Russian and will have excellent grammar skills. Providing our client with translations will be the main aspect of the position and you will also be required to do QA testing on the clients equipment so strong IT skills would be beneficial.
FX Sales Brokers - Russian Speaker. FX Sales Brokers will have the opportunity to build advanced sales skills in the FX Market as part of the Client Sales Team. FX Sales Brokers must follow world financial markets while interacting in real-time with current and prospective clients.
News
It is sometimes thought that the civil war in Russia in 1918-20 was a straight fight between the Red Army and the monarchist White Army. However, some people decided not to fight in battlefields but through their poetry. They were bohemian artists for whom the revolution was principally a chance for wild self-expression, who congregated at the Poets' Café in Moscow. One of them was Nikolai Gumilev.
Eating high levels of chocolate could reduce the risk of coronary heart disease and stroke, according to a review of previous research. The analysis, conducted by scientists at the University of Cambridge, compared the risk to the brain and heart in groups of people who reported eating low levels of chocolate, fewer than two bars per week, with those eating high levels - more than two bars per week.
A new study deals a blow to the idea that most European men are descended from farmers who migrated from the Near East 5,000-10,000 years ago.
The author of the novels about Jeeves and Wooster, PG Wodehouse was worried about how much the Nazis would pay him for his radio broadcasts from wartime Germany, MI5 files have shown.
Nearly a quarter of the words added to the new edition of the Chambers Dictionary come from internet culture.
September Events Calendar
Tuesday 6th of September from 12pm to 2 pm – Finding Our Feet Project event. West of Scotland Regional Equality Council at 39 Napiershall Street Glasgow G20 6EZ. More information: [email protected] (Russian and English) or [email protected] (English).
FINDING OUR FEET: International Women Growing Together in the West of Scotland.
Finding Our Feet is a new project supporting Third Country National (TCN) women living in the West of Scotland. The aim of the project to make positive changes to international women by supporting their integration, settlement and participation in local communities. The Project is run by West of Scotland Regional Equality Council and supported by the European Integration Fund for Third Country Nationals as well as by The Scottish Government. Finding Our Feet is funded to work with women who have come to settle in the UK within the last 10 years, from outwith the European Economic Area, and who have not arrived as asylum seekers or Refugees.
We will be running a programme of activities and events to support women to work together to increase their knowledge, skills, confidence and opportunities.
We offer:
- A Welcome pack of information on services including health, education, employment and participation opportunities.
- Information and assistance in converting non UK Qualifications.
- Life Skills Training Courses.
- Volunteering Opportunities.
- Information on and opportunities to be more involved in local civic activities.
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.
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:
Set in France in the late 1930's this is the extraordinary true story of Russian Maria Skobtsova who fled to Paris after the revolution and devoted her life to the poor. Known as “Mother Maria” later on, she was canonized a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Tron Theatre at 63 Trongate, Glasgow, G1 5HB. Tickets from Tron box office - 0141 552 4267 or online bookings: http://www.tron.co.uk/event/new_works-90/.
Events in Edinburgh:
September 1st, 2nd and 3rd: Exhibition, “My Never-Ending Friend: The Art of Alexander Voitsekhovsky”.
Alexander Voitsekhovsky is an outstanding Russian graphic painter. While working as a doctor with the emergency services Alexander was constantly drawing for pleasure until his friends persuaded him to exhibit the drawings. After the successful exhibition in 1994 he left his medical career in favour of the hobby and became one of the prominent Russian artists. His art is focused on the universal constants of human nature. Alexander Voitsekhovsky’s style is modest and unpretentious. The artist became widely known for his unique drawing style which allows him to enrich the texture of his drawings and enhance the inner truthfulness of his works. The exhibition is held at the Scotland-Russia Institute, 9 South College St, Edinburgh EH8 9AA. Opening hours 11-4 Tuesday to Friday, 1.30-4 Saturday. Free entry.
Wednesday 17th of September – Friday 28th of October: Exhibition, “Poyekhali! Yuri Gagarin and the Dawn of Space Exploration”.
