Russia and the United States have agreed to establish regular dialogue on the protection of rights of Russian children adopted by US families, a Russian diplomat said on Wednesday after talks with US officials in Washington, RIA Novosti reports. “There is a mutual understanding that the dialogue must be improved and expanded,” said Konstantin Dolgov, the human rights ombudsman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, who led the Russian delegation at the talks requested by the United States in the wake of Russia’s ban on adoptions of...
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Egypt awaits Russian tourists and guarantees complete safety to foreigners, President Mohamed Morsi said ahead of his first visit to Russia in an interview to ITAR-TASS Deputy Director General Mikhail Gusman. "Some three million Russians arrive in our country each year, and we're trying to double this figure, because the Russian tourist is precious to us," he noted adding that tourism was one of the fields in which Egypt wished to expand cooperation with Russia.Speaking about the situation in the country in general, Mohamed Morsi said his country...
A Russkiy Mir Cabinet will open at one of the leading international lyceums of France – Lycee International des Pontonniers – located in the historical center of Strasbourg.The agreement was reached in the course of the visit of Anton Ilin, a European representative of the Russkiy Mir Foundation, to Strasbourg. He came to the lyceum where he had a work meeting with the principal of this educational institution Martine Quelen who is also Vice President for the Association of International Lyceums in France.An...
On April 16, the Big Hall of the Moscow State Conservatoire hosted a solemn evening dedicated to the 95th anniversary of great Azerbaijani composer, USSR People's Artist Gara Garayev. The event, organized by the Azerbaijani Culture and Tourism Ministry with the support of the Azerbaijani Embassy in the US and Russian Culture Ministry, was attended by Azerbaijani Ambassador to Russia Polad Bulbuloglu and Culture and Tourism Minister Abulfas Garayev, AzerTAj reports.Opening the event, the ambassador noted that Gara Garayev was a composer of not only...
On April 17-18, within the framework of jubilee celebrations devoted to the 20th anniversary of the RF Constitution and Federal Assembly, the conference "Russian Parliamentarism: History, Origins and Contemporaneity" was held. The session on April 17 opened with a round table devoted to one of the leaders of Russian constitutionalists of the early XX century – Alexander Guchkov.The second day of the conference began with a discussion forum devoted to the history and modernity of Russian parliamentarism. Leading Russian historians delivered...
A little-known friendship between Russia’s Tsar Alexander II and US President Abraham Lincoln in the mid-1800s came to light in a documentary shown in the United States for the first time Monday evening at the Library of Congress in Washington, and organizers of the event hope it can serve as a model for US-Russian relations today, RIA Novosti reports. “This film ought to be in the schools. American children should know what a marvelous history we share with the Russians, and they don’t,” said former US Rep. James...
The Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg will hire two thousand new creative workers and technical staff after its second stage opens on May 2, Valery Gergiev, the theater’s artistic director, told journalists on Tuesday. Gergiyev talked to journalists after the first acoustic rehearsal held in the new building’s main hall. After that he personally took the guests on a tour of the new building located on an area of 80,000 square meters, ITAR-TASS reports. The Mariinsky Theater has been hiring new employees for the third month....
State Hermitage museum director, Russian Academy of Sciences associate member and Tatarstan Academy of Science honorary member, Mikhail Piotrovsky, has today delivered a public lecture in Kazan, Tatar-inform reports. “Prominent scientists, politicians and culture figures delivering public lectures has become a good tradition,” Tatarstan Academy of Sciences president, Akhmet Mazgarov, noted. “Meetings like today’s allow us hear the viewpoints of renowned science and culture figures on most pressing matters.”...
The construction of an Orthodox church dedicated to All Saints and a Russian cultural center in Strasbourg will cost €6 million, the Russian Orthodox Church’s envoy to the Council of Europe said Tuesday, RIA Novosti reports. “According to a preliminary assessment, some €6 million will be required, and construction may start this fall, presumably in early October, but only if the financing is received by that time,” said Hegumen Philip Ryabykh, who is also the rector of the All Saints parish in Strasbourg in eastern...
Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a congratulatory message to employees of the National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute on the 70th anniversary of its founding, the Kremlin press service reports.The telegram reads, in part, that the institute's history “is inextricably linked with the outstanding achievements of domestic science, as well as the names of brilliant scientists, engineers and designers, of which the country is rightly proud. Their breakthrough discoveries have allowed us to construct a reliable ‘nuclear...
Two months after a meteorite exploded over the Chelyabinsk region of Russia and slammed into the Ural mountain range, a collection of meteorite pieces gathered in the aftermath is on display at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, RIA Novosti reports. “This particular event was like one in a century and the fact that there were so many dashboard cameras and so many witnesses, and also because of the close flyby of an asteroid on the same day, space has really captured the public’s imagination,” said Jim Holstein,...
The world-famous Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov will preside over the jury of the 3rd International Film Festival, which is opening today in Beijing, Voice of Russia reports.There are over 260 entries from 20 countries vying for the festival’s top awards, including Mikhalkov’s very own The Barber of Siberia, I’ll Be Around by Pavel Ruminov and Treasure Hunters by Nikolai Shcherbakov.The festival’s top Tantian Award comes in ten nominations, including for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (Actress) and Best...
Russia powered into the semifinals of the sledge hockey world championships on Tuesday with a 1-0 defeat of Italy, RIA Novosti reports. Dmitry Lisov's third-period goal was enough for the Russians to collect their second victory of the event in Goyang after a 2-1 victory Saturday over hosts South Korea. Russia, making its debut in the A-Pool competition, was also defeated 4-3 by Canada on Sunday. The top five finishers will qualify directly for the Sochi Paralympic Games next year, with the bottom three entering playoffs. Russia is an automatic...
The Schneerson library may be passed to the Jewish Museum and the Centre of Tolerance in Moscow before the end of this year, Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky told reporters about this forecast here on Tuesday, ITAR-TASS reports. He reiterated that the library is Russia’s property and there is no problem for the library’s transfer in property of the Hassidic Jews. The minister recalled that it was decided to pass the Schneerson library from the Russian State Library in the Centre of Tolerance. “The Centre of Tolerance...
President Vladimir Putin has assigned the First Separate Rifle Regiment the honorary name Semenovsky, the Kremlin press service reports. “With the aim of reviving glorious military historical traditions I hereby order that the First Separate Rifle Regiment be given the honorary name Semenovsky and from now on be called the First Separate Semenovsky Rifle Regiment,” the head of state said in a decree.As reported earlier, the president recreated the Preobrazhensky Regiment. This name was given to the 154th Separate Commandant Regiment. ...
The 19th International ballet dancing art festival named after Rudolf Nureyev opens here on Wednesday. It is deicated to the 75th anniversary of the birth of the Flying Dutchman, as the ballet dancing world referred to the great ballet dancer for his unsurpassed performing skills, ITAR-TASS reports. The opening ceremony will begin with the laying of flowers at the bas-relief of Nureyev on the facade of the Bashkir state opera and ballet theater. An exhibition of Bashkir artists' pictures dedicated to the life and creative activity of Rudolf...
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