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The world premiere of a ballet The Karamazovs, presented by the Saint-Petersburg’s Boris Eifman State Ballet Theatre, will tonight take place in Kazan, at the Jalil Opera and Ballet Theatre, legendary choreographer Boris Eifman said at a news conference held by Tatar-inform and Jalil Theatre, Tatar-inform reports. April 9-12 the Russian choreographer Boris Eifman, whose creative record includes over 40 productions, will present the shows The Karamazovs and Anna Karenina. “Our...

Latvia is hastily preparing to enact a bill by the VE-Day celebrations that bans the circulation of Nazi, former Soviet symbols and the symbols of the former Soviet Latvia during public holidays, sport competitions, show programs and other public events. A profile commission of the Latvian Seim has approved the proposed amendments on Wednesday, ITAR-TASS reports. Until now the Nazi and the former Soviet symbols had been outlawed during rallies, pickets and marches, but the ban had not applied to holidays, entertainments,...

The Commander and the Stork – a film by Silvio Soldini will open the 16th festival of new Italian films that is opening today in Moscow, Voice of Russia reports.Marcellus Dominicus Vincentius – a documentary tribute to the great Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni – is widely seen as the biggest highlight of the New Italian Cinema Events showcase. The festival runs until April 16. Russkiy Mir Foundation Information Service ...

All three Baltic countries have ignored Russia’s wish to open Russian centers of science and culture on their territories, Konstantin Kosachev said during the Government Hour in the Russian State Duma, Voice of Russia reports. Konstantin Kosachev is the head of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation, also known as Rossotrudnichestvo. Answering the question of a correspondent of The Voice of...

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The Federal Agency for CIS Affairs, Compatriots Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo) intends to step up support to Russian-language media abroad, the Agency’s Head Konstantin Kosachev said during Question Time in the State Duma on Wednesday, April 10. “Work is currently done voluntarily. There is the fund for support of Russian-language media. This project was initiated by ITAR-TASS Board Chairman and Federation Council Member Vitaly Ignatenko. The other participating organisation...

Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History has obtained 234 pieces of the meteorite that slammed into Russia’s Urals region in February from a donation by meteorite collector Terry Boudreaux, the museum has said on its website, RIA Novosti reports. More than a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of space stones are on public display at the Field Museum starting from Wednesday afternoon. The fragments will join the museum’s collection of more than 6,500 pieces of meteorites. Boudreaux, one of the world's greatest meteorite...

Head of Rossotrudnichestvo Konstantin Kosachev challenged State Duma Deputies to ponder the fate of the Russian language, Regnum reports. In his remarks during the Government Hour at the State Duma, Kosachev cited experts who say that “no language in the history of mankind has contracted as rapid as the Russian language over the past 20 years.” “By the mid-1990s national education systems in many countries ceased the teaching and study of the Russian language, and gradually it lost its position in many...

Russia has claimed the bronze medal at the 2013 women's world hockey championships after a 2-0 defeat of Finland, a good omen ahead of next year's Winter Olympics on home ice, R-Sport reports. Anna Shibanova and Alexandra Vafina broke the deadlock in the third period in Ottawa on Tuesday, and combined with a 32-save shutout from Nadezhda Alexandrova the Russians gained their first medal since the 2001 bronze. "Before the game we told the girls that they can alter the course of history,"...

Belarus and Russia are planning to set up an advanced civilian satellite grouping, Pyotr Vityaz, a spokesman for the Belarusian National Academy of Sciences, said on Tuesday, RIA Novosti reports. At present, the Belarusian-Russian space grouping consists of a Belarusian spacecraft, BKA, and its Russian counterpart, Kanopus-B, which were launched in July 2012. They provide satellite imagery with a resolution of 2.1 meters (6.8 feet). “We are currently discussing with the Russians the possibility of establishing a...

There are no plans to evacuate the Russian Embassy from North Korea in the near future, the diplomatic mission is functioning as usual, its press attache Denis Samsonov said. “No abrupt movements such as an evacuation or something of the kind are planned for the near future,” he told Interfax on Monday. “Our embassy is operating in its regular mode.” Samsonov said the situation in Pyongyang remains calm. “Everything is calm and stable in Pyongyang. There is no tension. All government institutions...

U.S. film director and producer John Martin has shot a film Far Out: Agafya's Taiga Life about Agafya Lykova, a recluse who lives on her own in the taiga in Khakassia, the press service of the Khakassky nature preserve has reported. The film is a continuation of Martin's project, Far Out, about how people can survive in extreme environments. The film Far Out: Patagonia and Far Out: Alas are about recluses living solitary lives in out-of-the-way places and about their survival skills. The...

Russia’s epee fencer Maria Obraztsova has won bronze at world championships among cadets in Porec, Croatia, Voice of Russia reports.Obraztsova lost to Alona Komarov of Israel, who outstripped her by only one hit. The silver medal went to Asya Linde of Sweden. Russkiy Mir Foundation Information Service ...

On April 5, 2013, within the VIII international research-to-practice conference "Linguistic Education in the Context of the XXI Century", the web seminar "Relevant issues in teaching Russian as a foreign language in the process of training specialists for international interaction," was conducted by the chair of international law and international relations of Trans-Baikal State University (Chita, Russia) and the Russian Center of Lorand Etvos University (Budapest, Hungary).The seminar was devoted to the theory and practice of teaching Russian as a...

Russian sailing frigate Pallada has arrived in Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius, from the South African port of Durban, Voice of Russia reports.For the first time in its history, Mauritius has become a meeting point for two Russian vessels – the bark Sedov, which is on a round-the-world voyage, and the Pallada, which will then head for Singapore.The Pallada frigate left the Russian Far Eastern port of Vladivostok on January 22nd to embark on an expedition of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.It passed through Singapore...

The international festival Meeting in Russia opens today, April 9, in St. Petersburg. Representatives of the best Russian-language theaters from the near and far abroad have gathered at the Baltic House theater in St. Petersburg, ITAR-TASS reports. The annual “meetings” help the participants to once again feel part of a single national culture and bring joint theatrical projects to life. Over the past several years the festival’s participants have come to include more than 50 theaters of the all the former...

The 18th session of the Russian-American Pacific Partnership (RAPP) will be held in Vladivostok in Russia's Far East in September, Interfax reports. “It is important to make sure that representatives of regional administrations, as well as the business circles of both America and Russia attend these events,” Dmitry Sazhin, head of Russia's RAPP department, said in Vladivostok. “[It is also vital that the] results of the session should help make progress in concrete projects.” Russian Foreign Minister...