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Alexander Pushkin
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| June 6, 1799 - February 10, 1837 |
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Leo Tolstoy
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| August, 28th (on September, 9th) 1828 - 7 (20) November 1910 |
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Georgy Zhukov
|
| ... - ... |
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Gennady Khazanov
|
| ... - ... |
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Alexander I Romanov
|
| ... - ... |
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Peter Inokhodtsev
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| ... - 1806 |
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Yekaterina Trubetskaya
|
| ... - ... |
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Lazar Lagin
|
| December 4, 1903 - June 4, 1979 |
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Nikolay Lossky
|
| ... - ... |
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Vladimir Gilyarovsky
|
| ... - ... |
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Anatoly Durov
|
| ... - ... |
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Klara Rumyanova
|
| ... - ... |
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Andrey Chokhov
|
| around 1545 - ... |
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Darya Saltykova
|
| 1730 - ... |
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Alexander Sumarokov
|
| ... - ... |
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Alexander Dovzhenko
|
| ... - ... |
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
|
| ... - ... |
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Nikolay Ozerov
|
| ... - ... |
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Nikolay Karamzin
|
| ... - ... |
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Vladimir Shainsky
|
| ... - ... |
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Alexander II Romanov
|
| ... - ... |
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Ivan IV the Terrible Rurikovich
|
| ... - ... |
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Vladimir Lenin (Ulyanov)
|
| ... - ... |
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Mikhail Kutuzov
|
| ... - ... |
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Peter I the Great Romanov
|
| ... - ... |
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Malyuta Skuratov
|
| unknown - ... |
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Mily Balakirev
|
| ... - ... |
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Alexey Stakhanov
|
| ... - ... |
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Vasily Perov
|
| ... - ... |
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Zurab Tsereteli
|
| ... - ... |
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Alexander Scriabin
|
| ... - ... |
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Nikolay Panin-Kolomenkin
|
| ... - ... |
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Sergei Eisenstein
|
| ... - ... |
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Boris Yeltsin
|
| ... - 23 April 2007 |
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Anna Politkovskaya
|
| ... - ... |
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Nikita Bogoslovsky
|
| ... - ... |
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Mikhail Frolkin
|
| ... - ... |
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Afanasy Nikitin
|
| The precise dates of his birth and death are unknown - ... |
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Yuri Ilyin
|
| 21 December 1941 - ... |
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Dmitry Mendeleev
|
| 08 February 1834 - 02 February 1907 |
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Savva Mamontov
|
| October 10, 1841 - April 6,1918 |
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Mikhail Lomonosov
|
| ... - ... |
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Pavel Tretyakov
|
| 27 December 1832 - 16 December 1898 |
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Herman Hess
|
| August 7, 1802 - December 12, 1850 |
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Pyotr Semenov-Tian Shansky
|
| 14 January 1827 - 11 March 1914 |
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Vladimir Vernadsky
|
| March 12, 1863 - January 6, 1945 |
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Nikita Demidov
|
| September 19, 1724 - May 7, 1789 |
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Savva Morozov
|
| April 24, 1770 - 1860 |
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Alexander Popov
|
| March 16, 1859 - January 13, 1906 |
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Nikita Khrushchev
|
| 17 May 1894 - 11 September 1971 |
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Nikolai Yusupov
|
| 1750 - 1831 |
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Nikolay Timofeev-Resovsky
|
| September 7, 1900 - March 18, 1981 |
|
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
|
| 26 June 1963 - ... |
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Evgeny Chichvarkin
|
| 10 September 1974 - ... |
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Evgeny Kaspersky
|
| 4 October 1964 - ... |
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Dmitry Krylov
|
| 29 September 1946 - ... |
|
Fyodor Konyukhov
|
| ... - ... |
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Vladimir Arsenyev
|
| 10 September 1872 - 4 September 1930 |
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Ferdinand Wrangell
|
| 29 December 1796 - 25 May 1870 |
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Peter Chikhachev
|
| 16 August 1808 - 1 November 1890 |
|
Mikhail Kozhukhov
|
| 16 December 1956 - ... |
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Vasily Dokuchaev
|
| March 3, 1846 - November 8, 1903 |
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Sophia Kovalevskaya
|
| January 15, 1850 - February 10, 1891 |
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Ivan Michurin
|
| October 27, 1855 - June 7, 1935 |
|
Kliment Timiryazev
|
| June 3, 18 - April 26, 1920 |
|
Yuri Andropov
|
| 15 June 1914 - 9 February 1984 |
|
Oleg Deripaska
|
| 2 January 1968 - ... |
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Mikhail Prokhorov
|
| 3 May 1965 - ... |
|
Roman Abramovich
|
| ... - ... |
|
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
|
| September 17, 1857 - September 19, 1935 |
|
Fyodor Dostoevsky
|
| 30 October 1821 - 28 January (February 9) 1881 |
|
Arseny Tarkovsky
|
| 25 June (12 June ) 1907 - 27 May 1989 |
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Vladimir Bogomolov
|
| 3 July 1926 - 30 December 2003 |
|
Naum Korzhavin
|
| 14 October 1925 - ... |
|
Anatoli Rybakov
|
| 1 January 1911 - 23 December 1998 |
|
Andrei Bitov
|
| 27 May 1937 - ... |
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Boris Akunin
|
| 20 May 1956 - ... |
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Sergey Lukianenko
|
| 11 April 1968 - ... |
|
Vladislav Krapivin
|
| 14 October 1938 - ... |
|
Arkady Strugatsky
|
| 28 August 1925 - 12 October 1991 |
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Boris Strugatsky
|
| 14 April 1933 - 19 November 2012 |
|
Kir Bulychev
|
| 18 October 1934 - 5 September 2003 |
|
Sergey Dovlatov
|
| 3 September 1941 - 24 August 1990 |
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Boris Ryzhy
|
| 8 September 1974 - 7 May 2001 |
|
Nikolay Lobachevsky
|
| November 20, 1792 - February 12, 1856 |
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Alexander Butlerov
|
| September 3, 1828 - August 5, 1886 |
|
Viktor Zubkov
|
| 15 September 1941 - ... |
|
Vasiliy Kluchevsky
|
| January 16, 1841 - May 12, 1911 |
|
Vagit Alekperov
|
| 1 September 1950 - ... |
|
Sergei Shcherbatov
|
| 1875 - 1962 |
|
Igor Kurchatov
|
| January 12, 1903 - February 7, 1960 |
|
Georg Wilhelm Richmann
|
| July 11, 1711 - June 26, 1753 |
|
Ivan Yefremov
|
| April 9, 1907 - October 5, 1972 |
|
Nikolay Koltsov
|
| July 15, 1872 - December 2, 1940 |
|
Mikhail Gorbachev
|
| 2 March 1931 - ... |
|
Alisher Usmanov
|
| 9 September 1953 - ... |
|
Vladimir Potanin
|
| 3 January 1961 - ... |
|
Vladimir Vysotsky
|
| 25 January 1938 - 25 July 1980 |
|
Sergey Yesenin
|
| ... - ... |
|
Valentina Tereshkova
|
| ... - ... |
|
Grigory Rasputin
|
| ... - ... |
|
Sergey Lebedev
|
| July 25, 1874 - May 2, 1934 |
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Vladimir Nabokov
|
| 23 April 1899 - 2 July 1977 |
|
Nikolai Valuev
|
| 21 August 1973 - ... |
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George Gamow
|
| March 4, 1904 - August 20, 1968 |
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Ivan Pavlov
|
| September 14, 1849 - February 27, 1936 |
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Igor Talkov
|
| November 4, 1956 - October 6, 1991 |
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Isaak Dunayevsky
|
| January 30, 1900 - July 25, 1955 |
|
Anton Chekhov
|
| January 17, 1860 - July 2, 1904 |
|
Boris Pasternak
|
| February 10, 1890 - May 30, 1960 |
|
Sergey Ilyushin
|
| March 30, 1894 - February 9, 1977 |
|
Nikolai Zhukovsky
|
| January 17, 1847 - March 17, 1921 |
|
Viktor Vekselberg
|
| 14 April 1957 - ... |
|
Yakov Zeldovich
|
| March 8, 1914 - December 2, 1987 |
|
Konstantin Skryabin
|
| December 7, 1878 - October 17, 1972 |
|
Mikhail Bulgakov
|
| May 15, 1891 - March 10, 1940 |
|
Alexander Stoletov
|
| August 10, 1839 - May 27, 1896 |
|
Ilya Kormiltsev
|
| September 26, 1959 - February 4, 2007 |
|
Vyacheslav Butusov
|
| 15 October 1961 - ... |
|
Andrei Makarevich
|
| 11 December, 1953 - ... |
|
Ivan Sechenov
|
| August 13, 1829 - November 15, 1905 |
|
Sergey Chetverikov
|
| April 24, 1880 - July 2, 1959 |
|
Chinghiz Aitmatov
|
| December 12, 1928 - June 10, 2008 |
|
Yuri Vizbor
|
| June 20, 1934 - September 17, 1984 |
|
Psoy Korolenko
|
| April 26, 1967 - ... |
|
Nikolai Zinin
|
| ... - ... |
|
Ivan Fyodorov
|
| about 1510 - 5 (15) December 1583 |
|
Vladimir Etush
|
| ... - ... |
|
Yuri Yakovlev
|
| ... - ... |
|
Nonna Mordyukova
|
| ... - ... |
|
Karen Shakhnazarov
|
| ... - ... |
|
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
|
| ... - ... |
|
Mikhail Rumyantsev
|
| ... - ... |
|
Igor Maslennikov
|
| ... - ... |
|
Faina Ranevskaya
|
| ... - ... |
|
Boris Stepantsev
|
| ... - ... |
|
Vasily Livanov
|
| ... - ... |
|
Vera Kholodnaya
|
| ... - ... |
|
Mikhail Zharov
|
| ... - ... |
|
Innokentiy Smoktunovsky
|
| ... - ... |
|
Nikolai Burlyayev
|
| ... - ... |
|
Mikhail Kononov
|
| ... - ... |
|
Anatoli Papanov
|
| ... - ... |
|
Andrei Mironov
|
| ... - ... |
|
Vera Mukhina
|
| 19 July 1889 - 6 October1953 |
|
Andrei Rublev St.
|
| around 1370 - January 29, 1430 |
|
Zinaida Serebriakova
|
| December 12, 1884 - September 1967 |
|
Yuri Koval
|
| February, 9th 1938 - August, 2nd 1995 |
|
Ivan Shadr
|
| January 30, 1887 - April 3, 1941 |
|
Fyodor Khitruk
|
| May 1, 1917 - December 3, 2012 |
|
Lev Rudnev
|
| March 3, 1885 - November 19, 1956 |
|
Yevgeni Kazantsev
|
| December 14, 1948 - ... |
|
Nikolai Zarubin
|
| February 13, 1948 - 1998 |
|
Lazar Gadayev
|
| 1938 - 21 September 2008 |
|
Yanka Diagileva
|
| September 4, 1966 - May 9 (?), 1991 |
|
Yegor Letov
|
| 10 September 1964 - 19 February 2008 |
|
Alexander Bashlachev
|
| May 27, 1960 - February 17, 1988 |
|
Oleg Kuvayev
|
| February 6, 1967 - ... |
|
Mikhail Roginsky
|
| August 14, 1931 - July 5, 2004 |
|
Vasily Sitnikov
|
| August 19, 1915 - November 28, 1987 |
|
Erik Bulatov
|
| September 5, 1933 - ... |
|
Viktor Sukhorukov
|
| 10 November 1951 - ... |
|
Oleg Tabakov
|
| 17 August 1935 - ... |
|
Boris Khlebnikov
|
| 28 August 1972 - ... |
|
Konstantin Lopushansky
|
| 12 June 1974 - ... |
|
Sergei Solovyov
|
| 25 August 1944 - ... |
|
Alexey Balabanov
|
| 25 February 1959 - 18 May 2013 |
|
Alexei German
|
| 20 June 1938 - 21 February 2013 |
|
Yuri Nikulin
|
| 18 December 1921 - 21 August 1997 |
|
Vladimir Zeldin
|
| 10 February 1915 - ... |
|
Yevgeni Grishkovetz
|
| 17 February 1967 - ... |
|
Georgi Daneliya
|
| 25 August 1930 - ... |
|
Arkady Raikin
|
| 24 October 1911 - 20 December 1987 |
|
Mikhail Kalatozov
|
| 28 December 1903 - 29 March 1973 |
|
Pavel Lungin
|
| 12 July 1949 - ... |
|
Tatyana Lioznova
|
| 20 July 1924 - 29 September 2011 |
|
Mikhail Romm
|
| 11 January 1901 - 01 November 1971 |
|
Sergei Bondarchuk
|
| 25 September 1920 - 20 October 1994 |
|
Yuliy Kim
|
| 23 Desember 1936 - ... |
|
Ernst Neizvestny
|
| April 9, 1925 - ... |
|
Yuri Norstein
|
| September 15, 1941 - ... |
|
Mikhail Shemiakin
|
| May 5, 1943 - ... |
|
Anna Pavlova
|
| 1881 - January 1931 |
|
Nicholas II Romanov
|
| May 6, 1868 - July 4, 1918 |
|
Vatslav Nijinsky
|
| 1889 - April 8, 1950 |
|
Leonid Gaidai
|
| 30 January 1923 - 19 November 1993 |
|
Andrei Tarkovsky
|
| 4 April 1932 - 29 December 1986 |
|
Tamara Karsavina
|
| 1885 - July 26, 1978 |
|
Alexei Uchitel
|
| 30 August 1951 - ... |
|
Mikhail Fokin
|
| April 26, 1880 - 1942 |
|
Andrei Zvyagintsev
|
| 6 February 1964 - ... |
|
Galina Ulanova
|
| 1910 - 1998 |
|
Vasili Shukshin
|
| 25 July 1925 - 02 October 1974 |
|
Maya Plisetskaya
|
| November 20, 1925 - ... |
|
Grigori Chukhrai
|
| 23 May 1921 - 29 October 2001 |
|
Alexander Gorodnitsky
|
| March 20, 1933 - ... |
|
Viktor Luferov
|
| May 20, 1945 - March 1, 2010 |
|
Aleksandr Galich
|
| October 19, 1918 - December 15, 1977 |
|
Tatyana Petrova
|
| September 19, 1957 - ... |
|
Lidia Ruslanova
|
| October 27, 1900 - September 21, 1973 |
|
Zhanna Bichevskaya
|
| June 17, 1944 - ... |
|
Sergei Lemeshev
|
| July 10, 1902, - June 26, 1977 |
|
Alexander Vertinsky
|
| 21 March, 1889 - 21 May, 1957 |
|
Bulat Okudzhava
|
| May 9, 1924 - June 12, 1997 |
|
Valentin Berlinsky
|
| 19 January, 1925 - 15 December 2008 |
|
Alexei Rybnikov
|
| July 17, 1945 - ... |
|
Veronica Dudarova
|
| December 5, 1916 - ... |
|
Arkadi Severnyi
|
| March 12, 1939 - April 12, 1980 |
|
Georgi Vitsin
|
| 23 April, 1917 - 22 October, 2001 |
|
Oleg Basilashvili
|
| September 26, 1934 - ... |
|
Liya Akhedzhakova
|
| July 9, 1938 - ... |
|
Feodor Chaliapin
|
| February 13, 1873 - April 12, 1938 |
|
Oleg Dal
|
| ... - ... |
|
Yevgeni Urbansky
|
| ... - ... |
|
Boris Shergin
|
| July 16, 1893 - October 31, 1973 |
|
Alexei Batalov
|
| 20 November 1928 - ... |
|
Rolan Bykov
|
| ... - ... |
|
Yevgeni Mironov
|
| ... - ... |
|
Nikolay Beketov
|
| ... - ... |
|
Aleksandr Tatarsky
|
| 11 December 1950 - 22 July 2007 |
|
Demyan Bedny
|
| 1 (13) April 1883 - 25 May 1945 |
|
Yevgeni Morgunov
|
| April 27, 1927 - June 25, 1999 |
|
Konstantin Balmont
|
| 15 June (O.S. 3 June) 1867 - December 23, 1942 |
|
Ivan Turgenev
|
| November 9 [O.S. October 28] 1818 - September 3 [O.S. August 22] 1883 |
|
Abram Ioffe
|
| October 29, 1880 - October 14, 1960 |
|
Ivan Goncharov
|
| 18 June [O.S. 6 June] 1812 - September [O.S. 15 September] 1891 |
|
Afanasy Fet
|
| December 5, 1820 - December 3, 1892 |
|
Fyodor Tyutchev
|
| December 5 [O.S. November 23] 1803 - July 27 [O.S. July 15] 1873 |
|
Mikhail Lermontov
|
| October 15 [O.S. October 3] 1814 - July 27 [O.S. July 15] 1841 |
|
Valery Bryusov
|
| December 13 [O.S. December 1] 1873 - October 9, 1924 |
|
Andrei Bely
|
| October 26 [O.S. October 14] 1880 - January 8, 1934 |
|
Nikolai Gumilyov
|
| April 15, 1886 - August 1921 |
|
Vladimir Mayakovsky
|
| July 19 [O.S. July 7] 1893 - April 14, 1930 |
|
David Burliuk
|
| July 21, 1882 - January 15, 1967 |
|
Aleksei (Alexander) Kruchenykh
|
| February 21, 1886 - June17, 1968 |
|
Sophia Parnok
|
| August 11, 1885 - August 26, 1933 |
|
Mikhail Kuzmin
|
| October 18 [O.S. October 6] 1872 - March 1, 1936 |
|
Marina Tsvetaeva
|
| 8 October [O.S. 26 September] 1892 - 31 August 1941 |
|
Velimir Khlebnikov
|
| November 9, 1885 (October 28, 1885 (O.S.)) - June 28, 1922 |
|
Osip Mandelstam
|
| January 15 [O.S. January 3], 1891 - 1891 – December 27, 1938 |
|
Anna Akhmatova
|
| June 23 [O.S. June 11], 1889 - March 5, 1966 |
|
Fyodor Bredikhin
|
| November 26, 1831 - May 1, 1904 |
|
Antony Pogorelsky
|
| 1787 - 9 (21) July 1836 |
|
Aleksey Remizov
|
| 6 July [O.S. 24 June] 1877 - November 26, 1957 |
|
Pyotr Yershov
|
| March 6 [O.S. February 22] 1815 - August 30 1869 |
|
Sergey Blazhko
|
| November 17, 1870 - February 11, 1956 |
|
Sasha Chorny
|
| 13 October 1880 N.S - 5 July 1932 |
|
Alexander Grin
|
| August 23, 1880 - July 8, 1932 |
|
Aleksei Nikolayevich Tolstoi
|
| 29 December (11 January) 1883 - 23 February 1945 |
|
Pavel Bazhov
|
| 15 January (27 January ) 1879 - 3 December 1950 |
|
Mikhail Prishvin
|
| January 23 (N.S. February 4), 1873 - January 16, 1954, Moscow |
|
Vasiliy Struve
|
| April 4, 1793 - November 23, 1864 |
|
Vitaly Bianki
|
| 11 February 1894 - 10 June 1959 |
|
Boris Zhitkov
|
| 30 August (11 September) 1882 - 19 October 1938 |
|
Andrei Platonov
|
| 20 August (1 September) 1899 - 5 January 1951 |
|
Nikolay Nosov
|
| 23 November [O.S. 10 November] 1908 - 26 July 1976 |
|
Patriarch Alexy II
|
| 23 February 1929 - 5 December 2008 |
|
Nikolay Emanuel
|
| September 18, 1915 - December 8, 1984 |
|
Yuliy Khariton
|
| February 14, 1904 - December 19, 1996 |
|
Dmitry Rovinsky
|
| 16 (28) August 1824 - 23 June 1895 |
|
Yvan Kyrlya
|
| 17 March 1909 - July 1943 |
|
Alexey Favorsky
|
| February 20, 1860 - August 8, 1945 |
|
Lev Atamanov
|
| 21 February 1905 - 12 February 1981 |
|
Valentin Zubkov
|
| 12 May 1923 - 18 January 1979 |
|
Tatyana Pelttser
|
| 6 June 1904 - 16 July 1992 |
|
Aristarkh Belopolsky
|
| July 1, 1854 - May 16, 1934 |
|
Sergey Winogradsky
|
| 1 September 1856 - 25 February 1953 |
|
Stepan Pisakhov
|
| 13 (25) Oñtober 1879 - 3 May 1960 |
|
Alexander Fersman
|
| 27 October, 1883 - May 20, 1945 |
|
Yelena Isinbayeva
|
| 03 June 1982 - ... |
|
Vadim Stepantsov
|
| ... - ... |
|
Vladimir Sorokin
|
| ... - ... |
|
Venedikt Erofeyev
|
| October 24, 1938 - May 11, 1990 |
|
Joseph Brodsky
|
| 24 May 1940 - 28 January 1996 |
|
Oleg Popov
|
| July 31 1930 - ... |
|
Alexander Chizhevsky
|
| February 7, 1897 - December 20, 1964 |
|
Dmitri Prigov
|
| 5 November 1940 - 16 July 2007 |
|
Vasily Andreyev
|
| 14 January 1861 - 26 December 1918 |
|
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
|
| February 18, 1974 in Sochi - ... |
|
Anna Kournikova
|
| June 7, 1981, in Moscow - ... |
|
Friedrich Zander
|
| 23 August 1887 - 28 March 1933 |
|
Patriarch Kirill
