News
29/4-13
In the Netherlands the new queen will be crowned on Tuesday the 30th of April. In grasses DLF-TRIFOLIUM has its own Maxima: a red fescue named after the Dutch queen-to-be . Maxima is a Creeping Red Fescue and is our greatest variety. Since it was listed in 2003 DLF-TRIFOLIUM has produced 50,000 tons of Maxima seed. Read the press release concerning DLF's popular turf- queen here
ISTA workshop hosted by DLF 16-19 April
The new facilities in Højme, Denmark are these days hosting the first of two ISTA workshops with participants from 15 different nations. Quality Manager Dot Vittrup Pedersen is one of the lecturers at the workshops, which are made up of both presentations and practical sessions.
15/4-13
Happiness is: The scent of freshly cut grass
A freshly mowed lawn is a very enjoyable scent! It is one of the scents, that Danes enjoy the most along with coffee and freshly baked bread. In Britain the smell of freshly cut grass is the top of the Top 10 list.here .
11/4-13
Beets are excellent for biogas
There is a close correlation between the yield of Dry Matter and gas production per. ha, and when beets have a dry matter yield, which in many places exceeds maize, beets are ideal for the production of biogas.
Grass for biogas Regardless of the type of soil or growing strategy grass is an obvious choice as a biogas crop. Intensively cultivated areas, whole crop, aftermath, nature areas, grass will be a good choice. In Danish trials with intensive cultivation up to 18 ton of dry matter yield /ha has been achieved.
11/4-13
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Fast establishment at low temperatures
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High stress tolerance towards diseases
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QuickAction Film
11/4-13 - 29/4-13
Is your grass field alive?
A long winter – maybe with changing frost and thaw – can be hard to cope with for the grass plants. If there are too many bare spots in the grass field, the yield will be too low. A total reseeding will often be the optimal solution, but overseeding can be a good alternative in younger fields or if it is only smaller parts of needing repair. Read more about overseeding solutions here .
26/3-13 - 15/4-13
New Area Sales Manager
Søren Busk is 46 years and has held several sales positions within various companies in medical, optical and secure payment solution industry. He contributes with an extensive international sales experience in business development, sales and marketing in several countries, and he speaks French, German and English fluently.
After an intensive training and introduction program, Søren will join the DLF Emergent Market Team in serving our customers.
13/3-13
Fast and strong establishment with 4turf
Read more about the strength of 4turf.
4turf/QuickAction® is in our Turfline range , designed especially for the private homeowner segment.
8/3-13 - 11/4-13
DLF grass solutions for russian beef production
DLF-TRIFOLIUM supplies grass for 30,000 ha of clover grass pastures in Russia. The client is Miratorg – a large agro-business building up a beef production in the Bryansk region. DLF is selected as seed supplier for more reasons. The DLF presence in Russia with a serious approach for testing and developing well adapted and proven solutions for the Russian climate conditions is vital as well as a professional technical support in the form of a training program for Miratorgs agronomists. Read the press release here.
25/2-13 - 11/4-13
Spiking R&D on Genomic Selection in forage grasses; Now also in 4N
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20/2-26/3 -13
Get the maximum out of grassland
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6/2- 14/3 -13
Turfline - now with QuickAction®
The well-established consumer brand Turfline is now launching QuickAction® in two mixtures for Russia and Emerging Markets - Turfline Sport and the new Turfline Turbo. Read more about QuickAction® here.
5/2-13 - 13/3-13
Best tool for more milk and beef from grass is now available The new DLF ForageMax catalogue for Central & Eastern Europe is now available. The very best ways of improving the output from grassland is described. New mixtures for beef production and further mixtures for Hot & Dry climates are launched and the mixture range is covering all kinds of needs for high quality grasslands.
The catalogue is available in several languages and ForageMax mixtures are sold in more than 25 countries.
Read more here
5/2-13 - 25/2-13
Masterline- the professional choice in turf grass mixtures
The new catalogue for the Masterline turf mixture range is now available. The unique products Axcella and 4turf™ are now integrated in the mixtures and a new Expressmaster plus for overseeding and repair is introduced. Extensive work on salt tolerance has also lead to the launch of Saltmaster.
