Comments on: Medvedev’s Generation

By: Evgeny

Evgeny — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:31:27 +0000

poemless: They are children in a summer camp. And imagine that, right in the morning, somebody starts to tell them about quantum mechanics or group theory?

By: poemless

poemless — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:32:44 +0000

Красноярская Летняя Школа … they are so hard at work!

By: Kolya

Kolya — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:25:18 +0000

Speaking of youth (and since I’ve seen some of faces in pics), here is a pic with my daughter taken earlier this month. Neither her nor I were aware that someone was taking it.

http://twitpic.com/b7×0y

BTW, I’m not really a twitter. Most of the entries are silly test messages to see how well voice tweets are transcribed. In my limited experience, TweetCall transcriptions, although not perfect, are much more accurate than Jott.

By: Evgeny

Evgeny — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:06:02 +0000

Pyotr:

Surely, most of youths “kladut khuy” on all political activity (pardon my French). Taking part in the election is already a deed (not everyone does).

By: Evgeny

Evgeny — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:59:05 +0000

There are quite enough of Summer schools (camps), where children have an opportunity to practice in math, physics, chemistry, while having a good rest.

Among the most famous ones is the Summer School of Krasnoyarsk:

http://www.klsh.org/

(They have also an English page at the site.)

It’s interesting enough, that it even takes kids from different countries (I have heard of kids from Western Europe, attending lectures in that school).

Of course, perhaps this school should have more advertising. I learned of it, because during the first year in my University I shared a room with guys who learned in that school, and then started teaching there. I can only say, that it’s very fun, there’s quite rich “folklore”, and quite strong a community of people related to that School.

By: Khabar

Khabar — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:27:30 +0000

Memebrship in Pioneer Organization was fun and camps like yours were easier to access for an ordinary citizen, not being in a small group of the chosen ones, though the event was not that rich.

By: Pyotr

Pyotr — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:38:17 +0000

Why don’t they organize computer and math camps, or young chemists camps instead?

As a matter of fact, they do and there are number of classes on those camps if we are talking about Seliger.

Check the pictures below:

http://tagan.livejournal.com/283380.html?#cutid1
http://tagan.livejournal.com/282940.html#cutid1
http://tagan.livejournal.com/280973.html#cutid1

Can’t people remember what happened to Hitlerjugend and horrors of Mao’s Cultural Revolution?

In Russia people are more familiar of the long nightmare of membership in Pioneer and Komsomol organizations. Imagine 95% of population suffering, telling you, suffering, every minute of it till they turn 27 or so.

Unfortunately, right now young people in Russia have a limited choice: one either must sign up for the US state sponsored “Solidarnost’” NGO or get a “Nashi” membership.

By: milkshake

milkshake — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:48:39 +0000

Why don’t they organize computer and math camps, or young chemists camps instead? This is ludicrous. Can’t people remember what happened to Hitlerjugend and horrors of Mao’s Cultural Revolution?

I had an unpleasant experience here in Florida few years ago with the blasted Young Republicans staging a big rally at FAU Boca campus: they were demonstrating for re-instating mandatory military draft!

By: Khabar

Khabar — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:12:02 +0000

>>>Another interesting thing I’ve been told, but have yet seen any documentary evidence of, is the animosity between Nashi and Molodaya gvardiia.

It is “рабочий момент”. Even MVD and OMON have issues with each other from time to time.

By: Evgeny

Evgeny — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:57:58 +0000

“While in early 1990s it were the youths who hold especially peaceful and open attitude towards the West, now, when a new generation without knowledge of the Cold War has practically grown up in post-Soviet Russia, the youths do not only show no difference from older generations in view of their anti-Western mood, but sometimes show more of it.”