152 This highly regarded project motivated Raiffeisen banka a.d. to create the internet portal symbolically entitled “Great People”, which is dedicated to special persons in Serbian history, science, art and popular culture and which will go online when the “Tesla and Pupin – Companions” exhibition closes. The site has interesting texts, anecdotes, audio and visual material, photographs and multimedia content for providing absorbing and to some extent unknown details about the work and lives of great Serbian figures. Eastern Europe (EE) 2016 marked the 55th anniversary of the first manned space flight and the 50th anniversary of the Nizhny- Arkhyz observatory. For the occasion, the observatory, which houses the largest telescope in Russia, opened its doors to the first-ever international exhibition project of its kind, supported by AO Raiffeisenbank in Russia. The observatory is located in the lonely mountains of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic in the Northern Caucasus region. The facility is currently home to 850 scientists and their families who live and work in the community, although many scientists have left in recent years. The participating artists were fascinated by the © A.V. Pilipas fact that everything is secondary to the work done in this ”scientific village“. Russian and Austrian artists created artworks specifically for this exhibition that illustrated the universe through the eyes of an artist and considered the questions of territorial expansion as well as the dreamer’s longing when gazing at the night sky. In 2016, Raiffeisen Bank Aval JSC supported the music and literature festival “En route in the East” in the Ukrainian cities of Novo Pskov, Svatove and Starobilsk in the Luhansk region, near the military zone. The festival was initiated by renowned Ukrainian author, poet and musician Serhiy Zhadan. There were 30 musicians and writers from Kiev and Kharkov as well as local bands from surrounding cities and volunteers who made it possible to hold literary readings in local libraries and schools, concerts for Ukrainian soldiers and evening concerts for the inhabitants of the three cities.
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