The issue of carbon footprints is described and how the production of CO₂can be reduced by the use of the unique DLF products as 4turf™ and iSeed®.
Take benefit of these new innovations and read more
29/1-13 - 20/2-13
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18/12-12 - 6/2-13
Professional Seed Technology™
DLF-TRIFOLIUM is working intensively with seed Treatment and DLF´S "Professional Seed Technology" covers a wide range of technical additions created to improve establishment of grass.
Read more about basic terms used in Seed treatment and about iSeed®50 and promicro.
18/12-12 - 07/01-13
Modern Beef cattle production requires top performing grassland
Read more.
07/11-12 - 07/01-13
Bangor, Solid, Energarci and Enermax, the complete beet harvest fulfills the expectations.
Peter Krog-Meyer, Business Development Manager on complementary crops in DLF-TRIFOLIUM says:
“Like 2011 we have a fantastic year regarding growing conditions for beets. The biggest problems experienced were in the beginning of the growing season and in many areas there was a problem in timing the weed spraying due longtime rainy and windy conditions. But the growing season has been very good overall seen. The beet harvesting is compared to the maize harvest more easy to handle, the beet fields are better in draining off after the longtime rainfalls we have had the last two months.
02/11-12 - 18/12-13
High Quality demands for turf renovation project at Novo Nordisk
"One of the big challenges in the project was that the quality requirements for the performance were very high," says team leader and gardener Henry Bøgh from the contractor company that operates within the amenity sector.
The sod from the Danish production by DLF-TRIFOLIUM is used in a wide range of projects e.g. as an architectural element and it can turn bare soil into a stadium pitch within a few days. Søren Drejer Jensen, amenity sales manager on this project says: "The task for Novo Nordisk has been exciting because the customer demanded a high quality from the construction work, and because the area is incredibly beautiful. The training center is a very special construction, which fits perfectly into the surroundings. As a supplier it is rewarding to be part of such a project – and the cooperation with the contractor has worked very well". The sod solution was established 14 months ago and is composed by top quality turf varieties of: 20% Perennial Ryegrass (10% Sauvignon and 10% Grenfair)
18/10-12 - 07/11-12
DLF-TRIFOLIUM starts up forage grass trials in Russia
Early 2012 DLF-TRIFOLIUM established a new trialing station near Moscow. The aim is to develop new, improved forage varieties to satisfy increasing demands from a blooming meat- and dairy industry.
Read more in this edition of prograss
01/10-12 - 29/1-13
Highest number of New Forage Varieties launched
White Clover: TRIPLE Perennial Ruegrass: BOYNE int. 2n , MASSIMO int. 2n , DIWAN int. 4n , TODDINGTON late 2n , GRAZIANNE late 4n , LOGIQUE late 4n .KURI 1 2n , KIGEZI 1 4n , GOLDONI 4n , ELVIS 4n , SURREY NOVA 2n , MAGLOIRE 2n ,
Festulolium: FOJTAN ; Tall Fescue, grazing type
Cocksfoot: ALDEBARAN late
Forage Newsletter, September 2012
01/10-12
Professional Turf Newsletter, September 2012
Read the latest edition of Professional Turf Newsletter here
01/10-12
Prograss, September 2012
Extra production from marginal soils? With increasing demands for feed, food, and fiber, the agricultural production system faces a future where marginal soils will be used for low-input farming to a much larger extend than what is evident today. The conditions at such areas are generally very stressful comprising exposure to extremes in pH, salinity, drought as well as nutrient efficiency. It is expected that perennial grasses are among the most well suited plants for these production conditions. The question is which species will do the job most efficiently, both in terms of biomass yield, stress tolerance, and convenience for biomass utilization and transportation.
This big question is currently being addressed in a major EU project called GrassMargins, in which DLF together with 11 other partners from Academia and Industry, will examine and develop new varieties of Tall Fescue, Festulolium, Cocksfoot, Reed Canary Grass, and Elephant Grass (Miscanthus) for marginal soils.
At first these five species will be tested for tolerance to various types of stress, including salinity, drought, flooding, and cold by different partners. Salinity test will be conducted by DLF-TRIFOLIUM who has developed a great expertise in screening large populations for salt tolerance using soil-free media.
