outstripped the popularity of other centers of other embassies of other countries, such as the alliance francaisewhich here, in principle, was considered, well, an informal owner. here go to this time the cultural center, we'll see. there are even these merry-go-rounds for children. uh, 99% of the kids are here i don't even know what toys are. and now , for the first time, they saw the merry-go-rounds and toys, and everything here is beauty, and here are the smiles, uh, to the russians and that's it. this, of course, is fantasy. we decided that it was necessary to create a structure here that would serve as a bridge. e between local culture and russian culture. we have different languages, different bases. and you need to extract positive moments from all this and establish communication. this is what russian houses do, we teach the language and teach russian culture so that americans better understand how we are, how we think. russia was absent here for a long time; in fact , diplomatic relations were severed in 1979. and all this was resumed literally 5 years ago, and in order to close this gap