The legendary Russian tall ship Kruzenshtern is sailing today from Kaliningrad on this year’s first voyage. During the more than two-month trip the vessel, with 120 fisheries academy cadets on board, is to call at ports Germany, Lithuania and France, Voice of Russia reports.The four-mast Kruzenshtern was built in Germany but handed over to the Soviet Union in 1946 and given the name of the famous Russian seafarer, Admiral Ivan Kruzenshtern. The sailing ship regularly takes part in international regattas and has twice sailed around the...
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Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has said he attaches great importance to the planned construction of the Russian Orthodox Church of All Saints in Strasbourg, Interfax-Religion reports. “On one hand, the church and the parish will play a very large role in spiritual life, and, on the other hand, it will be a place where Europeans will be able to get acquainted with Orthodoxy and Orthodox culture,” the patriarch said at the first session of the project's supervisory board in Moscow on Tuesday. The meeting was attended by...
Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who has occupied a number of lynchpin political posts since the start of his career in the mid-1980’s, will present his book titled ‘The Hawks of Peace: Notes of the Russian Ambassador’ at the London Book Fair, ITAR-TASS reports.The book highlights Rogozin’s angle of view at the history of contemporary Russia, relations with the West and his own political career. He reveals some details of the war on terrorism in Chechnya and Georgia’s aggression against the Republic...
Vladimir Putin met with President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Osipov, the Kremlin press service reports.Issues discussed included the upcoming elections of the leadership and the president of the Russian Academy of Sciences at the general meeting of the RAS, to be held in late May. Yury Osipov briefed the President on the preparations for this meeting. Vladimir Putin stressed that the Russian Academy of Sciences plays an enormous role in the development of economy and science and in addressing national defence issues....
The forum of nongovernmental organizations from Russia and the countries of Northern Europe that kicked off in St. Petersburg earlier today is focused on transparency and cultural diversity, Voice of Russia reports. Full-scale meetings address the role of public diplomacy, youth policy, laws and financial support for NGOs. The participants will take up the role that culture plays in fighting racial discrimination and xenophobia.The forum, held as part of Russia’s presidency of the Council of Baltic Sea States, is being attended by...
Landing missions to celestial bodies in the Solar System will form the backbone of Russia’s space research program in the coming decades, a prominent Russian expert said Monday, RIA Novosti reports. “We’ve found our direction, our niche,” Lev Zelyony, the director of the Institute of Space Research at the Russian Academy of Sciences, said at a press conference in Moscow.
The Soviet Union has a track record of successfully landing unmanned probes on celestial bodies, including two moon rovers as well as...
The first Festival of Russian Culture in Turkey began on Monday. The festival is being organized under the leadership of the Turkish-Russian Cultural Foundation and with the support of Turkish and Russian Culture Ministries. The festival’s events will be numerous and diverse.
The Igor Moiseyev State Academic Ensemble will take the stage at the Istanbul Congress Center at the opening of the festival. The ensemble, formed in 1937 by Moiseyev, is the first professional group performing Russian dances around the world. The ensemble has organized many tours since 1945 and took the...
For the 12th time, the Dance Open International Ballet Festival is scheduled to take place in St. Petersburg on April 18-22, RBTH reports. Offering a program of amazing versatility of styles and techniques, it will star a great number of top-notch ballet dancers.
The Dance Open International Ballet Festival has already earned a worldwide reputation in previous years: In 2011, U.K. newspaper The Independent listed Dance Open among the top 10 festivals.
This time, the festival is planned on a...
Roberta Vinci bumped Maria Kirilenko from the world No. 12 spot in new rankings Monday after the Italian won the Katowice Open over the weekend, RIA Novosti reports. Vinci took her eighth career title on Sunday with a 7-6(2), 6-1 win over the tournament's top seed, Petra Kvitova. The 30-year-old moves to a career-high 12 in the WTA rankings on the back of the victory, dislodging Russian star Kirilenko. Kirilenko won her sixth WTA title at Pattaya in February.
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Russia’s Proton-M carrier rocket carrying a Canadian telecommunications satellite Anik-G1 blasted off on Monday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said, RIA Novosti reports. “The Proton-M carrier rocket lifted off as scheduled – at 10.36 pm Moscow time [18:36 GMT],” Roscosmos said. “The separation of the Anik-G1 satellite from the Briz-M booster is expected at 07.49 am Moscow time [03:49 GMT] on Tuesday.” Anik-G1 is a commercial...
One of the most serious issues in the Russian-Finnish relations is the protection of children’s rights in family conflicts, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday after talks with his Finnish counterpart Erkki Tuomioja, ITAR-TASS reports. “One of the area where we would like to see a faster progress is the protection of children’s rights in family conflicts,” Lavrov stressed. “We think it utterly important to build an efficient model of a Russian-Finnish dialogue in the area of family laws.”...
More than half of Russian citizens (58%) characterized the current relations between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches as normal working relations and 9% find them friendly, sociologists from the Levada Center told Interfax. Nevertheless, some people believe the relations between the two Churches are currently lukewarm, tense (14%), or even hostile (2%).The poll showed that 29% of the respondents find these relations rather close and friendly, 40% believe they should be better, and 6% believe the two Churches are close enough.More than...
To mark the 50th anniversary of the space mission by the world’s first woman cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, ‘Russian Cosmonautics Week,’ was held in New Delhi, RIR reports. The festivities included a colourful function, comprising of dance and painting contests at the Russian Centre of Science and Culture (RCSC) on April 12, the Cosmonaut’s Day.Throughout the week, the RCSC, Nehru Planetarium and a few Delhi schools held lecture-cum-presentations, film screenings and photo exhibitions on Valentina Tereshkova and achievements...
Russian-born Tatyana McFadden won the women’s wheelchair race at the storied Boston Marathon Monday for the second year in a row, firmly establishing herself as one of the best wheelchair distance racers in the world, RIA Novosti reports. “McFadden’s victory marks the first time since 2005 that an American has claimed the olive wreath in back-to-back years,” the organizers of the marathon, now in its 117th year, tweeted. McFadden, 23, from Clarksville, Maryland, finished the grueling course from the...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has confirmed his readiness to meet with his US counterpart Barack Obama on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Northern Ireland and said that the invitations extended to the US president to pay a visit to Russia remain in force, ITAR-TASS reports. The issue of the forthcoming contacts between the Russian and US presidents was discussed during a meeting in the Kremlin with the participation of Vladimir Putin and US President’s National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon. Russian presidential...
On April 10, 2013, the Center of Russian and Culture at the University of Plovdiv hosted the second round of a linguistic competition in Russian language and literature called "My Russian". The event was devoted to celebrating the Day of Russian. Those who successfully made it into the second round wrote a creative work on set topics. In this way each participant could unfold her potential and demonstrate her knowledge of Russian language and culture.Center of Russian Language and Culture underPaisii Hilendarski...
Only 230 of 1,500 teachers in Russian-language schools and kindergartens in Estonia have adequate proficiency in the official language, the country’s Language Inspectorate reported on Monday, citing last year’s statistics.As many as 77 teachers were fined, RAPSI reports. The Inspectorate opened violation cases against 74 teachers, and 48 of them will pay over 3,600 euros in fines. The others have been given suspended fines, which means that they will be enforced if the teachers fail to fulfill the order to improve their language...
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