Data from all tests conducted in the consortium will guide the future breeding process in making the most robust varieties for growth on marginal soils. So better start now looking in your back yard for exterior land to spike your future agricultural production – perhaps with tough grasses from DLF-TRIFOLIUM.
20/9-12 - 30/10-12
Green Ribbon Cutting in Denmark
The expansion of DLF-TRIFOLIUM’s department in Højme was celebrated Friday the 14th of September 2012. Here the mayor of Odense Anker Boye and DLF’s Chairman Benny Kirkebække Christensen performed the ribbon cutting ceremony.
Speeches and a tour of the impressive new facilities also marked the opening. Mayor Anker Boye began his speech by complimenting DLF: “ To plant a seed and watch it grow is a symbol of life, performance, value and creation. This is what we are celebrating in DLF-TRIFOLIUM today, and what we have seen happen for several years.” DLF-TRIFOLIUM’s CEO Truels Damsgaard appreciated the effort and commitment in the DLF-group – also leading up to the opening-event: “We are really good at what we do, but we are also good at marketing it. And this is significant, because things don't happen on their own.”
See photograps from the site in Højme here .
10/9-12 - 01/10-12
- the unique Turf Perennial Ryegrass from
Which Turf Perennial Ryegrass gives you the very best establishment – also at low temperatures, a good wear tolerance, the very best disease tolerance and an improved drought tolerance all in one hand?
Click here to watch the video that gives you the answer
23/8-12 - 18/10-12
1.5 -2 ton protein per hectare
Up to 250 kg nitrogen for free
Read more about the DLF ForageMax clover grass mixture programme here
22/8-12 - 24/9-12
Optical analysis of seeds
A current research project could enable a more efficient analysis of seeds with regards to germination capacity. Read more about DLF-TRIFOLIUM's involvement in the project together with The Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation, Aarhus University and Videometer among others.
7/8-12
Micro clover for a Macro lady
In Northumberland in UK they are creating a 34m high and 400m long sculpture of a woman designed by the famed artist Charles Jencks. The sculpture will be open to the public early 2013. For the cover of the sculpture a microclover mixture from DLF-TRIFOLIUM has been chosen. The very difficult sowing is being done by hydro seeding and is finalized bit by bit as the sculpture is accomplished.
See the fantastic project here .
2/8-12 - 10/9-12
Overseeding with AXCELLA and 4turf is a success
Having seen the benefits from using the Johnsons Sports Seed mixture J Premier Pitch in the UK for several years, Martin Knight Head Groundsman at Worcester Warriors Rugby Club was very keen to sow the new Johnsons Sports Seed mixture J Rescue which contains AXCELLA Annual Ryegrass and 4turf Tetraploid Perennial Ryegrass after visiting DLF’s UK Didbrook breeding station to view the Amenity Demonstration plots in September 2010.
Martin overseeded the main Stadium pitch at the Sixways venue with J Rescue just before the UK entered a period of extreme cold weather towards the end of the year. He commented that despite sowing it during very cold conditions, J Rescue really impressed him with its speed of germination and ground cover during this difficult period.
Pitch at Sixways Stadium – home stadium of Worcester Warriors Rugby Club
12/7-12
President's opening of the ISF congress in Rio
His speech commented on seed applied technologies, natural grass and the challenge of feeding the world in the decades to come, given that the world’s resources are under great pressure. Read the Extracts from the opening speech here
12/7-12
Congratulations: British and Danish partnership wins Wimbledon
29/6-12 - 12/7-12
Please do step on the grass
Wear and salt tolerance are just some of the characteristics that will come in handy for the Turbo Masterline this summer, when the grass mixture gets the opportunity to prove itself at Roskilde Dyrskueplads. This weekend the warm-up starts for the big and famous Roskilde Festival. And besides the upcoming week of music, spilled beer and thousandsof partying feet, the grass will also endure hooves and tyres during several other events. Read the press release.
25/6-12 - 22/8-12
Possible health risks by using artificial grass
A number of questions pop up when talking about the extended use of artificial grass:
• How does the dust from the rubber-infill affect our health and our environment?
• Are chemicals released from the artificial grass?
