Russian Dancing - Zolotie Kupola (Golden Domes)
Enjoy melodic Russian folklore music and picturesque costumes resembling Russian onion-shaped domes of the orthodox church.
Ecclesiastic School Choir (SEM) Mount Lebanon - Moukhalles Orthodox church - Dec. 17, 2011
Ecclesiastic School Choir (SEM) Mount Lebanon - Moukhalles Orthodox church - Dec. 17, 2011
Tourism in Russia - Best Tourist Attractions
Tourism in Russia - Best Tourist Attractions
Russia is a sovereign country in Eurasia. At 17,125,200 square kilometres (6,612,100 sq mi), Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with over 144 million people at the end of December 2017 (excluding Crimea). About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world; other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod.
Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait.
The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century. In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus' ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states. The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities, achieved independence from the Golden Horde. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on the east.
Following the Russian Revolution, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became the largest and leading constituent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world's first constitutionally socialist state. The Soviet Union played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War II, and emerged as a recognized superpower and rival to the United States during the Cold War. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the world's first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the world's second largest economy, largest standing military in the world and the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, twelve independent republics emerged from the USSR: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Baltic states regained independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; the Russian SFSR reconstituted itself as the Russian Federation and is recognized as the continuing legal personality and a successor of the Soviet Union. It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic.
The Russian economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015. Russia's extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world, making it one of the leading producers of oil and natural gas globally. The country is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Russia is a great power as well as a regional power and has been characterised as a potential superpower. It is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, as well as a member of the G20, the Council of Europe, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and the World Trade Organization (WTO), as well as being the leading member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and one of the five members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), along with Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
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Lecture at the state Pedagogical University of Vanadzor
Clergymen from the Gugarq Diocese often visit the Hovhannes Tumanyan State Pedagogical University in Vanadzor, and they organize lectures and conferences on various topics. The last discussion was on sex selective abortions.
Դասախոսություն Վանաձորի պետական համալսարանում
Գուգարաց թեմի հոգևորականները հաճախ այցելում են Վանաձորի Հովհ. Թումանյանի անվան պետական մանկավարժական համալսարան, կազմակերպում դասախոսություններ և գիտաժողովներ տարբեր թեմաներով: Վերջին քննարկումը վերաբերում էր սեռով պայմանավորված հղիության արհեստական ընդհատման թեմային:
Russian Orthodox Church, SF, CA
Russian Orthodox Church at Geary and 26th in San Francisco, California.
Recorded on December 28, 2008 using a Flip Video camcorder.
Allied Expeditionary Forces in Siberia, 1918-1919
Creator(s): Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (09/18/1947 - 02/28/1964) (Most Recent)
Series : Historical Films, compiled ca. 1914 - ca. 1936
Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985
Production Date: 1936
Other Title(s): Historical Film, No. 1161
Use Restriction(s): Undetermined
Sound Type: Silent
Scope & Content: Reel 1 has panoramic views of Vladivostok. Ger. POW's unload the transport Sherman, refugees congregate in the railway station, U.S. troops stand inspection, 31st Inf. officers pose, and Japanese troops guard the station. Shows trucks and autos. Reel 2, U.S. troops march and stand inspection, machine guns are readied and fired, an airplane flies overhead, Col. Robinson and aides pose in Spasskoe, medics pose at a Khabarovsk hospital, and Japanese troops load war materiel on flatcars in Khabarovsk. Shows railway supplies in Ogalnia, Col. Styer, the Amur and Ussuri Rivers, and a Japanese depot. Reel 3 shows dock facilities at Red River Station on the Ussuri; U.S. and allied troops; civilians; sentries guarding a bridge over the Amur; a funeral procession; Styer posing with Japanese Gen. Oi; Ger. POW's exercising at Red River Station; Cols. Murrow and Robinson on a train; a U.S. guard mount; and Russ. troops. Reel 4, Japanese troops guard a U.S. train, crew members pose, Japanese Gen. Kayizuka visits Styer, Ataman Kalmikoff's Cossacks drill, U.S. troops put on a rodeo, Cossacks pose, and Morrow poses in his quarters. Reel 5, officers pose aboard the Brit. cruiser Suffolk, sailors row to the cruiser Brooklyn, Brit. Gen. Knox poses with aides, Brit. troops march thru Vladivostok, and Graves poses with aides Eichelberger and Offutt. Shows hospital cars on a siding. Reel 6 shows ships in Vladivostok, Japanese crewmen, docks, and Russ. army maneuvers. The transport Warren cuts a path thru ice and workmen board a tug. Reel 7, Czech's guard and feed Bolshevik's on a train in Pogranichnaya, Manchuria. Shows an A.R.C. train near Nekolsk, Siberia, trucks on railway cars, wrecked cars in Harbi Manchuria, the Buchadeu