Time ripe for China and Russia to form an alliance - Chinese expert
In May 2017 Beijing will host the Silk Road summit, where over 20 countries including Russia will engage in building a strategic undertaking to promote East-West cooperation. In an interview with...
View ArticleGazprom will supply electricity to Iran with Armenia's help
Alexei Miller, the head of Gazprom, said Russia plans to begin electricity supplies to Iran with the help of Armenia, reported Gazeta.ru. "Armenia plans to build a high-voltage power line next year,...
View ArticleRussian company explains why it paid Flynn for speech in 2015
A subsidiary of the Russian cybersecurity Kaspersky Lab group paid to adviser to the U.S. President Donald Trump on national security Michael Flynn (prior to his appointment to the position) for a...
View ArticleDespite a late start, the craft beer movement in Russia is on the rise
In the past few years, microbreweries, brew pubs and craft beer bars have sprung up in Moscow and beyond like mushrooms after the rain. The variety of beers and the number of pubs can be a bit...
View ArticleLast words uttered by 10 Russian writers
Leo Tolstoy attached great importance to the dying words of people of genius. He wrote in his diary: "The word of a dying person is particularly significant!" That said, some people manage to display a...
View ArticleBank of Russia warns about new wireless bank card fraud
Swindlers informed a new wireless method of stealing money from bank cards, representative of the Bank of Russia Artyom Sychyov said on March 17. "This is an absolutely new method of stealing money via...
View ArticleHow to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in St. Petersburg
Music and dance festival 'St. Patrick's Day' “Before 2000 St. Patrick's Day was only celebrated in Irish pubs by expats and within a closed community of folk-musicians,” Alexey Belkin, “St. Patrick's...
View ArticleSolovetsky Transfiguration Monastery: From Prokudin-Gorsky to the present
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky invented a complex process for vivid, detailed color photography (see box text below). Inspired to use...
View ArticleStop Thief! Body language analysis software spots criminals in the crowd
The data analysis laboratory at the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) has developed software capable of detecting non-standard and potentially dangerous...
View ArticleRussian space firm launches production of spacecraft for lunar missions
Russia’s Energia Space Rocket Corporation has launched the production of a new spacecraft called Federatsiya (Federation) and intended for near-Earth flights and lunar missions, Energia CEO Vladimir...
View ArticleJonathan Franzen and Julian Barnes up for Leo Tolstoy literary prize
The Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award, named after Leo Tolstoy’s estate in the Tula Region (200km from Moscow), has revealed a long list of contenders for its Foreign Literature category. It includes five...
View ArticleWhat’s life really like in Crimea 3 years after reunion with Russia?
The city trolleybus takes two and a half hours to reach the resort of Yalta on Crimea's southern coast./ Photo: Sergey Melikhov The airport in Simferopol, a city 700 miles south of Moscow, is currently...
View ArticleRussian sappers discover over 120 explosive devices in Palmyra
Russian sappers began demining the historical part and residential quarters in Syria’s Palmyra, Colonel Valery Ovdiyenko, commander of the mine clearance detachment of the Russian Armed Forces’...
View ArticleS&P improves outlook for Russia's sovereign credit rating to 'positive'
The international rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) has raised the outlook for Russia's sovereign credit rating to "positive" from "stable", confirming its long-term foreign currency credit...
View ArticleInvestigators initiate criminal case into murder of Roscosmos top manager
Russia's Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on murder of Roscosmos' (space authority) Acting Director on control of quality and realiability Vladimir Yevdokimov, spokeswoman of the Moscow...
View ArticleCounter-terrorism operation regime introduced in Russia’s Dagestan
The counter-terrorism operation regime was introduced on March 19 morning in one city and three districts of Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, a spokesman for the National Antiterrorism...
View ArticleMonument to victims of Flydubai plane crash unveiled in Russia’s Rostov
A monument to the 62 victims of last March’s Flydubai plane crash in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don was unveiled near entrance to the local airport on the anniversary of the tragedy on...
View ArticleU.S. president Trump calls Vladimir Putin ‘tough cookie’
U.S. President Donald Trump described his Russian counterpart as a "tough cookie" in an interview on the Fox News Channel aired late March 18. During the interview, Trump was asked to give short...
View ArticleRussia's crew wins final stage of bobsleigh World Cup
The Russian foursome Kasyanov, Alexey Zaitsev, Vasiliy Kondratenko and Alexei Pushkarev won the final stage of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation World Cup in South Korea’s Pyeongchang...
View ArticleJapanese FM Kishida expects good prospects for Kurils cooperation
Russia and Japan have good prospects for cooperation on the Kuril Islands in such spheres as fishing, tourism and medicine in the formats that don’t affect the two countries’ positions on the ownership...
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