|
| 20 November 1946 - ... |
|
Semyon Chelyuskin
|
| 1704-1707 - November 1764 |
|
Valery Chkalov
|
| 2-nd of February 1904 - 15-th of December 1938. |
|
Sergey Botkin
|
| September 5, 1832 - December 12, 1889 |
|
Oleg Yankovsky
|
| 23 February 1944 - 20 May 2009 |
|
Alexander Suvorov
|
| 24 of November 1729 - 18 of May 1800 |
|
Varya Panina
|
| 1872 - June 10, 1911 |
|
Vyacheslav Nevinny
|
| 30 November 1934 - 31 May 2009 |
|
Leonid Roshal
|
| April 27, 1933 - ... |
|
Saveli Kramarov
|
| 13 October 1934 - 6 June 1995 |
|
Maria Sharapova
|
| April, 19, 1987 - ... |
|
Guus Hiddink
|
| November, 8, 1946 - ... |
|
Marat Safin
|
| January, 27, 1980 - ... |
|
Ludmila Zykina
|
| 10 June 1929 - 1 July 2009 |
|
Vladimir Bekhterev
|
| January 20, 1857 - December 24, 1927 |
|
Dinara Safina
|
| April, 27, 1986 - ... |
|
Sergey Obraztsov
|
| 22 June (5 July) 1901 - 8 March 1992 |
|
Ilya Mechnikov
|
| May 16, 1845 - July 16, 1916 |
|
Ivan Bunin
|
| October 22, 1870 - November 8, 1953 |
|
Nikolai Semenov
|
| April 3, 1896 - September 25, 1986 |
|
Igor Tamm
|
| July 8, 1895 - April 12, 1971 |
|
Nikolay Basov
|
| December, 14, 1922 - July 1, 2001 |
|
Aleksandr Prokhorov
|
| July 11, 1916 - January 8, 2002 |
|
|
Mikhail Sholokhov
|
| May 24, 1905 - February 21, 1984 |
|
Andrei Sakharov
|
| May 21, 1921 - December 14, 1989 |
|
Leonid Kantorovich
|
| January 19, 1912 - April 7, 1986 |
|
Pyotr Kapitsa
|
| July 9, 1894 - April 8, 1984 |
|
Zhores Alferov
|
| March 15, 1930 - ... |
|
Alexei Abrikosov
|
| June 25, 1928 - ... |
|
Lev Gumilyov
|
| October 1, 1912 - June 15, 1992 |
|
Daniil Kharms
|
| December 17, 1905 - February 02, 1942 |
|
Samuil Marshak
|
| October, 22nd, 1887 - July, 4th, 1964 |
|
Nikolay Bogolyubov
|
| August 21, 1909 - February, 13, 1992 |
|
Alexander Lodygin
|
| October 18, 1847 - March 16, 1923) |
|
Nikolay Pirogov
|
| 25 November 1810 - December 5 1881 |
|
Vasiliy Kolesov
|
| September 24, 1904 - August 2, 1992 |
|
Nikolay Severtsov
|
| October 24, 1827 - January 26, 1885 |
|
Semen Lavochkin
|
| September 11, 1900 - June 9, 1960 |
|
Mikhail Chumakov
|
| 14 November 1909 - 11 June 1993 |
|
Mikhail Kalashnikov
|
| 10 November 1919 - ... |
|
Igor Ilyinsky
|
| 24 July 1901 - 13 January 1987 |
|
Oleg Lundstrem
|
| April 2, 1916 - October 14, 2005 |
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Vladimir Obruchev
|
| October 10, 1863 - June 19, 1956 |
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Anastasia Vyaltseva
|
| 1871 - 5 (18) February 1913 |
|
Yegor Gaidar
|
| 19 March 1956 - 16 December 2009 |
|
Alexander Vampilov
|
| 19 August 1937 - 17 August 1972 |
|
Stanislav Lyubshin
|
| April 6, 1933 - ... |
|
Yuri Senkevich
|
| 03 March 1937 - 25 September 2003 |
|
Yevgeni Karelov
|
| 12 October 1931 - 11 July 1977 |
|
Nikolai Batalov
|
| November, 24th (December, 6th) 1899 - 10th November 1937 |
|
Vladimir Motyl
|
| 26 June 1927 - 21 February 2010 |
|
Konstantin Gedroits
|
| 25 March 1872 - 5 October 1932 |
|
Vladimir Basov
|
| 28 July 1923 - 17 September 1987 |
|
Boris Stechkin
|
| 5 August 1891 - 2 April 1969 |
|
Nikolai Karachentsov
|
| October, 27th, 1944 - ... |
|
Gala Dali
|
| 26 August 1894 - 10 June 1982 |
|
Olga Khokhlova
|
| 17 June 1891 - 11 February 1955 |
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Viktor Tregubovich
|
| November 30, 1935 - September 21, 1992 |
|
Gleb Panfilov
|
| December, 21st, 1934 - ... |
|
Vitaly Solomin
|
| 12 December 1941 - 28 May 2002 |
|
Igor Sikorsky
|
| May 25, 1889 - October 26, 1972 |
|
Alexander Mitta
|
| 28 March 1933 - ... |
|
Pyotr Fomenko
|
| 13 July 1932 - 09 August 2012 |
|
Ilya Prigogine
|
| 25 January 1917 - 28 May 2003 |
|
Oleg Yefremov
|
| October 1, 1927 - May 24, 2000 |
|
Varlam Shalamov
|
| June 18, 1907 - January 17, 1982 |
|
Alexander Bakulev
|
| 8 December 1890 - 31 March 1967 |
|
Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev
|
| October 9, 1926 - March 5, 1992 |
|
Marlen Khutsiev
|
| December, 4th, 1925 - ... |
|
Andrei Voznesensky
|
| May 12, 1933 - June 1, 2010 |
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Nadezhda Plevitskaya
|
| 17 January 1884 - 1 October 1940 |
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Joseph Stalin
|
| 18 December 1878 - 5 March 1953 |
|
Helena Blavatsky
|
| born 1831 July, 31 (OS August, 12) Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire, now Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk - died 1891 April, 26 (May, 8) London. |
|
Boris Zakhoder
|
| 9 September 1918 - 7 November 2000 |
|
Sergey Mikhalkov
|
| February, 28th (on March, 13th) 1913 - 27 August 2009 |
|
Nikolai Minkh
|
| March, 28th (15), 1912 - November, 2nd, 1982 |
|
Konstantin Kinchev
|
| December 25, 1958 - ... |
|
Garry Kasparov
|
| April 13, 1963 - ... |
|
Vladimir Bunchikov
|
| 21 November 1902 - 17 March 1995 |
|
Anatoly Karpov
|
| May 23, 1951 - ... |
|
Oscar Strok
|
| January, 6th 1893 - June, 22nd 1975 |
|
Andrey Krasko
|
| August, 10th, 1957 - July, 4th, 2006 |
|
Yuri Shevchuk
|
| May 16th, 1957 - ... |
|
Mikhail Boyarsky
|
| December, 26th, 1949 - ... |
|
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
|
| 18 July 1932 - ... |
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Mark Zakharov
|
| October, 13th, 1933 - ... |
|
Marat Guelman
|
| December, 26, 1960 - ... |
|
Vladimir Engelhardt
|
| 21 November 1894 - 10 July 1984 |
|
Yuri Entin
|
| August, 21st, 1935 - ... |
|
Gennady Gladkov
|
| February, 18th, 1935 - ... |
|
Mikhail Ulyanov
|
| 20 November 1927 - 26 March 2007 |
|
Boris Grebenshchikov
|
| November 27th, 1953 - ... |
|
Sergey Kuryokhin
|
| June, 16th, 1954 - July, 9th, 1996 |
|
Pavel Lisitsian
|
| November, 6th, 1911 - July 6, 2004 |
|
Kliment Voroshilov
|
| February, 4th, 1881 - December, 2nd, 1969 |
|
Yevgeny Rodionov
|
| May, 23rd 1977 - May, 23rd 1996 |
|
Victor Chizhikov
|
| September, 26th, 1935 - ... |
|
Stepan Krasheninnikov
|
| 31 October 1711 - ... |
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Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
|
| 26 May 1938 - ... |
|
Oleg Menshikov
|
| 8 November 1960 - ... |
|
Vladimir Mashkov
|
| November, 27th, 1963 - ... |
|
Nicholas Roerich
|
| September, 27th, 1874 - December, 13th, 1947 |
|
Bella Akhmadulina
|
| April, 10th, 1937 - November, 29th, 2010 |
|
Mikhail Yelizarov
|
| January, 28th, 1973 - ... |
|
Nikolai Gogol
|
| 31 March 1809 - 4 March 1852 |
|
Boris Yefimov
|
| September, 15th (28), 1900 - October, 1st, 2008 |
|
Aleksandr Abdulov
|
| May, 29th, 1953 - January, 3rd, 2008 |
|
Karl Ernst von Baer
|
| 28 February 1792 - 28 November 1876 |
|
Victor Pelevin
|
| November, 22nd, 1962 - ... |
|
Pavel Luspekayev
|
| April, 20th 1927 - April, 17th 1970 |
|
Alexander Sokurov
|
| June, 14th, 1951 - ... |
|
Korney Chukovsky
|
| March, 31st, 1882 - October, 28th, 1969 |
|
Mikhail Zoshchenko
|
| July, 29th, 1895 (August, 10th) - July, 22nd, 1958 |
|
Aleksei Fatyanov
|
| March 5, 1919 - November 13, 1959 |
|
Georgy Flerov
|
| March 2, 1913 - November 19, 1990 |
|
Vladislav Listyev
|
| May, 10th, 1956 - March, 1st, 1995 |
|
Yemelyan Pugachyov
|
| 1742 - January 21 [O.S. January 10] 1775 |
|
Stepan Razin
|
| 1630 - June 16 [O.S. June 6] 1671 |
|
Lyudmila Gurchenko
|
| 12 November 1935 - 30 March 2011 |
|
Yury Gagarin
|
| ... - ... |
|
Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya
|
| ... - ... |
|
Lyubov’ Maikova (Baba Lyuba)
|
| March 5, 1899 - March 23, 1998 |
|
Agniya Barto
|
| February 17 (O.S. February 4) 1906 - April 1, 1981 |
|
Eduard Uspensky
|
| December 22, 1937 - ... |
|
Vladimir Ivashov
|
| August, 28th 1939 - March, 23rd 1995 |
|
Victor Golyavkin
|
| August, 31st, 1929 - July, 21st, 2001 |
|
Radii Pogodin
|
| August, 16th, 1925 - March, 30th, 1993 |
|
Nadezhda Kosheverova
|
| 23 September 1902 - 22 September 1989 |
|
Valentina Karavayeva
|
| 21 May 1921 - 25 December 1997 |
|
Yuliya Zapolskaya
|
| 1919 - 1965 (1964?) |
|
Nikolay Fomenko
|
| April, 30, 1962 - ... |
|
Konstantin Babitsky
|
| May 15, 1929 - 1993 |
|
Tatyana Baeva
|
| ... - ... |
|
Viktor Fainberg
|
| 1933 - ... |
|
Larisa Bogoraz
|
| August 8, 1929 - April 6, 2004 |
|
Mikhail Yefremov
|
| November, 10th 1963 - ... |
|
Artemy Troitsky
|
| On June, 16th 1955 - ... |
|
Andrei Stolyarov
|
| October, 20th 1950 - ... |
|
Pavel Litvinov
|
| 1940 - ... |
|
Andrei Lazarchuk
|
| February, 6th 1958 - ... |
|
Vladimir Dremlyuga
|
| 1940 - ... |
|
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
|
| August 31 (O.S. August 19) 1863 - September 27, 1944 |
|
Yuli Raizman
|
| December 15, 1903 - December 11, 1994 |
|
Mikhail Baryshnikov
|
| 28th of January of 1948 - ... |
|
Diana Vishneva
|
| 13th of July of 1976 - ... |
|
Alexander Lebedev
|
| 16 December 1959 - ... |
|
Alyosha Dmitrievich
|
| ... - ... |
|
Natalia Vodianova
|
| 28 February 1982 - ... |
|
Natalia Ischenko
|
| 8 April 1986 - ... |
|
Maxim Gorky
|
| 16 March 1868 - 18 June 1936 |
|
Nikita Mikhalkov
|
| October, 21st, 1945 - ... |
|
Vladimir Menshov
|
| 17th September 1939 - ... |
|
Pyotr Stolypin
|
| 2 April 1862 - 5 September 1911 |
|
Konstantin Korovin
|
| November, 23rd, 1861 - September, 11th, 1939 |
|
Simon Ushakov
|
| 1626 - June, 25th 1686 |
|
Victor Borisov-Musatov
|
| 2 (14) April 1870 - October, 26th (November, 8th) 1905 |
|
Alexander Blok
|
| 28 November 1880 - 7 August 1921 |
|
Lyudmila Lyadova
|
| 29 March 1925 - ... |
|
Aleksei Reshetov
|
| April, 3rd, 1937 - September, 30th, 2002 |
|
Aleksei Ivanov
|
| November, 23rd 1969 - ... |
|
Igor Chapurin
|
| 21 March 1968 - ... |
|
Valentin Serov
|
| January 19, 1865 - December 5, 1911 |
|
Alexander Ostrovsky
|
| 31 March 1823 - 14 June 1886 |
|
Natalya Goncharova
|
| June, 16th 1881 - October, 17th 1962 |
|
Mikhail Larionov
|
| June 3, 1881 - May 10, 1964 |
|
Alexander Vasilyev
|
| 8 December 1958 - ... |
|
Marc Chagall
|
| 6 July 1887 - 28 March 1985 |
|
Wassily Kandinsky
|
| 16 December (O.S. 4 December) 1866 - 13 December 1944 |
|
Alexander Nevsky
|
| 30 May 1220 - 14 November 1263 |
|
Ilya Mashkov
|
| July, 29th 1881 - March, 20th 1944 |
|
Serge Sudeikin
|
| 19 March 1882 - 12 August 1946 |
|
Mikhail Vrubel
|
| March 17, 1856 - April 14, 1910 |
|
Sergei Chekhonin
|
| 1878 - February, 23rd 1936 |
|
Karl Bryullov
|
| 12 December 1799 - 11 June 1852 |
|
Ivan Puni
|
| 20 February (4 March) 1894 - 28 December 1956 |
|
Vladimir Narbut
|
| April, 2nd (14), 1888 - April, 14th, 1938 |
|
Catherine I of Russia
|
| April, 5th (15) 1684 - May, 6th (17) 1727 |
|
Catherine II (Catherine the Great)
|
| 2 May 1729 - 17 November 1796 |
|
Nicholas I of Russia
|
| 6 July [O.S. 25 June] 1796 - 2 March [O.S. 18 February] 1855 |
|
Alla Pugacheva
|
| 15 April 1949 - ... |
|
Alexander III of Russia
|
| February, 26th (on March, 10th) 1845 - May, 27th (or May, 15th J.C.) 1883 |
|
Paul I of Russia
|
| 1 October [O.S. 20 September] 1754 - 23 March [O.S. 11 March] 1801 |
|
Peter III
|
| 10 [O.S.21] February 1728 - 17 July [O.S. 6 July] 1762 |
|
El Lissitzky
|
| November 23 [O.S. November 11] 1890 - December 30, 1941 |
|
Fyodor Ushakov
|
| February 24, 1744 - October 14, 1817 |
|
Boris Godunov
|
| 21 February 1598 - 23 April [O.S. 13 April] 1605 |
|
Mikhail I Fyodorovich Romanov
|
| 12 July 1596 - 12 July 1645 |
|
Sophia Alekseyevna Romanova (Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia)
|
| 27 September [O.S. 17 September] 1657 - 14 July [O.S. 3 July] 1704 |
|
Aleksey Mikhailovich Tishayshy (Alexis of Russia)
|
| 9 March 1629 (O.S.) - 29 January 1676 (O.S.) |
|
Fyodor Bondarchuk
|
| May, 9th 1967 - ... |
|
Renata Litvinova
|
| January, 12th 1967 - ... |
|
Vladimir Bukovsky
|
| December 30, 1942 - ... |
|
Viktor Vasnetsov
|
| May 15 (N.S.), 1848 - July 23, 1926 |
|
Vasily Vereshchagin
|
| October 26, 1842 - April 13, 1904 |
|
Fyodor Vasilyev
|
| 22 February N.S. 1850 - October 6 N.S. 1873 |
|
Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov
|
| July 28 (July 16 [OS]), 1806 - July 15 (July 3 [OS]), 1858 |
|
Alexei Korzukhin
|
| On March, 11th (23) 1835 - On October, 18th (30) 1894 |
|
Ivan Kramskoi
|
| June 8 (O.S. May 27), 1837 - April 6 (O.S. March 24), 1887 |
|
Isaac Levitan
|
| August 30, 1860 - August 4 [O.S. July 22]1900 |
|
Aleksei Markov
|
| March, 12th (24) 1802 - February, 28th (on March, 12th) 1878 |
|
Dmitry Levitzky
|
| May 1735 - April, 4th (16) 1822 |
|
Mikhail Nesterov
|
| May 31 [O.S. May 19] 1862 - 18 October 1942 |
|
Vasily Perov
|
| 2 January 1834 [21 December 1833 OS] - 10 June [29 May OS] 1882 |
|
Vasily Polenov
|
| May, 20th (on June, 1st) 1844 - July, 18th 1927 |
|
Ilya Repin
|
| 5 August [O.S. 24 July] 1844 - September 29, 1930 |
|
Vasily Surikov
|
| January, 24 1848 - March, 19 1916 |
|
Vasily Tropinin
|
| March 30 [O.S. March 19] 1776 - May 16 [O.S. May 4] 1857 |
|
Pavel Fedotov
|
| On June, 22nd (on July, 4th) 1815, Moscow - On November, 14th (26) 1852 |
|
Ivan Shishkin
|
| 25 January 1832 - 20 March 1898 |
|
Boris Kustodiev
|
| March 7, 1878 - May 28, 1927 |
|
Ivan Aivazovsky
|
| July 29, 1817 - May 5, 1900 |
|
Vladimir Borovikovsky
|
| July 24 O.S. 1757 - April 6 O.S. 1825 |
|
Henryk Siemiradzki
|
| October 24, 1843 - August 23, 1902 |
|
Karl Brullov
|
| December 1799 - 11 June 1852 |
|
Nestor Kukolnik
|
| September 8, 1809 - December 20, 1868 |
|
Vasily Zhukovsky
|
| February 9 [O.S. January 29] 1783 - April 24 [O.S. April 12] 1852 |
|
Gavrila Derzhavin
|
| July 14, 1743 - July 20, 1816 |
|
Fyodor Sologub
|
| March 1 [O.S. February 17] 1863 - December 5, 1927 |
|
Nikolay Rubtsov
|
| 3 January 1936 - 19 January 1971 |
|
Aleksey Koltsov
|
| October 15, 1809 - October 19, 1842 |
|
Rimma Kazakova
|
| January 27, 1932 - May 19, 2008 |
|
Anna Bunina
|
| January 18, 1774 - December 16, 1829 |
|
Nikolai Klyuev
|
| October 10, 1884 - between October 23 and 25, 1937 |
|
Sergei Klychkov
|
| 1 on July (13) 1889 - On October 8 1937 |
|
Vissarion Belinsky
|
| June 11 [O.S. May 30] 1811 - June 7 [O.S. May 26] 1848 |
|
Vladimir Odoevsky
|
| 3 August [O.S. 1 August] 1803 - 11 March [O.S. 27 February] 1869 |
|
Ivan Krylov
|
| February 13, 1769 - November 21, 1844 |
|
Apollon Maykov
|
| June 4 [O.S. May 23] 1821 - March 20 [O.S. March 8] 1897 |
|
Yermak Timofeyevich
|
| 1532/1534/1542 - on August 6 1585 |
|
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
|
| September 13, 1923 - November 29, 1941 |
|
Svetoslav Roerich
|
| October 23, 1904 - January 30, 1993 |
|
Vladimir the Great
|
| Around 958 - 15 July 1015 |
|
Alexander Belyayev
|
| 16 March 1884 - 6 January 1942 |
|
Viktor Tsoi
|
| 21 June 1962 - 15 August 1990 |
|
Eduard Khil
|
| 4 September 1934 - 4 June 2012 |
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Mark Reizen
|
| 3 July [O.S. 21 June] 1895 - 25 November, 1992 |
|
Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov
|
| 31 January 1939 - 15 April 2012 |
|
Leonid Yarmolnik
|
| January 22, 1954 - ... |
|
Nikolai Berdyaev
|
| ... - ... |
|
Zakhar Prilepin
|
| ... - ... |
|
Konstantin Makovsky
|
| 20 June 1839 - 17 September 1915 |
|
Garik Sukachev
|
| December 1, 1959 - ... |
|
Ivan Poddubny
|
| October 8, 1871 - August 8, 1949 |
|
Nikolay Ge
|
| 27 February [O.S. 15 February] 1831 - 13 June [O.S. 1 June] 1894 |
|
Vitaly Sundakov
|
| October 7, 1957 - ... |
|
Elena Dementieva
|
| October 15, 1981 - ... |
|
Nikolai Miklukho-Maklay
|
| July 17, 1846 - April 2, 1888 |
|
Lev Rubinstein
|
| ... - ... |
|
Victor Pivovarov
|
| January 14, 1937 - ... |
|
Vitaly Goryaev
|
| On April 14 1910 - June 1982 |
|
Elena Kamburova
|
| July 11 1940 - ... |
|
Muslim Magomayev
|
| August 17 1942 - October 25 2008 |
|
Mike Naumenko
|
| April 18, 1955 - August 27, 1991 |
|
Fyodor Chistyakov
|
| December 28 1967 - ... |
|
Vladimir Clavijo-Telepnev
|
| 14 September 1962 - ... |
|
Valery Kipelov
|
| On July 12 1958 - ... |
|
Sergey Chigrakov "Chizh"
|
| 6 February 1961 - ... |
|
Ilya Lagutenko
|
| October 16, 1968 - ... |
|
Zemfira Ramazanova
|
| August 26 1976 - ... |
|
Marina Razbezhkina
|
| July 17 1948 - ... |
|
Alexander Kitaev
|
| 1952 - ... |
|
Valeriya Guy Germanika
|
| 1 March 1984, Moscow - ... |
|
Constantin Stanislavski
|
| On January 17 1863 - On August 7 1938 |
|
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
|
| October 3, 1935 - ... |
|
Andrey Rudenskiy
|
| On January 26 1959 - ... |
|
Vladislav Galkin
|
| December 25 1971 - February 25 2010 |
|
Yuri Stepanov
|
| June 7, 1967 - March 3, 2010 |
|
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko
|
| 23 December 1858 - 25April 1943 |
|
Yuri Kara
|
| ... - ... |
|
Nadezhda Rumyantseva
|
| 9 September 1930 - 8 April 2008 |
|
Anastasiya Vertinskaya
|
| December 19 1944 - ... |
|
Dziga Vertov
|
| 2 January 1896 - 12 February 1954 |
|
Alla Surikova
|
| November 6 1940 - ... |
|
Sergey Urusevsky
|
| 23 December 1908 - November 1974 |
|
Alexander Kalyagin
|
| ... - ... |
|
Vadim Derbenyov
|
| June 18, 1934 - ... |
|
Victor Titov
|
| March 27, 1939 - August 4, 2000 |
|
Andrei Kharitonov
|
| On July 25 1959 - ... |
|
Leonid Bykov
|
| December 12, 1928 - April 11, 1979 |
|
Ivan Pyryev
|
| On November 17 1901 - On February 7 1968 |
|
Stanislav Govorukhin
|
| 29 March 1936 - ... |
|
Lev Kulidzhanov
|
| 19 March 1924 - 16 February 2002 |
|
Lev Kuleshov
|
| January 13 1899 - March 29 1970 |
|
Dmitry Pozharsky
|
| November 1 1578 - April 30 1642 |
|
Kuzma Minin
|
| End of 16th century - 21 May 1616 |
|
Feodor Boborykin
|
| ... - May 26 1609 |
|
Sasha Pivovarova
|
| January 21, 1985 - ... |
|
Anne Vyalitsyna
|
| March 19, 1986 - ... |
|
Irina Shayk
|
| January 6, 1986 - ... |
|
Slava Zaitsev
|
| March 2, 1938 - ... |
|
Vasili IV of Russia (Vasily Shuisky)
|
| ... - September 12 1612 |
|
Grigory Otrepyev (False Dmitry)
|
| ... - ... |
|
Pyotr Bagration
|
| July 10, 1765 - September 24, 1812 |
|
Michael Barclay de Tolly
|
| December 27, 1761 - May 26, 1818 |
|
Denis Davydov
|
| July 27, 1784 - May 4, 1839 |
|
Olga Berggolts
|
| May 16, 1910 - November 13, 1975 |
|
Sergey Yursky
|
| March 16, 1935 - ... |
|
Sergey Nikitin
|
| 8 March 1944 - ... |
|
Oleg Mityaev
|
| February 19, 1956 - ... |
|
Oscar Feltsman
|
| February 18, 1921 - February 4, 2013 |
|
Kira Muratova
|
| 5 November 1934 - ... |
|
Vadim Abdrashitov
|
| January 19, 1945 - ... |
|
Rudolf Nureyev
|
| March 17, 1938 - January 6, 1993 |
|
Svetoslav Roerich
|
| November 5, 1904 - January 30, 1993 |
|
Mstislav Rostropovich
|
| March 27, 1927 - April 27, 2007 |
|
Galina Vishnevskaya
|
| October 25, 1926 - December 11, 2012 |
|
Nikolai Kryuchkov
|
| January 6, 1911 - April 13, 1994 |
|
Leonid Soifertis
|
| November 14, 1911 - January 15, 1996 |
