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Russia Cristiana () is a Milanese Catholic association.
The association intends to make known in the West the cultural, spiritual and liturgical tradition of Orthodoxy, embodied primarily by their original millenary source, the local Orthodox Church, and Eastern Christianity, through a pedagogically inspired reading, among other things, by the teachings of Luigi Giussani and Father Romano Scalfi. In addition, Russia Cristiana intends to promote ecumenical dialogue and contribute to the Catholic presence in the traditionally orthodox Eurasian country, two aspects traditionally difficult to reconcile as a cause of secular conflicts.

The association is based in the Villa Ambiveri of Seriate (BG) in via dei Tasca 36, donated in inheritance to the primitive organization by the co-founder Betty Ambiveri and for a long time played by the family members in the judicial center towards the end of the 1970s.

History

The association was founded in 1957 by Monsignor Enrico Rodolfo Galbiati, Betty Ambiveri, Father Pietro Modesto, Father Nilo Cadonna, Don Adolfo Asnaghi, Don Armando Bisesti and Father Romano Scalfi, the latter recently presented as the only founder, despite himself forgetting it, for example here: "All right Galbiati must be considered a co-founder of "Christian Russia", together with Pietro Modesto, Nile Cadonna, Adolfo Asnaghi and me."

Subsequently approached the Catholic Church movement of Communion and Liberation, from the association Russia Cristiana are born other aggregations of faithful fascinated by the traditions of Eastern Christianity, especially Russian, but with different inspiration and not connected to Communion and Liberation, such as the Center Russia Ecumenical, the Ecumenical Centre of Italy-Russian Vladimir Solov'ev and the Association of Russia Christian St Vladimir, all founded or inspired by the co-woman

The Betty Ambiveri Library
The Betty Ambiveri library, included in the list of Cultural and Librarian Institutions of Lombardy, has been formed since the 1950s thanks to some donations of private librarian funds, and subsequently has been expanded and updated through acquisitions of books in Russian published in the USSR and the West, and books on Russia in Italian and in the main European languages. It is one of the most complete books on Russia and the former Soviet Union on the national territory.

It currently has 27,000 volumes and a large collection of periodicals, as well as a data archive on the former Soviet Union.

The library is divided into the following sectors: art, atheism, law, dissent, economics, philosophy, geography, literature, linguistics, music, pedagogy, politics, religion, sociology, statistics, history.

Conferences and exhibitions
In collaboration with academic and universe institutions