Now here’s some food for thought. It seems Russian celebs have developed an appetite for haute cuisine as well as haute couture: over the past year, Moscow has seen several stars open high-end eateries. One of the most popular premieres this fall was a restaurant opened by Russian filmmaker Andrey Konchalovsky and his wife. Known [...]
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November 26, 2011
September 23, 2011
Big-budget Russian flop makes Oscar long-list despite scandal
The American Film Academy has included Nikita Mikhalkov’s controversial film “The Citadel” in its Oscar long list. That’s despite the fact that the head of Russia’s Oscar Committee refuses to support the nomination. “The Citadel” was a big-budget flop, costing nearly $40 million and earning only a fraction of that figure back. The head of [...]
September 23, 2011
The Red Eye cocktail: vodka, beer, tomato and egg
The Red Eye cocktail: vodka, beer, tomato and egg Published: 23 September, 2011, 22:26 The Red Eye cocktail (21.2Mb) embed video TAGS: Prime Recipe, Prime Time Russia, Anya Fedorova, Neil Harvey RT’s mixologist-alchemist has used a possible expedition to Mars as an inspiration for this week’s cocktail. Today: 22:24 Big-budget Russian flop makes Oscar long-list [...]
September 22, 2011
Russian critics brand Burnt By the Sun 2: Citadel ‘inappropriate’ for Oscar nomination race
As a film which bombed at the box office and was derided by critics, Burnt By the Sun 2: Citadel seems an unlikely pick for Oscar success. But when the final list of nominees is announced later this year, the Russian turkey will take its place alongside critically acclaimed golden eagles in the race for [...]
September 20, 2011
Russian Film Director Complains Of ‘Oscar Committee’s’ Favoritism
MOSCOW — A prominent Russian film director has called for changes in the composition of the country’s “Oscar Committee” because its members “are dependent” on director Nikita Mikhalkov, RFE/RL’s Russian Service reports. The Oscar Committee, which is headed by director Vladimir Menshov, nominated Mikhalkov’s movie “Burnt by the Sun 2″ for an Oscar on September [...]
September 20, 2011
Mikhalkov sequel film to compete for Oscar
Russian film director Nikita Mikhalkov’s film Citadel, the second part of the sequel Utomliennye solntsem 2 (Burnt by the Sun 2) has been selected for the 2012 Oscar awards, Russian Oscar committee member Kirill Razlogov said on Tuesday. The Russian premiere of the film was held on May 5. Part one of Burnt by the [...]
June 8, 2011
Public councils need people with ‘tough civil position’
Public councils should include awkward people with a “rigid civil position,” Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday. While meeting with the president, an ecologist complained about the work of the Natural Resources Ministry’s public council saying that the organization is a nominal structure, which practically solves nothing. “Are there in the public council only [...]
May 31, 2011
Mikhalkov’s Flashing Light
Mikhalkov’s Flashing Light By Anna Malpas Published: June 1, 2011 (Issue # 1658) Last week, officials cruelly invaded the privacy of Russian celebrities. First they stripped epic film director Nikita Mikhalkov of the flashing blue light on his car, forcing him to sit in traffic as if he were an ordinary person. Then they searched the office of doe-eyed Eurovision winner Dima Bilan to check [...]
May 30, 2011
Mikhalkov Caught on Video Driving Illegally
Oscar-winning film director Nikita Mikhalkov on Monday unleashed a barrage of insults at people who had filmed him cruising in the opposite lane in front of a traffic police officer, just days after he was stripped of his road privileges. A YouTube video shows Mikhalkov in his black Range Rover crossing into the opposite lane on the Garden Ring, not far from Dmitrovskoye Shosse in the city’s north. [...]
May 30, 2011
Activists Demand Russian Filmmaker Be Cited For Dangerous Driving
MOSCOW — Russian activists are demanding that prominent film director Nikita Mikhalkov be punished for “dangerous driving” in Moscow, RFE/RL’s Russian Service reports. The activists of the “blue bucket brigade” in Moscow filed an official suit against Mikhalkov with the Traffic Security Inspection Department (GIBDD) on May 30. The group supported their case with video [...]
May 24, 2011
Russian Press at a Glance, Tuesday, May 24, 2011
POLITICS Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met in Moscow with representatives of the Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas and said that their reconciliation deal would help advance the Middle East peace process (Nezavisimaya Gazeta) A week after talks with an envoy for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held talks with representatives of [...]
May 24, 2011
Mikhalkov Loses His Flashing Blue Light
Oscar-winning film director Nikita Mikhalkov will have to navigate Moscow’s notorious traffic jams as a regular motorist now that he has lost his much-lambasted road privileges provided by the Defense Ministry. Mikhalkov was handed a flashing blue light that entitles cars to ignore traffic rules as a member of the Defense Ministry’s public council. The use of the device is supposed to be limited to civil [...]
May 23, 2011
Mikhalkov Deprived of Road Privileges
Oscar-winning film director Nikita Mikhalkov will have to navigate Moscow’s notorious traffic jams as a regular motorist now that he has lost his much-lambasted road privileges provided by the Defense Ministry. Mikhalkov was handed a flashing blue light that entitles cars to ignore traffic rules as a member of the Defense Ministry’s public council. The use of the device is supposed to be limited to civil [...]
May 4, 2011
Seventeen years on the shelf
Seventeen years on the shelf Yury Kara’s film adaptation of ‘Master and Margarita’ is released 17 years after filming finished. By Alexander Bratersky The St. Petersburg Times Published: May 4, 2011 (Issue # 1654) FOR SPT Bulgakov’s novel alternates between atheistic Soviet Russia and Biblical Judea. MOSCOW — Before the premiere of “Master and Margarita,” [...]