|
Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe
|
| October 12, 1969 - March 16, 2013 |
|
Yevgeny Petrov
|
| December 13, 1903 - July 2, 1942 |
|
Ilya Ilf
|
| October 15, 1897 - April 13, 1937 |
|
Boris Chirkov
|
| 13 August 1901 - 28 May 1982 |
|
Anton Denikin
|
| December 16, 1872 - August 8, 1947 |
|
Valeri Zolotukhin
|
| June 21, 1941 - March 30, 2013 |
|
Alexander Litvinenko
|
| December 4, 1962 - November 23, 2006 |
|
Sergei Magnitsky
|
| April 8, 1972 - November 16, 2009 |
|
Mathilda Kschessinskaya
|
| 31 August [O.S. 19 August] 1872 - 6 December 1971 |
|
Boris Berezovsky
|
| 23 January 1946 - 23 March 2013 |
|
Kirill Razlogov
|
| May 6, 1946 - ... |
|
Andrei Plakhov
|
| 14th September 1950 - ... |
|
Garri Bardin
|
| September 11, 1941 - ... |
|
Maya Kristalinskaya
|
| February 24, 1932 - June 19, 1985 |
|
Vera Maretskaya
|
| July 31, 1906 - August 17, 1978 |
|
Elina Bystritskaya
|
| April 4, 1928 - ... |
|
Marina Ladynina
|
| June 24, 1908 - March 10, 2003 |
|
Lyubov Orlova
|
| February 11, 1902 - January 26, 1975 |
|
Grigori Aleksandrov
|
| January 23, 1903 - December 16, 1983 |
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Space Oddity: Chris Hadfield Safely Lands To Millions Of YouTube Views
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| 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.
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Russian Scientists Developed an Express Encephalitis Test
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| 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.
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| --14-05-2013-- |
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Top 3 Videos From Russia
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| 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.
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May 1 Demos Videos
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| May 1 rallies were a must-see show in the USSR, with compulsory attendance and silly slogans like 'Peace! Work! May!' Click here to see how modern Russia celebrates this spring holiday.
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| --01-05-2013-- |
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Fashion And Style Photos: Pirelli Calendar, Lilya Brik And Model Verushka
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| The biannual exhibition «Fashion and style in photography» that takes place in Moscow was replenished by three exhibitions in the Multimedia Art Museum. Two of them — «Lilya Brik. Abandoned travel» and photos of Pirelli calendar of this year — meet the visitors in museum foyer. The third exhibition, the most impressive and dimensioned, occupied the whole second floor of the museum. Here are self-portraits and several suits from the performances and art-projects of legendary Verushka, the model, that in the 1960—1970-s changed fashion industry canons.
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New Aquabuses in St. Petersburg
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| New aquabuses will appear in St. Petersburg. Passengers of aquabuses have no risk to be trapped in traffic jams (a trip on the longest route takes less than 45 minutes). Many of the vessel stops are situated close to the subway stations. And the route of the Central line, for example, passes the Summer Garden, Peter and Paul Fortress, the Winter Palace, the famous St. Petersburg bridges and wharfs.
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| --29-04-2013-- |
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A Russian Woman’s Dress Of the Second Half Of the XVII Century
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| A new exhibition «A Russian woman’s dress of the second half of the XVII century» has been opened at the Moscow united culture preserve (the territory of Kolomenskoye). It presents garments, footwear and head dresses, and will last till July 27, 2013.
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| --29-04-2013-- |
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Summer City Festival - the Best City On the Earth
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| On the 20th of April, 2013 the summer city festival «The best city on the Earth» started in Moscow. The festival provides more than a thousand and a half of events in all the districts of the Russian capital.
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| --28-04-2013-- |
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The Tulips Festival In The Republic Of Kalmykia
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| The largest in the world accumulation of the biggest Gesner wild tulips with various colouring are in Kalmykia at the shores of the huge salt lake Manych that reminds a real sea gulf. The Tulips Festival takes place in the Republic of Kalmykia from the 20th till the 30th of April.
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| --28-04-2013-- |
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Kamchatka Presents
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| Kamchatka has presented 8 unique natural sites for the participation in the multimedia project "Russia 10". One of the most important goals of the project is to promote the image of Russia as one of the countries with very rich cultural and natural heritage, and to select ten country visual symbols that will be determined by the general voting.
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Fashion Flood in Magnitogorsk
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| Active preparations for the international festival of contemporary fashion and music Polovodie-2013 (Flood) started in Magnitogorsk.
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| --26-04-2013-- |
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The Highest Ferris Wheel
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| At the southwest of Moscow, near the circus at Vernadsky avenue the highest in the world Ferris wheel will appear. The Ferris wheel together with a multifunctional complex will be made in the form of wedding rings.
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| --26-04-2013-- |
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The First Russian Nature Reserve
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| Barguzinsky nature reserve is the first nature reserve that appeared in Russia on the eve of the revolution in 1916. Its special attractiveness lies in natural treasures: mountain lakes, waterfall cascades, thermal springs, magic taiga, fanciful river turns, rocks-loaches, flowering valleys in highlands, rock glaciers, and the rarest species of local fauna.
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| --25-04-2013-- |
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Empresses of Russia: Fashion And Style
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| The Exhibition hall of federal archives hosts the historical and artistic documentary exhibition «Empresses of Russia: Fashion and style. End of the XVIII – beginning of the XX centuries». On the occasion of the four-hundredth anniversary of the Romanovs House the organizers of the exhibition have prepared an unusual exposition that discloses a fascinating theme: fashion and style of the Russian Empresses.
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Samurai. Art Of War
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| A unique daime collection (legendary armour), secrets of calligraphic art, gravure creatings, art traditions and methods of kimono wearing are presented in the Museum of Fine Arts in Yekaterinburg till the 12th of May, 2013.
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| --25-04-2013-- |
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Olkhon – Island of Spirits
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| Olkhon is a unique place, as it is the only island near Lake Baikal where people live permanently. They say that apart from the local community, ancient spirits also appear here from time to time.
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| --24-04-2013-- |
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2012 US Human Rights Report on Russia
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| The US State Department has released its annual Human Rights reports. Click here to find out what is says about Russia.
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| --23-04-2013-- |
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Tomtor – the Pole of Cold
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| Long discussion between Tomtor, Oymyakon and Verkhoyansk for the title «The Pole of Cold» was solved in February, 2013: the record-breaking low temperature was fixed in Tomtor. It was –71.2 °Ñ.
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| --22-04-2013-- |
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Fashion And Design by Tatiana Parfionova
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| The exhibition of Tatiana Parfionova’s works is the demonstration of St. Petersburg designers school in the sphere of high fashion. More than 450 exhibits (suits, articles of furniture, designer textiles, footwear and accessories, porcelain, painting, books, drawings) are placed in 11 halls of the Bread house of culture preserve «Tsaritsino».
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| --22-04-2013-- |
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Hiding Places Of the Russian Sole. German View.
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| The Russian Museum in St. Petersburg has presented the exhibition called «Hiding Places Of the Russian Sole. German view». How do the foreigners consider the Russian sole? The Russian Museum in collaboration with the «Art Line» Foundation (Moscow) has provided four halls of the Marble palace to the German architect, light designer Karsten Vinkels to express his view.
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| --22-04-2013-- |
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Buzz Barometer: Lukoil
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| Lukoil has been generating a lot of news recently, so we decided to take a look at what’s driving the buzz.
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| --22-04-2013-- |
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A New School Uniform by Vyacheslav Zaitsev
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| Famous Russian modeller Vyacheslav Zaitsev has created a New School Uniform. The set includes five units. Zaitsev's collection is based on the principles of interchangeability and multifunctionality, scientifically-grounded models’ color choice, and safety.
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| --21-04-2013-- |
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Top 3 Videos From Russia
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| Click here to watch some of the most exciting videos watched by Russians, including icy conditions on the spring road, Alex Ovechkin's football excellence and a faux pas by Mrs Russia 2012.
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| --16-04-2013-- |
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Top 3 Videos From Russia
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| Click here to watch some of the most exciting videos watched by Russians, including streetracers trying to catch cops, a flooding washing away a police van, and the education minister cursing his deputy.
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| --07-04-2013-- |
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Buzz Barometer: Robust BRICS
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| The group’s summit in South Africa moved forward to set up a new development bank amid rumours that it may soon be called BRICSI.
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| --31-03-2013-- |
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EU-Russia: WTO Friends or Foes?
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| In its third ‘Trade and investment barriers’ report, the European Commission has criticized Russia for failing to comply with WTO rules. Click here to find out more about bones of contention.
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| --30-03-2013-- |
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Buzz Barometer: Sochi is Such a ...
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| Click here to read about foreigners' first impressions of Sochi ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics. What do athletes actually think about the tracks?
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| --29-03-2013-- |
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NextArt Fashion Week - International Week of Creative Fashion
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| NextArt Fashion Week is an innovative show, bright, saturated and elated by the creative energy of young designers, the most exciting combination of the unrestrained creativity and experiment with its professional implementation. International Week of Creative Fashion will gather a lot of people in the "Sokolniki" Congress and Exhibition Centre: the designers of fashion industry - professionals, students, and lovers of fashion, the media, the sincere fans of fashion trends and styles, the fashion public having talent to find suitable designs on the podium.
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| --26-03-2013-- |
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The Spring Ball of the Moscow Conservatory
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| The Moscow Conservatory hosted its first ever Spring Ball on 19 March 2013. The Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory is a unique place, historically intended for special events. The pillared hall with perfect acoustics in the very heart of Moscow, with the carefully preserved interior, with Mettlach floor tiles gives an incommunicable atmosphere of old balls preferred by the founder of the Conservatory, N. G. Rubinstein.
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| --26-03-2013-- |
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Feminism: From Avant-Garde to the Present Day
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| The exhibition put together the works of art from the best museums in the country - the Tretyakov Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, Vladimir Mayakovsky Museum, Moscow Architectural Institute Museum, Kuskovo Estate Museum. The visitors can learn about the "female side" of art - the four halls host the sculptures, paintings, posters of Soviet times, photo projects made by women.
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| --25-03-2013-- |
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Our Animation Festival
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| The Festival "Our Animation" has been showing the best and the newest domestic cartoons for many years already. It provides an opportunity not only to see the interesting, bright, funny and sometimes dark and experimental animation works, but also to be aware of the changes - that is to see how animation develops, expands or contracts, if it becomes more cheerful or sad. Each year is unlike any other, every festival has its own leit-motif, and each program gives a new twist, a new theme, and perhaps a new view of the art of animation in general.
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| --24-03-2013-- |
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AMAROK. The Path of the Northern Wolf
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| The polar expedition dedicated to the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi have to overcome a difficult way of 20,000 kilometers claiming to set Guinness record for longest open-ended off-road route in one direction on the territory of one country. The main mission of the travelers is to convey the spirit of the Olympic movement and to reveal the cultural diversity of the country hosting the Winter Games.
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| --21-03-2013-- |
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Fashion and Style in Photography
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| Numerous photographic exhibitions open in Moscow each year on the eve of spring. In even-numbered years this process occurs within the frame of Biennale, in the odd-numbered years it happens under the brand of the Festival "Fashion and Style in Photography". This year is 2013, and therefore, now it`s the turn of "Fashion and Style". The program of this event includes 45 exhibitions on various platforms; almost half of them are foreign.
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| --06-03-2013-- |
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Top 3 Videos From Russia
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| Russia-IC brings you the most exciting videos from Russia over the past month - a meteorite crash, an elk-cow rescue effort, and a girl driving her father's Audi.
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| --06-03-2013-- |
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The History of the March 8 Holiday in Russia
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| What do we associate with our favorite holiday - International Women's Day? Of course, spring, women and flowers. But this holiday has its historical roots, and if we look at the past we will see that initially it had political coloration and emerged as a day of women's struggle for their rights. Let's look at the background of the holiday and trace the major milestones on the way of its emergence in our country.
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| --06-03-2013-- |
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The Days of Sweden In the Tyumen Region
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| A lot of events are scheduled within the frame of "The Days of Sweden" in the Tyumen region from February 28 to March 6, the majority of them are held in the cities of Tyumen and Tobolsk. Siberian cities are visited by the foreign delegation headed by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Sweden in Russia Ms.Veronika Bard-Bringeus.
