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SRF notices

  • What does the SRF do? Have a look at our interview with Summerhall TV January 2014.
  • SRF survey of members' views July 2014: results.
  • What do YOU think the SRF ought to be doing? Please let us know -  info@scotlandrussiaforum.org
  • English Language Assistants in Russia: contact Joe Wake if you are interested in teaching English in a Russian university joe@scotlandrussiaforum.org.  Details for 2020 applications are here.
  • Volunteers needed! We are a voluntary organisation, growing all the time, and that means more and more work for volunteers. Get in touch and we can outline all the interesting (maybe career enhancing?) volunteer opportunities: please  email info@scotlandrussiaforum.org 
  • MARCH/APRIL 2020
  • ***PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU CAN SEE ON THE SRF WEBSITE PAGE "TALKS AND CONFERENCES" THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION***:
  • 1. We are inviting all SRF members to send in details of any Russian-related items, books, films etc that are being helpful/useful during these unprecedented times we are in. Our love of Russia and Russian culture unites us in these days and we would like to create a "shared space" on the website so that all SRF members can access such information and share their own. We would love to hear from you and publish on the webpage any suggestions you have. Please send these to the e-mail address above. Thank you!
  • 2. Our new initiative "Cultural Conversations" , due to start in March 2020, sadly had to be postponed due to the pandemic. However, we do hope that this series will run, once the time is right...Our speakers have very kindly agreed to provide short introductions to their planned talks and on the same page as noted above you will find a short summary of the talk which was due to mark both the start of this new SRF series and the Edwin Morgan Anniversary Year- SRF member Professor Peter France's talk "Edwin Morgan and Russian Culture". Dr Shamil' Khairov has also provided a short introduction to his new book and this will be added in the same place before the end of April. The aim is to post these summaries every 2 or 3 weeks. 
  • The SRF Trustees hope that all SRF members and families are well in these difficult days we are experiencing and please do keep in touch with us! 
  • Many thanks and all good wishes.

other notices

Church of the Dormition, Kondopoga, burnt down 10 August 2018
Tass 10.8.2018.
This is a link to some photographs of the church taken before the fire by Edinburgh photographer and traveller Rufus Reade:
Picture
Hugh Brennan, passport photograph. Hunterian Museum GLAHM:C.1943.38
Hugh Brennan, first lecturer in Russian at Glasgow University
Research by Tanya Konn-Roberts includes an article in Slavonica June 2018 and images of artefacts donated by Brennan to the Hunterian Museum.   They can also be seen on the Hunterian Internet System.
There is a short biography on the Glasgow University website.
Recent issues of FSU News, the newsletter from the Country Coordinators team at Amnesty International UK for the Former Soviet Union.
April 2018, Feb. 2018
For more information and regular updates contact Barrie Hay (Regional Team Coordination and Russian Federation) Barrie.Hay@amnesty.org.uk.
Interpreters wanted
The interpreting agency Global Voices is looking for English<> Russian speakers for interpreting projects.  Interpreters work for the NHS, councils and police on a freelance basis.
Contact Marion Kanniah marion.kanniah@globalvoices.co.uk, tel +44 (0)845 130 1004 
Global Voices Ltd - The Language Solutions Company, Scion House, Innovation Park, Stirling FK9 4NF.
http://www.globalvoices.co.uk
The 'Scotland-Russia: Cultural Encounters Since 1900' Project Archive provides a new digital gateway to previously unavailable or dispersed cultural materials dealing with Scottish-Russian relations.  The Archive is divided into five sections: Arts, Literature, History & Politics, Resources and New Translations, and gathers together an extensive array of texts, images, websites, recordings and films.  Highlights include a series of specially commissioned translations of articles on Scotland from pre-revolutionary and Soviet-era periodicals; a photographic exhibition of Russian theatre in performance; portions of the BBC Radio Scotland documentary about the Scots in Russia; specially digitised books; and a wide selection of scholarly and primary texts dealing with Robert Burns, Arthur Conan Doyle and other Scottish writers in Russia.  We are actively looking for more materials to display, so please get in touch with Anna Vaninskaya (anna.vaninskaya@ed.ac.uk) with suggestions and contributions.
Cultural Fellowships in Russia:  The Likhachev Foundation (St. Petersburg, Russia) and the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center (Moscow, Russia), with support of the Committee on External Relations of Saint Petersburg organise an annual competition for 2-week cultural fellowships in Russia (St. Petersburg) in May. More info https://www.facebook.com/CulturalFellowshipsInRussia/.
The Erayim Aid Trust : teaching opportunities in the Kyrgyz Republic
Teachers’ Training in the Kyrgyz Republic.  The Erayim Aid Trust UK (Charity Commission 1163524) is looking for volunteers to help train teachers of the English language in the Kyrgyz Republic.  You would need to have some proficiency in Russian and a TESOL/TEFL qualification or significant experience.  Please write to claire.reeves5@btinternet.com.   Visit http://volunteersinkyrgyz.wix.com/volunteers and http://www.facebook.com/volunteersinkyrgyzstan for more information.
Teach English in the Kyrgyz Republic.  The Erayim Aid Trust UK (Charity Commission 1163524) is looking for volunteers to teach English to disadvantaged children and young people next summer You would be  living in Kyrgyz families and teaching in pairs. Self-financing. Please write to claire.reeves5@btinternet.com for a brochure and visit http://volunteersinkyrgyz.wix.com/volunteers and http://www.facebook.com/volunteersinkyrgyzstan.
Kyrgyz Republic: Free tuition in the Russian language in one of Bishkek’s universities in exchange for a readiness to take part in English language conversation classes with the Kyrgyz students. Practical and friendly support for accommodation in a Russian-speaking family for  a volunteer prepared to teach English in an after-school club for disadvantaged children.   Self-financing. Write to claire.reeves5@btinternet.com for further details. Start soon or in January 2017 for at least three months.
2013: Important report on the state of Slavonic and East European Studies in UK higher education. Author is Glasgow University's John Dunn. HEA April 2013. Download.
Interpreters. Global Connects recruit interpreters over a wide range of languages for locations throughout Scotland. You’ll ideally have the DPSI (Scottish legal option) and practical experience of interpreting within the Scottish Criminal Justice system. Please send your CV to recruitment@globalconnects.com.  If you apply please let Global Connects know that you heard about this from the SRF.
Grants for Ukrainian translations.  Open Ukraine supports projects connected with the translations of Ukrainian literature into other languages: http://www.openukraine.org/en/programs/dialogue/grants/
Russian Law website. Edinburgh based InterBusiness Consulting (www.ibcinfo.co.uk) have set up a website www.russianlawonline.com. Full of information on various aspects of the law, they plan to add a debate section.
The National Library of Scotland.  The NLS on George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, has quite extensive collections on the history and culture of Russia (in both English and Russian) which are available for consultation (though not for lending) to everyone. A brief introduction to the Library’s Slav. + E. Eur. Collections is at www.nls.uk/collections/foreign/slavonic.html and the Library’s catalogue can be browsed at www.nls.uk/catalogues.