Yomiuri newspaper reported that a hospital and a vaccination center in Japan had to drop about 2,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine against Covid-19 due to a storage temperature problem. Meanwhile, 12 doses of the vaccine in a Ward in Tokyo were also dropped because of dilution. It is unclear what caused more than 5,000 remaining doses of the vaccine to be dropped. Omuta Hospital in Fukuoka Pr...

  The Silk Roads has become attractive because of the nostalgia of ancient time, of another way of interacting, exchanging and sharing. In today’s world marked by an alarming increase of intolerance, mistrust and extremism favoured by the global crisis and the acceleration of communication, here is a real aspiration for a more human interactions between people. However, these ...

The Church of Santa Maria della Salute acts as an important landmark in the urban space of Venice. The history of the baroque style building is a reminder of the epidemics that repeatedly struck the city. In comparison to other cities, Venice was well prepared with regards to plagues. By 1423, the Senate of the Venetian Republic established a hospital, the first in the world – for the tr...

Moscow State Linguistic University   The international scientific and practical conference “Authentic Dialogue of Russia and Francophone World in the Sphere of Culture, Language and Literature” took place at MSLU on April 22-24 for the fourth time and was held in a mixed format (offline and in Google meet). More than 100 people took part in the conference, among them rep...

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University In the leading university of the country KazNU named after a l-Farabi held an international conference "Model UN - New Silk Road" dedicated to the 30th anniversary of Kazakhstan's Independence and the World Day for Cultural Diversity. The organizer of a large-scale event on the theme "National Initiatives to Achieve Sustainable Develop...

Music of the Silk Roads In 2019, the Secretariat of the United Students of the Silk Road Universities Network (USSUN) located in Allameh Tabataba’i University Teheran, Iran organized a program called ‘Tune in to the Silk Roads’ aiming at sharing the uniqueness of traditional music instruments and the music along with the Silk Road countries. This was held as an Instagram l...

     As of now, the Covid-19 situation in India is still at 300,000 people per day. The lack of medical equipment, oxygen, and medical staff is also constantly happening, causing doctors and nurses to become overloaded. With the increase in the number of cases, some states in India are facing a shortage of nurses. They started recruiting, but many thought it was too late. Ind...

Tambura: the integral musical instrument of Indian tradition The tambura is a long-necked plucked string instrument, found in various forms in Indian music. It does not play melody but rather supports the melody of another instrument or singer by providing a continuous harmonic low-pitched accompaniment, and plays an important role in setting the basic sound framework. The repeated cycle of...

Morin Khuur: The traditional Mongolian musical instrument       The morin khuur, also known as the horsehead fiddle, is a traditional Mongolian bowed stringed instrument. The horsehead-carved sculpture on the top is one of the most impressive features of this musical instrument. It is an important musical instrument of the Mongol people and is considered a symbol of ...