"Total Dictation" held in Russia

STORY: "Total Dictation" held in Russia SHOOTING TIME: April 20, 2024 DATELINE: April 21, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:07 LOCATION: ST. PETERSBURG, Russia CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the "Total Dictation" event in St. Petersburg, Russia STORYLINE: The International Russian Language Grammar Test "Total Dictation" was held simultaneously on Saturday in dozens of cities in Russia and worldwide. During the annual cultural event, people got together to write down a dictation in the Russian language, which will be checked and nominated by a special grammar commission. According to the organizer, this year's event took place in over 40 countries and regions. Total Dictation was created to draw attention to literacy and to develop a culture of literate writing in the Russian language. The first such event was organized by philology students from Novosibirsk, Russia on March 11, 2004. Since 2012, the Total Dictation has become an international event that was supported by Russians abroad and people studying

Spanish archaeologists find ancient writing on 2,100-year-old bronze hand

STORY: Spanish archaeologists find ancient writing on 2,100-year-old bronze hand DATELINE: Nov. 18, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:54 LOCATION: Madrid CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Vascon settlement on Mount Irulegi, near the Valley of Aranguren, close to Pamplona, the capital of Spain's northern Navarre region 2. various of researchers excavating the settlement with pictures of the 2,100-year-old bronze "Hand of Irulegi" 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Spanish): JAVIER VELAZA, Professor of Latin Philology at the University of Barcelona 4. various of researchers excavating and the hand with the Basque text 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Spanish): JOAQUIN GORROCHATEGUI, Professor of Indo-European Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country 6. various of pictures of the "Hand of Irulegi" 7. various of the Vascon settlement on Mount Irulegi STORYLINE: Archaeologists in Spain discovered a bronze hand believed to be 2,100 years old on which one of the oldest known languages, the Basque language, was inscribed. The bronze hand, k