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| --05-03-2013-- |
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Miss Russia - 2013
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| The winner of the "Miss Russia-2013" contest is the 18-year-old student from the town of Mezhdurechensk Elmira Abdrazakova. Elmira received 100 thousand dollars, a car and also the opportunity to represent Russia at the "Miss Universe" and "Miss World" contests.
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| --05-03-2013-- |
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What's Next for Russia - Recipe from WB President
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| World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim has delivered his vision of the strengths and weaknesses of Russia two times over the past month. He pointed out writer Anton Chekhov as a role model for Russia.
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| --05-03-2013-- |
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Where to Celebrate Maslenitsa (Pancake Week) In Moscow
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| The large pedestrian zone from Tverskaya Square to Kuznetskiy Most will be the main venue of Maslenitsa. All parks of the city will also be involved in the festivities.
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| --28-02-2013-- |
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Maslenitsa (Pancake Week) In St. Petersburg
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| Almost every one of us loves the holidays. Despite the fact that many things changed a lot over the centuries, the tradition of celebrating Maslenitsa in the fresh air - in parks and gardens – remains unchanged. Maslenitsa in St. Petersburg will be held in the Babushkin Park on March 17, 2013.
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| --28-02-2013-- |
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MegaFon May Join The Clean Internet Group, To Monitor the WWW
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| --28-02-2013-- |
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Francois Hollande Respects Depardieu Move To Russia
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| "If Depardieu loves Russia so much, and Russia loves him so much, then it is explicable". Such is the verdict of the French President on the French actor's emigration to Russia.
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| --28-02-2013-- |
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The European Manifesta Art Biennale in St. Petersburg
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| The Tenth European Biennale of Contemporary Art Manifesta will be held in St. Petersburg from July to October 2014. Manifesta displays youth and experimental art from around the world, giving preference to European authors.
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| --27-02-2013-- |
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Vnukovo Airport Offers Free Tablet PCs For Passengers
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| One of Moscow principal airports, serving monthly over 530 thousand passengers, Vnukovo is ready to offer free tablet PCs in departure lounges.
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| --27-02-2013-- |
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All-Russian Maslenitsa (Pancake Week) in Pskov
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| All-Russian Russian Maslenitsa (Pancake Week) will be held in Pskov for the fourth time.
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| --27-02-2013-- |
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Maslenitsa (Pancake Week) 2013 – the Joyful Celebration of Spring
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| There are many traditional Russian festivals the history of which is riddled with special Slavic culture. One of them is the well-known Maslenitsa. Merry folk festivities last one week, and each day has its own tradition. In 2013 the holiday will last from March 11 to March 17.
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| --27-02-2013-- |
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Fresh Raft of Draft Laws Review
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| Russia-IC presents you with an overview of the latest legislative moves by the Russian parliament. Click here to find out what is in store for Russia.
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| --26-02-2013-- |
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The Space Wanderer: Eyewitnesses` Accounts
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| The Chelyabinsk Local History Museum collected the accounts of the eyewitnesses of the meteorite fall at the single exhibition.
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| --26-02-2013-- |
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The XVIII Open Russian Animated Film Festival in Suzdal
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| The XVIII Open Russian Animated Film Festival will be held in Suzdal from February 27 to March 3, 2013. 179 films were presented for the selection of the festival this year (largest amount of all years). 104 films were selected for the contest in six categories.
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| --25-02-2013-- |
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Tourist Destroy the Karelian Petroglyphs
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| --25-02-2013-- |
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ART-MUSIC Classics Festival
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| The Music Festival ART-MUSIC Classics in Arkhangelsk will gather the musicians from eight countries. Its main goal is to present the best specimens of classical, folk and pop art in one of the most prestigious chamber concert halls in Russia on the Arkhangelsk land.
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| --25-02-2013-- |
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Russian Passengers Prefer Boeing and Airbus, Shun Tupolev and Sukhoi SuperJet
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| --24-02-2013-- |
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Overview of New Traffic Rules Bill
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| The United Russia party has tabled a lengthy dtaft law aimed at further cutting the death count in car accidents in Russia.
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| --23-02-2013-- |
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The Military Awards of the XII Century Are Exhibited in Ekaterinburg
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| On the eve of the holiday of 23 February and within the frame of the month of Defenders of the Motherland the Museum of History of Jewelry and Lapidary Arts with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Sverdlovsk region will open the exhibition dedicated to the awards and memorial signs of the Russian state from the earliest times and until today. The earliest exhibits are the torc and the dippers that date back to the XII-XVII centuries.
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| --22-02-2013-- |
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The Traditional Museums Are Losing Their Attraction
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| Due to the reduction in the number of "organized" tourists groups even the well-known museums lose their visitors.
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| --23-02-2013-- |
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Tourist Map: Seven Wonders Of The Arkhangelsk Region
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| The Agency for Tourism and International Cooperation of the Arkhangelsk region presented two tourist maps. The first one shows the attractions of the region, and the second one features the centre of the Arkhangelsk and everything that can interest a traveler in the city.
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| --12-02-2013-- |
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How To Get To the St. Petersburg Museums In the Evening Or For Free
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| If you can't find any possibility to visit some exhibitions during the daytime, there is no need to worry. Here you will find a list of museums in St. Petersburg that are open for the visitors in the evening. Moreover, some of them are even free of charge.
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| --11-02-2013-- |
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Buzz Barometer: Sun and Scandal in Sochi
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| With a year to go till the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the international media have been descending on the host city to check out the scale of the construction and the role of the upcoming event for Russia.
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| --10-02-2013-- |
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Russians Welcome End of 'Mobile Slavery'
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| Russians will get more freedom in their phone services starting from December 2013 when the mobile number portability service will be officially introduced.
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| --10-02-2013-- |
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Yury Bashmet Celebrates First 60 Years With Three Concerts
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| --31-01-2013-- |
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Russian Winter: Skating in Kazan
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Russian Winter: Skating in Yekaterinburg
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| --31-01-2013-- |
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Russian National Theatre Award - The Golden Mask
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| Russia National Theatre Award, The Golden Mask, was established in 1993 by the Theatre Union of the Russian Federation and is given to the performances of all genres of theatre art: drama, opera, ballet, modern dance, operetta and musical, puppet theatre. The Golden Mask is a Russian theatre festival held each spring in Moscow that presents the most significant performances of Russian cities.
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| --30-01-2013-- |
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Golden Eagle Film Award
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| The winners of Golden Eagle Film Award 2012 were named. The National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of the Russian Federation chose the laureates of Golden Eagle award for the eleventh time.
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| --30-01-2013-- |
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Ulyana Sergeenko Haute Couture Collection 2013, Paris Fashion Week
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| After the debut show by Ulyana Sergeenko in Paris in July 2012 there has been no doubt that the global success of the designer is here to stay. Ulyana is known in the West due to her inimitable bright style with a touch of Russian folklore and the talent of the designer.
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| --29-01-2013-- |
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Davos: Deripaska Dresses Down Central Bank
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| Russia's billionaire attacks the country's Central Bank in a very emotional way, calling for change in the management.
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| --29-01-2013-- |
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Moscow Stock Exchange to Go Public
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| The Moscow Stock Exchange will float its shares own trading platform, with the road show slated for February 4, 2013.
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| --27-01-2013-- |
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Help Me: a Plea from Cambodia
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| Millionaire Sergey Polonsky is having a hard time in a Cambodia jail, a striking difference to what the former owner of Mirax has been used to.
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| --27-01-2013-- |
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Saint Petersburg Museums of Photography
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| Saint Petersburg offers an impressive variety of photography museums illustrating the evolution of the world and Russian photography, technologies, art styles, and photographic equipment. The museum of photographic history and some modern art galleries always wait for the new visitors.
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| --22-01-2013-- |
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Fairy-Tale Map Of Russia
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| Social project Fairy-tale Map of Russia is created to combine all information available on the museums, estates and residences of all characters of Russian fairy-tales and legends. The places of habitat of ancient Russian fairy-tales characters are designated on the map of Russia.
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| --21-01-2013-- |
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The Buzz Barometer: 'March Against Scoundrels'
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| The biggest talk of the town over the past two-three weeks concerning Russia was the so called Dima Yakovlev law, a retaliatory response to the US Magnitsky Act.
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| --15-01-2013-- |
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Banks' Bailout Blueprints To Battle Big Trouble
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| Top-30 Russia's largest banks would have to put together bailout plans for crisis scenarios, according to Vedomosti daily.
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| --14-01-2013-- |
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To Sell Or Not to Sell
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| Billionaire Lebedev rejected rumours that he’s going to sell his National Reserve Bank to focus on journalism. Maybe not yet.
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| --09-01-2013-- |
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The Buzz Barometer: "The losers are the children."
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| While Russian corporations and individual volunteers are buying gifts and stationary items for orphanages and visiting those in need, the Russian parliament has come up with a Christmas gift of their own.
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| --22-12-2012-- |
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Future of Car Insurance in Russia
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| Next-gen sat-nav systems are expected to be a win-win solution for insurers and drivers, bringing higher profits to the former and better rates for the latter.
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Why Should You Invest in Tyumen Region?
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| The Tyumen Region is showcasing its success story as it seeks foreign investment in a move to diversify its economy and speed up development.
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| --15-12-2012-- |
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Key Opposition Paper Lost Sponsor
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| Novaya Gazeta says it can survive without Lebedev's money while the banker is facing pressure from the Russian law enforcement agency.
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| --15-12-2012-- |
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Franchising As a Key To Success. The Russian Way.
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| Franchising is considered to be one of the possible solutions to many economic problems of modern Russia. In fact, it has already enhanced the growth of the small businesses here. The article gives an overview of the Russian franchising market, depicting its peculiarities in comparison with the global experience.
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| --20-12-2012-- |
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Winter Games And Entertainment
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| When the snowflakes swirl outside the window and the weather is slightly frosty, it's time for winter entertainment. In order to enjoy the winter you need to organize your leisure time in a proper way. This can be done by trying the variety of games on the snow, snowman making and building snow fortress, playing snowballs and sledging.
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| --11-12-2012-- |
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Russian Winter: Christmas Fairs In Yekaterinburg
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| Mass open-air celebrations, concerts, shows, entertainment for every taste, a great variety of gifts, and competitions in winter sports await the guests and citizens of Yekaterinburg at the Christmas fairs. The city pleases everyone with many New Year's surprises.
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| --10-12-2012-- |
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Museum Of Felt Boots (Valenki) In Kineshma
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| The Museum of felt boots, opened on June 28, 2012, consists of more than 200 exhibits. Among them are the old wood-processing machines and tools for the manufacturing of felt boots, and felt boots themselves - record holders and decorated boots, chess in the shape of boots, various goods of wool, felt boots of unusual shapes, a collection of miniature felt boots and many more.
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Zavgorodnyaya Case to Go to ECHR
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| The move by Finnish socials services which took away four children from a Russian mother will be assessed by the European Court of Human Rights, says Pavel Astakhov, Russia's human rights commissioner.
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| --10-12-2012-- |
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Higher Education Not for Low-Graders
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| If the bill on new education regulations and standards is signed into law, a big share of school-leavers will be cut off from colleges and universities.
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| --07-12-2012-- |
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Yekaterinburg Museums Of Photography
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| Yekaterinburg is an important cultural centre of Russia. Nowadays, there are several modern galleries that organize and support various art projects there. Here is an overview of museums and art centres, where photo exhibitions are held.
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| --03-12-2012-- |
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Moscow Museums Of Photography
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| Photo exhibitions are becoming more and more popular, and new photo galleries appear in Moscow. Muscovites as well as the guests of the Russian capital enjoy visiting museums of photography presented in this article.
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Russian Students Reveal Their Literary Tastes
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Shuya Cathedral: The Beginning of the Anti-Church Terror
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Russian Scout Clubs
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| The history of Russian youth organisations is far from being easy to understand, let alone to trace. However, several observations can easily be made, and the article below looks at the main youth clubs and organisations in Russia that help to involve young people in the societal activity.
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| --10-12-2012-- |
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Where To Watch Foreign Language Films In Moscow
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| As you live in Moscow, you may be wondering where to go to watch films in your native language. Doubtless there are different cultural centres, but if you prefer the ooze and groove of traditional cinemas, read on for a list of Moscow cinema halls that regularly screen films in foreign language.
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Optimization-2012: Trends, Problems And Perspectives Of the Russian SEM Industry
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Stalin's Bunker In Izmailovo
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| Stalin's bunker in Moscow was built in 1930s. Its construction was a part of the government program, including ensuring defense capability of the country.
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| --30-11-2012-- |
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Will MTS Return to Uzbekistan?
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| Uzbekistan softened its grip on MTS' unit but the fines it slapped to replace confiscation may still be too high for Russia's mobile operator to carry on, given the loss of the customer base and what some have called a continuing expropriation drive in the Central Asian republic.
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Dynamo vs Zenit Incident
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| Thursday will see the decision by the Russian Football Union on the appeal by FC Zenit St. Petersburg to the ruling by the disciplinary committee. But the police are still searching for a person whose flare injured Dynamo's goalkeeper.
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7 Most Ridiculous Bills in Russia
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| People often wonder what their MPs are busy with in legislatures of different levels. Russia-IC looks at the most ridiculous bills that have been moved in the Russian regions.
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| --28-11-2012-- |
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Surviving the Russian Winter: 5 Tips To Stay Healthy and Avoid the Winter Blues
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| In the season famous for soft snow, festivities, and skating rinks you want to take a full advantage of the good moments. But beware: colds, bruises, and depression await for the unprepared. So brace yourself with our quick guide to surviving the winter in Russia.HAWNNU4NYRJT
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Russian Rugby: Making Progress in Recent Years
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| Most people don't even realise that the Russians have a rugby team. However, while they may not be one of the strongest international outfits in the world, the Russians do play and have even managed to reach a major tournament in the last couple of years. Our guest author Liam Riordan looks at the ups and downs of Russian rugby, wondering whatever the future holds for this sport.
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The Russian Museum, the Perfect Attraction for the Art Lovers
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| The largest art museum in St. Petersburg dedicated mainly to painting, The Russian Museum is a different example of building a museum collection. Rather than an assembly of all sorts of antiquities as was the case with the Hermitage, the imperial collection at the Russian Museum was tightly focused on the 19th c. Western Art and numismatics. Our guest blogger Irina Kirilov tells the story of the museum.
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Woodstock By CHAPURIN, Spring-Summer 2013
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| Chapurin Fashion House presented its new pret-a-porter collection spring-summer 2013. Igor Chapurin was inspired by the hippie philosophy and Woodstock festival as a symbol of the hippie movement.
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| --03-12-2012-- |
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Future Shorts Festival In Russia
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| Future Shorts is the only festival held in Russia that introduces to the viewers the best world achievements of the short films industry. Future Shorts celebrates the best and most innovative short films, connecting global stories with global audiences.
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| --27-11-2012-- |
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Negotiations In Russia: Peculiarities, Tactics, Approaches
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| They say that negotiating is an art, not a science, and there is never one right way to do it successfully. In fact, negotiating is a very serious business for the Russians, as just about everything requires negotiation here.
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| --15-11-2012-- |
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Museum Revolution
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| Dump expensive audio guides and forget about lengthy and expensive individual tours round museums - you can explore art for free and as much as you can possibly digest. Meet the Smart Museum.
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| --14-11-2012-- |
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The Buzz Barometer: Serdyukov followed by CIA's Petraeus
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| You can find the latest and the background of the ex-minister’s downfall in almost any international newspaper – the UK’s Guardian or the U.S.’s Washington Post. The affair has been covered extensively due to the high position and the support Anatoly Serdyukov had for five years.
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| --10-11-2012-- |
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Russia's Top Historic Destinations
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| Planning to visit Russia can be a daunting task: so many regions, so many cities. And while Moscow and Petersburg are traditional tourist staples, our guest author Rowena Kang looks farther to the North and to the East - to Veliky Novgorod and Yekaterinburg, respectively. These are two other cities in Russia you cannot possibly miss.
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| --09-11-2012-- |
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Anti-Corruption Crusade
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| Amid the latest scandal involving the Ministry of Defence and its former head Anatoly Serdyukov, MPs are planning new laws to make sure such cases will not repeat in the future. Russia-IC looks at the proposals.
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| --09-11-2012-- |
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Russian Business Dress-Code
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| There is one old Russian proverb meaning: first you judge “how nice”, then you judge “how wise”. Most of Russian businesspeople pay a lot of attention to how they are dressed. Here are some helpful tips on how to prepare for a formal meeting with the Russian partners.
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| --08-11-2012-- |
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Road to Nowhere
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| Russian bureaucrats continue to siphon taxpayers' money out of the budget to use it for their own needs, delivering poor quality of goods or services. Russia-IC looks at the latest misappropriation stories.
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| --06-11-2012-- |
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The Little Black Jacket In Moscow: Chanel’s Classic Revisited By Karl Lagerfeld And Carine Roitfeld
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| Following on from Tokyo, New York, Taipei, Hong Kong, and London Chanel's photographic exhibition dedicated to Karl Lagerfeld's latest book, 'The Little Black Jacket: Chanel's classic revisited by Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfeld', has opened at the “Artplay” Design Centre, Moscow. This special event underlines the brand's values of creativity, modernity and excellence.
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| --06-11-2012-- |
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Borodino Battle
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| Borodino Battle is known as the largest battle of the Patriotic War of 1812 between the Russian and French armies; the battle that involved 250 thousand people took place on September 7 (August 26) 1812 at the Village of Borodino, 125 km to the west of Moscow.
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| --18-12-2012-- |
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Call For Papers: European Identity Seminar at the Kazan Federal University, December 2012
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| An international interdisciplinary seminar on defining and constructing the European identity takes place at the Kazan Federal University in Tatarstan on December 6-7, 2012. Seminar's working languages are Russian and English. The deadline for abstract submission is November 4, 2012.
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| --30-10-2012-- |
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Russian Startup Magnets
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| More and more Western investors are looking at the Russian online industry, seeking to benefit from the country's fast-growing e-commerce niche. Click to read about the latest win-win deal.
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| --30-10-2012-- |
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Willem Barentsz Ship Remains Discovered Near Arkhangelsk
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| A recent expedition by Dmitry Kravchenko, a long-term explorer of the last journey of Willem Barentsz, has ended with an unexpected discovery of four fragments of the carvel bottom frames. Next year the group of scientists hope to find all remains of the sunken carvel.
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| --29-10-2012-- |
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Types Of Trains On the Russian Railroads
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| Travelling by train has always been a great alternative to either air or car. There is nothing better than a rocking carriage that takes you past vast expanses of terrain and sweeping views of hills and lakes. As far as Russia is concerned, train travel is a definitive favourite: it is economical and comfortable, compared to air travel and car trips.
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| --29-10-2012-- |
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Russian Spartan 300 Uses Paul Ekman's Findings To Detect Deviant Behaviour
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| Russian scientists and psychologists have created a system Spartan 300 to detect deviant behaviour in the crowd. The system uses the findings of Prof. Paul Ekman research into psychology of facial expressions, body movements, and speech patterns.
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| --29-10-2012-- |
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Beware: High Treason Round the Corner
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| Russian MPs have adopted controversial amednments on high treason and espionage that could make working and living for millions of Russians, and foreigners residing here, as dangerous as ever.
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| --27-10-2012-- |
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Stakes on Sale. Finally.
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| The Medvedev government rubberstamps the ambitious privatization plan that's been the hope of investors for the past couple of years. Russia-IC looks at the details.
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| --27-10-2012-- |
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Travel Finance: Overcoming Your Tensions And Anxiety Before Your Trip
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| Travelling, even in your own country but especially abroad, is always a challenge. New customs, people, language, and money... Money question is sometimes the most problematic even before you leave for holiday. Our guest author Emily Roberts has listed essential tips for planning your budget, insurance, and travel expenses.
