8 Russian writers and their furry friends
Ernest Hemingway kept about 50 cats in his home. Mark Twain's trained cats could pretend to be sleeping. Poet William Wordsworth would constantly read poems to his dog, and Kurt Vonnegut once said, "A...
View ArticleTourists predicted to increase despite shortage of hotel rooms in Russia
According to the Rosstat news agency, foreign tourists visited Russia 24.6 million times in 2016, while the most travelers came from China, Germany, America, Italy, Israel, the UK, France, South Korea,...
View Article55 injured remain hospitalized after St. Petersburg metro blast
As many as 55 people injured in the recent St. Petersburg metro blast still remain hospitalized, a source in the city’s government told TASS on April 5. "As many as 55 people remain hospitalized," the...
View ArticleSt. Petersburg subway blast investigators detain recruiters of terrorists
Six natives of Central Asia have been detained in St. Petersburg on suspicion of recruiting individuals for terror-related crimes but investigators have no data on their ties with the subway terror...
View ArticleMost Russians want their children to become doctors
Russian parents consider medicine, the army, and law to be the most promising areas of employment for their children, according to a survey conducted by the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public...
View ArticleMoscow region to hold 21st Russian Internet Forum – RIF+KIB
The Russian Internet Forum – RIF+KIB – will be held on April 19-21 in the Moscow Region, at the Lesnye Dali guest house about 30 km west of the capital. RIF+KIB is a huge annual event and brings...
View ArticleLearn how to ’domesticate’ wild Russian "hedgehogs"
Russian death caps: Do you dare to prepare?You don't have to be a great artist to cut a tomato into a rosette or to fashion a happy piglet out of a boiled egg. Serving food in this way transforms the...
View ArticleHow dogs look for explosives on the metro
Moscow metro dog service center's employees patrol a Moscow metro station with a dog. / Photo: Grigoriy Sisoev/RIA Novosti Following the act of terror in the St. Petersburg metro, the authorities have...
View ArticleNew ice-breaking laser will guarantee year-round Arctic navigation
A new Russian marine laser device has been developed that can cut through ice which is more than one meter thick, thanks to its 200 kW capacity. Developed by the Shvabe Astrophysika National Laser...
View ArticleExonerated terror suspect is a former soldier who converted to Islam
Photographs shown by REN TV of the previously alleged terrorist in black clothing with a black beard and skullcap made front pages in Russian and global media several hours after the bombing in the St....
View ArticleU.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will visit Russia on April 11-12
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will visit Moscow on April 11-12 for talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on April 5. "This is his first visit to our...
View ArticleWhat stops Moscow and Beijing from forming a military bloc?
China is now the main focus of Russian military diplomacy. No other country outside the former USSR has such a level and intensity of military contacts and cooperation with Moscow. This cooperation...
View ArticleThe St. Petersburg blast took the lives of talented and wonderful people
On April 4, Russia’s Investigative Committee published a partial list of victims in the St. Petersburg metro bomb blast, and it includes 10 of the 14 whose bodies have been identified. The explosion in...
View ArticleEstonian citizen sentenced to 11 years behind bars in Russia for espionage
The Moscow city court has sentenced Estonian resident Arsen Mardaleishvili to 11 years in prison for spying for the Estonian Interior Ministry, the public relations center of the Russian Federal...
View ArticleExplosion occurs in southern Russia, one person wounded
An explosion has occurred in the center of Russia’s southern city of Rostov-on-Don, one person was wounded, a source in the regional law enforcement agencies informed TASS on April 6. "A homeless man...
View ArticleExplosive device defused in apartment house of St. Petersburg
An explosive device has been defused in a residential building in St. Petersburg, the head of the city’s Nevsky district administration, Konstantin Serov, has told reporters. "An explosive device was...
View ArticleRussia’s mineral resources agency cancels auction for Erginskoye oilfield
Russia’s Federal Agency for Mineral Resources (Rosnedra) has cancelled the decree on holding an auction for Erginskoye oilfield in the in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District, according to the...
View ArticleKremlin says Idlib tragedy may be exploited by terrorists
The tragedy in the Syrian province of Idlib related to the alleged use of chemical weapons may be exploited by terrorists and those who are trying to delegitimize the Syrian authorities, Kremlin...
View ArticleYevgeny Khaldei’s iconic WWII images exhibited in Moscow
Victory Banner over the Reichstag. Berlin. 1945. / Photo: Multimedia Art Museum Moscow A retrospective of the famous photojournalist Yevgeny Khaldei opened on April 5 at the Multimedia Art Museum in...
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