Blackout returns to Kaluga region - energy ministry
The stormy wind and pouring rain have caused the emergency blackout in central Russia’s Kaluga region, where about 7,200 people remain without electricity, Russia’s Ministry of Energy reported on its...
View ArticleRussian figure skater Radionova wins China’s Grand Prix
Russian figure skater Elena Radionova has won China’s Grand Prix on Nov.19. After two programs, her score is 205.90, another Russian figure skater Elizaveta Tuktamysheva was the third. This victory...
View ArticleMikhail Lomonosov: The 'Russian Da Vinci'
Mikhail Lomonosov was born in 1711 in the Arkhangelsk Region in the far north of Russia (615 miles north of Moscow). His father was a wealthy peasant fisherman who, like his ancestors, was involved in...
View ArticleSoviet grandma Nina knows an Italian when she sees one
One day during my first year in Russia, I was about to cross the road. On the right of the alley there was a posh black car and a tall, fat, dark man with golden jewelry was standing next to it. “Hey,...
View ArticleRussia expects explanations from Bern regarding fighters’ escort
The Russian Embassy in Switzerland has sent a note to that country’s Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), where it expressed bewilderment over the approach of the Swiss Air Force’s fighters to...
View ArticleWhere to escape snow in Russia: A secret resort between the hills and sea
RBTH editor’s note: More than two years have passed since a referendum was held on Crimea, which led to a treaty being signed between the peninsula and Russia. This has been the source of enormous...
View ArticleRosatom to choose foreign partner for wind parks in Russia
Rosatom to end of the current year will choose a foreign technology partner for construction of three wind parks in Russia, Rosatom’s First Deputy CEO Kirill Komarov said in an interview with TASS on...
View ArticleOmsk hit by extreme cold weather
Omsk citizen are accustomed to the winter weather extreme
View ArticlePutin may meet up with Obama
Russian President Vladimir Putin may meet up with outgoing US President Barack Obama "on the move" on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Lima, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Nov....
View ArticleBadaber uprising: When Russian POWs took on the Pakistani army and the CIA
In his autobiography titled ‘In the Line of Fire: A Memoir,’ deposed Pakistani dictator Gen Pervez Musharraf boasts about how Pakistan did something that neither Napoleon nor Hitler could do - defeat...
View ArticleRussia and China towards key international problems coincide
Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the bilateral agenda along with actual global problems at the meeting with the President of China Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic...
View ArticleRosneft CEO to discuss cooperation with PDVSA in Venezuela
Chief Executive Officer of Russian oil major Rosneft Igor Sechin will depart to Venezuela right after the APEC summit to discuss joint projects with local PDVSA. "Right now," Sechin said on Nov. 18,...
View ArticleLifting anti-Russian sanctions important, but EU values above all - Kern
Russia is an important economic partner of the Economic Union, but in lifting of the sanctions the respect for the European values should be above economic benefits, Austria’s Chancellor Christian Kern...
View ArticleIrkutsk region reports growing interest from foreign tourists
The number of foreign tourists visiting the Irkutsk region during nine months of the current year grew by 48% year-on-year - almost to 117,000, head of the local tourism authority Ekaterina Slivina...
View ArticlePutin greets Patriarch Kirill on his 70th birthday
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has sent a greeting telegram to Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill on his 70th birthday, the Kremlin’s press service said on Nov. 20. "You have devoted many...
View ArticleChina, Russia should promote establishment of free trade zone in APR - Xi
China’s President Xi Jinping during a meeting with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin at the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit in Lima (Peru) said China and Russia should support the...
View ArticleGazprom sees new cooperation projects with Japan - CEO
Gazprom sees new projects and directions for cooperation with Japan, the company’s CEO Alexei Miller told reporters on Nov 20. "Japan is a major energy market in the world," he said. "We can see new...
View ArticleRussia unlikely to receive McLaren report before release - official
Russia’s Independent Public Anti-Doping Commission will not have the opportunity to see the final version of report by the Independent Commission led by Richard McLaren, the World Anti-Doping Agency...
View ArticleRussian Cheerleading Championship
A team of cheerleaders performs during the Russian Cheerleading Championship of students in Moscow on November 20, 2016.
View ArticleRussian court arrests two suspected Ukrainian spies
The Kievsky district court in Simferopol has arrested for two months two Ukrainians suspected of espionage, a source in the court told TASS on Nov. 21. "Alexei Stogniy and Gleb Shabliy, whom the...
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