Day: May 29, 2017
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Student Jailed for Murder of Russian Journalist Tsilikin
A 22-year-old student has been sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for the murder of celebrated Russian journalist Dmitry Tsilikin.
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Moscow: News and Openings
From vintage music museum to a grill restaurant: all the latest openings in the city
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Edith Wharton Recruited the World’s Greatest Artists to Raise Money for WWI Refugees
A century ago, the famous author took it upon herself to help those left behind by the war’s carnage
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Russian-US forum dubbed Fort Ross Dialogue to be held in Russia for first time ever
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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Russia’s Zvyagintsev wins Jury Prize at 70th Cannes Film Festival with his Loveless
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…
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Khvorostovsky’s friend refutes media allegations about his hospitalization
“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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Some 40,000 cyclists taking part in Moscow cycle parade
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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Summer Music in Moscow
Fresh air, warm weather and music – summer and festivals have always gone hand-in-hand. In the first of our two-part guide to festivals this summer in Russia, we round up the top open-air music events in Moscow.