During Wednesday’s press briefing, Maria Zakharova called on Kadyrov to organize a trip to the republic for the Finnish reporter interested in alleged persecution of LGBT people in Chechnya Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov will organize a trip to his homeland for the Finnish reporter who asked Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova a question about…
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Loveless, the 2017 drama by Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev, has won the Jury prize at the 70th Cannes Film Festival Loveless, the 2017 drama by Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev that won the Jury prize at the 70th Cannes Film Festival, will be released in all countries, the movie’s producer, Alexander Rodnyansky, said on Wednesday. “The…
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The Sochi mayor has expressed regret after two guests of a local carnival painted their faces black and carried bananas Sochi Mayor Anatoly Pakhomov on Wednesday expressed regret after two guests of a local carnival painted their faces black and carried bananas. “If some of the 3,000 carnival participants lack common sense and taste, this…
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The fifth season of the popular TV show was released on May 30 The Kremlin is not “glued” to watching “House of Cards”, the American political drama TV series, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. “The Kremlin has a lot of other problems to tackle,” Peskov said when asked if the administration knew…
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In 2017, Vladimir Putin has ordered Moscow mayor Sobyanin to tear down the so-called ‘Khrushchevki’ – five-story apartment blocks – constructed in the 1950s and 1960s under Soviet leader Khrushchev Most residents of Soviet-era low-rise apartment blocks set to be demolished in Moscow over the next 10-15 years support the city’s so-called renovation program, the…
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25 September 2017 – 29 September 2017 Russia’s Society for Theory of Music Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory The Third Congress of the Society for Theory of Music “Revolutions in the History of Music Culture” (Dedicated to the Centennial of the Russian Revolution of 1917) International Scholarly Congress 25–29 September 2017 It is well known that…
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23 September 2017 – 28 September 2017 The competition founder and organizer: Moscow State Conservatory P. I. Tchaikovsky Jury of the Competition Well-known musicians, both performers and pedagogues from all over the world are invited to the Jury of the Competition. This year the Jury consists of: Tigran Alikhanov (Russia) — Chairman Alexander Bonduryansky (Russia) Gauchar…
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28 August 2017 – 31 August 2017 The Composers’ Competition within the Frameworks of the Moscow Conservatory’s Ninth International Competition of Performers on Wind & Percussion Instruments 28–31 August 2017 The competition is founded by Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory. The order of submitting the application and the holding of the competition The competition shall be…
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01 August 2017 – 21 August 2017 The International Summer School of 2017 1 August — 21 August 2017 Program of the International Summer School 1 August — 21 August 2017 The International School of Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory offers an intensive program of individual lessons, lectures, master classes and performances in the following majors:…
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26 June 2016 – 30 June 2016 The III International competition for voice and piano duos «Pianovoce» June 26 – 30, 2016 The competition founder: Moscow State P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory Jury The Jury to be announced. Applications the competition is open to contestants born before June 1st, 1998 and after June 1st, 1980 (for vocalists)/…
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31 may 2017 Dear visitors! June 6 welcome to the lecture “Between the Greeks and the Arabs.” Early medieval art the Middle Asiais cycle “Archeology: journey through time”. After a tumultuous political events of the III-V centuries ad, which were partly associated with the “Great migration of peoples” in the territory of Central Asia…
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31 may 2017 Age category: 16+ Dear visitors! On 1 June we invite to the concert “Charming sounds of the oboe” teacher’s orchestral Academy at the Central Conservatory of music in Beijing Loongana Lee. In the program: F. Poulenc, B. Britten, A. Dorati, Jazzopen, Zhu Dun, Lee Guochuan Accompanist: Svetlana Voronova The concert starts at…
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The project is the central event of the program “Born of October” within the framework of the 100th anniversary of the 1917 revolution and is dedicated to a bright period in the development of Soviet decorative and applied art of the second half of the twentieth century: artistic glass and ceramics of the 1960s-1980s.
