Director of Ukrainian Library in Moscow Handed 4-Year Suspended Sentence
Russian Magazine The New Times Closes Print Amid Financial Troubles
Moscow TV Round-Up: Literature, Justice and the Third Reich
The Wars of the Future: Russian Defense Ministry’s New Modernization Plan
Eataly: Bringing the Mediterranean to Moscow
Russia Eases Sanctions on Turkey
Talking Heads: How Russia’s Videobloggers are Shaping Public Opinion
Get Out of Town: 7 Great Festivals Outside Moscow This Summer
Russia to Import 100,000 Barrels of Iranian Oil per Day
Russia’s Jehovah’s Witnesses Meet in Defiance of ‘Extremism’ Ban
Why the Kids Are Bastards (Op-ed)
From Extravagance to Exile: What to See at the Chekhov Theater Festival
It’s a Small World: Children in Moscow
Deadly TU-154 Christmas Day Plane Crash Caused by Human Error, Says Russian Defence Ministry
Waiting for a Miracle: Muscovites Line up to See the Remains of St. Nicholas
Welcome to The Machine: Inside the Secretive World of RT
Russia’s Yandex Unveils Self-Driving Car
After ‘Hurricane,’ Muscovites Ask Why They Weren’t Warned
32% of Russians Support Physical Punishment for Teens — Poll
Frank Lloyd Wright-Designed Buildings (and One Doghouse) Open for Rare Tours in Honor of the Architect’s 150th Birthday
Why It’s So Hard to Find the Original Owners of Nazi-Looted Art
The Protests That Aren’t Going Away
France-Russia: An Improbable Reset That Quickly Turned Sour
Russian Court Orders Navalny to Apologize for Government Corruption Claims
Explore Crucian Cuisine on a New U.S. Virgin Islands Food Tour
Gang Attacks Navalny Campaign’s Landlord in Siberia
Forged Safety Documents Aided Russian Teen’s Gun Rampage — Reports
Russia to Crackdown on ‘Dishonest’ Microlenders
Student Jailed for Murder of Russian Journalist Tsilikin
Moscow: News and Openings
Edith Wharton Recruited the World’s Greatest Artists to Raise Money for WWI Refugees
Summer Music in Moscow
‘Leviathan’ Director Zvyagintsev Wins Jury Prize for New Film ‘Loveless’ at Cannes
At Least 11 Dead as Storm Sweeps Moscow
In Pictures: Fatal Thunderstorms Sweep Moscow
Two North Koreans Found Dead in Moscow Hotel
BarDelhi: How to Spice Up Dinner
Dane Arrested in Russia for ‘Extremist’ Jehovah’s Witnesses Meeting
Moscow TV Round-Up: Propaganda and Patriotism
Kantemir Balagov’s “Closeness” gets Cannes Festival’s International Critics’ Prize
“Closeness,” a debut of 26-year-old Balagov, is set in 1998 in the director’s home city of Nalchik “Closeness” by Russian film director Kantemir Balagov, along with Robin Campillo’s “BPM (Beats Per Minute)” and Pedro Pinho’s “The Nothing Factory,” won International Critics’ Prizes at the Cannes Festival on Saturday. The FIPRESCI Jury awarded three prizes: two…
DetailsMore than two-thirds of Russians say would like to venerate St Nicholas’s relics
The requests people would like to address to St Nicholas the Wonderworker concern personal health, assistance in the rectification of personal problems and maintenance of peace Arrival of the relics of St Nicholas from the Italian city of Bari to Russia has become a considerable event for the Russians and 72% of them would like…
DetailsPatriarch Kirill I sends condolences to Coptic Church over terrorist act in Egypt
“The cowardly attack victimized totally innocent people, icnluding children, who were en route to an antique monastery for gratuitous work and prayer,” Kirill I said in his message The Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill I on Friday send condolences to Pope Tawadros II, the supreme hierarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria…
DetailsThis week in photos: Trump with Pope, St Nicholas relics in Moscow and Zuckerberg’s degree
The world in pictures in a photo gallery by TASS
President Donald Trump’s Vatican visit, St. Nicholas’ relics in Moscow, Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard degree and other best photographs of the week. The world in pictures in a photo gallery by TASS
Bolshoi Theater vows to put on at least 10 new shows next season
Among the expected productions are works by renowned directors Katie Mitchell and Rimas Tuminas With the 241st Bolshoi Theater season still underway, plans for next year have already been announced, the theater’s director Vladimir Urin told TASS on Thursday. Among the expected productions are works by renowned directors Katie Mitchell and Rimas Tuminas, while the…
DetailsSpace technologies offer glimpse at Tsar Ivan the Terrible’s rare portrait
The portrait was engraved in copper and subsequently imprinted on the leather cover of Russia’s first exact-dated printed book — the “Apostle” Multispectral imaging, a technology used in space research, allowed scientists to take a glimpse at the only portrait of Russia’s 16th century ruler Ivan the Terrible made during his lifetime and worn away…
DetailsMost Americans view Russia as unfriendly country — survey
According to the research, North Korea, Iran and Syria are viewed as America’s most feared enemies The majority of US residents consider Russia an enemy of the US rather than an ally, but are convinced that President Donald Trump thinks otherwise, a Fox News survey shows. The respondents of the national poll were asked to…
