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The Mid-Atlantic Euroasia Business Council will host all-day events honoring the 80th anniversary of Carl Lutz's great feat to save over 50,000 Jews from the Holocaust during his tenure as Vice-Consul at the Swiss Embassy following his arrival in Budabest Hungary. Email info@ma-rbc.org or call 484-467-7444 for more information!

Mid-Atlantic - Eurasia Business Council is honored to be a co-organizing partner of Open Innovations 5.0. 

2020 created an unprecedented opportunity for virtual communication between countries and the participation of speakers from different countries in our Summit.

The main Theme of the Summit is  a  "CREATE THE FUTURE OVER UNRESTANDING THE PRESENT"
The three-day program of the Summit includes 3 Plenary Sessions,  permorfance  of TED-Talk,  Open-Talk briefings and a USA-Russia  TeleBridge.

"NEMTSOV", a film by Vladimir Kara-Murza (with English subtitles), presented by Vladimir Kara-Murza Q & A session with Vladimir Kara-Murza and Pavel Khodorkovskiy will follow the screening.

No registration necessary, all are welcome.

A special screening under the Upenn Slavic Department Stage Russia series.
First produced in 1904 at The Moscow Art Theatre under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavsky, this centennial production of Anton Chekhov's classic tale of cultural futility, starring Russian stage and screen legend Renata Litvinova, is as relevant today as it was over a hundred years ago.

A special screening within the Upenn Slavic Department's Stage Russia series

THE BLACK MONK
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Based on the short story by Anton Chekhov, THE BLACK MONK tells the tragic tale of philosophy student Andrey Vasil'ich Kovrin. On the verge of a nervous breakdown, Kovrin decides to visit his childhood friend Tanya Pesotsky at the estate of her father. As he and Tanya develop a relationsship and eventually marry, a black monk of legend begins appearing to Kovrin in visions. Though these hallucinations at first imbue the young man with joy and energy, they eventually lead to his ruin.

A special screening under the Upenn Slavic Department Stage Russia series:

Eugene Onegin

Stage Russia HD opens it’s inaugural season with its live filmed production of the Vakhtangov Theatre's magical Eugene Onegin, a newly reimagined version of the Alexander Pushkin poem created and directed by renowned director, Rimas Tuminas.
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Eugene Onegin has often been referred to as an encyclopedia of 19th century Russian life. Tuminas’ production unfolds in the memory and imagination of Pushkin’s characters. The images are split between past and present, between reality and imagination.
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Please join us in welcoming Duo Zingaresca on February 11th at the Cultural Center Shaare Shamayim for their one and only performance in Philadelphia. They celebrate their 10th collaborative year providing the public with colorful performances of Classical, Russian, and Roma (Gypsy) song and dance!

A talk by Dr. Kristen Ghodsee. Kristen Ghodsee earned her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley and has been teaching at Bowdoin since 2002. Her research interests include the gendered effects of the economic transition from communism to capitalism and the ethnographic study of postcommunist nostalgia in Eastern Europe.

Tis The Season- Surrender To The Magic On December 12, 2015 the Academy of International Ballet (AIB) celebrates the holidays with two full length beautifully costumed performance of the Nutcracker Ballet choreographed by Artistic Directors Denis Gronostayskiy’s and Anastasia’s Babayeva’s performed in the finest traditions of the Bolshoi.