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2. "CHAI AND CHAT" The date of the April meeting of "Chai and Chat" will be given here soon. It is likely to be held in Scott's Restaurant, Mercure Hotel, Princes Street, Edinburgh. All most welcome. Sincerest thanks are due to Elizabeth White who has has taken over the very successful running of this event. 3. DUMFRIES BOOK-LAUNCH! SRF member Dr Ann Shukman has kindly invited SRF members to attend the launch of her latest book Forty-four days in Prague: the Russian Mission and the Race to save Europe . This event will take place on Friday April 26th in "The Bridge", Glasgow Road, Dumfries, DG2 9AW at 7pm. All most welcome. 4. INTERNATIONAL RUSSIAN MEET UP GROUP. The next meeting of this Group will be held on Sunday MARCH 24th at 10am and then on Sunday April 28th. If you would like to find out more, please e-mail the organiser Graham Dane at: graham.dane@yahoo.com. Also you can check: International Russian Meetup Group (Edinburgh, United Kingdom) l Meetup Congratulations again to Graham for this exciting new venture! 5. "THE FORUM": The additional and very important article for "The Forum" by Dr Mario Relich has now been e-mailed to members. Articles and other materials by members for future issues are always most welcome - so please do send these in! 6. CALL FROM THE NORTH! As SRF members know from the monthly mailings, Rev Donald Prentice is keen to start SRF activities in the north!!! His contact details are given in every SRF monthly mailing. A CELTIC- ORTHODOX LITURGY (rescued from a Monastery in Belgium many years ago) will be held in Burghead Church of Scotland, High Street, Burghead, near Elgin, on Sunday 17 March at 12.30 for 1pm. A light lunch will be provided -people will bring food to share. All most welcome. Every 2 weeks a mainstream Orthodox Service is held in Inverness on a Saturday morning - with a chance for people to pray in Russian. SRF members will be sent further details of this in the next mailing. Rev Prentice also would love to start Russian groups up north - with culinary delicacies added in! He is also planning a Russian Summer School in the north so watch this space!!!! 7. DR JAN CULIK: Jan Culik is an internationally renowned scholar of East European film. Looking ahead to spring 2024, Jan Culik will be leading a special film event in the Quaker Rooms in Edinburgh. Watch this space for more details. 8. CONGRATULATIONS are once more due to SRF Trustee Sasha Smith on the publication of her latest book - Alexandra Smith and Olga Sobolev (eds) , Film Adaptations of Russian Classics: Dialogism and Authorship. ( Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press), 2023 and for her excellent presentation. 9. BOOK CORNER: Members who subscribe to Pushkin House will already know that the Pushkin House Book Prize this year was won by Owen Matthews for Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin's War Against Ukraine (Harper Collins). SRF Trustee Tom Hubbard also notes the following book by Scottish writer Jenny Robertson Ukraine: A Personal Exploration before Putin's Invasion. (Handsel Press). Please do send in details of books you would like to recommend to members! Thank you. 10. ALEKSANTERI ALUMNI TALKS: We are grateful to Trustee Sasha Smith who has provided information about an interesting series! of talks; for more details of these talks and for the zoomlink to join, please go to: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/aleksanteri-institute |