  {"id":9538,"date":"2018-04-20T22:44:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T02:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/?p=9538"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:47:00","slug":"announcing-the-winners-of-the-russian-language-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/2018\/announcing-the-winners-of-the-russian-language-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Winners of the Russian Language Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Announcing the Winners of the Russian Language Competition\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (EURUS), in cooperation with the Russia-Canada Business Council, cordially announces the winners of the Russian Language Competition:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Category &#8220;The Russian Language as a Window into Russian Culture&#8221;<\/strong><br>\nFirst Place:<strong><br>\nDaniel Anderson, <\/strong>\u201c<em>Interview with my Favorite Russian Author<\/em>\u201d<br>\nSecond Place:<strong><br>\nLada Timosheva, <\/strong>\u201c<em>Interview with my Favorite Russian Author &#8211; A. Chekhov<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Category &#8220;The Russian Language as a Native Language&#8221;<br>\n<\/strong>First Place:<strong><br>\nIvan Biketov, <\/strong><em>\u201cThe Small Homeland of My Ancestors. Towns and Villages of Russia\u201d<\/em><strong><br>\nDaria Volkova, <\/strong><em>&#8220;The Captain&#8217;s Daughter&#8221; by A. Pushkin as a Mirror of Values of a Russian Person\u201d<\/em><strong><br>\n<\/strong><strong><br>\n<\/strong>Second Place<strong><br>\nIdan Geynak, <\/strong><em>\u201cThe Small Homeland of My Ancestors. Towns and Villages of Russia\u201d<\/em><br>\n<strong><br>\n<\/strong>Third Place:<strong><br>\nHanna Kartushava, <\/strong><em>\u201cThe Small Homeland of My Ancestors. Towns and Villages of Russia\u201d<br>\n<\/em><strong>Valeryia Piskun, <\/strong><em>\u201cThe Small Homeland of My Ancestors. Towns and Villages of Russia\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00ab Coup de C\u0153ur \u00bb Award:<strong><br>\nRichard Adashkevich, <\/strong><em>\u201cReflections on the Role of Youth in Further Development of Canadian-Russian Cooperation\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Promising Writer Award:<br>\n<strong>Mikhail Tsirlin, <\/strong>\u201c<em>The Small Homeland of My Ancestors. Towns and Villages of Russia: Samara\u201d<\/em><br>\n<strong>Anastasia Koulikovskaia<\/strong>, <em>\u201cThe Small<\/em><em> Homeland of My Ancestors. Towns and Villages of Russia\u201d<br>\n<\/em><strong>Demyan Plakhov, <\/strong>\u201c<em>The Small Homeland of My Ancestors. Towns and Villages of Russia: Tsaritsyn, Stalingrad, Volgograd\u201d<\/em><br>\n<strong>Daniel Felixov, <\/strong><em>\u201cThe Small Homeland of My Ancestors. Towns and Villages of Russia\u201d<\/em><br>\n<strong>Vlad Demenkov, <\/strong><em>\u201cThe Small Homeland of My Ancestors. Towns and Villages of Russia\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The competition invited students from Canada to get creative and submit short essays.&nbsp; The contest was a success as participants from 12 schools and 4 provinces have submitted their work. Our esteemed judges &#8211; leading experts in the field of the Russian language, literature and history from Russia and Canada &#8211; reviewed the&nbsp;entries to track the quality of each participant\u2019s&nbsp;command of the Russian language, before choosing the winners. We would like to emphasize that the judges were fascinated by the distinctive vocabulary, inventive plots, and original settings our competitors have used in their essays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All participants are invited to attend the&nbsp;awards ceremony which&nbsp;will take place on Monday, May 07, 2018 at 3:00PM, Senate Room, 608 Robertson Hall, ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RSVP to <a href=\"mailto:IdrisColakovic@cunet.carleton.ca\">IdrisColakovic@cunet.carleton.ca<\/a> by May 01, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (EURUS), in cooperation with the Russia-Canada Business Council, cordially announces the winners of the Russian Language Competition: Category &#8220;The Russian Language as a Window into Russian Culture&#8221; First Place: Daniel Anderson, \u201cInterview with my Favorite Russian Author\u201d Second Place: Lada Timosheva, \u201cInterview with my Favorite Russian Author [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9626,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538\/revisions\/9626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}