Photo credit: mos.ru Representatives of Russian national rhythmic gymnastics team won eight gold medals at the first World Junior Championships. The championship was held in the new Irina Viner-Usmanova Moscow Palace of Gymnastics, athletes...
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Head of the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Foundation, the widow and the closest assistant to the great writer, Natalia Solzhenitsyna turns 80 years old on Monday, July 22, TASS reports. According to the famous writer's...
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Vice-President of Russian Tennis Federation Yevgeny Kafelnikov became the second Russian to be introduced to the Tennis Hall of Fame. At the ceremony, which took place in Newport, the USA, Kafelnikov said that throughout his life he would be responsible for including his name in the prestigious...
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Cadets from Russia, USA, Portugal, Bulgaria, Ukraine and other countries took part in the Historical Heritage of Suvorov international conference, which took place over four days in the capital of Moldova. One of the main events of the large-scale meeting was the opening and...
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Four hundred teenagers 11-16 years old from 22 countries arrived at the Russian summer camp Orlenok (Eaglet) located in Krasnodar Krai on the Black Sea coast. Children advanced in language, culture and history studies participate in the camp, Pobeda.rf website reports.
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The International Summer School called Theater as a Model for the Preservation of the Russian Language and Literature for bilingual children and their parents opened in Bulgaria in the international children's sports center Rositsa-Kiten on July 15 with the...
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Children from 76 of countries became members of the Artek camp. Current international shift is held under the slogan “We are different - we are equal,” TASS reports. It is the largest of all in...
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Moscow’s decision to facilitate the procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship for residents of Donbass does not contradict international legal norms, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after completing the meeting with his German counterpart Heiko Maas, RIA Novosti reports.
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Members of the delegation of French department of Moselle laid flowers at the international military burials of the Second World War, located near Rada station of Tambov Region. The guests thanked local authorities and volunteers for caring for the graves, RIA Top68 reports.
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The conference aimed at discussing issues of teacher training and advanced training was launched in Chinese city of Baotou, as well as a methodical seminar of the Association of Pre-University Educational Institutions of Russia and China. Participants discuss increasing the effectiveness of teaching Russian in China and...
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The festival of contemporary music Maple Rock, which will feature singers, musicians and poets of the Russian-speaking community of Canada, will be held in Ontario on July 19-21, the festival website reports. The festival will feature...
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Moscow will support any political forces operating in Ukraine that are ready to develop relations with Russia. President Vladimir Putin stated this at the meeting with Viktor Medvedchuk, one of the leaders of the Opposition Platform - For Life party, TASS reports.
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Moscow hits the top 5 among the megalopolises of the world for the availability of cultural and leisure facilities for residents of the city, Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes. Moscow has closed the top five rankings made...
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The Foreign Ministry of Russia expressed a strong protest to envoy to the US Embassy in Russia Richard Richardson in connection with statements by US officials and publications in the US media claiming that Moscow...
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The next round of the Russian-German Petersburg Dialogue forum opens on Thursday, July 18, TASS reports. It is held in the German city of Petersberg, located near Bonn, under the slogan "Cooperation as a...
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The solemn ceremony of launching the construction of the cableway took place in the middle of Amur River, which separates Russian Blagoveshchensk and Chinese Heihe, Vesti TV channel reports.
The new cableway will be the first cableway in the world to connect the two...
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Thousands of classical music fans from around the world gathered in the small French town of Colmar to attend the International Music Festival under the artistic direction of the famous Russian violinist and...
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Municipal Educational Council in San Francisco has taken a decision to paint over the murals on the walls of the local George Washington High School. According to the Russian Community Council of the USA (KSORS), it was recommended by the Reflection and Action Group designated by San Francisco municipal School District. What is so remarkable about these paintings and why is the situation so interesting for the Russkiy Mir? Actually, the thirteen panels of The Life of George Washington mural were painted in 1935-1936 by Viktor Arnautoff, a Russian émigré artist.
Touring schedule of the Alash ensemble from Tuva Republic during the International Indeginious People's Languages Year hasn't change. Seven months a year best throat singing ensemble is touring around Russia and abroad, during the rest of the year they are collecting folklore gems in Tuva and prepare new shows.After booked-out shows in os Angeles and Tokio, the musicians need to rest at home in taiga, alone with nature and herds of horses.
Recently, The Spiritual Path of Tchaikovsky by Galina Sizko was presented to the public in the library of the Russian Center of the Tchaikovsky House in Hamburg. The book was contributed and published by Denis von Meck, a descendant of the families of Tchaikovsky and von Meck, the founder of the NF von Meck Charity Foundation and a collector. The Russkiy Mir asked Denis to share about activities of the foundation established by him, and about his collection.
The Novel Bach musical project is concluded in the Netherlands. It aimed to introduce young Russian organ players (15 to 18 y.o.) to Dutch public, to demonstrate masterly level of their performance talent and to give the youth a unique opportunity to take part in master classes of famous organ players of Europe, to play on time-honored organs, and also to perform with their peers from the Sweelinck Academy at the Amsterdam Conservatory. 
Pskov is the capital of Hanseatic Days 01.07.2019
The International Hanseatic Days were held in Pskov on June 27 - 30. More than 1,700 delegates from 86 cities of the Hanseatic Trade League (which includes 192 cities in total with 14 Russian ones among them) were invited to Russia. The program includes festivals, concerts, fairs and forums with discussions of economic projects.