• How does the carbon footprint for an artificial pitch look compared to natural grass pitch?
Recently a study from California showed that the amount of e.g. cadmium exceeded the allowed limits. A simple test with daphnies showed that all daphnies died after 36 hours in drain water from an artificial pitch. For the comparison, no daphnies died after the same test with drain water from a natural grass pitch. Below you will find a link to a video from the US about possible health risks added to the use of artificial grass.
VIDEO
In the new report from ESA (European Seed Association) you can read more about comparison of artificial and natural grass.
15/6-12 - 12/7-12
natural turf?
Read more about the financial benefits of natural grass in the newsletter here .
11/6-12 - 7/8-12
DLF-TRIFOLIUM is now gearing up research to find the most nitrogen use efficient varieties for forage and amenity purposes. Read more
8/6-12 - 17/8-12
DLF-TRIFOLIUM
6/6-12 - 17/8-12
Prograss Special Edition on European Football Championship and the Olympic Games out now!
Also read the latest edition of Prograss
19/3-12 - 8/6-12
An update on the seed market
1/6-12 - 25/6-12
After the theoretical part of the seminar, the participants visited FC Spartak's training base where DLF mixtures are used. Director and agronomist of the base shared their experience of utilization of Masterline mixtures. Groundsman of Ahmat Arena (FC Terek from Chechnya) Mr. Kurbanmagomedov participated at the seminar said: "It's always interesting to meet with colleagues and get information about new varieties and technology to keep sport fields in a good condition during the whole season".
Click here to know more about DLF new products .
23/5-12 - 17/8-12
DLF-TRIFOLIUM provides the coolest grass
When the top European national team’s battle on the football pitches in June, the players will be very aware of the structure and quality of the grass on the different stadia’s and base camps pitches. The Danish grass seed company DLF-TRIFOLIUM has played an important role in developing the best possible grass solutions for this event. Read the press release.
21/5-12 - 11/6-12
Besides creating beautiful lawns, repairing worn goal areas and establishing new golf courses, sod can be used for many purposes. At the moment it plays an important role in the visualization of a Viking site in the vicinity of Roskilde in Denmark.
11/5-12
Read more here .
15/3-12 - 23/5-12
Read more about the beets in our press realease.
16/2-12
DLF-TRIFOLIUM has launched a new website forageselect.com together with Aarhus University (AU). This site contains information about a project, in which the two partners have joined forces to implement Genome Wide Selection (GWS) into grass breeding.
Read more about the project here .
13/2-12 - 15/3-12
With five new mixing and packing lines using the newest technology, DLF-TRIFOLIUM is setting new standards to improve its agility and flexibility to meet customers' demands. The €8 Million investment is made in connection to the existing seed cleaning warehouse in Odense. The new 10,000 m² warehouse will be ready for use in July 2012.
Read more about the project in the latest edition of Prograss .
3/2-12
Best friend of Do you know that the annual
Read more about this in the Professional turf newsletter
31/1-12 - 16/2-2012
Increase your profit with grass/legume
the potential yield level of maize, clover grass and Lucerne and on the actual
prices on concentrates.
Read more about how you can increase your profit by having the right grass/legume balance in Forage Newsletter
26/1-12
Three good reasons to rely on natural turf!
In its recently published report entitled "Natural Turf: Why it remains the natural choice for football, sports and playing surfaces", ESA targets key decision makers at the municipality level who are responsible for sport facilities. The aim is to inform them about all aspects of both natural and artificial turf - and to encourage them to "go green" and opt for the natural choice.
Visit the ESA webpage http://www.euroseeds.org/home to read the press release and access the full content.
16/1-12 - 3/2-12
Jo is 42 years and has held several sales positions within various multinational companies in the food processing and packing industry.
Jo has an extensive international sales experience including 9 years of working and living abroad (Luxemburg, China and South-Africa).
After an intensive training and introduction program, Jo is going to be responsible within the DLF NL Export Team for sales to wholesale customers in Portugal, Spain and France.
16/1-12 - 13/2-12
Masterline Newsletter 4turf Perennial Ryegrass with extra power
Tretraploids are well known from forage grass situation and give extra power for yield and stress tolerance. DLF-TRIFOLIUM has managed to duplicate these benefits in genuine turf types of Perennial Ryegrass.
