The Russian duo of Ksenia Monko and Kirill Khalyavin opened the team event at the ISU World Team Trophy championship in Tokyo, Voice of Russia reports. The tournament features six strongest teams from Russia, Canada, US, Japan, France and China. The ISU worlds are going to become a kind of a rehearsal for the figure skating event in the 2014 Sochi Olympics, President of the International Skating Union Ottavio Cinquanta said. Russkiy Mir Foundation Information Service ...
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The Expert Center of Russian Studies Soon is soon to be launched in Luxembourg. Negotiations are already under way. Participating on the Russian side is the Russkiy Mir Foundation, supported by the Russian Embassy.In the opinion of Anton Ilin, a European representative of the Russkiy Mir Foundation, the center may open its doors by the end of this year or at the very start of the next year.The Center of Russian Studies is created to present unbiased information about Russia, as a public education venue.In the words of Mark...
The five-time Olympic champion in synchronized swimming Anastasia Davydova was appointed as chairperson of the Council for Assistance to the Russian Olympic Committee and was appointed as one of vice-presidents of the committee, President of the Russian Olympic Committee Alexander Zhukov told reporters after a meeting of the executive committee of the Russian Olympic Committee, ITAR-TASS reports.
“We elected a new composition and Davydova was appointed as chairperson of the Council for Assistance to the Russian Olympic...
Moscow can see no obstacle to Russia and the United States abolishing the entry visa regime in travel between them, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Interfax reports. “As far back as two years ago, [Russian President] Vladimir Putin proposed that we do not limit ourselves to loosening the visa regime but that we move toward the abolition of visas. We can't see any reason not to do so,” Lavrov told RTVi television.
Asked whether the Russian government is disappointed with the current U.S....
France’s Court of Cassation has upheld Russia’s ownership of St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Nice, thus making the final decision over a seven-year dispute, AFP reports on Thursday, RAPSI reports. In 2010, the Nice Superior Court declared Russia to be the rightful owner of St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral, dismissing a claim by the Russian Orthodox Association of Nice (ACOR), which had managed the church for over 80 years.
The ACOR filed an appeal with a court in the French city of Aix-en-Provence and...
Russian citizens have the right to visit Macedonia without visas or any other conditions until March 2014, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, ITAR-TASS reports. On March 12, 2013 the government of the Republic of Macedonia made a decision to grant citizens of Russia the right of a visa-free entry to Macedonia from March 16, 2013 until March 15, 2014 without any additional conditions, including conditions stipulated in the Agreement in effect at present, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Within the indicated...
After a second round of inspection, the Georgian mineral water Borjomi has been allowed to export to Russia, local media reported on Thursday. Russian consumer rights watchdog known as Rospotrebnadzor has completed a second inspection of Borjomi, which in the near future will be able to receive confirmation to register with authorities for export.
Borjomi was among other Georgian companies which have been inspected first by a group of experts from Russia in February, but Rospotrebnadzor then unexpectedly stated that it could...
Less than 400 Russians who took part in the international grammar test Total Dictation succeeded in getting top marks for their dictation. The worldwide dictation event was held on April 6. The number of participants more than doubled from the previous year and exceeded 32,000 people in 180 cities and 35 countries. More than 2500 people tested their Russian language skills at testing sites outside Russia and this year the Russkiy Mir Foundation was a partner of the event.
According to the organizers, the most commonly...
The Mayor of Gdansk in Poland Pavel Adamovic plans to put signs in Russian on the streets of his city, Head of the Polish Cultural and Business Centre in Kaliningrad Tomash Omansky told ITAR-TASS. This is being done so that Russian tourists could feel at ease in our city, Omansky quoted the Gdansk Mayor as saying.
The mayor’s press secretary Anthony Pavlyak said that the idea of translating into Russian the names in the public places of Gdansk was the result of the growing number of tourists from Russia, especially,...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited the Ivolginsky Datsan Buddhist center in Buryatia, in southern Siberia. He met with leader of the Sangha association of Russian Buddhists Damba Ayusheyev and other lamas, Voice of Russia reports. The Ivolginsky Datsan is a Buddhist monastery and a historical and architectural monument. Its main shrine is the undecaying body of outstanding Buddhist cleric Dashi Dorzho Itigelov.
“Buddhism plays a noticeable role in Russia. You help people both in sorrow and in joy. This has...
Russian explorers Fyodor Konyukhov and Viktor Simonov have covered the first 100 km of their daring 4,000-km dog sled expedition from the geographic North Pole to southern Greenland, Voice of Russia reports.
The farther south they move along 55 degrees west longitude, the thinner the ice and the more open-water gaps between ice floes. The explorers are hoping to reach their destination point by the middle of June.
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The Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre is presenting a new series of the Contemporary Piano Faces international festival – there will be concerts together with the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev as well as recital programmes by unique musicians from various generations and different schools who all have their own “voice”, unlike that of any other performer: Denis Matsuev, Christian Blackshaw, Goran Filipec, Ohad Ben-Ari, Vladimir Miloševi...
Russia likes the Georgian government’s pragmatism and is ready to expand ties with the South Caucasus country, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said, RIA Novosti reports. “The pragmatism with which Bidzina Ivanishvili’s government addresses [bilateral] relations appeals to us,” Lavrov told Russian television channel RTVi.
“We are ready to expand not only trade… but also cultural, humanitarian and sport contacts,” the foreign minister said. He said Russian political...
The next meeting of the US State Secretary John Kerry and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will be held in Brussels on April 23, Voice of Russia reports.
Also the Russian Foreign Minister said that the meeting of the Quartet of the mediators on settlement of the conflict on the Middle East must be held as soon as possible.
He added that theoretically this meeting must involve the representatives of Israel, Palestine and Arab states.
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Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic’s visit to Russia is destined to give a new impetus to bilateral relations, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday. “I’m confident your visit will give a good impact to the promotion of our economic ties,” he said at a meeting with Dacic.
Putin complained over a certain reduction of bilateral trade last year. “But our trade grew 38% again at the beginning of this year and that’s a good sign,” he said. He asked Dacic to convey best wishes to...
In 2013 Russia celebrates 400 years of the Romanov dynasty. To celebrate this anniversary the organizers of the exhibition “Russian Empresses: Fashion and Style. Late XVIII – early XX centuries” prepared an unusual show, Voice of Russia reports. Garments that used to adorn Russian royalty are exhibited in the Federal Archive exhibition hall in Moscow.Russian empresses, the wives and mothers of the Russian emperors, were first and foremost women who loved luxurious garments. They not only followed the fashion trends, but also often...
On April 13, Museum of the World Ocean welcomes visitors at the 8th annual Day of Herring, the portal culture.ru reports. This year, the motto of the celebration is “Time of changes”. The organisers have prepared fun competitions, workshops, amusing games and a procession of Mme Herring, queen of the holiday, and her faithful knights, as well as a fish market.A show has been prepared for young public; competitions for the title of the most fortunate fisherman are to be organized to please fans of fishing. Each museum department has...
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