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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,”…
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…
Russian media reported earlier that US actor Steven Seagal, who was granted Russian citizenship in November 2016, may take part in this project A Russian federal agency confirmed on Tuesday that a project on promoting the so-called “Far Eastern hectare” is under development and a famous martial artist may take part in it. “In August…
On May 21, 1937, the famous polar ‘drifting’ expedition led by Ivan Papanin kicked off, captivating the Soviet public for the next nine months On May 21, 1937, a large red-orange ANT-6 aircraft landed on an ice floe not far from the North Pole. Thirteen men piled out of the plane, pulled out a bottle…
Local authorities also intend to open the Arctic diamond mines to tourists The Mirny District administration in the Sakha Region of Russia’s Far East has come up with a new tourism strategy to attract visitors, a route has been mapped out around sites linked to the history of Russia’s diamond mining. Among them are the…
Starting from February 1, 2017 every Russian citizen is entitled to file an application for getting a hectare of land in any region of Russia’s Far East for free US actor Steven Seagal, who was granted Russian citizenship in November 2016, may star in a TV show on how to get a hectare of land…
Starting from February 1, 2017 every Russian citizen is entitled to file an application for getting a hectare of land in any region of Russia’s Far East for free US actor Steven Seagal, who was granted Russian citizenship in November 2016, will get a hectare of land in the Far Eastern Primorye region and build…
This was Mariinsky orchestra’s first performance in Bulgaria over 45 years Mariinsky Theater symphony orchestra under the baton of maestro Valery Gergiyev on Monday opened the Sofia Music Weeks 48th international festival. The audience that included Bulgarian President Rumen Radev gave a standing ovation to the Russian musicians and the conductor who is also Mariinsky…
St Nicholas’s relics will stay in Moscow through to July 12, after which they will be transported to St Petersburg Veneration of St Nicholas the Wonderworker, a fragment of whose relics was delivered to Russia from Italy on Sunday, unites the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christians, the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill…
Bill Murray is an eclectic staple in New York. Although the actor and comedian now spends most of his time down south in Charleston, he’s made his mark on New York City, doing everything from filming iconic movies to bartending in Brooklyn. On June 12, Murray will come back to New York to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge…
The lottery organizers are still waiting for the winning ticket-holder to show up A Sochi local has won a record-setting jackpot prize of 364,685,787 rubles (roughly $6.5 mln) in lottery, the Stoloto lottery organizers reported today. “The ‘6 out of 45’ State Lotto will award the jackpot prize of 364,685,787 rubles to a Sochi resident,”…
The relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker are not the first ones brought to Russia from overseas Several millions of believers may pay homage to the relics of St. Nicholas, Roman Lunkin, Senior Researcher and Head of Religious and Social Studies Center at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told TASS.…