hospital, and a train near Lake Baikal. Refugees walk along the Siberian railroad, Japanese and Chinese troops stand inspection, Russ. and Chinese troops guard the Harbin station, Japanese troops practicebayonet drills, and Czech's unload a train. Reel 8 shows officers in autos and Cossacks on horseback, small ships in a river, horse drawn sleds, a horse drawn supply train, Red Cross nurses and doctors, men leaving a tug, Czech Gen. Stefannik, Gens. Gaida and Syrovy inspecting Czech troops, Serbian troops at the Ekaterinburg station, It. troops drilling in Krasnoyarsk, Russ. troops drilling, refugees huts, scenes of Omsk, and Fr. artillery. Russ. officers pose. Reel 9, Bolshevik POW's arrive at an Ekaterinburg prison, A.R.C. agents visit refugees' huts, Russ. troops march, refugees wash clothing thru holes in ice, officers pose, wounded troops detrain, A.R.C. supplies are unloaded, horse drawn sleds carry Russ. Army supplies, and Russ. soldiers guard a train. Shows scenes of Omsk, U.S. Consul Harris, wrecked towers and trains along the Siberian railroad, Red Cross Dr. Teusler and U.S. Consul Palmer at Ekaterinburg, a railway bridge, a Russ. cemetery, and Cossacks. Doctors examine patients in Tieumen hospital, men play chess and exhibit frostbitten feet, and nurses pose. Reel 10, Czech Gens Stefannik, Gaida, and Syrovy review and decorate Russ. troops in Ekaterinburg. Troops assemble for movement to the front. Shows int. and ext. views of the house where the Romanov's were executed, masses of Russ. refugees, Lake Baikal from a moving train, and services at an Orthodox Church. Includes scenes of Ekaterinburg and close-ups of Czech officers. Reel 11, sailors are inspected and officers pose aboard the Chinese battleship Hai Yung, Can. troops board the Empress of Asia, officers walk thru a Can. cemetery, Czech cavalry demonstrates riding skills, allied troops engage in a tug-of-war as numerous allied Gens. look on, and allied MP's pose. Shows panoramic views of Vladivostok, boats beached on a river bank, horse drawn vehicles, a tug covered with troops, disabled Can. soldiers, and the decoration of Can. officers. U.S.,Brit., Can., Fr., It., Japanese, Russ., Czech, Serbian, and Chinese troops pose. Japanese sailors wave flags and cheer on comrades in a tug-
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Deliverance through Devotion
Deliverance Through Devotion: The Triumph of Orthodox Music Over Oppression,
an evening of music and lectures at St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral, 630 Second Avenue,
New York, NY. The Canticum Novum under the direction of Harold Rosenbaum will
perform works by Andriasov, Pärt, Murov, Popovici and Schnittke. The evening honors
the work of artists from five different ethnic backgrounds, Armenian, Estonian, Russian,
Romanian, and Jewish, whose works were banned or controversial due to their connection
with or influence from the Orthodox Church. For more info:
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Religion in Russia
Religion in Russia is diverse, with a 1997 law naming Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism as important in Russian history. Orthodox Christianity (Russian: Православие Pravoslaviye) is Russia's traditional and largest religion, deemed a part of Russia's historical heritage in a law passed in 1997. Russian Orthodoxy is the dominant religion in Russia. About 95% of the registered Orthodox parishes belong to the Russian Orthodox Church while there are a number of smaller Orthodox Churches. However, the vast majority of Orthodox believers do not attend church on a regular basis.
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Armenia bicycle trip - day1
Creative Intervention presents the Bulgarian choir BulCanto - Prituri se planinata
Our team had the pleasure of filming an incredible Bulgarian concert in Berlin. In this video we present you a small part of it.
Chelyabinsk Oblast
Chelyabinsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia in the Ural Mountains region, on the border of Europe and Asia. Its administrative center is the city of Chelyabinsk. Population: 3,476,217.
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Learn Russian: Why Do Russians Celebrate Christmas On Jan 7
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Germany - The Hindu Temple in Hamm | European Journal
The town of Hamm is home to Europe's largest Hindu temple. Tens of thousands of worshippers come here for important religious celebrations close to a busy highway.The temple, which is also popular with worshippers from Belgium and the Netherlands, was founded by Tamil refugees when they came to Germany in the 1980's.
Tyumen
Tyumen is the largest city and the administrative center of Tyumen Oblast, Russia, located on the Tura River 2,500 kilometers east of Moscow.
Tyumen was the first Russian settlement in Siberia. Founded in 1586 to support Russia's eastward expansion, the city has remained one of the most important industrial and economic centers east of the Ural Mountains. Located at the junction of several important trade routes and with easy access to navigable waterways, Tyumen rapidly developed from a small military settlement to a large commercial and industrial city. The central part of Old Tyumen retains many historic buildings from throughout the city's history.
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Slavic Native Faith | Wikipedia audio article
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Slavic Native Faith
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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The Slavic Native Faith, also known as Rodnovery, is a modern Pagan religion. Classified as a new religious movement, its practitioners harken back to the historical belief systems of the Slavic peoples of Central and Eastern Europe. Rodnovery is a widely accepted self-descriptor within the community, although there are Rodnover organisations which further characterise the religion as Orthodoxy, Old Belief and Vedism.
