Vladimir Putin is expected to break his silence on Russia‘s protest movement on Thursday, when he hosts an annual televised call-in show that has become one of the hallmarks of his rule. The programme, which usually lasts for hours and is a forum for Putin to promote his cult of personality, comes as the prime [...]
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December 16, 2011
December 11, 2011
Winter festival brings fairy tales to life
With little snow to speak of so far, this winter has seemed mild by Moscow standards. So to make Muscovites feel more at home, the capital city has opened its first ever ice theatre on Revolution Square. It comes as a part of the city’s Russian Winter fes The show’s central sculpture is teremok, a [...]
December 11, 2011
World-class violinist continues Russian visit tradition
Russia has become the first country to see world famous violinist Vanessa Mae’s new show. Mae, who gave classical violin a second life through techno-acoustic fusion, paid visits to St. Petersburg and Moscow this weekend. Mae, who has won many awards worldwide, prepared some specialties for her Russian audience. Apart from performing hits and new [...]
December 11, 2011
Podcast: Eyewitnesses Recall U.S.S.R.’s Dying Days, Plus St. Petersburg Surf Rock
December 8 marked the 20th anniversary of the Belavezha Accords, the document signed in a Belarusian forest in 1991 by the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, which declared an end to the U.S.S.R. Between March 1990 and the end of 1991, all 15 Soviet republics had declared their independence. The Cold War had ended, [...]
December 7, 2011
PM Putin pledges cabinet changes after March elections
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday pledged a major reshuffle of federal government and regional governors after presidential elections in March. Putin, who is expected to return to the Kremlin next year, said the first step, a reshuffle of the lower house, had been achieved after Sunday’s parliamentary elections. The elections saw the ruling [...]
December 4, 2011
Russians want Delight from McCartney
Anticipating Sir Paul McCartney’s gig in the Russian capital, fans of the ex- Beatle addressed the singer through a fan website with a request to include the rather unpopular Monkberry Moon Delight song into the show program. The address published on Beatles.ru says the choice was made according to polls held on this site and [...]
December 3, 2011
December 1, 2011
Tomaso Trussardi on Using Fashion to Show Values
Tomaso Trussardi on Using Fashion to Show Values By Galina Stolyarova The St. Petersburg Times Published: November 30, 2011 (Issue # 1685) FOR SPT St. Petersburg hosted the Russian premiere of the Trussardi collection on Nov. 17. Smart opinionated chic: This is what Trussardi women are all about, according to Tomaso Trussardi, general director for [...]
November 29, 2011
Most Russians see NATO eastward expansion as threat
Most Russians don’t see NATO as Russia’s partner and are convinced that the bloc’s eastward expansion is a threat to the country’s security, show the results of a poll by a state-run pollster released on Tuesday. 34 percent of respondents are convinced that the bloc is a threat to Russia’s security, down 7 percentage points [...]
November 23, 2011
Cirque behind Kremlin walls
Moscow’s Kremlin is to be occupied by dozens of clowns and illusionists, as the world-famous Canadian troop, ‘Cirque du Soleil’ brings its new show to the Russian capital. For over two spring months, the unusual visitors will reside in Moscow’s best known ancient monument – right next to the Kremlin Palace, where their spectacular shows [...]
November 23, 2011
A brief history of photography
A brief history of photography A photo biennale at the Marble Palace documents the last 150 years in Russia through the photographer’s lens. By Galina Stolyarova The St. Petersburg Times Published: November 23, 2011 (Issue # 1684) Aristocratic balls just before the Bolshevik Revolution, Silver Age art exhibitions, military parades in the Stalin era, peasants [...]
November 23, 2011
Swiss photographer digs into pop king’s childhood
Good photography is like archeology, believes Henry Leutwyler – the photographer behind the unusual exhibition of Michael Jackson’s personal items and suits that have just gone on show in Moscow. Leutwyler went to Michael Jackson’s estate – the legendary Neverland – to fulfill a magazine assignment: he had to photograph the iconic white glove. To [...]
November 19, 2011
in the spotlight: Cutting off Sobchak’s airtime
in the spotlight: Cutting off Sobchak’s airtime By Anna Malpas Published: November 16, 2011 (Issue # 1683) Last week, the scandal around media personality and it-girl Ksenia Sobchak and her jokey exposure of youth tsar Vasily Yakemenko at a pricey restaurant deepened, as a national channel apparently pulled an interview with her. Last month, Sobchak filmed Yakemenko, the clean-living founder of pro-Kremlin youth group [...]
November 19, 2011
Tatar President A No-Show For ‘World’s Largest Koran’
KAZAN, Russia — A Koran billed as the world’s largest has been unveiled in Kazan, the capital of Russia’s republic of Tatarstan, RFE/RL’s Tatar-Bashkir Service reports. Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, who was scheduled to attend the November 17 ceremony at Kazan’s Qol Sharif Mosque, did not show up. Minnikhanov’s predecessor, longtime Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiyev, [...]
November 13, 2011
Russia demonstrates its best combat aircraft at Dubai airshow
Russia will demonstrate its most advanced combat aircraft and air defense systems at a major airshow in the Middle East, which started on Sunday. The Dubai Airshow will be held on November 13-17 in the United Arab Emirates. The Airport Expo complex in Dubai is expected to host about 1,000 exhibitors from 50 countries which [...]