Photo credit: © Beanpole screenshot provided by the film press service/Liana Mukhamedzyanova Historical drama film Dylda (Beanpole) feature was called the best full-length feature at the Geneva International Film Festival, RIA Novosti reports. The jury said Beanpole is a “real piece of art about grief...
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Days of St. Petersburg in Israel start on Monday, November 11, according to RIA Novosti. For the first time, they will take place in seven cities at once. In addition to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, festival venues will open in Haifa, Ashdod, Rishon Lezion, Netanya and Ashkelon.
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The fate of the Soviet and Italian partisans, who fought side by side during the Second World War, was described in the book by the Italian writer Marta Tondjani called At the behest of the heart. Apuan Resistance and the Contribution of Soviet Partisans. The presentation...
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Singer Svetlana Kasyan, writer Leonid Yuzefovich, director of the Vatican Museums Barbara Yatta and other Russians and foreigners became laureates of the Russian Rome international award. The award ceremony took place in the Palazzo Poli, where the Russian aristocrat and patroness of the...
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One hundred years have passed since the birthday of the outstanding Soviet and Russian small arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov on November 10.
Events were held in...
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Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree, simplifying official conditions of film shooting in Russia. The Ministry of Economic Development of Russia is convinced that the introduced compensation and benefits will make Russia more in demand...
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Parents of students of Finnish schools consider the Russian language one of the most important for studying in educational institutions, RIA Novosti reports. This is evidenced by the results of a survey conducted by the Center for Applied Linguistics at the University of Jyvaskyla. The study focused on the implications of introducing the...
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Days of Russian culture in Iran started on Friday, November 8, according to the website of the Ministry of Culture. Every year they acquaint locals with the Russian art and have already become very popular with the audience of the Islamic republic.
The Vologda Lace exhibition has opened today. Products of...
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The temple of Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church is planned to be opened in the Italian capital, according to Interfax news agency. According to Leonid Sevastyanov, who heads the World Council of Old Believers, this...
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Grand guests of the exhibition of works by Marc Chagall will be the granddaughters of the artist Meret and Bella Meyer, TASS reports. They were invited to the opening ceremony of the exhibition, which will be held at the New Jerusalem Museum. The vernissage is scheduled for mid-November, viewers will...
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The festive service and procession celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in the Israelian city of Jaffa. Church events in honor of the anniversary date were timed to the day of memory of the holy righteous Tabitha, who was buried on the mission territory, RIA Novosti...
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Sixteen Russian features shot in recent years and a retrospective of the outstanding director Pavel Lungin have been included in the program of the Russian Revival Festival, which opens in Sydney. Screenings and meetings with Russian actors and directors will be held in seven cities in Australia,...
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A study of the DNA of the remains found in Smolensk proved that they belonged to Charles-Étienne Gudin de La Sablonnière, a friend and closest ally of the Emperor Napoleon. This was told by Pierre Malinovsky, who heads the Foundation for the Development of Russian-French Historical...
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The popularity of studying the Russian language in Austria is growing, the Russian ambassador Dmitry Lyubinsky is sure. He said this in a message to the participants of the Vienna forum of Russian...
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The Vienna forum of Russian language teachers from EU countries opened on Thursday, November 7. The capital of Austria hosts it for the third time. More than a hundred specialists have gathered there, including teachers of the Russian language as a foreign and second mother tongue, heads of...
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The Higher School of Economics (HSE) has gained the highest positions among Russian universities in three subject ratings according to the British Times Higher Education (THE) magazine. HSE is included in the top 100 universities in the world in the ranking of business and law, and the...
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The 14th International Folklore Festival Pokrovskie Kolokola (Pokrovsky Bells) started on November 6 in Vilnius with the support of the Russkiy Mir Foundation. The cultural forum received its name after the Orthodox holiday of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary; it gathers guardians of the faith,...
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As the Russkiy Mir reported, the famous Uffizi Gallery in Florence will allocate four rooms for Russian icons. The masterpieces by Russian iconographers will be exhibited for the first time in a permanent exhibition and will be included in the main itinerary of one of the oldest museums in Europe. The exposition will include 78 icons that were brought to Italy in the 18th and 19th centuries. 
News Media Company Rossiya Segodnya (Russian Today), has presented results of the investigation on Western media’s publications about Russia. Octopus 1 is an informal name of the project. It references to traditional image of Russia as an octopus in Western cartoons, which dates back about one and a half centuries.
Igor Egorov is an ordinary school teacher from the Science Town of Pushchino near Moscow. For many years he has been spending his holidays traveling around Europe, where he searches for the graves of Russian white emigrants and for information about forgotten figures of Russian emigre communities. Anush, his wife and faithful assistant, is always by his side. The teacher actively engages his students in the search. 
Travel around Russia and meet good people 18.10.2019
How do you rise to fame and become a popular blogger with 300,000 subscribers when you are a bit over 70? Arno Pavel, an Estonian pensioner, has found his recipe for success. At 72, he drove his UAZ from Tallinn to Vladivostok and back. Impressions from such a trip would have been enough for any person for a lifetime. But Arno did not stop there: over the past three years he has visited Petrozavodsk, Arkhangelsk, Syktyvkar, Orenburg, Astrakhan, Elista, Grozny and even the Kola Peninsula. He also wrote a book about his trips to Russia and plans to write another one. 
Vladimir Zworykin – the gift to America 14.10.2019
This year marks the 130th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Zworykin, a famous Russian inventor and the pioneer of television technology. His name was unknown for a long time in Russia. Meanwhile, in the United States, where the inventor lived most of his life, at some point he was under supervision, as the FBI suspected him to be a Russian spy.