Rodnovers typically regard their religion as a faithful continuation of ancient beliefs that survived as folk religion or as conscious double belief following the Christianisation of the Slavs in the Middle Ages. Rodnovery draws upon surviving historical and archaeological sources, folk religion and even non-Slavic sources such as Hinduism. Rodnover theology and cosmology may be described as pantheism and polytheism—worship of the supreme God of the universe and of the multiple gods, ancestors and spirits of nature identified through Slavic culture. Adherents usually meet together in groups to conduct religious ceremonies. These typically entail the invocation of gods, sacrifices and the pouring of libations, dances and a communal meal.
Rodnover ethical thinking emphasises the good of the collective over the rights of the individual. The religion is patriarchal, and attitudes towards sex and gender are generally conservative. Rodnovery has developed distinctive strains of political and identitary philosophy. Rodnover organisations often characterise themselves as ethnic religions, emphasising that the religion is bound to Slavic ethnicity. This often manifests as ethnic nationalism, opposition to miscegenation and the belief in the fundamental difference of racial groups. Rodnovers often glorify Slavic history, criticising the impact of Christianity in Slavic countries and arguing that these nations will play a central place in the world's future. Rodnovers share a strong feeling that their religion represents a paradigmatic shift which will overcome Western thought and what they call mono-ideologies.
The contemporary organised Rodnovery movement arose from a multiplicity of sources and charismatic leaders just at the brink of the collapse of the Soviet Union and spread rapidly by the mid-1990s and the 2000s. Antecedents are to be found in late 18th- and 19th-century Slavic Romanticism, which glorified the pre-Christian beliefs of Slavic societies. Active religious practitioners devoted to establishing Slavic Native Faith appeared in Poland and Ukraine in the 1930s and 1940s. Following the Second World War and the establishment of communist states throughout the Eastern Bloc, new variants were established by Slavic emigrants living in Western countries, being later introduced in Central and Eastern European countries after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In recent times, the movement has been increasingly studied in academic scholarship.
Slavic Native Faith | Wikipedia audio article
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Slavic Native Faith
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
The Slavic Native Faith, also known as Rodnovery, is a modern Pagan religion. Classified as a new religious movement, its practitioners harken back to the historical belief systems of the Slavic peoples of Central and Eastern Europe. Rodnovery is a widely accepted self-descriptor within the community, although there are Rodnover organisations which further characterise the religion as Orthodoxy, Old Belief and Vedism.
Rodnovers typically regard their religion as a faithful continuation of ancient beliefs that survived as folk religion or as conscious double belief following the Christianisation of the Slavs in the Middle Ages. Rodnovery draws upon surviving historical and archaeological sources, folk religion and even non-Slavic sources such as Hinduism. Rodnover theology and cosmology may be described as pantheism and polytheism—worship of the supreme God of the universe and of the multiple gods, ancestors and spirits of nature identified through Slavic culture. Adherents usually meet together in groups to conduct religious ceremonies. These typically entail the invocation of gods, sacrifices and the pouring of libations, dances and a communal meal.
Rodnover ethical thinking emphasises the good of the collective over the rights of the individual. The religion is patriarchal, and attitudes towards sex and gender are generally conservative. Rodnovery has developed distinctive strains of political and identitary philosophy. Rodnover organisations often characterise themselves as ethnic religions, emphasising that the religion is bound to Slavic ethnicity. This often manifests as ethnic nationalism, opposition to miscegenation and the belief in the fundamental difference of racial groups. Rodnovers often glorify Slavic history, criticising the impact of Christianity in Slavic countries and arguing that these nations will play a central place in the world's future. Rodnovers share a strong feeling that their religion represents a paradigmatic shift which will overcome Western thought and what they call mono-ideologies.
The contemporary organised Rodnovery movement arose from a multiplicity of sources and charismatic leaders just at the brink of the collapse of the Soviet Union and spread rapidly by the mid-1990s and the 2000s. Antecedents are to be found in late 18th- and 19th-century Slavic Romanticism, which glorified the pre-Christian beliefs of Slavic societies. Active religious practitioners devoted to establishing Slavic Native Faith appeared in Poland and Ukraine in the 1930s and 1940s. Following the Second World War and the establishment of communist states throughout the Eastern Bloc, new variants were established by Slavic emigrants living in Western countries, being later introduced in Central and Eastern European countries after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In recent times, the movement has been increasingly studied in academic scholarship.
Demographics of Russia
The demographics of Russia is about the demographic features of the population of the Russian Federation, including population growth, population density, ethnic composition, education level, health, economic status and other aspects.
According to an official estimate for 1 June 2014, the population of Russia is 143,800,000. With the May 2014 annexation of Crimea, the population of Russia has increased to over 146 million. New citizenship rules allowing Russian citizenship to post Soviet peoples has gained strong interest with Uzbeks. The population could return to levels seen just before the breakup of the Soviet Union as well as resolve problems of statelessness.
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Novosibirsk Oblast
Novosibirsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia located in southwestern Siberia. Its administrative and economic center is the city of Novosibirsk. The population was 2,665,911 as of the 2010 Census.
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News conference of Vladimir Putin 2012 (English Subtitles)
December 20, 2012,
News conference of Vladimir Putin
Пресс-конференция Владимира Путина