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| --26-10-2012-- |
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Russian Markets – 6 Shopping Tips for Foreigners
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| Russian tradition of open-air markets and fairs continues to this day and not only on specific days. You can shop for souvenirs, clothes, food and many other items in the market in many Russian cities. However, as you are about to come into close contact with Russian vendors, our guest author Daniela Baker shares some tips for successful shopping in a Russian market.
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| --26-10-2012-- |
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Moscow's historic buildings under threat
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| Despite the existing laws dozens of historical buildings are continuously being wiped out in Moscow every year. Hundreds of them have been torn down or allegedly "restored" with replicas erected in the place of the original building. The State, the legal owner of all listed historical properties, cannot afford maintenance and real estate developers show little regard for preservation laws.
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| --26-10-2012-- |
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Church and Art
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| The Russian Orthodox Church attempts to restitute old icons from museums
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| --26-10-2012-- |
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Russian Tourist Destinations: Solovky Isles, The Gates to the Kingdom of the Dead
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| --29-10-2012-- |
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Russian Tourist Destinations: The Different Types of the Golden Ring Cities
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| There are some cities in the Central Russia; they call it The Golden Ring. They are Old Russian cities with the medieval churches, fortresses, museums and traditional crafts. Some of them live because of the travel industry only (like Suzdal); others have something more serious, like Yaroslavl, the large industrial city. All of them are worth to visit and to ask a question: what’s the matter? Some of them are prosperous region centers or wealthy cities, but others look not very good, even their tourist objects.
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| --29-10-2012-- |
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Russian Russian Destinations: Sakhalin, The Place Of the Rising Sun
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| Sakhalin is one of the most wonderful places of Russia, the home of the Rising Sun. This is, perhaps, one of the few places in the world, where the wilderness has remained untouched. Volcanoes, lower plains covered by 3m-high grass and bamboos, mountain and terrains, crystal-clear lakes, etc. make Sakhalin one of the most interesting and attractive Russian corners to explore.
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| --29-10-2012-- |
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Russian, Chinese, U.S. Companies Link Up to Form New Rating Agency
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| A new rating agency to take on the big trio is being established by three companies from Russia, China and the U.S. Russia-IC looks at the future of the new institution.
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| --25-10-2012-- |
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FC Anzhi Makhachkala: The Manchester City of Russia
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| Our guest author Liam Riordan looks at the success story of Russia's own "Manchester City". Only several years ago FC Anzhi Makhachkala were one of the small fish of Russian football, but now they are already regarded as an exceptionally powerful outfit.
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| --26-10-2012-- |
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Doing Business in Russia 6% Easier
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| According the WB Doing Business index, Russia has managed to improve its image in two key areas - construction permits and taxation. Russia-IC looks at the progress.
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| --23-10-2012-- |
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Russia Faces Great Anti-Smoking Battle
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| Last week a Russian Government opened a new chapter in fighting Russians' tobacco addiction, indroducing a controversial anti-smoking bill. Read all the details in our latest article.
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| --23-10-2012-- |
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Football: Dinamo Under Friendly Fire
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| Dinamo Moscow is facing a serious crisis - it's 13th in the table and under threat from its own staunch supporters who are now refusing to "cheer for a team of losers".
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| --21-10-2012-- |
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Russian Antique Salon: A Preview
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| The 33rd Russian Antique Salon opened this Saturday at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow. Here is a brief teaser of what visitors can expect. Although the antiques export is not allowed, such event is a marvellous opportunity to find a gift for a Russia-based business partner.
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| --21-10-2012-- |
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City Hall Wants Waste Outsourced
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| The Moscow government is looking to shift the burden of cleaning up the capital's streets to a private company that would be courageous enough to take up the arduous task. But is that the solution?
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| --20-10-2012-- |
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Paper Review: Russian Rosneft's Rally
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| The news of the possible purchase of the Russian oil company TNK-BP by state-controlled Rosneft made a splash in the media on Thursday and will surely send more ripples as analysts digest the rumours and as more details will be coming out.
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| --18-10-2012-- |
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Debenhams In Moscow: British Designers - For Russian Buyers
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| The favourite British department store and the UK's second largest retailer network, Debenhams have just opened a store in Moscow at the Belaya Dacha shopping mall. Their Russian PR departmend kindly supplied Russia-IC with information about what awaits the shoppers and how Debenhams plan to develop their presence in Russia over the next 5 years.
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| --18-10-2012-- |
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Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia, 25th Season
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| October 18 – 22, 2012 Moscow Manezh (Manezhnaya square, 1) hosts the commemorative 25th Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia, the key event in the Russian fashion industry and the largest fashion week in Eastern Europe. More than 50 designers from Russia, Ukraine, the UK, Italy and the US will present their Spring/Summer 2013 collections.
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| --18-10-2012-- |
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Disappearing Jobs In Russia
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| The era of globalization and vast internet development changes the world dramatically, and the labour market is not an exception. As the new high technologies and breakthroughs appear, it is logical that some usual but already outdated goods, services, and occupations are no longer in demand. Several European and American agencies made a few predictions for the model of the future labour market in their countries, while we have tried to analyze the current Russian trends.
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| --17-10-2012-- |
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Russia Woos Investors
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| In a meeting with the leaders of the world's top corporations, the Russian PM boasted some stats but also called for more investment to be made in areas outside of the highly-profitable oil and gas sectors.
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| --15-10-2012-- |
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Top 10 Things You Cannot Miss Out On In Russia
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| Our guest author Dillon Michaelson gives generous advice on what you must not miss while travelling to Moscow and St. Petersburg - including St-Pete's environs.
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| --26-10-2012-- |
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Football: Russia Beat Portugal
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| Russia go top of its group table after a heroic win over Ronaldo's led Portuguese side at home. Russia-IC looks at the victory in detail and invites tourists to visit Russia for next games.
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| --13-10-2012-- |
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Paper Review: Pussy Riot
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| The Pussy Riot story continues to make headlines in news outlets around the globe, with one of the bandmates released after the court suspended her two-year sentence in appeal hearing.
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| --13-10-2012-- |
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Russia and EU Come Closer
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| Partnership for Modernization has helped to push Russia's relations with its biggest trade partner forward, thanks to regular work of dialogue groups on the areas which have huge potential for growth but are still riddled with issues.
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| --12-10-2012-- |
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Paper Review: Spy Scandal Deja Vu
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| While some news outlets portray Russia as a massive octopus whose tentacles are stretching out to grab any useful secrets, others keep balance avoiding Cold War and James Bond cliches. HAWNNU4NYRJT
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| --08-10-2012-- |
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Paper Review: Blasphemy Bill Under Microscope
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| Russian MPs are considering a bill that would make insulting religious beliefs a criminal offence. Russia-IC looks at what the international media has to say on this issue.
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| --06-10-2012-- |
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Ban to Boo Smokers
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| Four years after joining the WHO convention, Russia is about to take its final step to pave the way for a healthy society. In a bid to stub out smoking, the government will introduce tough restrictions - but gradually.
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| --03-10-2012-- |
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Slava Polunin: I Cannot Stand When My Freedom Is Restrained
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| The world-known Russian clown Slava Polunin was born in Oryol Region and went on to tour extensively, including the Arab countries. In 2001 he gave an interview in which he spoke at length about his journey in art, clownery, contemporary theatre, and influences in his life. The article contains extracts from the interview.
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| --03-10-2012-- |
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Memorial-Museum "Salute, Victory!" In Orenburg
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| If you ask the residents of Orenburg or tourists who have visited this city about the most emotionally memorable and impressive place there, they will probably answer that this is a large green park with the area of 200 hectares, dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic war.
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| --02-10-2012-- |
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Poems For Pussy Riot: A Political Act In a Poetic Form
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| Containing nearly a hundred poems from over a hundred authors from different countries, an anthology Catechism: Poems for Pussy Riot has just been e-published by Mark Burnhope, Sarah Crewe and Sophie Mayor, with support from English PEN. The contributions celebrate the Russian prisoners of conscience and vary in style, form, and subject.
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| --02-10-2012-- |
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10 Best Children Theatres in Moscow
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| Children theatre is a perfect place for the whole family and the best way to surprise and entertain your children. There are a lot of theatres for children in Moscow, and each of them has a unique atmosphere of magic, kindness and fairy-tales. Let's have a look at some of the oldest and most well-known children theatres in Moscow.
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| --30-09-2012-- |
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Zerkalo (the Mirrow) - the International A.Tarkovsky Film Festival
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| “Zerkalo” is the international Film Festival named after Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986). It has been held in his native Ivanovo Region since 2007 annually. The participants include prominent directors and actors from Russia, the USA, Britain, France, Greece, Poland, Korea, Croatia, Romania, Slovenia, Iran, Iceland, Finland, Italy, Tajikistan, Georgia, and other countries. The VI-th Film Festival lasted from May 29 to June 3, 2012 in Plyos and Ivanovo (Ivanovo region).
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| --30-09-2012-- |
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Virtual Office Services In Russia
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| Are you based in Russia and interested in reducing traditional office costs while maintaining the quality of your business? Virtual offices can provide everything you need – but do you know where to find them in Russia? We have put a list of the best and most reliable virtual offices in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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| --30-09-2012-- |
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The Ways To Get On-Line In Russia
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| The number of the internet users in Russia is going up rapidly from year to year. Now the internet is actively spread not only in Moscow and St. Petersburg, but also in the remote regions. The competition between the internet service providers (ISPs) is growing as well, and this makes them improve the quality, speed and convenience of the offered types of linkup that are becoming more profound. Besides, pricing policy is constantly changing. Our overview of the most popular Russian ISPs might help you to make the right choice.
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| --30-09-2012-- |
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Shopping for Furniture, White Goods, and DIY in Russia
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| Whether you have only just moved to Russia or are planning to come to live, or just in the process of moving houses in Russia, you may be asking yourself where to do your home shopping. So, apart from IKEA, where else can you shop for White Goods or DIY materials in Moscow and St. Petersburg?
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| --01-10-2012-- |
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Russian Police Plan New Reform
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| THe new interior minister has been keen to root out corruption and engineer deep changes in the police force after the 2011 reform that was widely seen as a failure. Russia-IC takes a look at the new plan.
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| --28-09-2012-- |
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Petersburg Scientists Design New Rear-View Car Mirrow
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| Petersburg scientists designed a new kind of rear-view mirror: it now combines spherical and aspherical mirror elements. The new design now allows a driver to better see the road and cars behind and around his vehicle. The first roadtests were successful.
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| --28-09-2012-- |
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International Tourism Day: A Recap on Russian Tourism Types
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| To celebrate the International Tourism Day, we compiled a list of past articles telling about all different types of tourism in Russia. From adventure tourism to historical reconstruction, eco- to spa-tourism, Russia has a plenty to offer to every age, gender, and wallet.
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| --27-09-2012-- |
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Brief History of TV Series in Russia
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| In spite of the rapid development of television in the USSR, at that time boasting the technical base and staff that were among the best ones in the world, there were few TV serials produced in this country.
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| --25-09-2012-- |
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Shashlik - Russian Traditional Barbecue
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| Besides traditional New Year Russian salad, Maslenitsa pancakes and Easter cake, barbecues (shashliks) on Labour Day and all other warm sunny days is considered one of the main holiday dishes of the year in Russia.
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| --25-09-2012-- |
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Enjoy Shopping In Nizhny
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| Nizhny Novgorod is Russia’s fifth largest city with highly-developed international relations. It has more than ten sister-cities in Germany, USA, Austria, China, Finland, Spain, Ukraine, etc. Thus, a lot of businessmen and tourists arrive to Nizhny Novgorod to enjoy its rich cultural heritage combined with the modern infrastructure and conveniences. As the city is rapidly developing, several superlative shopping centres have been opened here recently.
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| --24-09-2012-- |
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City Hunter: Moscow Foreign Literature Bookstores
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| To date, there are several bookstores in Moscow that specialize in selling literature in English and other languages, or have a decent foreign books section. In comparison with the 90th, now there are many more English-reading book lovers in the Russian capital. And this fact prompts the bookstore owners to enlarge their supply of contemporary foreign literature, offering not only the school classics, but a good selection of fiction and non-fiction bestsellers, and several new business editions.
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| --24-09-2012-- |
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Russia's New Super Missile Unveiled
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| It could be Russia's next killer weapon - but will the invention make it into the country's defence plants is a big question.
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| --24-09-2012-- |
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Russia's Unique Letter Deserves a Law
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| The Russian government said it would work out a law to regulate the usage of letter “¸”. Russia-IC looks into what has triggered such a response.
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| --22-09-2012-- |
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MATIW-2012: Focus On Business And Inclusive Travel
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| At the annual Moscow Autumn Tourism Industry week in September 2012 the focus has been on the MICE opportunities in Russia and the process of adaptation of tourist infrastructure to the needs of disabled travellers.
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| --21-09-2012-- |
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Paper Review: Gudkov's Banishment
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| Russia-IC looks at how the international press responded to the decision by the Russian parliament to strip Fair Russia member Gennady Gudkov of his mandate.HAWNNU4NYRJT
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| --08-10-2012-- |
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Moscow International Automobile Salon 2012: New Records Are Set
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| Moscow International Automobile Salon (MIAS) is one of the most popular international biennial exhibitions held in Crocus Expo in Moscow, Russia. MIAS is scheduled by the Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobiles, which considers it to be the largest and the most impressive international auto show. This year MIAS (held on August 31 – September 9, 2012) has beaten all the records: the exhibit space was about 100 000 sq m, more than 100 companies participated in the show and the number of visitors exceeded 1 000 000. And what is more, a great number of surprising premiers was presented: 23 world, 21 European, 85 Russian and 34 concept cars. Almost each automobile brand launched a premier at their stand!
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| --14-09-2012-- |
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Central Bank To Get More Power
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| The government is leaning towards the easiest option as it sets out to reign in order on the financial markets. As Russia-IC promised earlier, we are bringing you more details on the project.HAWNNU4NYRJT
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| --08-10-2012-- |
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Football: Russia Crush Israel 4-0
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| Russia secure their second win as they march ahead to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Capello must be happy with the team's enthusiasm.
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| --11-09-2012-- |
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Russia at the Paralympic Games 2012 - Results
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| What can be a greater example of people's will for victory and achievement drive than the Olympic Games? Only the Paralympics as an amazing show of amazing people. This year has become the most successfull for Russian paralympic sportsmen concluding the London Games with a total of 102 medals and taking the second place in an unofficial medal count. We have gathered them all in our article: people, medals, sport disciplines, statistics. A real "Walk of Fame" for our dear sportsmen.
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| --12-09-2012-- |
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Pussy Riot Comment Wrong, Admits Russian TV
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| The Russian TV-Centr TV station has apologized to French singer Mireille Mathieu over an badly-edited interview and inaccurate translation in what some have seen as attempts at censorship.
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| --09-09-2012-- |
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Shopping In Perm: Enjoy the Traditional Russian Markets
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| Perm is a multicultural kaleidoscope. Entering its central street, everyone gets impressed immediately by the unique mixture of the colourful Russian goods and souvenirs in the countless little kiosks, bright Tatar jewelry, Georgian and Armenian original spicy kebabs and shawarma. Being more than a thousand kilometers away from the megalopolises of Moscow and St. Petersburg, it tries to maintain a very calm and relaxed atmosphere with the typically Russian traditions.
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| --07-09-2012-- |
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No Billionaire Can Eclipse Roman Abramovich
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| For the second year running the Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich sails high on Eclipse yacht: according to SuperYachts.com, nobody managed to build a longer boat. Other Russians on the list are Alisher Usmanov, Suleiman Kerimov, Yury Shefler, and Andrei Melnichenko.
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| --07-09-2012-- |
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Russians On the Social Networks
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| Russians have become one of the most intense and frequent users of various IT products and services in the world. This can be the reason why the time the Russian people spend on social media networks is more than twice the global average. They create communities, integrate their businesses into the social networks, send instant messages to friends and participate in discussions with peers and colleagues. What are their main preferences and concerns? What are they searching for while being on-line? You will find the answers below.
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| --03-09-2012-- |
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Apartments for Rent in Moscow: Tips and Advice
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| Apartments for rent in Moscow city centre provide a cost-effective and comfortable solution to a traveller's needs. All such apartments come furnished and serviced, and ideally located for visiting the capital's attractions and landmarks, and enjoying a party in one of the central Moscow night clubs.
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| --31-08-2012-- |
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Novokosino Station Opens on the Moscow Underground
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| A new station has opened on the Moscow Underground: Novokosino is now the final stop on Kalininskaya Line, connecting the Moscow Region to the centre of the capital. The station is equipped with elevators and panduses for disabled passengers.
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| --31-08-2012-- |
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Yekaterinburg’s Shopping Guide
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| The impressive variety of shops in Yekaterinburg may satisfy practically any taste and need. Every district of the city has its large shopping centres and some stores with the lovely national souvenirs.
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| --28-08-2012-- |
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Shopping In Kazan: Leather Slippers Or Kukmor Felt Boots?
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| Kazan is not only the city of unique cultural monuments, but also a great shopping centre, where nearly every world brand of clothes, cosmetics, appliances and sports goods is available. And tourists never stop admiring the national souvenirs, like Kukmor felt boots or Kazan Cat.
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| --28-08-2012-- |
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Russia Completes WTO Marathon
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| The 18-year long and winding road to the world's major trade club is over, meaning new successful venues for some and a struggling life for others. Russia-IC provides some analysis and is ready to offer you an in-depth review of the industry or aspect you are particularly interested in terms of possible effects of Russia's WTO entry.
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| --22-09-2012-- |
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Russia
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| We could not hope to help you navigate through all the UNESCO World Heritage Sites descriptions on our site. The purpose of this article is to quickly link you to the content we have created awhile ago but that may now be tricky to find - after all, this site has existed long enough to accumulate loads of information! Without further ado, we invite you to skim through the list of all Russian sites that have to date been added to the UNESCO's World Heritage List and zoom in on those that attract you most.
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| --20-08-2012-- |
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City Hunter: Eat-And-Work Cafes In St. Petersburg
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| “My colleagues and I are only beginning a start-up now, so it’s inconvenient to rent a large office. It needs bigger financial investments than we can presently afford. Such cafes are the best option for our business meetings.”
“I’m a freelancer, but frankly speaking, I cannot concentrate at home. I need some special place to delve deep into my work. I find it here.”
“I’m writing a book on the restaurant business. I have a great experience in this area and cannot create anywhere else but in the atmosphere of the cafes or restaurants.”
These are some example of what people say about the new trend – cafes, which main goal is not just to serve you delicious meals, but to create a special atmosphere that inspires you and provides comfortable working environment.
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| --17-08-2012-- |
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City Hunter: Lofts, Co-Workings And Shared Office Spaces In Moscow
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| We dedicated this overview to lofts and co-workings, which are in high demand among Moscow freelancers, businessmen, students, etc. Spacious, bright, ergonomic and well equipped – they boost your creativity better than conventional grey office walls.
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| --17-08-2012-- |
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Olympics 2012: Back to the USSR?
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| The London Olympics were a wonderful time for competition, but also for advertising. Russia-IC looks at how one of the key Olympic partners have used humour to convey their message and whether the 2012 Summer Games have anything to do with the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.
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| --22-09-2012-- |
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Tips For Renting a Flat In Russia
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| Foreigners coming to Russia on business or for sightseeing have to decide where to stay: in a private apartment or a hotel. Renting a flat turns out to be more beneficial if you travel with friends, and many people see it as the way to be more independent. Here are some tips to make the procedure of renting a flat easy and safe.
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| --14-08-2012-- |
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Olympics 2012: Team Russia's Best Moments
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| Olympic Games 2012 in London have come to an end, giving different presents to everybody. Sportsmen have received medals and we all gained very important memories about events, heroes and struggle. Russia-IC helps you to collect all the best moments of the Olympics in your memory. Our collection of the most spectacular and emotional videos with Russian Olympic medal winners is your best Olympic memories, right here, right now.
