Rosneft is buying Alrosa's natural gas assets for a sum between $1-1.5 billion, says Kommersant, as part of an aggressive bid to undermine Gazprom's monopoly.
After a 0-0 draw against Kuban, CSKA grab the Premier League title, leaving former champion Zenit St Petersburg biting the dust and facing their internal squabbles.
As summer season has arrived, you may be thinking about where to go in Russia, possibly off the beaten track. Our guest author from Manchester chose the best exotic destinations for summer holidays in Russia.
CSKA Moscow move closer to title, after Anzhi Makhachkala and Zenit St Petersburg fail to beat less decorated rivals. CSKA are now one point away from victory.
She always looked perfectly, looked after herself, and the hall always applauded to her phrase in the Lovely Liar performance, on behalf of the character Mrs. Patrick Campbell: “And I will never turn over the age of thirty nine, even for a single day!”. And it was true about the actress: she was ever-young.
n 1950 after the release of Cossacks of the Kuban she was honoured with the title of the People’s Actress of the USSR. However, while embodying on screen an idealized image of workers and collective farmers, Marina Ladynina was quite a sober minded person and did not cherish illusions about the compliance of screen images with reality.
She is a merited actress of the RSFSR, the People’s Actress of the USSR, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. Elina Bystritskaya is the winner of various prizes, awards and medals. She is an honorary Cossack, a colonel of Cossack armies with the right to bear arms. Elina Bystritskaya is the author of the book Meetings under the Star of Hope.
In the space of his own career, Space Oddity has remained David Bowie's most commercially successful hit. Almost prophetically written a few months before Apollo II mission, a story of an unfortunate spaceman Major Tom told the earthlings that "planet Earth is blue", which was then confirmed by the Apollo photographs. Many years later, Commander Chris Hadfield used his final day at the International Space Station to record his own cover of Bowie's song. This double tribute - both to the song and to David Bowie, whose exhibition at the V&A run till August - has amassed millions of views on YouTube.
Summertime is the period when many of us prefer to go to the woods for a traditional Russian-style barbeque called shashlyki. Unfortunately, this may also be the time when we are most susceptible to the encephalitis and Lyme disease caused by tick bites. Russian scientists have recently developed an express-test to help quickly discover, whether or not a tick was a virus carrier.
In 1960 Maya Kristalinskaya recorded Masha's song for the movie Thirst and right after the release of the movie she became famous and popular in the USSR.
Click to here to our weekly review of the most exciting videos from Russia. Now, this will be a sports edition, with Bop Sapp vs. Aleksander Emelianenko, a referee violently attacking player, and F1 star Jenson Button showing Hungarians how to drive a Soviet-made Lada.
In the last half a year, Russia-IC team members have worked hard delivering the great new stories to you. It's time to round up this stage and see, what's waiting down the line.
“Äîáðî ïîæàëîâàòü â Ðîññèþ“: These were the first words I observed in a green signboard, as soon as I got out of Moscow’s airport. It was funny as I could not understand a word…what did it say there? For me, the very first mystery of this country was Cyrillic. An impressive language, very different from anything I had ever seen, and of course, I could not understand one word. At the same time, I thought it was fascinating, being this one of the factors that made me feel lost in this scenic country.
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