European Foundation for Slavic Script and Culture

Empathy indicates the ability to imagine yourself in the place of another. What does the generation of 20 - 30 year old artists think about that war, and, in particular, about the very beginning of it? What should a person feel if he would be suddenly overtaken by the war? What images can be born about this terrible war in minds of generations of 90s that are living, seemingly in a different country and in works of artists who had never painted about this topic?

On the 3d of February 2016, in Bratislava, in AIRCRAFT Business Center was hosted a roundtable discussion on the highly topical theme «The fight against terrorism, geopolitical challenges in Europe, Europe and Russia».

The initiators of the round table were well-known in Slovakia writer and journalist, member of the Slovak Parliament, member of the PACE Sergey Helemendik and The President of the European Academy of Security and Conflictology, the President of the European Foundation for Slavic Literature and Culture, member of Council of Europe, Professor Igor Bondarenko.

The topic of the round table was not chosen by chance. On Slovak television in various institutions and on the streets sounds the theme of terrorism, Europe's future and relations with Russia.

As keynote speaker was invited a famous Russian writer, a political scientist and publicist Nikolai Starikov. He spoke about his vision of the political situation in the world, the causes of migration flows in Europe, the origins of terrorism, relations between Slovakia and Russia.

The well-known Russian economist and publicist G.N. Tsaholov gave a lecture to the Slovak students and presented his book «The Way to a happy life». That event was organized by the Russian Embassy in the Slovak Republic, the European Academy of Security and Conflictology, the European Centre of Fine Arts, the European Fundation for Slavic Script and Culture, Aircraftgallery.

The name of Georgiy Tsygalov is well known in the scientific community. Doctor of Economics, professor at the International University in Moscow, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and International Academy of Management, a member of the Union of Writers of Russia. His works are the pride of the Russian economic thought and were translated into many foreign languages.

On the 26 of November 2015, in Bratislava, in Aircraft Gallery a unique art exhibition was opened under the framework of the International Academic Research Project «Between the Volga and the Danube», which combined together artists of Russia, Central and Eastern Europe.

The organizers of this large-scale project were leading art associations of Russia and Slovakia: Russian Academy of Arts, Volga Department of RAA, Creative Union of Artists of Russia, the European Centre of Fine Arts (Bratislava, Slovakia). The event was also supported byRussian Federation Ministry of Culture, Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry, Centre for Contemporary Art MARS & Partners in Europe - the company Diagnosis Aircraft (Aircraft Diagnostic Company), Slovak creative union of Art (Slovenska Vytvarna Unia), Slovak Union of Fine Arts (Slovak Union of Visual Art), European Foundation of Slavic Script and Culture (Európsky fond slovanskej písomnosti a kultúry).