DetailsRussia’s legendary barque Kruzenshtern calls at Belgian port
Russia’s legendary windjammer Kruzenshtern, which is on its first training voyage of the year, has called at the Belgian port of Oostende to take part in an international festival of sailing vessels Russia’s legendary windjammer Kruzenshtern, which is on its first training voyage of the year, on Thursday called at the Belgian port of Oostende…
DetailsHotel Ukraina: a Soviet-era treasure in the heart of Moscow
60 years ago, one of seven iconic Moscow’s skyscrapers designed in the Stalinist style, hotel Ukraina was opened 1957 Soviet hotel Ukraina was opened. The second tallest of the neoclassical Stalin-era “seven sisters”, hotel Ukraina is 198-meter high (34 stories). It was then the tallest hotel in the world. In 2010 the hotel was renovated…
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Soviet ‘worker and peasant girl’ statue for 1937 World’s Fair marks 80th anniversary
Sculptor Vera Mukhina said her work was to express “a robust and overpowering drive” that characterized the Soviet Union Eighty years ago on this precise date, workers at the World’s Fair 1937 in Paris put the finishing touches on the landmark icon of Soviet monument sculpture that was destined to become the trademark symbol of…
DetailsTeam from Russia’s ITMO University wins ICPC world programming contest
The ACM ICPC finals were held in Rapid City, South Dakota, USA A team of students of the St. Petersburg ITMO (Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics) University have won its seventh victory at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), the ITMO University’s press service said on Thursday. The ACM ICPC finals were held in…
DetailsPutin venerates St Nicholas’s relics in Cathedral of the Savior
Vladimir Putin came to Moscow’s downtown Cathedral of the Savior to venerate the relics of St Nicholas the Wonderworker that arrived in Moscow from Bari, Italy President Vladimir Putin came to Moscow’s downtown Cathedral of the Savior on Wednesday to venerate the relics of St Nicholas the Wonderworker that arrived in Moscow from Bari, Italy,…
DetailsInternational Chekhov Theater festival opens its doors for 13th time in Moscow
The festival opens on May 24 and runs until mid-July Moscow is slated to host the International Chekhov Theater festival for the 13th time, while the organizers are celebrating its 25th anniversary, Valery Shadrin, head of the festival, told TASS. The event kicks off on May 24 and runs until mid-July. Among its participants are…
DetailsPoll shows 25% of Russians expect headway in ties with France during Macron’s presidency
Only nine percent of the respondents believe that relations could worsen As many as 25% of Russians believe that after Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France, relations between the two countries will improve, the All-Russia Public Opinion Research Center said in a statement on Wednesday. “As many as 25% of those polled expect bilateral…
DetailsAmsterdam Court may look into appeal against Scythian Gold ruling in fall
In December 2016, the Amsterdam District Court ruled that the Scythian gold treasures whose insured value is about $2 million should be returned to Ukraine The Amsterdam Court of Appeal may begin considering an appeal from the Crimean museums against the ruling on the Scythian Gold case in October, the director of the Central Museum…
DetailsStalin’s grandson passes away at 75
The grandson of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Alexander Burdonsky, National Artist of the Russian Federation and stage director of the Central Academic Theater of the Russian Army, died on May 23 The grandson of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Alexander Burdonsky, National Artist of the Russian Federation and stage director of the Central Academic Theater of…
DetailsHow one Murmansk writer was inspired to bring Cyrillic Alphabet Day back to Russia
Maslov worked as a radioman at the world’s first nuclear icebreaker Lenin Prior to 1986, Cyrillic Alphabet Day had virtually disappeared from Russians’ calendars during the Soviet era. Nevertheless, Vitaly Maslov, a writer from the northern Russian city of Murmansk, managed to revive this tradition despite it having faded from national memory following the 1917…
DetailsInvestigators release Gogol-Center stage director after questioning
The artistic director was questioned “as an eyewitness in a criminal case into misappropriation of state funds” The Gogol-Center’s theater director, who was taken into the Investigative Committee’s office in Moscow for questioning as a witness in an embezzlement case, was released late on Tuesday, a TASS correspondent reported from the scene. “I’m a witness,”…
DetailsPatriarch Kirill proposes to bring relics of Egyptian fathers of Orthodox Church to Russia
Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill I has invited Coptic Christians to visit the shrines of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill I has issued a proposal to the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Pope Tawadros II, to organize ‘translation’ (delivery) of the relics of Egyptian…
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