News & Events

As part of our Centre’s commitment to researching and improving current methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language, we are pleased to announce a major new collaboration with the Philological faculty at the State University of Nizhny Novgorod. The main feature of this partnership will be an annual 2-3 week exchange of a small number of students and academic staff from each institution, when participants will be able to compare techniques and methodologies for teaching both Russian and English to non-native speakers. During the four-year term of the agreement there will also be opportunities for knowledge to be gathered and shared in the form of conferences, seminars, and the joint undertaking of academic research on the subject. We will be releasing further details about this exciting collaboration in the weeks and months ahead, so watch this space!  

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /??>  RCS Haven has finally joined the social-networking revolution! We want to make it easier for you to connect with us and so we have set up our own pages on Facebook and Twitter, which you can follow by clicking on the links below. These will be updated regularly with news and information about our language classes, new services available to members, and upcoming events.   To follow RCS Haven on Facebook, click here.  

 A friend of RCS, John Coutts, is publishing a new poetry collection, including both his own work and several original translations of poems by Pushkin. He is holding a live reading and launch event for the book in Edinburgh on 5th December, at which all RCS Haven members will be welcome.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /??>

Здравствуите!     Hello, and welcome to the RCS Haven E-Bulletin for November 2010. We are constantly looking to expand the ways in which we can offer help and assistance to our members, and we would like to let you know about an exciting new service, RCS Lingua, which will be up and running from early November:

 

Russian center Haven is glad to offer a wide range of DVD movies. The movies are available in various genres ranging from action and adventure to drama and comedy. Here you can find modern films, soaps and your favourite old movies.   <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /??>  

Здравствуите!<?xml:namespace prefix = o /??>     This is the October 2010 edition of the RCS Haven E-Bulletin, which as usual will provide a digest of Russian stories in the news in October and detailed listings for Russian events both in Scotland and, as of this month, in the rest of the UK as well. We also bring you exciting news of a new exhibition on display at our Duke Street Centre –   RCS Haven is proud to present:

         Russian Centre in Scotland Haven <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /??>  has pleasure in inviting you to the exhibition of monochrome photographs   SILENCE

In the new school year, lessons for both junior (from 2y.o.) and senior classes will take place between 12.00 and 2.00pm on Saturdays, at