Christianity is in danger in Syrian districts occupied by rebels, the chairman of the External Affairs department at the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion, said addressing the audience at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Voice of Russia reports.He said that the Russian Orthodox Church views the situation as a humanitarian catastrophe for Syria where Christianity has existed since 1st century BC.“Unfortunately, western politicians and mass media seem to be turning a blind eye on the situation", Metropolitan...
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Istanbul is hosting a Russian Cinema Festival today, starting with Vladimir Menshov’s “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears”. The director described the creation of the film and its popularity in the USSR, RIA Novosti reports.Serkan Uzunay, one of the viewers of the film, expressed astonishment at the film. He expressed amazement at the depth of people’s relations and the fact that little had changed in Moscow in the past 30 years.Turkey will also watch such films as “Several Days in the Life of I.I....
With the Sochi Winter Olympics less than a year away, it remains an open question whether the world’s greatest ice hockey players will compete in what will arguably be the centerpiece of the games on the shores of the Black Sea, RIA Novosti reports. The National Hockey League (NHL) has yet to grant permission to its players to take the ice in Sochi amid ongoing negotiations with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) on issues such as player insurance, travel and video rights....
The seventh two-day regional conference of Russian compatriots living in Africa and the Middle East is opening today, April 19, in South Africa. “We plan to exchange views on the situation of Russians in their countries, on the strengthening of cultural ties with Russia and with each other,” Chairman of the Association of Russian Compatriots of South Africa Oleg Pantyukhin, who organised the meeting with support of the Russian Embassy and the representative of the Russian Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States,...
Professor Viktor Zhivov died on Wednesday morning in Berkeley, California. He was 68 years old. Viktor Zhivov was a respected specialist on the history of the Russian literary language, Eastern Slavic writing, church scripts and culture and the history of Russian literature of 18th century. “Viktor was a remarkable man, warm, caring, learned, highly distinguished within the academy in Russia, Europe and the US, deeply knowledgeable about his area of specialization and profoundly curious about all that was outside of it,” said Eric...
Vladimir Putin attended the opening ceremony of the World Ice Hockey U18 Championship, the Kremlin press service reports. President Putin expressed his confidence that the championship will be an outstanding event for both hockey fans and athletes. Mr. Putin declared a minute of silence before the Russia-US game in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack in Boston. The World Ice Hockey U18 Championships have been held since 1999. Russia is now hosting the competition for the third time after Yaroslavl in 2003 and Kazan in...
Russia's Far Eastern port city of Vladivostok, which is striving to join the expanding KHL hockey league, is to open a KHL-standard arena by the fall, the region's governor said Wednesday, RIA Novosti reports. The league is expected to confirm Vladivostok as an expansion team for next season by the end of the month, according to hockey great Slava Fetisov, now a senator for the city's region of Primorsky Krai. "In the fall we'll open a concert-and-sports complex," the region's governor Vladimir Miklushevsky said in comments on the...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he would visit Russia before the G8 summit, ITAR-TASS reports. Kerry made the announcement in Congress on Wednesday. Kerry said he had had a “good meeting” with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in London last week and he had invited him to visit Russia. The Kremlin said earlier that President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama should have full-format talks during the G8 summit to be held in Northern Ireland in late June.
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On Wednesday evening Russian President Vladimir Putin attended an early screening of the film Legend No.17. The general release of director Nikolai Lebedev’s film will take place on April 18. The film is a life story of Valery Kharlamov, a legendary Soviet hockey player.After the film, Vladimir Putin thanked the filmmakers and shared his impressions with the athletes. The President also congratulated one of the young hockey players on his birthday and gave him a wristwatch as a present.“I am confident that everyone present...
The demographic problem was made less acute successfully, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an annual governmental report to the State Duma on Wednesday, ITAR-TASS reports. “We succeeded to make the demographic problem less acute. This is good. But it is premature to believe that we got out from ‘the demographic pit’,” Medvedev said. “The birth rate does not provide for the reproduction of the population yet,” he stated.The systemic measures have been taken for a stable growth of the birth rate, a...
On April 16 and 17 the Regional Conference of Russian Compatriots was held in the capital of Hungary. The heads and representatives of coordinating committees of Russian compatriot councils from 33 countries of Europe and also Turkey and Israel gathered in Budapest for the occasion. The Russkiy Mir Foundation was represented by Alexey Gromyko, Director of European Programs.The welcome remarks were delivered by Russian...
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Egyptian leader Mohamed Morsi in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on April 19 to discuss a wide range of issues focusing on bilateral trade and investment, the Kremlin said, RIA Novosti reports. “The sides will discuss the expansion of trade and cooperation in education, science and tourism,” the Kremlin press service said in a statement on Wednesday. Putin and Morsi are also expected to exchange views on urgent regional issues, including the Middle East settlement and the situation in...
The 6th extraordinary convention of Tatarstan Muslims has today elected a Muslim Spiritual Board chairman. The acting mufti, Kamil Samigullin, is the new Mufti of Tatarstan, Tatar-inform reports. The convention gathered over 250 imams from all parts of the republic. President of Tatarstan, R. Minnikhanov, was an attendee.Candidates for the post were Kamil Samigullin, imam Haris Salikhzyanov and Russian Association of Islamic Agreement council head Farid Salman. Each of them delivered a programme speech. The delegates elected Kamil Samigullin to be...
Dynamo Moscow has won the Gagarin Cup of the Kontinental Ice Hockey League (KHL) on Wednesday. Dynamo defeated Traktor Chelyabinsk 3-2 in the overtime in the sixth game of the finals, ITAR-TASS reports. Sergei Soin has scored on the 32nd second in Dynamo and Dmitry Pestunov (35), Alexei Tsevtkov scored the winning goal on the 7th minute of the overtime. Maxim Yakutsenya (15) and Petri Kontiola (50) scored in Traktor. Oleg Znarok’s squad of Dynamo Moscow have won the finals of up to four victories 4-2 and became the...
Russia’s biggest arts festival culminated with the presentation of the prestigious Golden Mask Awards on Tuesday, Voice of Russia reports. The coveted award covers the performing arts of drama, opera, ballet, modern dance, operetta, musical, and puppet theatre.The award ceremony, which is preceded by weeks of the Golden Mask Festival across Russia, took place at the opulent Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre.Diana Vishneva scooped the Golden Masks in the Ballet/Contemorary Dance/Best Actress categories for...
Dagestani acting President Ramazan Abdulatipov made a two-day visit to Turkey to attend a Russian cultural festival and a business forum, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. He met Istanbul Governor Huseyin Avni Mutlu and proposed formation of a Dagestani cultural center for the Dagestani community in Istanbul. Abdulatipov reminded that Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan had built such centers.The governor noted interest in developing relations with all states. He added that Russia and Caucasus had great cultural experience.
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Russian culture is the foundation of our society, Russian Prime Minster Dmitry Medvedev believes. “Culture is directly connected with the belief of the people in themselves, in their strength, in their dignified future and, in the final analysis, with development and progress,” Medvedev said during his address to the Russian parliament, the television channel Kultura reports.Last year the government confirmed the state program Development of Culture and Tourism. It in particular foresees an increase in the salaries of cultural workers,...
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