Read more about in Masterline Newsletter
5/1-12
Anders is 34 years old and has a Master of Science in management of forestry and natural resources from the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in Copenhagen. He also holds a Ph.D. degree in plant genetics from Copenhagen University, Faculty of Life Sciences. During the last year he has been working on the potential of grasses for bioenergy production as post-doc at Aarhus University, Department of Genetics and Biotechnology. The employment of Anders is a part of a generational change at the breeding station in Store Heddinge as our turf grass breeder Niels Christian Nielsen is planning to end his long career in the second half of 2012.
23/12-11 - 31/1-12
Stress Tolerance - Extractions from a Genetic Potential
Read about how we do it…
22/12-11-16/1-12
In prep for future greens premium varieties
Read more
17/11-11 - 22/12-11
During the Russian Agricultural Exhibition "Golden Autumn 2011", the scientific work titled "Forage Production Efficiency of DLF-TRIFOLIUM grass mixtures in conditions of Black Earth Region" was nominated for an award in the category: Production of high quality forages and forage additives. This work received the bronze medal and a diploma signed by the Russian Minister of Agriculture and the Governor of Moscow.
No doubt this award is a confirmation of the best results obtained by farms in the Black Earth Region (Kursk, Orel, Lipetsk, Voronezh) and ForageMax mixtures adapted for the Russian climatic conditions were used for the project. The project was carried out in close cooperation with Kursk State Agricultural Academy, and our cooperation with Research and Study Agricultural Academies in Russia continues to expand every year.
8/11-11 - 20/12-11
Read more about this in the new brochure worked out by ESA.
27/10-11 - 17/11-11
Most football tournaments are taking place till late in the autumn and start very early in the spring. This does not always fit with the growing seasons of grasses. Russia has adapted to the European season of tournaments, so it is obvious that there is a challenge with the low temperatures. Click here to read about the solution to this problem.
26/10-11 - 23/12-11
New Turfline design We proudly present to you the new Turfline® packaging design. Based on market demands, a QR code is printed on the new Turfline® packaging that will provide you with a film on how to establish and maintain a lawn or see the film here .
21/10-11 - 8/11-11
Click here to try the new calculator.
19/10-11 - 5/1-12
DLF-TRIFOLIUM has just released a new film describing the many benefits from regular overseeding in grass fields. Click on the image to see the film.
11/10-11 - 21/10-11
Read more about it in Prograss .
10/10-11 - 27/10-11
To keep pace with population growth it is estimated that in the next 40 years food production must equal the amount produced over the last 12,000 years, and it must be achieved in the face of climate change, limited land, water and fossil fuels. Through plant breeding the seed industry has met and will continue to meet the challenge of increasing agricultural production.
See video from ISF - Agriculture is under Pressure
VIDEO
27/9-11 - 11/10-11
When you are driving the new Danish motorway in Southern Jutland heading from Kliplev to Sønderborg, the roadsides will accompany the beautiful landscape in a perfect way. 26 km of roadsides will be established with grasses and herbage species especially adapted to the given growth conditions and will provide the motorists an esthetical pleasure. Read more about the project here
26/9-11 - 27/10-11
SILVESTER . GENESIS . TETRAGRAZE , SCAPINO . TOWER .
Worthy of special mention this year is the White Clover variety SILVESTER with an outstanding combination of winter hardiness and yield. Click on the varieties and get further information.
26/9-11 - 19/10-11
New quality turf varieties for this season
The unique variety to mention is DOUBLE which is featured in our tetraploid 4TURF range. We predict the combination of highest stress tolerance - including salt tolerance, added germination power and dark colour will make DOUBLE one of the most desired varieties in the coming years. Click on the variety and get further information.
16/9-10/10-11
The European clover and grass seed harvest began in the end of June, and still - 2½ months later - seed fields remain to be combined. Spring drought and excessive rainfall in July and August has generally had a negative impact on seed yields. Furthermore, new sowings for harvest 2012 experience a lot of adversity due to wet fields having structure damages from the harvest process. The frequent and heavy rains in some of the most concentrated production areas is making establishment of new seed crops for harvest 2012 difficult. This situation indicates a continous shortage in supply in Europe, due to the balance between supply and demand.
