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Everything in the world has a reason, and every choice you make could change your life radically. The main thing is not to miss a chance. For example, there is HSE Day, there’s you, and here are seven reasons why you shouldn’t miss this event. You might find your one true love while speed dating at HSE Land, become a renowned orientalist thanks to ‘The Whole World at HSE’ venue, or fall in love with Russian rock music.

For the fifth time, Times and Epochs, a historical reconstruction festival, will take place this weekend in Kolomenskoye. This time it will be dedicated to the glorious era of Ancient Rome.

On May 8 and 9, the 70^th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War will be remembered and celebrated in Moscow parks and streets.

On May 9th, 2015, Russia celebrates the 70^th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War – this is how the part of the World War II that took place on Russian territory is called in Russia. Several Moscow museums have prepared special exhibitions dedicated to the war, in which the Soviet Union lost over 26 million people, and the victory over Nazism in Europe.

The Fourteenth Moscow Easter Festival will take place from April 12th until May 9th 2015. This years’ Festival will commemorate two crucial dates in the history of the world and musical culture: the 70th anniversary of the Allied victory in World War II and the 175th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian composer, Pyotr Tchaikovsky.

An exhibition of WWII artifacts at ARTSTORY gallery with free entrance, open until May 10^th.

Please be informed that the Baumanskaya metro station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line is closed starting from February 8, 2015, for renovation which is to be completed within 11 months.

On the coldest weeks of the year, the Apothecary Garden invites you to submerge yourself into the atmosphere of the tropics. Three small Southern countries will be open in the Botanical Garden hothouses — a tropical forest with unique orchids, an equatorial swamp with pitcher plants, and a small desert, which brings together some remarkable flora from faraway arid lands. The festival is open until March 31, 2015.

Right across the street from the HSE buildings on Myasnitskaya Ulitsa there is an eye-catching bright-blue mansionwith a cour d'honneur and a portal decorated with white atlantes. This building has been closed for decades, but today it’s open and showing a unique exhibition of hats by Philip Treacy. This might be a good way to spend that spare hour between classes or meetings on Myasnitskaya.

As more and more Moscow streets turn pedestrian, the idea of walking around the city is becoming more and more attractive. Even more so this winter, since the Moscow government has organized a festival ‘Magical Journey to Christmas’, which is taking place around the city in various pedestrian zones until January 11.