Yuri Gagarin was a pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human being to journey in outer space. After his famous ‘Poekhali!’ (‘Here we go!’), his Vostok spacecraft left the planet and completed the orbit of the Earth on the 12th of April 1961. Three months after the Vostok 1 mission Gagarin visited the UK. Drawing on the archives of RIA Novosti, Russia's leading news agency, the exhibition tells the whole story of the most famous man in the world including Gagarin's early life, his historic flight and the fame that followed him until his untimely death in 1968. The exhibition is held at the Scotland-Russia Institute, 9 South College St, Edinburgh EH8 9AA. Opening hours 11-4 Tuesday to Friday, 1.30-4 Saturday. Free entry.
Friday 16th of September: the exhibition will be opened by a representation of Novosti.
Friday 16th of September - Friday, 28th of October (on demand): showings of documentary film maker Chris Riley's innovative film "First Orbit" which captures the sights and sounds of Gagarin’s flight as he would have experienced them.
Friday 16th of September – Friday 28th of October: Exhibition, “Kozmos”.
Friday 16th of September – Friday the 28th of October (by appointment): Schools are invited to bring groups of pupils to the exhibition and to arrange a taster Russian class at the same time. Contact info@scotlandrussiaforum or tel. 0131 668 3635 for more information.
Thurday 29th and Friday 30th of September: "Come, Russia, proud wings plying!..(The Past, the Present and the Future of Russian Space)" A travelling exhibition from the Edinburgh University Dashkova Centre at the Playfair Library Hall, Old College, University of Edinburgh, South Bridge, Edinburgh, EH8 9YL. More information: [email protected]
Thursday 1st – Saturday 3rd of at 6 p.m.:Mariinsky Opera conducted by Valery Gergiev. “Die Frau ohne Schatten” (“The Woman without a Shadow”) by Richard Strauss, Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Sung in German with English supertitles.
The Rest of Scotland:
Saturday 3rd of September at 10.00 a.m. Nairn Community Centre - Talent Show as part of the Nairn Book and Arts Festival. If you can play Russian music, sing a Russian song or perform a Russian dance, please make contact as soon as possible for an application form. The charity will give free assistance with pronunciation of the Russian words in the chosen song. Native Russian speakers are not eligible for this part of the competition but they are more than welcome to take part in the show in the music category.
Saturday 10th of September: Day of Russian Culture from 12.00 to 3.00 p.m. Nairn Community Centre - Free Entry - funded by Russkiy Mir Foundation.
12.00 noon - 1.00 p.m. Russian language lessons. Display of books by Russian authors and on Scottish-Russian connections.
1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m. Russian dance lessons (come and try some Russian dance, musical instruments and costumes).
2.00 p.m. - 3.00 p.m. Art and Craft sessions.
The events are held in Nairn Community & Arts Centre. King Street Nairn IV12 4BQ. More info [email protected] and 01667 453476.
The Rest of the UK:
Thursday 1st of September from 19.30 to 22.00: Concert “White Illusions” by Karen Grigoryan. Renowned composer and producer Karen Grigoryan presents White Illusions, a concert consisting of 20 of his greatest experimental classical works performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra. This gala is an opportunity to gain an insight into the work of one of today’s foremost Armenian contemporary classical composers, performed by one of London’s premiere orchestras. Fee: £8 - £45. More info www.southbankcentre.co.uk and 0844 875 0073. Royal Festival Hall. Belvedere Road London SE1 8XX
Wednesday 21st of September from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.: Tchaikovsky Competition Winners' Concert at Barbican Hall. Silk Street London EC2Y 8DS. An all-Tchaikovsky gala programme featuring the winners from the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition held in July 2011, in the first major concert to be held outside Russia with the winners under the new direction of Valery Gergiev, performing the great concertos of Tchaikovsky. To obtain the 20% discount, quote Russian Offer when booking over the phone (Barbican Box Office on 020 7638 8891), or use discount code 18111 when booking online. Fee: £10-£35. Details: http://lso.co.uk/page/144/XIV-International-Tchaikovsky-Competition-Winners-Concert/223.
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 mention in future editions, please contact us at the addresses below.
- 11 Duke Street, Glasgow, G4 0UL
- 0141 552 2144
Events listings compiled by: Elena Moore
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