Russian icons from collection of Lawrence Steinhardt, the former USA ambassador to the USSR in 1939-1941, have been put up for sale by the Bonhams auction house.

Some of the Russian diplomats suspected of American medical insurance fraud could be engaged in espionage. FBI followed them like real spies, but in the end it was decided to accuse them of financial abuse only.

Japanese investors are showing dramatically increasing interest in agrarian resources of Russia, and not only in the Far East or Trans-Baikal region, but in such Russian regions as Penza, Voronezh and South as well.

As report says, Rospotrebnadzor has removed restrictions on the importation of dairy products produced by Lithuanian Rokiskio Suris Company.

The South Stream pipeline project is expected to accelerate after the EU has backpedalled on its tough demands in the face of unruly Ukraine.

A group of Japanese public activists of the Ōgata city (Akita Prefecture) have started fund raising for creating a bronze statue of the legendary sumoist Taihō Kōki of Ukrainian origin.

The Hope Factory by the young Russian film director Natalia Meschaninova will take part in the competitive program of the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

In August 2014, Japan plans to inject in near-Earth orbit a new cheap observation satellite ASNARO, which Tokyo expects to export abroad.

Organization of Elton Johns concert in Yekaterinburg turned to be troublesome for the citys concert agency.

The historical war film Stalingrad by the Russian film director Fyodor Bondarchuk will be released in the North of America and Canada soon.