With a 100-kilogram flag and the country’s biggest piece of white-blue-and-red cloth, Russia is celebrating its tricolor with pomp on national Flag Day this Wednesday. Flag Day has been celebrated (отмечается) every year on Aug. 22 since it was introduced in 1994. To mark the occasion, cities from Moscow to Vladivostok planned a range of…
The pictures show signs of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet period As the world teetered (балансировал) on the brink of war and revolution, photographer Sergey Produkin-Gorsky travelled the length of the Russian Empire to pioneer a radical new invention: colour photography.His images, created (созданный) in their hundreds between 1905 and 1915…
European University, a prestigious private graduate school well-known for its research in humanities and social sciences, has had its license restored by the education watchdog Rosobrnadzor. The university became the centre of scandal when its license was revoked (была отозвана) in 2016, before being partially restored and then revoked again in 2017. It was announced…
EFFECTIVE ENGLISH COMPREHENSION, SPEAKING AND VOCABULARY BUILDING Sundays Starting August 19, 2018 16:00-18:00 Topic for Sunday August 26, 2018: “English for Effective Networking and Socializing” FREE FOR ALL FLUENTRUSSIA/MOSCOW ENGLISH CLUB STUDENTS CURRENTLY ENROLLED IN COURSES ALL OTHERS WELCOME: 750 RUBLES Sushchevsky Val Street, 43 Building 2 Fifth Floor
August 16-19 Signal is a four-day electronic music festival held in Nikola-Lenivets, a unique (уникальный) natural and land art park, 200 kilometers from Moscow. You’ll be able to see live performances, DJ sets, and concerts by world-renowned artists, including Radioslave, Tommy Four Seven, Myn, Robert Lippok, and Abdulla Rashim. They’ll be performing on four stages…
Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Franco Zeffirelli… Whether you’ve been watching their movies your whole life or have only heard their names before and want to know what all the fuss is about, don’t miss out (пропускать) on this fall’s Festival of Italian Cinema at the AZ Museum in Moscow. Here is your chance to watch…
EFFECTIVE ENGLISH COMPREHENSION, SPEAKING AND VOCABULARY BUILDING Sundays Starting August 19, 2018 16:00-18:00 Topic for Sunday August 19: “How to Effectively Communicate in English with Native Speakers” Led By: Richard Tomar, an American attorney and English Instructor FREE FOR ALL FLUENTRUSSIA/MOSCOW ENGLISH CLUB STUDENTS CURRENTLY ENROLLED IN COURSES ALL OTHERS WELCOME: 750 RUBLES …
Russia’s consumer rights watchdog has imposed thousands of dollars in fines on McDonald’s fast food restaurants in Moscow following a mass inspection revealing widespread health code violations. Forty-four McDonald’s restaurants across (по всей) Moscow have been fined 5.5 million rubles ($86,500) between April and June 2018, the consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor said Tuesday. The 44…
Natalia and Irina Strozzi believe they are the direct descendants of Leonardo Da Vinci’s most famous muse, the woman behind The Mona Lisa. After learning about their connection to the woman, which was then just a family legend, a family friend and historian went on a fact-finding (расследование, сбор данных) mission to uncover the sisters’…
Over 27,000 fans came to Rostov’s new stadium for the first game of the Premier League season. The World Cup effect appears to have rubbed off on the Russian Premier League, which saw a 71 percent spike (скачок) in attendance this week following (после) the country’s hosting of the global football tournament.Russia spent an estimated…