12/9-27/9-11
"It's all in the genes" - we all know it - all the stuff that controls any valuable trait. For decades breeders at DLF-TRIFOLIUM have made crosses, recorded field scores, and selected varieties with the best traits based on this knowledge. But soon it will be possible to utilise the genomic potential to an even greater extent than today. The technology, which is called Genome Wide Selection (GWS) has already revolutionised animal breeding since its introduction. Now the time has come for grass. Read more .
8/9-11 - 26/9-11
Read more .
30/8-11 - 12/9-11
DLF-TRIFOLIUM - in cooperation with a greenkeeper school and a distributor - held a seminar for greenkeepers at Tseleevo golf club in Moscow on 25 August, 2011. The programme for the seminar included presentation of the DLF golf portfolio, features of grass maintenance of low input and visit to demo trials which were established one year ago.
The greenkeepers showed great interest in our varieties and recommendations for greens with low input. One of the participants, Sergey Ivanov, greenkeeper at Moscow golf club "Nine", said:
"It is good that we now have the possibility to compare high-quality golf varieties and choose the best ones. After my visits to these demo trials, I have chosen COBRA NOVA Creeping Bent for overseeding of our greens, because the variety is very dense and rapid establishing."
Click here to see the whole DLF Golf Portfolio.
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Having trouble defeating Poa annua on your golf green? Read more.
5/8-11 - 26/9-11
Green grass for green roofs
The growing interest in green roofs is not only due to the fact that green grass and other herbs are beautiful to look at compared to bitumen or fiber-cement boards, but equally due to the fact that it can retain large volumes of rain water. Read more about the construction of green roofs here.
28/7-11 - 12/8-11
Kick-off for DLF-TRIFOLIUM-DANONE cooperation in Russia A kick-off training course for Danone employees was recently held in the Smolensk region. Here specialists from DLF-TRIFOLIUM introduced advisors from Danone into good grassland management under Russian conditions.
- This training program is part of our newly initiated cooperation with Danone. We see our two companies fitting very well together - both working to optimize the output of milk production on Russian Dairy Farms, says Steen Andersen, head of the DLF-TRIFOLIUM Moscow office.
The French based dairy Danone holds a strong position in Russia where they run a large number of dairies in various regions. Feeding experts from Danone have until now been advising farms concerning the best feeding plan for the dairy herd, but now grassland management is also included as a new part of their service.
27/7-2011
Microclover® feedback from USA
Microclover® has proven to be beneficial and from two of DLF International Seeds's customers we have received great feedback.
The clover flourished quickly with just water every other day. Once it grew in, it took little or no maintenance and looked great," says Richard Bolt, MD from Big Canoe in Georgia, USA.
"Testing Microclover® at the Little Rock Zoo, Arkansas, USA we discovered that the wear-ability is strong. Strong enough for our 6,200 pounds elephant, Ellen, to walk on daily." says JJ Muehlhaussen, Work Controller Tech of Little Rock Zoo.
Read more about this in the new Prograss June 2011
6/7-11 - 5/8-11
DLF initiated trial fields in 2009 together with Kursk State Agricultural Academy in Russia in order to develop forage mixtures especially for Hot&Dry conditions. Included in the trials were CutMax Alfa Protein CutMax Alfa Protein Hot&Dry
This year we experienced a fast re-growth of Cocksfoot and Lucerne during April and May allowing very impressive cuts already in the middle of May: 22t and 24t of green mass, respectively.
During Field Days in the beginning of June, participants were pleasantly surprised that the DLF Cocksfoot varieties looked less aggressive than normal. Cocksfoot certainly has a role to play in mixtures for Hot&Dry conditions.
6/7-11 - 30/8-11
Forage: The major improvement is a common relative scale for lateness (heading). It allows comparing across species to optimise choice of straight varieties or to compose mixtures.
Turf:
Download the new edition of Seed Varieties.
5/7-11 - 28/7-11
The number of golf courses in Russia is increasing and DLF-TRIFOLIUM has therefore established trials with bent grasses and started cooperation with a greenkeeper school in Moscow.
Read more about this in the new edition of Prograss .