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| --13-08-2012-- |
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City Hunter: Eat-and-Work Cafes In Moscow
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| Where new ideas are born? What is the role of atmosphere in thinking and analyzing? What mysterious factors influence this process? How unusual decisions are made? Is there any general behavioral principle that governs every situation? There is no exact answer. But we are able to find some examples of spaces where we can learn to become more imaginative, creative, communicable and decisive. These are the so-called “third places”, where a lot of people come in search for that special atmosphere of inventiveness and a new flow of business process and communication, combining all that with a cup of bracing coffee. Here is an overview of cafes in Moscow that give their guests all the opportunities for thinking, studying, working and enjoying attractive meals as well.
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| --14-08-2012-- |
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New Values Of Working Process: Overview Of Co-Workings And Shared Office Spaces In St. Petersburg
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| Unlike a typical office environment, co-workings and shared office spaces are becoming more and more demanded and attractive to people who enjoy being work-at-home professionals, freelancers, specialists in creative industries, etc. This uprising trend prompts entrepreneurs to open various places in the largest cities of Russia to foster this new idea of arranging the working process. Here we give you a brief overview of the freshly launched lofts, co-working spaces and shared offices in St. Petersburg.
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| --14-08-2012-- |
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Olympics 2012: General Medal Table and Russian Winners (daily updates)
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| Olympic Games 2012 in London are under way with new medals, victories and heroes appearing every day. Russia-IC will help you to keep the track of events with our daily updates. In this article we've prepared for you a general medal table of top-25 countries. There is also a full list of Russian Olympic medals winners with names, dates, sport disciplines and our latest news. Don't forget to check it daily and you'll always find something new. The latest an the final update: August 13.
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| --13-08-2012-- |
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Vegetarianism in Russia
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| Leo Tolstoy, the well-known Russian writer and thinker, argued: “While our bodies remain graves of murdered animals, how can we foster hopes for creation of ideal life conditions on the Earth?”
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| --01-08-2012-- |
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10 Tips On How To Survive the Russian Summer
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| Russian summers are renowned for extreme heat and turf fires. We present you with a guide on how to survive the summer season in Russia, especially Moscow and other big cities.
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| --31-07-2012-- |
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History of Russian Television
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| Television in Russia was born in the first half of the 20th century. In 1930 the television laboratory of the All-Union Electrotechnical Institute in Moscow developed a mechanical system for transmitting images on radio-waves.
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| --26-07-2012-- |
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Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky: Unbelievable Color Photos of Tsarist Russia
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| Sergei Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky was a Russian chemist, inventor and a unique photographer, who is best known for his pioneering work in color photography of Russia 1900-1917. We already have his biography in our "People" database, now it is time to show you some of his marvellous color photos of pre-revolutionary Russia and to reveal their secrets.
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| --20-07-2012-- |
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Moscow Travel And Tips for Airline Passengers
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| A guest author Rachna Dave discusses the tourist opportunities the capital of Russia has to offer and lists a few expert tips on how to best arrange your Moscow travel by air. Tune in for advice on how to grab those elusive cheap flights to Moscow.
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| --10-08-2012-- |
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Stalin Is Like Social Media: A PR Campaign In Memory of the Big Terror, 1937-1939
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| On July 2, 1937 Joseph Stalin signed a resolution "On the Anti-Soviet Elements" that had seen thousands of people being arrested and shot or sent to the camps in the next two years. The resolution ordered to arrest and sentence the most active "kulaks" and criminals in as little as 5 days. Modern Russia is divided between those who support Stalin as a leader (even acknowledging the atrocities of his repressive methods) and those who decry and denounce the Big Terror and pretty much anything associated with Stalin. The younger generation, however, lives in the age of Social Media and is considered to have little knowledge of the days bygone. To this end, the memorial date of the beginning of the Big Terror was marked with Social Media themed posters.
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| --06-07-2012-- |
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History of Russian Language
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| The beginning of the Old Russian literary language is considered to coincide with the period of formation of the Kiev state— the 11th century. The Slavic language material by means of high Greek literature and culture promoted the formation of writing language.
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| --04-07-2012-- |
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History of Russian Animation, Part II
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| Around the year 1960 the Soviet animation experienced a drastic change in its style. Realistic backgrounds and characters came to appear much less often, having given way to caricature. Animators experiments with various techniques, among them cutout animation (The Story of a Crime (1962)) and glass painting (Song about Falcon (1967)).
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| --03-07-2012-- |
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History of Russian Animation, Part I
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| The history of Russian animation is extensive and covers a few periods, the largest and most flourishing of which was the Soviet one, mostly represented by the Soyuzmultfilm and Ekran studios.
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| --03-07-2012-- |
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Friday Fun: Crazy Russians, part 3
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| Today is Friday and our Friday Fun page is here again with you. Today we'll show you another piece of "Crazy Russians" photo collection. There is no end to these funny pictures, as there is no end to Russian people's sense of humour and vital energy. Well, it is all the better for us!
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| --08-06-2012-- |
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Friday Fun: Creative Advertisement From Russia
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| Our Friday Fun column is now supplemented with a brand new section dedicated to the funniest and the most creative advertisement in Russia. Not only pictures and banners, but also videos and other amazing stuff will help to make your Friday mood. Today you'll better be prepared for a bear doing yoga, very "hot" tyrannosaur, antivirus kitten, grannies singing like pop-stars and other funny things. Enjoy!
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| --02-06-2012-- |
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City Hunter: Top Unusual Moscow Shops
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| We continue to explore the most unusual and attractive places in the Russian capital. Today, we would like to draw your attention to several Moscow shops. It is likely that you will decide to buy something memorable before leaving the country and we can recommend to follow our guide while looking for books, flowers, cosmetics, tea, Russian handicrafts and various pretty things.
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| --24-05-2012-- |
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Friday Fun: Matrioshkas Haute Couture
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| A unique, if kitchy, attribute of Russian folk culture, matrioshkas (Russian dolls) never fail to inspire designers, whenever they contemplate the Russian "theme". Back in 2008, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Vogue in Russia, world's best and renowned designers were tasked with adding a touch of haute couture glamour to the famous doll. The result is a curious marriage of traditional shape and contemporary styling.
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| --18-05-2012-- |
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City Hunter: Moscow Spring Guide
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| Spring has finally come to Moscow and summer is not far away too. The weather in the city is already sunny, warm and windless, spring flowering shrubs are blooming in all capital's parks and there is plenty of outdoor activities one can find during this wonderful season. Don't stay at home, follow our spring guide and keep yourself active and positive.
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| --12-05-2012-- |
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Friday Fun: Crazy Russians, Part 2
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| It is Friday and this means that another photo collection, dedicated to crazy Russians, is now available for you. And you don't need any translation, because these hilarious photos speak for itself. Enjoy!
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| --11-05-2012-- |
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Friday Fun: Demotivation Posters About Russia, part 2
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| Today is Friday and we are glad to present you our fresh and funny collection of demotivational posters about Russia. Most of these pictures were initially made only in the Russian language and then were translated by us especially for this article. So the honestest humour in the Russian Internet is now available for you. Enjoy and stay with us!
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| --04-05-2012-- |
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10 Things You Must Know Before Go to Russia
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| Russia is a great place to visit. There are plenty of things to do and plenty of spots to explore in this country. Don't judge Russia by stereotypes. Bears don't walk along the streets, there is no snow in summer and yes, we have McDonalds, Sturbacks and other American chains (we don't live on another planet). But there are some points you should remember while planning your trip.
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| --12-05-2012-- |
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How to Use Public Transport in Moscow
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| Imagine, that after all the preparation you have finally come to Moscow. It is essential to know the transport system of the city. Here are some tips for travelers.
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| --02-05-2012-- |
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Electoral Campaign in Russia: Most Colourful Moments
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| Big presidential electoral campaign ends today, on Sunday Russia goes to the polls. What was this run-up most notable for? Let's discover the main stages, events and scandals of this pre-election month.
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| --02-03-2012-- |
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Presidential Elections in Russia - When, Where and How
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| There only 3 days left till the main political event in Russia - Presidential Elections. No wonder that almost everything in Russia now has some political tones, and it is sometimes difficult to understand all this. We have prepared this article to help you getting a complete picture of main rules and details of Russian election legislation.
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| --29-02-2012-- |
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Russia's Candidates for Presidency: Our Guide
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| As less than a month left until Russia's presidential elections and pre-election race is under way, we would like to offer you a brief look at five candidates who made it on the ballot, telling about their career, political views, supporters and chances for winning.
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| --17-02-2012-- |
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Russian Government Suggests Criminal Sentences for Facilitators of Illegal Immigration
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| In the recent years large Russian cities have become overly populated by the so-called illegal immigrants. These are usually people from the CIS countries who often come to Russia to work on building sites or as cleaners. The Government has suggested to implement measures that should help to restrict the amount of immigration. However, according to experts, there are more minuses in this proposition.
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| --30-01-2012-- |
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100 Books a Student Should Read: Russian Government View
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| As part of his pre-electoral work, the Prime Minister has recently announced a plan to compile a list of 100 books that every Russian student should "read thoughtfully". Although a popular idea, is it really fresh?
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| --03-02-2012-- |
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History of Jewellery Art in Russia
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| The history of jewellery in Russia has roots stretching far back and starts from the foundation of the Kievan Russia and the Vladimir-Suzdal Princedom (9th -12th centuries).
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| --26-01-2012-- |
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The Remains of the Soviet Times in Tula Region
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| A LiveJournal blogger has recently visited Tula Region and brought back photographs, illustrating the life of a post-Soviet industrial region of Central Russia. This will be interesting for the fans of industrial tourism who enjoy discovering the remains of industrial towns and studying the process of adaptation of the town in post-industrial era.
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| --03-08-2012-- |
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10 Symbols and Traditions of Russian New Year
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| New Year is a favourite holiday of Russian people. No other event has so many symbols, customs, traditions. As the general rules for that holiday are equal to almost all the countries, in Russia New Year has its own unique face. It is a very interesting blend of secular, Soviet, orthodox and pagan traditions. Do you want to know more? Well, let's go!
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| --28-12-2011-- |
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Russian Winter: Skating in Yekaterinburg
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| Yekaterinburg is rich with leisure activities for New Year holidays. You can go to museums and Christmas fairs, drink hot tea in cozy cafes or make the most of winter by visiting an ice skating rink. In this article you will find useful information about some of outdoor ice rinks in Yekaterinburg.
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| --27-12-2011-- |
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Retail in Russia - 2011: The Focus on Quality and Value
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| The 7th annual business conference Retail in Russia, organised by Vedomosti newspaper, took place in Moscow on December 15, 2011. The preliminary conclusions were drawn, the opportunities charted, and case studies discussed. Slowly but surely the Russian business begins to recognise the importance of quality and added value in customer acquisition and retention.
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| --16-12-2011-- |
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Russian New Year's Feast
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| Whence is the tradition to meet the new year at a festive table? What dishes did great-grandmothers and grandmothers of modern Russians cook for this holiday? In the very beginning, in the epoch of Peter the Great who decreed to celebrate the New Year on the night of December 31st to January 1st, the main thing on this holiday was not the table, but dancing. For dinner, supper and breakfast our ancestors had... only dances and drinks to satisfy thirst.
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| --15-12-2011-- |
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Russian Winter on the Maps
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| As we are writing about Russian winter activities and events, we also put them on the map, marked with lovely blue snowflakes or skiers. Here, then, comes a snowfall of flakes and skiers, as we bring all the Russian Winter maps in one article.
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| --21-12-2011-- |
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Snegurochka (The Snow Maiden)
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| Snegurochka, i.e. Snow Maiden, is an indispensable New Year's character from Russian fairy tales, the charming granddaughter of Father Frost, his constant companion and assistant. Sometimes she is depicted as a little girl, and sometimes as a young lady.
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| --13-12-2011-- |
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Old Soviet New Year's Postcards
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| The story of the Soviet New Year's postcards is a story of millions of Russian people, the breath of discrepant, but still great epoch.
In this article we will show you a very colourful gallery of the most remarkable examples of the Soviet New Year's cards. Enjoy!
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| --08-12-2011-- |
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Russian Winter Season: A Digest of Russia-InfoCentre Features about the Festivities
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| This season we decided to help you glide through the Russian winter. The forecasters promise us a "European" winter, meaning it is going to be mild, but the holiday season is nearing, and we wanted to feel the festival glee and to share it with you. So, here is what we have already written about the Russian traditions of celebrating the New Year and Christmas.
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| --02-12-2011-- |
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City Hunter: The Second Moscow Kremlin
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| Few people know that Moscow is famous for two Kremlins. After visiting the one situated on the Red Square, go to “Izmailovo” district. Definitely, you will be impressed.
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| --07-12-2011-- |
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City Hunter: Autoville Retro Car Museum
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| Every mother dreams about pink Cadillac. When in 1955 Elvis Presley bought it for his mother Gladys, all Americans went crazy. Gorgeous and powerful, it has become the symbol of America and today can be easily called a legend. If you want to touch a little bit of history, then come to Autoville – several more legends are hidden inside.
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| --21-11-2011-- |
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Bruno Pelletier: Transforming the Soul
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| Every new great experience is transforming your soul in some way. You can change yourself through beauty and art, through love and sudden inspiration, or through incredible music. You can even apprehend the new way of thinking, when a singer like Bruno Pelletier comes to the stage, wishing to impress you with several of his hits.
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| --15-11-2011-- |
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City Hunter: the Oddest Moscow Monuments
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| Moscow is full of such breathtaking monuments, that when you see them, the only thought is “What is it and why is it here?!”. Try to guess why the following sculptures have appeared in the city.
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| --16-11-2011-- |
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City Hunter: Philosophical Monuments in Moscow
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| Why people create monuments? To commemorate significant events, to honor heroes, to entertain public or to express something important? Try to understand it while watching monuments that we can call philosophical. Human vices, Russian intellectuals and forbidden fruit - there is something to think about.
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| --22-11-2011-- |
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12 Russian Supermodels Who Gained International Success
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| Every year Russia increases its influence over world fashion market. Russian fashion designers and fashion houses have already had much attention and respect by both prominent specialists and common clients. Another way of Russian expansion are Russian models - beautiful, unusual and very talented women. Today we'll tell you about the most successful of them.
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| --27-04-2012-- |
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City Hunter: Moscow Monuments to Famous Asian People
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| Moscow is one of the most extraordinary cities in the world. Here you can easily meet Gandhi, read a book next to Firdawsi and meditate with Confucius.
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| --02-05-2012-- |
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Halloween in Russia: How to Scare Baba-Yaga and Stay Alive
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| Halloween is a very popular holiday which is now celebrated in many parts of the Western world. Of course, Russia, under its cultural and religious traditions, doesn't look like a country where such holiday can be very widespread. But why are there so many vampires and witches on Russian streets on October 31? And what have Russians added to this traditional celebration? Read this article and you'll see. Just don't get scared...
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| --28-10-2011-- |
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City Hunter: Moscow Monuments Dedicated to Professions
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| City Hunter continues the exploration of Moscow sculpture. In addition to romantic and animal monuments today we can name several out-of-the-ordinary statues, dedicated to different workers like yard cleaner, plumber and teacher.
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| --01-11-2011-- |
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City Hunter: Animal Monuments in Moscow
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| That is amazing how Muscovites like to create monuments, dedicated to different animals. Some of them are just for fun, others are to symbolize something important like friendship or compassion. Strolling along the streets, you can suddenly find a bronze duck or a little bee, and that will be a great surprise and a reason for a smile.
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| --01-11-2011-- |
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City Hunter: Romantic Moscow Monuments
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| Moscow is not only the Kremlin and the Tretyakov Gallery. It doesn't end with the most famous museums and big names. This amazing city can be much more than you imagine. There are plenty of beautiful lanes, ancient areas, nice places hidden from the crowd, fanciful art cafes, quiet bookshops and the most unusual monuments in the world.
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| --01-11-2011-- |
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Russian Gumby Cartoon Tribute to Art Clokey's 90th Birthday Anniversary
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| October 12th is the 90th anniversary of the inventor of gumby animation, Art Clokey. At Russia-InfoCentre, we joined Google, but instead of a doodle, we decided to share a couple of best-loved Russian gumby cartoons. Sit back and enjoy the stop motion clay animation Russian style.
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| --12-10-2011-- |
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The Feast of Science and Education at the 6th Festival of Science
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| The 6th Festival of Science that took place between 7 and 9 October 2011 has once again drawn in massive crowds of people of all ages and walks of life, interested or involved in scientific research and academic studies. Russia-InfoCentre asked Elizaveta Arapova, an historian and staff member of the Museum of History of the MSU, to tell our readers what awaited the visitors of the Festival Fair. Turns out, it wasn't just food for thought...
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| --26-10-2012-- |
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City Hunter: The Museum of Unique Dolls
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| Walking down the Pokrovka street you can easily miss this building if not pay attention. A small glass door of the house 13/2 hides the magic world of joy, love and childhood. You will be surprised at the number of dolls in shopwindows, dozens of toy eyes, looking at you, bright doll's houses, quiet music and mysterious atmosphere.
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| --01-11-2011-- |
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Russian Social Networks: An Overview
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| Russia with 170 mln population has a big potential for social nets expansion. People’s desire to keep in touch, share and get information about friends, family members, class-mates, play games and just to be trendy has let social nets to grow in quality and quantity. Now it is Russian social nets, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Moy Mir, Moy Krug which are most popular among Russians.
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| --30-10-2012-- |
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Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha: the History of Romanov Grand Duchess
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| There is a place in the Sverdlovsk region, that keeps memory of the Romanov dynasty. Small village not far from Alapaevsk is where Grand Duchess Yelizaveta Fyodorovna and other Romanovs were buried alive. This spot is associated with royal family as well as Ganina Yama. The Monastery of New Russian Martyrs with holy relics is a famous pilgrim destination and tourist attraction.
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| --20-12-2011-- |
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"No More Gzhel and Fur Hats!" - Igor Chapurin about Russian Fashion Industry
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| There are not many real professionals in Russian fashion industry, who know all realities of that business better than Russian fashion designer Igor Chapurin. Being born in times of Soviet uniformity, coming into industry during post-Soviet vulgarity, he was able to adopt the best examples of Russian and world fashion to create his own unique style. In his interview to the "Actual Comments" site Igor Chapurin speaks about problems and perspectives in Russian fashion industry.
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| --28-09-2011-- |
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Nevyansk - the Leaning Tower of Akinfiy Demidov
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| "So many secrets for such a small town!", these words can apply to the Ural town Nevyansk in full measure, as its history has an enormous amount of legends and mysteries, most of which related to the famous Demidov family - the most successful Russian magnates in the 18th century. This time we'll proudly tell you about the amazing Leaning Tower of Akinfiy Demidov - a unique building, which is considered Russian "Leaning Tower of Pisa".
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| --20-12-2011-- |
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Moscow Autumn Tourism Industry Week: The Business of National Branding in Russia
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| One of the principal events during the Moscow Autumn Tourism Industry Week was undoubtedly its conference on 22 September, 2011, dedicated to territotial branding.
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| --02-12-2011-- |
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Ganina Yama: the End of the Romanov Dynasty
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| Ganina Yama situated not far from Yekaterinburg is a historical place where Romanov family was buried in 1918. Today it is a holy place with the famous male monastery. Seven beautiful wooden churches built according to the best Russian architectural traditions symbolize each member of Nicholas II family.
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| --20-12-2011-- |
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Ural Writers: Charming Myths and Severe Realities in Russian Literature
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| The Urals region is rich in talented people in different spheres of Russian life. And literature is not an exception to that rule. Ural nature inspires for creation of mystical or fairy-tale stories, Ural mode of life and traditions add ethnic flavour to the books and Ural rich history allows to create truly epic and dramatic novels. So, no wonder that Ural literature is so stands out against the whole mass of Russian literature. This article tells you about the most outstanding writers, who lived and worked in the Urals region.
