Five-time Grand Slam champion Martina Hingis is to coach Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, the Russian announced Monday, RIA Novosti reports. Pavlyuchenkova rose to 20th in the world on the back of her third title in Monterrey last week, and has enlisted the retired Swiss star's help for this weekend's Fed Cup match and beyond. "Now I'm starting my collaboration with Martina Hingis and we are going to try all the clay court series," the 21-year-old said on her website. "She is coming to Moscow this week to help me for Fed Cup." ...
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Vladimir Putin and Islam Karimov discussed bilateral cooperation issues and the current international political situation, the Kremlin press service reports. Mr. Putin and Mr. Karimov discussed strengthening economic ties, investment cooperation, cultural, humanitarian, science and technology contacts. They also exchanged views on the main regional and international issues, in particular, the situation in Central Asia. The talks then continued in expanded format. The two presidents witnessed the signing of several...
The idea of the Cinemotion Acting School appeared after Ingeborga Dapkunaite held a series of master-classes as part of Russian and foreign educative projects. The school’s board will include American actor John Malkovich, the Hollywood screenwriter Robert McKee, the dead of the British American Drama Academy (BADA) Ian Wooldridge and others, RIA Novosti reports. Fifteen people have been selected to participate in the first two-month program, which starts today.The program might be resumed in autumn with new students. The program establishes...
On April 15-16 at the Bolshoi Theatre the 10th Conference of Culture Ministers of the Council of Europe will be held. The conference will be attended by more than 230 delegates, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. Of the 50 member countries of the Council of Europe 22 will be represented at the level of ministers or secretaries of state. According to Vadim Duda, director of the Department for the Information Policy and International Relations of the Ministry of Culture of Russia, three main topics will be addressed at the conference: “The first...
A Russian cargo spacecraft undocked on Monday from the International Space Station (ISS) to perform a series of scientific experiments in space before splashing in the Pacific on April 21, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said, RIA Novosti reports. “The Progress-17M space freighter undocked from the Zvezda module of the Russian segment on ISS at 04.02 pm Moscow time [12:02 GMT],” Roscosmos said in a statement. “In the next six days, the spacecraft will conduct a series of scientific experiments under the Radar-Progress...
A rare book of verse by renowned Russian poetess Anna Akhmatova fetched 1.7 million rubles (about $54,000) when it went under the hammer in Moscow, setting a record auction price, an antiquarian bookseller said, RIA Novosti reports. "It’s a new record for an Akhmatova book sold at an open auction,” said Sergei Burmistrov, who runs the antique bookstore where the auction was held. The book, titled “Anna Akhmatova’s Poetry. 1909-1945,” was printed in 1946, but the print run was almost completely destroyed shortly soon...
Seven days after starting off from Russia’s Barneo base on the Arctic Ice Cap, a team of young Russian skiers led by the seasoned adventurer Matvei Shparo has reached the North Pole, Voice of Russia reports.There are ice mounds around and a gale-force wind howling amid them. The air temperature is close to minus 30 degrees Celsius. In the way of wildlife, a lonely polar bear has been spotted by the skiers.This North Pole shot is the sixth of its kind to be carried out from the Barneo base.
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A short time ago the book The Tsar of Great Russia in the Dutch Republic: Second Visit of Peter the Great to the Netherlands (1716-1717) by professor of Leuven Catholic University (Belgium) Emmanuel Vagemans saw light in the Netherlands.On April 11, the Russian Center of Groningen University and the Dutch-Russian Center held a presentation of the book in Groningen.The book author Professor Vagemans narrated on how the materials had been gathered and on the process of writing this book. While a lot had been written about the...
A team made up of legends of Soviet and Russian ice hockey has defeated a team of North American hockey legends in a charity match, Voice of Russia reports.The match was held on Saturday in the NHL arena of the New Jersey Devils, and ended with a score 7:6 in favor of the Russians.All proceeds from the charity event, said to be approximately $50,000, will go to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev each earned almost 5.8 million rubles (about $187,000) in 2012, according to their tax reports posted on the president's and the government's websites, RIA Novosti reports. The president’s annual income rose by almost 2.1 million rubles (about $67,500) last year from 3.7 million rubles ($119,000) in 2011. Putin owns a plot of land, an apartment and a garage, as well as three vehicles – two Soviet-made Gaz cars and a Niva SUV. His wife Lyudmila declared earnings of...
April 15 marks 80 years since the birth of science-fiction writer Boris Strugatsky, who died late last year in St. Petersburg. Friends and admirers of the writer will gather today at the Center of Modern Literatures and Books in St. Petersburg for a memorial evening. The program includes a photography exhibit by Pavel Markin called ‘Boris Strugatsky at 80’, a concert and a film screening the website of the Administration of St. Petersburg reports.
In honor of the 80th anniversary of Boris Strugatsky’s birth,...
On April 15 the Day of Culture is celebrated worldwide. This year the day is being held under the banner Love, Beauty, Knowledge – The Basis of Life in the Universe. This day was chosen to celebrate culture in honor of the signing of the treaty on Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions and Historic Monuments, known in international law as the Roerich Pact, on April 15, 1935, in Washington DC.
“We shall hear about the World Day of Culture too when at all schools and enlightener societies simultaneously...
David Bedzhanyan of Russia has won the European Weightlifting Championships in the under 105 kg weight category that is under way in the Albanian capital of Tirana, ITAR-TASS reports. His combined result after two exercises is 411 kilograms. His compatriot Maxim Sheiko won silver (404 kg) while Georgian weightlifter David Gogia took the bronze (401 kg).The Russian weightlifter Ruslan Alabegov has successfully defended his European title in the over-105 weight category, Voice of Russia reports. His sum was 442 kilos. Ukraine’s Artem Udachin...
Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky said at a meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart Abulfas Garayev that cultural cooperation with Azerbaijan was a priority for Russia, Trend reports.The minister noted the world forum of MGIMO graduates in Baku. He said that he attended the forum and met vice premiers of Slovakia and Ukraine, foreign minister of Vietnam and former foreign minister of the USSR.Medinsky expressed hope that the forum would become regular.
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Mikhail Gorbachev has been awarded a gold medal of the Union of Pensioners of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU). This award is given for achievements in reconciliation and mutual understanding between nations, Voice of Russia reports.The ex-President of the USSR and Nobel Peace Prizewinner is expected to receive the medal from the CDU leader, German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The ceremony is to take place on the 22nd of April.Earlier 82-year-old Gorbachev declined an invitation to British former Prime Minister Margaret...
Russia will develop new technology including huge new rockets for manned flights to the Moon and Mars by 2030, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said, RIA Novosti reports. Rogozin, who oversees the space and military industries, said on Friday Russia is going to design a carrier rocket with a payload of 130 to 180 tons as well as powerful interplanetary vehicles. The new technologies will lay the ground for manned flights to the Mars, Rogozin said, making his remarks while opening a meeting on the space industry in Russia’s Far East on...
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