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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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,…
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…
“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…
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…
“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…
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…