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| --21-09-2011-- |
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Moscow and Muscovites from the 19th to 21st Century: Photo Exhibition
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| "Moscow and Muscovites" photo exhibition took place on 3-18 September 2011 at Journalist Union "Photocenter". Photos of Old and New Moscow give an insight into how the life of the city and citizens has changed in the last two centuries.
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| --31-05-2012-- |
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Best Festivals of Perm, the Future Cultural Capital of Russia
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| Perm has recently been striving for the title of the cultural capital of Russia. Though the aim is far to reach, there seem to be certain preconditions for that, among them a number of large-scale art and culture festivals regularly held in Perm and the Perm Territory.
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| --02-12-2011-- |
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Central Ural - For Rock Climbers And Bikers
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| Windy and severe region attracts strong and brave people, ready to raft,hike and explore Russian wild nature.If you want to learn more about remote and strange places, choose this part of Ural.
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| --21-09-2011-- |
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The Ural Guide: Where to Go Online in Yekaterinburg
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| Whether you are just visiting the capital of the Ural region or live there long-term, there may be a point when you need to get on the Internet in town. We have scouted Yekaterinburg to find out where it is that you can surf the web - for free or not. Information is true as of September 2011.
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| --26-09-2011-- |
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Southern Ural - Land Of Contrasts
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| Southern Ural is a unique combination of three natural zones : forest-mountain, forest-steppe and steppe. This interlacement gives plenty of play to adventure initiative.
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| --14-09-2011-- |
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Rock Music Culture of the Ural Region
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| Since the 1980s Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) has been justly considered the 3rd capital of the Russian Rock and it probably ranks first among Russian cities as per the number of rock stars “per capita”. Nautilus Pompilius, Chaif, Agatha Christie, Nastya, Chicherina, Smyslovye Gallyutsinatsii and other rock bands from Yekaterinburg are known to millions of Russians. It is in Yekaterinburg where these bands were founded, developed and gained success.
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| --06-09-2011-- |
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Fresh Air Of Perm'
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| Despite of the status of industrial and commercial city, Perm' has its own "green corners", where one can have a rest and relax after a hard-working day.
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| --09-09-2011-- |
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Northern Ural -Thirst For Adventure or Where To Get Your Dose Of Adrenaline.
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| Vast expances of Russia give unique opportunities for various adventure tours. One can find any tour type : from raftings in Karelia to the participation in geological expeditions.Casual beach vacations or sightseeing tour can be easily replaced with an exciting trip.
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| --05-09-2011-- |
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The Fukushima Disaster News: Isotopes from Japan Arrived to Krasnoyarsk
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| Latest issue of 'Journal of Environmental Radioactivity' contains a paper by Russian researchers that covers distribution of radioactive isotopes from Fukushima nuclear power plant in space and time.
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| --02-12-2011-- |
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Russian Maps: Trans-Siberian, Trans-Manchurian, and Trans-Mongolian Railway Stops
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| You have heard all sorts of things about the world's longest railway - but exactly where would you be going? We decided to entice your inner traveller with this hands-on version of the route. It's on Google Maps, so you can embed it on your blog and start planning your ideal trip on Russia's most famous railroad.
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| --25-08-2011-- |
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Why Young Russians Leave the Country?
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| Migration becomes more and more intense nowadays. Do we know why it happens and how to make use of these processes?
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| --22-08-2011-- |
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Enrich Your Diet with Omega-3 Fatty Acids from Dragon Flies
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| According to Russian researchers, dragon flies play a major role in transfer of nutrients, essential for terrestrial dwellers, from water to the shore.
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| --19-08-2011-- |
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Moscow Centers of Modern Arts
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| If you are interested in contemporary arts and want to see what’s new and fresh on the scene of modern arts in Moscow your best choice will be to visit Vinzavod, Flakon, or Garage that have been newly shaped as actual alternatives to traditional art museums.
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| --16-08-2011-- |
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Russian Nobel Laureates
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| The full list of Russian Nobel laureates, including short information about them and links to the big biographic and theme articles from our site.
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| --12-08-2011-- |
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Principal "Green Zones" of St. Petersburg
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| Parks and gardens are considered to be the real places of interest of the city. They don't only supplement the architectural view of St. Petersburg. They are real pieces of architectural and lanscape art.
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| --29-08-2011-- |
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Muslim Traditions on Ramadan in Russia
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| The holy Muslim month Ramadan has started this week on August 1 in Russia and will last for thirty days. It is time for strict fasting, diligent praying, reading Quran, giving charity.
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| --06-08-2011-- |
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Suicide Gene Makes Stem Cells Suitable for Therapy
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| Cultivable pluripotent stem cells are under close attention of researchers all over the world due to their enormous potential for curing a vast range of human degenerative diseases, which demand tissue replacement therapy. These cells have two unique properties: they can transform into any known cell types in an organism, and they also are able to indefinitely proliferate in vitro with all their fantastic properties kept unchanged.
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| --05-08-2011-- |
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To Be Closer to Nature in Moscow
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| If you want to enjoy the beauty of nature without leaving the city, you should know its main green islets.
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| --07-09-2011-- |
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Easy Way to Monitor Your Health
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| Physicists from Novosibirsk are on the way to designing a biological sensor for easy and cheap diagnostics of various pathologies, as well as detection of tiniest amounts of hazardous substances in gas and liquid media.
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| --03-08-2011-- |
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Russian Sacred Places: Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery - An Epitome of History
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| One of the principal Christian centres of Moscow area, Nikolo-Ugreshsky monastery has a long and rich history, related to the main events of the country.
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| --20-12-2011-- |
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Russian Sacred Places: Nilov Monastery - The Healing Source
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| Nilov Monastery is not just an active male monastery on the island among the waters of lake Seliger, but also one of the principal Christian sacred places, where an amazing nature beauty unites with the old architectural works. It creates a unique atmosphere of Nilov Monastery, which attracts many Orthodox piligrims here every year.
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| --20-12-2011-- |
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Biofuel from Organic Sediments
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| Shallow and nicely heated water reservoirs are notable for high biomass production and increased amount of organic matter. Such water reservoirs often “bloom” during a period of explosive propagation of algae, and their bottom is covered with a thick layer of organic sediments. Russian scientists suggest using this organic matter for making biological fuel, an alternative for hydrocarbon fuel.
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| --29-07-2011-- |
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Russian Sacred Places: Optina Monastery - a Spiritual Oasis
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| It is hard to overestimate the importance of Optina Monastery in the history of Russia. The cloister is a bright example of the process of spiritual revival, which arose in the country in the end of the 18th century.
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| --20-12-2011-- |
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Yandex-gate: Private User Data Surfaces in Search Results
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| The last two weeks have been a nightmare for Russian Internet users. First, online SMS's went public; then it was the data for online shoppers, including sex shop clients; finally, yesterday it was the order data for Russian Railways customers.
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| --02-12-2011-- |
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Making Solar Batteries Cheaper and More Effective
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| Solar batteries become more and more widely used in common life, and photovoltaics (photoelectric transformation of solar energy) is claimed to be one of most promising fields of renewable energy. Russian researchers know how to make these batteries cheaper and more effective.
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| --27-07-2011-- |
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2011 Norway Shootings: The Russian Reaction
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| The Russian authorities and people have expressed their condolences to the Norwegian King and Prime Minister and the families of victims of terrorist attacks, following the incidents on Friday, July 22, 2011.
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| --30-07-2011-- |
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Russian Sacred Places: The Pearl of the Russian Golden Ring - Sergiev Posad
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| Sergiev Posad is a place where meditative and spiritual elements combine with industrial economics,trade,science and secular culture,which make it a very special Russian city.
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| --20-12-2011-- |
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Natalia Ishchenko About Six Gold Medals in Shanghai And Upcoming London Olympics
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| The world champion in synchronized swimming Natalia Ishchenko has won six gold medals in Shanghai, China, her total record reaching sixteen wins at world championships. This is an absolute result.
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| --03-08-2011-- |
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Russian Sacred Places: An Overview
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| A green hill, a little church under blue sky... Have you ever been to Russain convents? These are the places of peace and solitude, where you can enjoy the beauty of Russian nature, see the arcitecture of Old Russia and, perhaps, get closer to discovery of the famous mystery of Russian soul.
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| --20-12-2011-- |
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Johann (Gregor) Mendel – Peas and Laws of Inheritance
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| July 22 is the 189th anniversary of Gregor Mendel's birthday. Why should I bother, one may ask? That’s not the question to raise, because experiments of this talented scientist opened doors to one of the most wonderful sciences in the world – genetics.
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| --22-07-2011-- |
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Moscow River Cruise
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| What could be more exciting than learning the history and culture of the city through the river cruise? Fresh wind and warm sun will help you to relax and get plunged into pleasant thoughts.
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| --21-07-2011-- |
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Adventures of Harry Potter in Russia
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| Just like other countries Russia has long caught the sweeping craze about Harry Potter and all his magic stuff provided by Joanne Rowling. As for Russian fan websites dedicated to the young wizard, they are just innumerable.
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| --16-07-2011-- |
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The Modern Wonders of the World and Dream Destinations: A Russian Perspective
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| The Great Wall of China, the Machu-Picchu of Peru, and the statue of Christ the Redeemer of Brazil are the must-see sights for Russian tourists, according to a poll.
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| --30-07-2011-- |
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Digital Revolution: Born in Russia
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| Russian physicists know how to make world wide web develop faster by means of remarkably extending capacity of hard drives.
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| --16-07-2011-- |
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Bulgaria Ship Accident. Corruption and Indifference Played Their Roles
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| The tragic shipwreck of Bulgaria on the Volga River that took lives of 125 people was the result of a system where corruption, irresponsibility and indifference to human lives goes one step further with ineffective policy, unable to solve the problems Russia faces today. On the material of the Western media.
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| --25-11-2011-- |
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Are Gold Nanoparticles Toxic?
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| Gold nanoparticles are these days often used in medicine for purposes of treating and diagnostics of various diseases. However, scientists from all over the world have hot arguments about possible toxicity of this product of nanotechnologies and ability of these particles to cause mutations in living beings.
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| --14-07-2011-- |
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Swiss Investments to Russia Are Growing Regardless Crisis
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| July 13 Swiss and Russian presidents are to discuss acute bilateral and international issues and open a 500 mln Euro Swiss-investment OJSC Shurovskiy Cement plant in Kolomna.
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| --25-07-2011-- |
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Who is the Poorest in the World? CIS Countries Are on the List
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| The Forbes magazine has made a ranking of countries with bad economies. This is a real revolution: this year a list of ten countries includes three representatives of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Residents of Armenia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan will be very surprised to know that their economies can't stand comparison with Swaziland or Nicaragua.
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| --25-11-2011-- |
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U.S. and Russia to Discuss Adoption and Visa
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| The Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov is to meet US President Barack Obama next week in Washington, D.C. Lavrov will also take part in the meeting of the Middle East Quartet on Israel/Palestine on July 11.
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| --07-12-2011-- |
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Why Policemen Smoke?
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| Smoking is not very popular now, since medics and scientists proved how dangerous inhaling tobacco smoke is to our health. In order to explain benefits of healthy lifestyle to people, scientists decided to learn more about people, who use to smoke.
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| --11-07-2011-- |
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Viktor Vekselberg. An Interview to the Austrian Newspaper
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| Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg doesn't want to be associated with other Russian oligarchs. He keeps aloof from politics and prefers to deal with the creation of Russia's economy and high technologies.
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| --25-11-2011-- |
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Kvass
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| Traditional Russian kvass is one of the best refreshing and most natural soft drinks. The very word “kvass” is undoubtedly of Russian origin and means “sour drink”, or “fermented drink”. Though it is pungent rather than sour. Kvass based on bread fermentation has been a traditional drink for many centuries for Russians.
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| --06-07-2011-- |
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Businessmen and Politics
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| Russian politics and business become more and more interrelated. Russian businessman Mikhail Prokhorov recently headed the party Pravoe Delo. Why Prokhorov decided to become a politician and to head a party?
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| --25-11-2011-- |
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Shall Your Neurons Survive?
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| Existing treatment for the Parkinson's disease improves motion behaviour of patients, but do not protect their neurons from deterioration and death. This means these drugs eliminate sysmptoms, but don't really cure the disease. Russian researchers currently work on a treating agent, which can prevent neuros from dying, and are testing the drug.
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| --08-07-2011-- |
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Capturing Moscow
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| Russian officials have discovered Swedish mobile operator Tele2 signal in the Moscow region. The company has no permission to work on this territory. The Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) has already warned Tele2 of a licenses revocation possibility.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Traditions of Old Russian Housing
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| In the modern age of growing interest in eco-houses architects often look for inspiration in the traditions of old national housing. Old Russian architecture is not an exception. So, what was it like, actually? Izba, terem, khoromy – what are these? Now you can learn how ancestors of modern Russians built their houses.
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| --04-07-2011-- |
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“Touching” Single Atoms
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| Researchers from Russia developed a new technique of nanolithography for carbon-based materials, involving anodic oxidation by means of a probe of an atomic force microscope.
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| --30-06-2011-- |
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Russian Search Engines to Cooperate
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| A month after beginning the exchange, Russian Yandex has started a project that will cetrainly allow the company to increase the capitalization. The largest Russia's search engine Yandex and its competitor Rambler has signed an ageement. From this month Rambler will use the search engine of Yandex.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Diamond-Graphite Sandwiches for Electronic Devices
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| Russian physicists now know how to insert thinnest graphite layers into diamonds in order to later make various parts for electronic and optoelectronic devices
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| --24-06-2011-- |
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No Killer Solar Flare to Happen: Russian Scientists Promise
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| Recently British newspapers announced another “end of the world” happening within the next 18 months, when extremely powerful solar flare would destroy the whole industry of power engineering and all electronic devices on our planet, as well as orbital space ships and satellites. Russian physicists advise to keep calm and do not believe these gloomy prophecies.
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| --22-06-2011-- |
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Vekselberg to Redevelop ZIL Plant
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| Viktor Vekselberg, large Russian conglomerate, may invest about 3 billion dollars in a plant redevelopment. The concept involves changing the speciality of Likhachev's plant and rehousing. The plant occupies 275 acres, it is one of the largest places for construction in Moscow.
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| --25-11-2011-- |
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Russian Tourist Destinations: Baikal Legends - The Sunny Cape of the Dead and the Baikal Seals
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| There is a cape on the western shore of Baikal Lake. It is a place provided with a very still bay, sheltered from storms and storm winds. Now it is a part of national park. Famous Islands of Ushkanyi where Baikal seals rookery is situated are in front of the cape, just in 30 kilometers. One of the main Baikal sights - Chivyrkui Bay is situated in 50 kilometers by water. The sinister name only contrasts with all this.
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| --20-12-2011-- |
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky: The Main Task For My Country Is to Not Miss the Historic "Window of Opportunity"
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| In his most recent interview to several tabloids Mikhail Khodorkhovsky discusses the opportunities for Russia's development in the new decade and what may prevent the country from achieving the goals.
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| --25-11-2011-- |
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Russian Tourist Destinations: Sakhalin for Those Who Have Little Time
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| Sakhalin is not only a disputed territory but a unique island region, with beautiful nature, unhacked history and a few amusing museums. The region is getting more open now. Recently tourists from Japan have been coming by ferry, staying for 72 hours visa-free and seeing sights of the region. Hopefully this is only the beginning, and this opportunity will be available not only for the Japanese. Anyway, Sahkalin is a place where you find traces of Russian Classic literature, many birds and sea mammals, one art museum with a good collection, and a very old oil derrick.
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| --20-12-2011-- |
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The Ex-colonel's Case
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| Russian Army ex-colonel Yuri Budanov was shot dead this Friday. There were six shots made by unknown person, four of them struck Budanov in the head.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Cell Phones Aren’t Good for Protozoa
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| In our everyday life we spend a good deal of time being under influence of weak electromagnetic radiation – it can come from mobile phones or microwave ovens, for instance. Active debates about possible danger of this type of radiation take place all over the world. New facts on the subject arrive from Russian researchers.
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| --10-06-2011-- |
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72 hours for wedding: St. Petersburg to open wedding tours
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| Government of northern capital of Russia offers to permit conclusions of marriages between the foreign citizens on the territory of Russia. This can draw more tourists to St. Petersburg. Wedding during 72 visa-free hours, sightseeing in St. Petersburg and in its splendid suburbs with parks and royal residences, and then sailing to other countries and cities. All this looks like a good idea...
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| --08-06-2011-- |
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The Growth of Auto Industry in Russia
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| The Ministry of Economic Development has signed four agreements with global automakers to boost country's auto industry. This is the beginning of increase of investments made into country’s economy.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Light of Certain Wavelength Stimulates Bacterial Activity
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| Russian researchers discovered that light, which got through a light-adjusting film, has stimulated biochemical activity of oil-degrading bacteria of genus Pseudomonas: Pseudomonas stutzeri and Pseudomonas putida.
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| --03-06-2011-- |
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What We Should Know About Escherichia coli
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| People in Germany keep dying after allegedly eating vegetables with E. coli bacteria on their surface. What is Escherichia coli, why does it kill, and what should we do with it?
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| --02-06-2011-- |
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Russian Mafia in Europe
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| There are a lot of books, documentaries and studies, devoted to Russian mafia. This article shows a European view of this criminal phenomenon, which scares the world.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Parking like transportation problem of St. Petersburg
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| Lack of parking lots in St. Petersburg is a real problem: drivers have to park their vehicles in the streets, yards and grass plats. Multistory car parks might solve it, and St. Petersburg calls for investors for 16 such projects. However, some people aren't sure that multistory car parks in St. Petersburg can be interesting for investors and attractive for car owners. Why?
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| --30-05-2011-- |
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Electronic Era is Coming
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| From this moment any company may share with other companies their electronic documents instead of paper documents using. Web Service Diadoñ appeared in Russia, it is used for transmitting documents via Internet.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Renting car in Russia
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| There are many reasons to rent a car, especially when you are a tourist and want to be independent in your movement. In Russia this service is represented by both international networks and Russian companies.
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| --25-05-2011-- |
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Tverskaya Street is the Most Profitable Place for Retailers
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| The Forbes has researched the deal over Moscow's major avenue. Tverskaya street is a profitable place, it's an "eldorado" for retailers. But who owns Tverskaya street?
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Russian Tourist Destinations: The Russian Arctic - A New National Park Next Door to North Pole
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| Frantz Joseph Land is an archipelago in the Arctic sea and one of the northernmost territories of Russia. 900 kilometers away from the North Pole is the northernmost island of archipelago - the Rudolph Island. Not long ago this territory was turned into a national park.
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| --20-12-2011-- |
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Exotic Museums of Russia
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| All kinds of museums are needed and wanted! Obviously, this is the credo of museum enthusiasts in Russia. Apart from classical Russian museums almost every city of this country can nowadays boast some exotic museum exposition, which is worthy of going for a trip to see it.
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| --21-05-2011-- |
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The Big Bang Could Have Never Started the Universe
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| A Russian astrophysicist suggests that our Universe never started with the Big Bang. Data, he obtained in his observations, can destroy existing theory of how our Universe had been born.
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| --20-05-2011-- |
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The Failure of BP-Rosneft Deal
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| BP's and Rosneft's deal for $16 billion collapsed. Russian state-owned company is out of the agreement with BP due to the refusal of the Russian shareholders of TNK-BP to sell its stake in the company, at this moment Rosneft is searching for the new partners.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Waste Waters to Become Less Toxic
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| Wastes from large industrial enterprises are often extremely harmful for the environment and human health. Waste waters of Kazan Optical Mechanics Plant, for instance, are mainly polluted by heavy metal ions from a galvanizing room and synthetic surfactants from an optical room. Heavy metal ions are much more dangerous for our health, than synthetic surfactants (SS).
