Vatican Museums exhibition in Moscow extended by 10 days amid huge success
Russia’s State Tretyakov Gallery had to extend by 10 days the largest-ever exhibition of masterpieces from the Vatican’s Pinacoteca following unprecedented success, the museum’s chief said. "We are...
View ArticleBoris Eifman is shooting his newest ballet film in St. Petersburg
Photo: Evgeny Matveev Boris Eifman, the celebrated choreographer and director of the St. Petersburg Academic Ballet Theatre, is directing his latest ballet film, Tchaikovsky: PRO et CONTRA, which is...
View ArticleRussia might be barred from the 2018 Paralympic Games
In summer 2016 after the publication of the McLaren report on doping in Russian sport, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) adopted the hardest possible line against Russia. Unlike the...
View ArticleA low-cost Kaliningrad airline plans to offer flights to Europe
The government of the Kaliningrad Region, which is 720 miles west of Moscow on the Baltic Sea, said it’s considering plans to create a regional passenger airline that will offer budget flights to...
View ArticleMoscow may sell Mi-17 helicopters, assault rifles to Duterte - expert
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s spring 2017 visit to Russia may turn out to be a real path-breaker for the two countries that have generally shied away from each other in the past. While Moscow...
View ArticleA sudden burst of fighting in Donbass leaves dozens dead
In the past few days tensions in eastern Ukraine suddenly and unexpectedly escalated, with Kiev and the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) accusing each other of starting the shelling on Jan. 29 and Jan....
View ArticleWhere are Russia’s vast gold reserves hidden?
Growing gold reserves Russia ranks sixth in the world in gold reserves, and the Russian Central Bank said they total 1,614.27 tons, which is 15 percent more than last year. The Russian Central Bank is...
View ArticleLabor minister: No decision on pension age hike made
The government has not made a final decision to raise the pension age in Russia, Minister of Labor and Social Protection Maxim Topilin said Feb. 1. "The government has not decided on increase of the...
View ArticleRussians turn Dutch sculpture into online meme
/ The sculptor’s daughter with Zhdun “Zhdun” is the name given by Runet users to a new sculpture by the Dutch artist Margriet van Breevoort. The character looks an elephant, a walrus and a giant...
View ArticlePresidential aide calls for U.S. companies to increase presence at SPIEF
Russia’s presidential aide Yuri Ushakov has called American businesses to increase their presence at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF-2017) in order to restore trade and economic...
View ArticleToward a totalitarian future? Digital DNA offers government huge powers
Yevgeny Chereshnev, an employee of Kaspersky Lab, believes every Internet user leaves a unique `footprint’ that allows identifying people without usernames or passwords. By using a combination of...
View ArticleRussia to supply 10 Su-35 fighter jets to China this year- source
A batch of 10 Su-35 fighter jets will be delivered to China this year and another batch of 10 aircraft will be in Beijing’s possession in 2018, a source in the field of military and technical...
View ArticleRussian Volga River city marks Battle of Stalingrad date
The Volga River city of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) marks on Feb. 2 74 four years since the victory of Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad, the press service of the regional administration...
View ArticleMcDonald's to use only local products in Russian outlets
McDonald's has pledged to use only Russian products at its restaurants in the country by 2020, RBK daily has reported, citing President of McDonald's Russia Khamzat Khasbulatov. "Now the share of...
View ArticleThe FSB breaks up Russia’s most notorious hacker group
"The price tag for our work starts at several tens of thousands of dollars, and I am not going to talk about the upper limit," said a man who calls himself Lewis during an interview with the news...
View ArticleFSB officers charged with treason, media claim CIA ties
Citing sources "familiar with the situation," Interfax reported that Sergei Mikhailov, the head of a department at the FSB's Information Security Center, and his deputy, Dmitry Dokuchayev, face charges...
View ArticlePromoter: Povetkin’s alternative doping tests yield controversial results
Russian boxer Aleksandr Povetkin’s alternative doping tests made at a laboratory in Lausanne, Switzerland, have yielded controversial results, the director of the World of Boxing promotion company,...
View ArticleThe Americans are searching for Putin's bunker
In the 1980s the U.S. recognized the Soviet Union as the most formidable country in terms of withstanding nuclear strikes. Today, the U.S. leadership is once again evaluating the level of Russia's...
View ArticleECHR orders Russia to pay 63,000 euros to opposition activist Navalny
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has satisfied a complaint lodged by Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny about violations of his rights and ordered Russia to pay him 63,000 euros in...
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