26.04.2016 — 31.12.2017 The basis of the concept of the permanent exhibition is the principle of exhibits as unique art objects united in systems that consider not only the possibility of the collection, but reveals its advantages, and what is the most important – offers to look at the piece of decorative art out of the common…
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From April 21 to June 19, the All-Russian Museum of Decorative and Applied Art will host an exhibition entitled “Bear Tales”, which will display items of decorative and applied art and folk art representing the image of a bear in Russian culture
Date: June 21 — September 10, 2017 Venue: MMOMA, Gogolevsky Boulevard 10/4 The Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents «One Planet One Future» — the first solo exhibition of French-American artist Anne de Carbuccia to take place in Russia. For the past three years de Carbuccia has been travelling to the most remote and inaccessible…
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Date: May 18 — June 18, 2017 Venue: MMOMA, Ermolaevsky 17 Curator: Catherine Borissoff The Moscow Museum of Modern Art in partnership with the RuArts Foundation presents a retrospective exhibition of Sergei Borisov titled «Zeitgeist», which is held in celebration of the 70th anniversary of one of the most sought-after photographers of the turn of the century. The term Zeitgeist translates from German as «spirit of the time»…
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Date: May 24, 2017 — September 10, 2017 Venue: MMOMA, Petrovka 25 ABOUT EXHIBITION Curator: Charo Sanjuán The Moscow Museum of Modern Art in partnership with AUREA Cultura I Art presents a large-scale exhibition «Antoni Gaudí. Barcelona». The project aims at tracing the artistic journey of Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) through his major architectural achievements while revealing the influence of his work on contemporary…
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29 May 2017- 31 August 2017 Izborsk, State Historic, Architectural and Natural-Landscape Open-Air Museum ‘Izborsk’ Organized by The Moscow Kremlin Museums Ivanovskaya Square of the Moscow KremlinThe exhibition of photographs from the collection of the Moscow Kremlin Museums held at the State Historical, Architectural and Natural-Landscape Open-Air Museum ‘Izborsk’ is organized within the framework of…
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12.04.2017 – 11.06.2017 On April 12, 2017 “The Legends of Danish Design” exhibition will open at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, set up by Moscow Design Museum in collaboration with the Royal Danish Library (Copenhagen) and Dansk Møbelkunst Gallery (Copenhagen), supported by the Royal Danish Embassy in Moscow and the Ministry of Cultural…
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After more than 40 years since the 1973 exhibition of Giorgio Morandi’s works at The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum organizes an extensive retrospective show dedicated to the oeuvre of Morandi (1890–1964) – one of Italy’s leading artists of the 20th century and an iconic figure of European art. Morandi’s art is…
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The amount of VIP state guests indicates the “level of trust” between the two countries Top Russian and Japanese officials will attend the Russian Season’s opening ceremony on June 4 in Tokyo, Russian State Secretary and Deputy Culture Minister Alexander Zhuravsky told TASS in an interview. “Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited Japanese Prime Minister…
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Dear visitors, Please note the opening times for the State Tretyakov Gallery over the Russia Day (June 12, Monday): Historical Building, The Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val and Engineering Building will be open from 10.00 to 18.00 (ticket office and entrance to 17.00) Apollinary Vasnetsov Memorial Flat, Victor Vasnetsov Museum and Anna Golubkina Memorial Studio…
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30.05.2017 Over 35,000 people and 4,500 vehicles are engaged in the clean-up Moscow’s public works crews are laboring diligently to clean up the mess that was left in the wake of yesterday’s hurricane that had ripped through the Russian capital, the city’s municipal press service told reporters today. “Municipal crews will be working hard until…
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Putin toured the Center’s exhibition of World War I relics and met with students of the Russian Classical Gymnasium Russian President Vladimir Putin, accompanied by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, met with students of the Russian Spiritual and Cultural Center in Paris, the head of the Russian Classical Gymnasium, Yulia Rebinder, told TASS. The two high-ranked…
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The Holy Trinity Cathedral is a constituent element of the Russian Spiritual and Cultural Center in the French capital Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday presented an icon of the Holy Trinity to the Russian Orthodox Trinity Cathedral in Paris, the Bishop of Chersonese Nestor, who chairs the Russian Orthodox diocese of Western Europe told…
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The families of the people killed or injured during violent thunderstorms that hammered Moscow on Monday afternoon will get money compensations The hurricane that struck Moscow City on Monday afternoon was unprecedented, Moscow City mayor Sergei Sobyanin told TASS. “I can’t remember within my recollection any other such calamity with the number of dead and…
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Answering the question about his personal attitude towards the Russian president, Oliver Stone said: “I liked him, I respected him, let’s put it that way” American filmmaker Oliver Stone said that he has always held Russian President Vladimir Putin in high esteem and identified with him. Stone, who is in Australia now, told ABC reporters…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree declaring the years 2018-2027 to be the Children’s Decade in Russia. The directive was published on the country’s Official Internet Portal of Legal Information today. The order says “the decision had been taken to improve the state’s children protection policy, considering the results of the National Children’s…
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The first day of the forum will be dedicated to cultural cooperation Russian and US politicians, cultural workers and experts will discuss the ways to boost cooperation and overcome differences between the two countries at a forum dubbed Fort Ross Dialogue which will be for the first time in the Russian cities of Pskov and…
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This is the third Cannes award for the Russian film director Russian film director Andrey Zvyaginstev has won the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize for his bleak family drama Loveless. The Award Ceremony of the 70th annual Cannes Film Festival was held on Sunday. Zvyaginstev’s Loveless is a story of divorcing couple who must team…
Details“Here he is sitting next to me, laughing,” lawyer Pavel Astakhov told Media reports alleging that world-acclaimed Russian opera singer Dmitri Khvoroskovsky has been taken to hospital are not true, Khvorostovsky’s friend, lawyer Pavel Astakhov told TASS on Sunday. Earlier, the mass media said that Khvorostovsky had been taken in a hospital in Moscow. Astakhov,…
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According to the authorities, a column of about 40,000 cyclists aged from ten to 78 took a lap around Moscow’s central Garden Ring About 40,000 people from all around Russia took part in Russia’s largest cycling parade in Moscow on Sunday, the press service of Moscow’s department of transport said. “Over the recent years, Moscow…
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