Articles

• For parents

Picture Books For Small Sightless Children: Making a Sightless Child See The Picture

• 15 March 2023

Tatyana Degen, chairperson of Picture Books For Small Sightless Children foundation, tells Special View about how the foundation works and the books it has already published.

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• Life style

Off-Road Races: Extreme Sport For The Sightless

• 17 February 2023

Motorsports are now becoming available for visually impaired persons. Special View interviews sightless off-road races participants.

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• Art
• Access

Where To Go In Moscow: 12 Accessible Museums You Might Not Have Heard Of

• Elena Fedoseyeva
• 21 December 2022

Speaking about Moscow museums that are ready to welcome visually challenged guests.

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• Life style

Traveling Around Russia: The Accessible St. Petersburg

• 23 November 2022

In this article, you will learn about the most interesting sites of Russia’s Northern Capital.

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• People

A Sightless Football Player and A TikToker: On Life, Sport and Taking Part In A Talent Show At Pyatnitsa TV Channel

• 10 November 2022

Andrey Kuklin is a football player, singer and blogger. Vladimir Vaskevich interviewed him about his hobbies, motivation and his experience of taking part in a talent show at Pyatnitsa TV Channel.

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• Life style

A Virtual Tour Around the Tropical Butterflies Room in Moscow State University’s Apothecary Garden

• Anna Demidova
• 26 October 2022

Anna Demidova, Ph. D. in Biology, staff scientist and tour guide with Moscow State University Botanic Garden, tells about the Tropical Butterflies Room.

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• People

Alexander Montov, A Sightless Film Director Who Showed The World What Life Without Eyesight Is Like

• 21 October 2022

Yulia Pugachyova, Special View portal author, tells about the director’s life and legacy.

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• Everyday Living

“Helping others is helping yourself”: how the Psychological Assistance Service, where people with disabilities work, is organized

• Elena Fedoseyeva
• 23 September 2022

We asked Vera Yurievna Zakharova, the founder and the leader of the project, and Alena Zirko, a blind phycologist, to tell us about the project.

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• Life style

The Cryptology museum: Adapting a Science and Technology Exhibition for the Sightless

• 19 August 2022

The Cryptology museum curator for accessibility and inclusion tells about exhibition adaptation and most interesting pieces of the museum's collection available for tactile examination.

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• Audio description

Property Master Will Help: Audio Description in Karelia and Khabarovsk

• 12 August 2022

This time, the Special View portal speaks to audio description specialists from Petrozavodsk and Khabarovsk who share their problems, know-how and discoveries.

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• Life style

Inclusive balls in Russia: Samara teaches the whole country how to dance

• 10 August 2022

Vladimir Vaskevich talked to sponsors, choreographers and participants of the project “Inclusive balls of Russia”.

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• People

“I realized my dream could still come true”. A blind mechanic tells, how he builds engines by touch

• 8 July 2022

Konstantin Kurmaev lost his sight in an accident, but it didn’t affect his passion to mechanics at all.

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• Audio description

Театрга рәхим итегез, or Welcome To The Theatre: audio description in Tatarstan

• 1 July 2022

Difficulties, regional peculiarities and unexpected personal discoveries in the story of Gelyusia Zakirova from Kazan.

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• Everyday Living

Visible Moscow: Sightless Enthusiasts Create a Guide on Rehab Programs

• 24 June 2022

This project was initiated within the framework of Act With No Barriers program.

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• Art

Special View Forum Festival of Socially-Oriented Theatre: A Personal Note

• 1 June 2022

Irina Povolotskaya, a deaf blind actress, shares her impressions of participating in the Special View forum festival

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