In your culture your foreign friends want to learn more about russia. how would you answer the questions 1.2) about your country? use the fact file and your knowledge. fact file international links: a member or the un, the commonwealth of independent states, the g8,etc. trade: with many countries , especially germany ,italy,china,ukraine,belarus,finland,brazil,etc. education: about 7 million students; more than 1300 institutions of higher education; 10,000 foreign students study in russia, half of them at moscow state university mass media: voice of russia - in 33 languages; the moscow times - english - language daily; the moscow news - english - languages weekly ; russia today - international english - languages news channel literature: 5 nobel prize winners: i. bunin b. pasternak m. sholokhov a. solzhenitsyn i. brodsky; in the list of top twenty popular works among leading foreign eriters - l. tolstoy's anna karenina and war and peace f. dostoevsky's crime and punishment and a. chekhov's stiries music: worldwide recognized composers - m. glinka p. tchaikovsky d. shostakovich etc.; popular operas and ballets staged abroad - swan lake the nutcracker war and peace romeo and juliet eugene onegin and others science: 14 nobel prize winners; a lot of world-famous scientific and tachnological inventions; great achievements in space exploration tourism: 3 million tourists a year; most famous attractions - moscow and st petersburg; famous throughout the world - the hermitage the tretyakov gallery the bolshoi theatre etc. !
Science.
Science in Russia is very developed. Many of the names of Russian scientists known worldwide. Among them are 14 Nobel Prize winners. Russia has managed to create many world-renowned scientific and technical inventions for two centuries. Moreover, Russian scientists have made a major breakthrough in space exploration. These achievements have become known around the world. For example, Yuri Gagarin's flight into space.
Music.
1. The Russian classical music embraces the heritage of many world-famous composers, whose musical pieces can be heard in concert halls around the globe.
Classical music written by Russian composers expresses the Russian character and uses folk tunes.
Among renowned Russian composers there are Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Mikhail Glinka, Sergei Rachmaninov, Dmitriy Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Aram Khachaturian, Alfred Schnittke, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Borodin, Alexander Scriabin and others.
2. Russian classical composers and performers surely took its place among the most famous artists. Russian unsurpassed opera gave the world such talented composers as Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and many others. Furthermore, a great number of Russian opera singers are renowned all over the world. Some popular operas and ballets staged abroad. For example, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, War and Peace, Romeo and Juliet, Eugene Onegin and others.