On Sunday, after the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated at the Church of Our Lady of Kazan at the Convent of the Nativity of the Mother of God, he met with Hungary’s Minister for Social Resources Zoltan Balog, the DECR Communication Service reports. Patriarch Kirill noted with satisfaction that the Hungarian leaders made a stand for the Christian roots of the Hungarian culture, saying, “We welcome the fact that the Constitution of Hungary now includes a...
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The first round of "I Know" quiz game by correspondence is taking place in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Portugal and England. The total number of requests exceeds 700.The purpose of this game is popularization of Russian language and literature, as well as the history and culture of Russia's ethnic minorities.All answers will be forwarded to the game's facilitation center where the best will be picked out; the boys and girls with the highest scoring will be invited to a live game in Stockholm, to be held on May 31, where they'll be able to...
Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov won the pairs gold at the World Team Trophy in Japan on Saturday after cementing their overnight lead with victory in the free program, RIA Novosti reports.To the classical strains of Bach, the Russians performed a routine earning 136.06 points, making for a gold-winning score of 210.47, far ahead of Canadian pair Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford, who had to settle for silver with 121.21 in the free program for a 191.15 aggregate score.The Chinese pair of Cheng Peng and Hao Zhang scored a total of...
A Syrian Airlines plane carrying more than 30 tons of humanitarian aid for the victims of the ongoing conflict in Syria has landed in Damascus, Russia's embassy in the Syrian capital said on Sunday, RIA Novosti reports.The aid was collected in Russia by the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society, based in St. Petersburg, on March 22-April 10. According to the organizers, Russians have also raised over 2 million rubles ($64,200) for Syrians in need.The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, made an appeal for humanitarian...
On April 14-15, President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov will make an official visit to Russia at Vladimir Putin’s invitation, the Kremlin press service reports.The two presidents will meet on April 15 to discuss the full range of Russian-Uzbekistani relations in political, trade and economic cooperation and other areas too, following implementation of the Declaration on Further Consolidation of Strategic Partnership between the Russian Federation and Republic of Uzbekistan, signed during Mr Putin’s visit to Tashkent on June 4, 2012....
Russian and Polish school children visited the memorial Katyn to those who were killed during political repressions near Smolensk, Voice of Russia reports.Over 200 boys and girls took part in a memorial march from Gnezdovo railway station to the Katyn forest where over 4,000 detained Polish officers and 6.5 Soviet citizens were killed and buried under the orders by Stalin in 1940.
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Russian basketball team Lokomotiv-Kuban is the Eurocup 2012-2013 Champion after defeating Spanish Bilbao 75:64 in Belgian Charleroi. The match was watched by 3,862 spectators, ITAR-TASS reports. Lokomotiv-Kuban is the fourth Russian team to win this major Eurocup tournament. Russian athletes are the winners for the third consecutive year. Three Russian teams had won the trophy in previous years: Dynamo (Moscow) in 2006, UNIKS (Kazan) in 2011 and Khimki (near Moscow) in 2012.
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There are 18 names in the Russian response to the "Magnitsky list", the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday, ITAR-TASS reports. The published "Magnitsky list" is open blackmail to which Russia has no right not to respond, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated, commenting on the list of 18 Russian officials published by the American government on Friday.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has expressed regret in this connection. "Our assessment of the unfriendly step is well known – under the pressure of Russophobic-minded...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a number of assignments to the Russian Cabinet following the February 19 meeting of the Council on International Relations. In part, the Cabinet has been charged with updating by September 1 the federal target program Russian Language for 2011-2015 to include additional measures for the support of the study of the Russian language as a native language, the Kremlin press service reports.
By December 1, the Russian government must formulate its state commissions for 2014-2016 for the...
The most pressing issues concerning Russian public education and amendments to the Law on Education (which is supposed to take effect this September) are being discussed in St. Petersburg at the VI session of the pedagogical forum Enlightenment in Russia: Traditions and the Challenges of a New Era. This annual form is organized by the Center of Russian National Glory.
Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education and Chairman of the Russkiy Mir Foundation Management Board Vyacheslav Nikonov, noted that this forum is...
Lyudmila Verbitskaya, Chair of the Russkiy Mir Foundation Board of Trustees, spoke at the VI session of the pedagogical forum Enlightenment in Russia: Traditions and the Challenges of a New Era on Friday. She noted that government authorities are beginning to pay heed to what the teaching community is saying.
“It is important that all resolutions, and there were five, as there have been five forums to date, are given to the president and the leadership of the government as well as to the State Duma and Federation...
Diana Vishneva’s Dialogues has been nominated for the Golden Mask theatre prize in three categories – best production, best female role and best male role (Andrey Merkuriev in the ballet Subject to Change), the Mariinsky theater’s press service reports. Dialogues will be performed at the Golden Mask festival at the main stage of the Mossovet Theatre in Moscow. The production includes three one-act ballets – Martha Graham’s Errand into the Maze (1947), John Neumeier’s Dialogue (2011, created especially for Diana...
Russia is seeking to secure visa-free travel with all countries of Latin America, a Russian foreign ministry spokesman said, Voice of Russia reports.According to Alexander Shchetinin, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Latin America Department, some Latin American countries, including Mexico, are bound by certain commitments but this doesn’t mean that Russia won’t be able to find common language with them.Russia has signed agreements on visa-free travel with Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador,...
Two vases produced at the Russian Imperial Porcelain Factory in the 19th century have been sold in the United States for $2.7 million, a report posted on Dallas Auction Gallery’s website says, Voice of Russia reports.The vases, dated 1833, were acquired by a private collector who asked not to be named.Before that, they were part of a private collection of American oil tycoon Franco Battram, who bought them at an auction in Munich in the early 20th century.Battram’s descendants decided to put the vases up for...
Today, April 12, Baku is hosting I World Forum of the Moscow State International Relations Institute (MGIMO) graduates. The forum is attended by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and his spouse Mehriban Aliyeva, AzerTAj reports.The event involves officials from Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Moldova, Poland, Slovakia, Cuba, South Korea, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Vietnam etc, as well as representatives of prestigious international organizations and businesses. In general, the forum has brought together over 400...
President Vladimir Putin proposed on Friday naming a future town near the Russian Vostochny space port after the father of the Soviet space program, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, RIA Novosti reports. “I think it will be right if, after consulting it with the local residents, we will call the future town Tsiolkovsky,” Putin said on Friday, as Russia celebrated Cosmonautics Day marking the first manned space flight on that date in 1961 by Yury Gagarin. Tsiolkovsky, who died in 1935, is considered a pioneer of astronautical...
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