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APRIL/MAY/JUNE 2024
SRF AGM : Members have already received details of the SRF AGM which will be held on May 30th at 6pm in the Quaker Meeting Rooms in Edinburgh. It will be followed by a reception and a lecture - speaker tbc. Papers will be sent out in due course.
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 April 28th and then on Sunday May 26th - always at 10am. 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 next issue of "The Forum" will appear in WINTER 2024. Please do send in articles and other materials to the Editorial Team by September 2024. 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. Mainstream Orthodox Services are held in St John's Church, Inverness at 11am on Saturday mornings - with a chance for people to pray in Russian. SRF members have been sent further details of this in the 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. JUNE 10th!!! Jen Stout, Scottish journalist and radio broadcaster, will be presenting her latest book Night Train to Odesa in the Ukrainian Community Centre in Edinburgh. Further details have been mailed to members and Topping and Company Booksellers in Edinburgh will be able to advise re tickets. 8. FINALLY!!!! CELEBRATING GOGOL' SCOTTISH STYLE! : We will be celebrating the 215 Anniversary of the birth of Gogol' on Monday 29ht April at 3pm. Members have already received the zoomlink to join this session. |