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| --20-05-2011-- |
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Devil's dozen luxury hotels in Moscow center
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| Moscow has been called the most expensive hotel city in the world. So, there are minimum two categories of expensive hotels in the Russian capital: bad expensive hotels and luxury hotels. First category is not an interesting thing. Services in luxury hotels cost their unreal money. Some of them have long history. There are 13 luxury hotels in the center of Moscow for those who takes metro just for fun.
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| --02-11-2011-- |
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Vimpelcom CEO Resigns
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| Alexander Izosimov, Chief Executive of Vimpelcom, will quit the company. Under his leadership Vimpelcom grew into a global telecommunication giant, becoming the first global company with Russian roots. Vimpelcom will replace Izosimov with Norwegian chairman Jo Lunder.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Pollution-free Tyva Republic waiting for Eco-tourists
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| Tyva Republic, located in southern Siberia and on the edge of Mongolia is a place with fantastic nature and culture. According to UNESCO experts, this region is one of three most ecologically clean places on the Earth, along with Amazon forests.
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| --20-12-2011-- |
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Energy from Wood Wastes
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| Hydrocarbons still give up to 90 per cent of energy, consumed by the mankind. We try to reduce usage of oil and natural gas, at the same time trying to find alternative energy sources and to make the best use of already known sources.
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| --17-05-2011-- |
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Top 20 Richest People in Russia 2011
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| Top 20 richest people in Russia, according to the Forbes.
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| --25-11-2011-- |
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Russia and the World: Russian People’s Point of View
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| Public opinion polls reveal how Russians feel among other people of the world, and where is Russia’s position in the world, compared to other countries.
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| --11-05-2011-- |
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Museum Night in Moscow: buses and metro taking part too
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| Action "Night in the Museum" will take place on May, 14/15th night to make collections and exhibitions available for everybody, who is too busy on weekdays and too tired on weekends, who cannot stay kilometer-long lines trying to get to popular exhibitions.
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| --12-05-2011-- |
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Celebrating the Victory in Russia causes outrage in the Baltics
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| The commemoration of the 66th anniversary of the Soviet's Union victory over Nazi Germany has gathered over 20 thousand soldiers, airmen, sailors and cadets on the Red Square.
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| --11-05-2011-- |
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A Step Towards Imaginary Pattern Recognition
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| Russian physicists and physiologists have developed a technique for recognition of things people imagine, by means of electroencephalography. NeuroG technology was created by researchers from faculty of physics of Moscow State University and the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of Russian academy of sciences.
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| --06-05-2011-- |
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Yandex Plans IPO on Nasdaq
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| Russia's largest Internet search engine Yandex has officially announced about its plans to list shares on Nasdaq in New York. Yandex N.V., the parent company of Yandex, registered in the Netherlands, said it had sent a request to the Commission's Securities and Exchange to list shares on Nasdaq.
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| --25-11-2011-- |
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Torzhok Gold Embroidery
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| Torzhok Gold Embroidery, one of the kinds of Russian embroidery, is the folk art and craft, which appeared in Torzhok in the 13th century and was widely developed in the 18th century. The most ancient gold embroidery found in the city’s area was created over a thousand years back. These were gold-embroidered pieces leather that performed the function of local money.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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How Blood Moves in Our Lungs
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| Our heart provides blood supply in our organism via two simultaneous mechanisms. Systemic circuit brings oxygenated blood to all organs and tissues, removing carbon dioxide from them at the same time. Pulmonary circuit is responsible for delivering blood from heart to lungs – this mechanism enriches blood with oxygen and “cleans” it of carbon dioxide. A great mystery of our life is how enormous volumes of blood tend to get oxygen-enriched in lungs within very short periods of time. Little is known about blood microcirculation in lungs.
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| --04-05-2011-- |
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Ticks: protect yourself
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| There are no venomous spiders and almost no dangerous snakes in Russia, but there are ticks whose bites are imperceptable but may cause Lyme disease, tick-borne encephalitis, enteric hemorragic and recurrent fever. These tiny arachnids wake up when the snow melts and are especially active in May and June, when the people rush into forests for weekend picnics and more long expeditions.
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| --04-05-2011-- |
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Domodedovo has a problem
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| Russian authorities are criticizing the owners of Domodedovo airport. The Prosecutor's office claims that the ownership structures at Domodedovo airport may affect the security of the state. The accusations can destroy the company's plan to appear at the exchange as well as to push the airport to join the alliance with Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo state's airports.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Oil deliveries dispute
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| It's been a long time since Russia and China couldn't agree on future gas supplies and have already fallen out due to the terms of existing contract for oil supplies. Russian side has accused China of violating the treaty and asks to return 100 million dollars of the debt. Otherwise, Moscow will take the matter to the international court.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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White Nights in Perm
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| White Nights in Perm 2011 is not only a climate phenomenon, but 26 days of festivals, exhibitions, dance shows, master-classes and forums, workshops and public lectures for all the residents and guests of the city.
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| --27-04-2011-- |
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The fastest way to become rich or a story of kidnapped Kaspersky's son
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| Ivan Kaspersky, 20-year-old son of Russian software tycoon Yevgeny Kaspersky has been kidnapped on April, 19. Two days later Russian mass media reported that the teenager had been kidnapped by a group of people who asked his father for a 3 million euros ransom.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Moscow Metro to drive tramps and beggars out
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| Moscow metro is overcrowded, and this is a problem to solve. A problem without obvious solution is tramps, beggars and black trading in the Moscow Metro. New chief of Moscow Metro Ivan Besedin promised to remove them.
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| --25-04-2011-- |
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Inflation in Russia is an endless and tiring process
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| Prices in Russia are rising faster than in any other country with emerging markets. At the moment inflation is the most big problem in the country.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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New tour services on Trans-Siberian Railroad
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| New exclusive tour on Trans-Siberian Railway starts this summer. A special tourist train Moscow - Beijing on Trans-Mongolian route of world-longest rail road will make its first voyage in August, 2011.
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| --21-04-2011-- |
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Internet commerce in Russia has a great potential
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| Russian online discount service KupiVIP has raised $55 million of foreign funds. This is a new record for Russian Internet commerce. Despite low Internet popularity, Russia occupies second place after Germany in terms of online retail market. European investors are encouraged.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Fun fountains of Peterhof
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| Peterhof park is sometimes associated with something luxury, official and a little boring. But eastern part of the Lower park is not so regular and is rich is signs of royal amusements, including fun fountains, very popular in 18th century Europe.
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| --02-12-2011-- |
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Giorgio Armani's Russian resort
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| Giorgio Armani S.p.A., the investment vehicle of Italian designer Giorgio Armani is going to build spa resorts in the South of Russia. The company will start its first project soon in the Caucasian Mineral Waters, some sites for other resort centers are already seeking by the company in Karachay-Cherkessia region.
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| --20-06-2011-- |
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Russian Museums of Astronautics
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| The House Museum of the great Russian scientist K.E. Tsiolkovsky, the founder of theoretical astronautics, is located on the outskirts of the town of Kaluga near the River Oka. 29 years of life of the scientist are associated with this house. This is where he wrote dozens of major works on aeronautics, aviation, jet propulsion, astronautics and other topics.
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| --13-04-2011-- |
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Raising bridges in St. Petersburg
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| If we don't speak about museums, two things are associated with St. Petersburg for a tourist: white nights and rising bridges. Raised bridges are mentioned in literature, poems, songs and even in advertising clips. Voina art group likes St. Petersburg bridges too.
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| --13-04-2011-- |
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Skype. A security threat for Russia?
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| A hacker attack hit Russia’s most popular resources. In response to the cyberattacks the authorities were considering blocking some internet services, including Skype and Gmail. But at last it was told Russia won’t ban these sites. So what was the need for this hysteria?
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| --12-04-2011-- |
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Riverbus: Moscow sightseeing without traffic jams
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| Sightseeing excursions in city are tied with one problem which can spoil all the outing: traffic jams. It is especially actual for the Russian capital. However, there is another possibility to look at Moscow main sights without traffic jams and crowds of people. It is voyage by river bus on one of 10 routes, offered to tenants and guests of Moscow from Apiril till October.
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| --11-04-2011-- |
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Advances in Lensless Optics
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| A technology, known as reflective microscopy, is especially useful for working in soft X-ray radiation range, in which laboratory X-ray lasers and free-electron lasers already work. Researchers from the laboratory of X-ray optics of the Lebedev Institute of Physics currently search for solutions for a parabolic equation with initial conditions, preset on surfaces of various forms and orientations.
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| --04-05-2011-- |
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Victims of expropriation meeting IOC
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| Due to the 2014 winter Olympic Games, Sochi is rapidly changing. New sporting facilities and infrastructure are coming together to the region. Sochi's land estimates like gold and some residents of the city feel themselves victims of expropriation.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Optimization for Superconductors Suggested
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| Superconductors are known to have zero electric resistance under conditions of extremely low temperatures. Electron flow, responsible for formation of electric current, moves in these conducting materials without colliding with atoms of their crystal lattices, thus without any heating losses. Nowadays superconductors are used for building high-capacity magnets for expensive research equipment and for high-precision diagnostic medical devices.
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| --04-05-2011-- |
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Kaluga sights
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| Small town of Kaluga in Moscow Region combines happily saved 18th century Classicist urban area with memory about scientists made first steps for outer space exploration. Here lived in late 19th-early 20th century a school teacher Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, original and dreamer, who was the first to speak about flights to open space using rockets.
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| --20-12-2011-- |
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Kalyuka
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| Kalyuka (koluka) – a Russian overtone flute - is one of the traditional folk Russian music instruments. It is a hollow tube lacking playing holes is played following the same principles as the overtone flute.
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| --05-04-2011-- |
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Fastfood business in Russia
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| Russian market of fastfood has changed in recent years. New brands appear in Moscow and other cities, most of them came from abroad, the old ones are trying to introduce new services to retain their positions.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Zvenigorod sights
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| Zvenigorod is a small town not far from Moscow, of the same age. It appeared approximately in 11th century on the high bank of Moscow river. It is famous with two masterpiaces of early Moscow architecture, one of them tied with name of Andrey Rublev.
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| --20-12-2011-- |
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Kidnapping fears roused
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| The 16-year-old Victoria Teslyuk, daughter of Lukoil top manager disappeared in Moscow region on Saturday, March 26. There is a version of a kidnapping, but there are still no statements from criminals.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Lot of Banned Slavic Idols
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| Slavic idols - stone and wooden sculptures that embodied Slavic gods - were an indispensable attribute of priestly religious practices of Old Russia. Very few of those idols have come down to us.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Frost-Proof Ceramics Developed
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| Good news, everyone who lives in the regions with cold climate – Russian researchers have developed special additives, which help improve quality of local materials and make them suitable for making frost-proof bricks.
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| --30-03-2011-- |
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Kolt – Enigmatic Old Russian Ornament
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| Kolt is a traditional Old Russian female ornament of the 11th -13th centuries; it is a hollow metal pendant fastened to the headgear and often decorated with granulation, skan’ (filigree work), enamel, or patina. Presumably, the inner cavity was used for keeping a piece of fabric moistened with incense.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Terror threat is still relevant in Russia
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| A year passed since Moscow Metro terror attacks. The 2010 Moscow Metro suicide bombings carried out by two women during the morning rush hour of March, 29, killed 40 people.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Exploring Aging Mechanisms
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| Many repair works in our organisms are performed by hard workers, known as stromal progenitor cells, which participate in forming new tissues and extracellular matrix. When we get old, we lose the majority of these cells, which causes bone thinning in elder people, for instance. Russian medics and microbiologists have found out that age-related changes in the population of stromal progenitor cells was not caused only by decreasing numbers of these cells, but also by inhibiting their activity by an organism himself.
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| --26-03-2011-- |
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Soviet-era space watches relaunched
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| Russia has presented Soviet cosmonauts watches on the world’s most important show for the watch and jewellery industry on March, 24. This was a debut of Russian brand Raketa, popular for its watches for the army, civilians and fashion accessories.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Science Increases Oil Production Efficiency
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| Oil under the ground is often contained in so-called “collectors” – layers of porous rocks. In order to reach “black oil” engineers drill wells, to which oil travels from surrounding rocks through highly porous and permeable rocks and later gets extracted. During drilling of wells or after a long-term well operation pores of oil-bearing rocks get clogged and large amount of oil is left inside the Earth forever. Such clogging is also known as “wall cake” or “filter cake”.
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| --23-03-2011-- |
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Charter trains on popular routes
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| Russian Railways is going on its competition with air transport. After high-speed trains, it will introduce a new service this summer: charter trains on popular tourist routes. New service will be launched taking into account very high demand on some routes among tour operators and independent travelers as well.
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| --23-03-2011-- |
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Russian gas in Europe
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| Germany's Wintershall, a unit of BASF joins Russia's South Stream gas pipeline project, which will transport Russian gas under the Black Sea to Europe. What is the Europe's energy strategy for the future and does the crisis in Japan and Libiya riots affect gas export?
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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New hostel to open in Moscow
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| Moscow is one of the most expensive European cities, so cheap accommodation is a rare thing. However, hostels with moderate prices (in comparison with hotels) exist in the center of Moscow.
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| --21-03-2011-- |
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Despite Japan’s disaster, Russia still supports nuclear energy business
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| Russia is still promoting nuclear power plants building, while Japan suffers from the nuclear disaster.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Eliminating Side Effects of Anemia Treatment
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| Erythropoietin-based treating agents are often used for therapy of anemia, caused by various severe diseases. However, these treating agents have strong side effects. Russian medics know how to treat erythropoietin in order to maintain its efficiency, but eliminate unwanted side effects.
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| --19-03-2011-- |
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RNA Can Help Fight Cancer
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| Russian researchers have synthesized a 22-component RNA (ribonucleic acid), which demonstrated hampering of cancer cells’ growth and promoting synthesis of interferon, part of an immune system.
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| --16-03-2011-- |
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Fukushima -1 = Chernobyl 2 ?
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| American institute of science and international security has confirmed the opinion of French Agency for Nuclear safety, which gave emergency case at Fukusima 1 nuclear plant 6 points from the 7 possible according to international 7 points scale. But it can be not the end...
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| --16-03-2011-- |
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Gambling in Russia
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| It's been a long time since Russia's casinos and gambling halls moved to some special remote zones. However, in Moscow the illegal gambling business is still prospering due to corruption.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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InCity hitch-hiking security
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| According to statistics, 2,000 people in Moscow go missing. A few of such cases are tied with hitch-hiking passing cars. We do it sometimes, when it is too late for public transport or if we are going to be late. Taking into account, that such a trip can be dangerous for health and life, we offer you some hints for those, who is getting into stranger's car.
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| --14-03-2011-- |
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New Treating Agents from Kelp
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| Search for promising treating agents has come a long way from testing all possible substances, hoping, that something would help, to making treatment with given properties in near future. Currently we are between these two stages with choosing from several hundreds substances and then modifying best of them by chemical means.
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| --12-03-2011-- |
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Old Russian Pictorial Embroidery
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| Old Russian pictorial embroidery (aka "needle painting") is one of the Russian arts and crafts that developed under the direct influence of Byzantine and were widely spread in the Old Rus'. Unlike ornamental embroidery these works depicted "the face" and were made with the use of gold and silver threads, pearls, jewels and gems.
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| --21-10-2011-- |
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A mysterious case of Victor Bout
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| At the beginning of March, a hearing on the case of Russian businessman Victor Bout has started. The hearings were held in Federal Court of Southern District of New York in Manhattan. In the U.S. Russian businessmen is accused of arms trafficking, terrorists cooperation and numerous financial frauds.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Neutrons against Cancer
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| Bombarding a tumor with a neutron beam is a promising technique of radiation therapy. However, this kind of therapy is not widely used, because it needs large-scale neutron accelerators, requiring separate buildings.
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| --09-03-2011-- |
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Moscow Railway hub Kalanchevsky will connect trains with planes
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| Kalanchevsky railway terminal not far Komsomolskaya Square in Moscow in 2016 will be completed in 2016. This transportation hub will be the largest railway station in Europe. It will include two railway terminals, one for long-distance trains and one for Aeroexpress, high-speed trains, running from Moscow airport to central railway stations. Besides transport terminals, Kalanchevsky will be provided with hotel, parking, service center and shopping space. Construction of such complex will cost 208 billion rubles.
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| --09-03-2011-- |
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Skan’
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| Skan’ (Filigree) is a traditional Russian handicraft of making openwork or soldered tracery of golden, silver or copper wire, either smooth or plaited into strings, with addition of small silver or gold balls and enamel. The word skan comes from the Old Russian word skat' meaning "to plait".
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Semiconductors from Alcohol – Only in Russia
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| Russian researchers have developed a simple technique for raw material preparation in order to produce electrically conducting polymers. These polymers are an essential part of flexible displays, another technological breakthrough.
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| --05-03-2011-- |
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Healing Bones – Now Faster
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| Russian researchers have suggested a new technique for accelerating healing of damaged and broken bones. The “magic” substance, used for this purpose, is called fibrin.
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| --02-03-2011-- |
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Mikhail Gorbachev who changed the world 20 years ago is 80
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| Mikhail Gorbachev, the First and the Last President of the USSR is celebrating his 80th anniversary today, on the March, 2 in Moscow. This person is associated with the end of the Cold War and fall of the Soviet Union.
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| --02-03-2011-- |
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Businessmen wanted
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| The Investigative Committee is searching for ex-executives of IzhAvto and SOK Group company. Top-managers, including Yuri Kachmazov, are hiding from the investigation. Businessmen are accused of premeditated bankruptcy of IzhAvto and the theft of 6,7 billion rubles (230 million dollars) in assets from the factory.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Gudok
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| Gudok is an ancient Russian folk music instrument. In spite of its name (meaning “hooter” in Russian) it is a string instrument. Skomorokhi (wandering minstrel-cum-clowns) used it in a combination with the Gusli. Gudok consisted of an oval or pear-shaped dugout wooden case, a flat sounding board with resonator holes, and a short fingerboard without frets, with a straight or unbent head.
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| --01-03-2011-- |
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St. Petersburg issued Tourist Card with 2 free excursions
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| Tourist discount Card has been finally issued in St. Petersburg. The card is on sale in tourist info centers of the city. Moreover, Tourist Card provides two free guided excursions and free entry to 9 state museums queue-less.
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| --28-02-2011-- |
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Soñhi-2014. Safe and unproblematic?
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| The preparation for Soñhi-2014 Olimpic Games is going at full speed. At the same time a lot of new roads, power plants, hotels and sports facilities are building here, so this place doesn't look like a calm resting-resort. Also, there are some problems in the region.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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The dangerous situation in Russian ski resort
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| Three crimes were committed in Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Three tourists were shot by a masked gunmen, then a bomb was detonated by unknown persons on a ski lift and another bomb was found in a car in ski resort village. Till this time terrorists had been attacking only police and security forces, without touching tourists and other people. But their plans changed, causing an outflow of tourists from the region.
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| --22-02-2011-- |
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Exiled Chichvarkin won't go back to Russia
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| The former CEO of cell phone retailer Euroset Yevgeny Chichvarkin, now London resident, is planning to do business, but not in Russia.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Winning support for conference and business tourism in Russia
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| Russian visa is still the thing disturbing foreigners to visit Russian so often as they would like. Not every businessman can let himself to spend so much time for all that. Tourists can go somewhere else, but what about business travelers? Many companies enjoy services of consulting companies, giving visa and passport support for foreign companies in Russia and providing corporate travel services.
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| --17-02-2011-- |
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Nanoparticles Fight Cancer Cells
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| Nanostructured silicon surfaces and silicon nanoparticles were shown to inhibit division of stem cells and cancer cells, and nanoparticles, enforced with ultrasonic sound, kill these cells, Russian physicists and medics say.
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| --01-03-2011-- |
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Much ado about Railway security: metal detectors peep at the passengers at Moscow Railway stations
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| After explosion committed by suicide bomber in Domodedovo airport killed 36 people, safety measures are being strengthened in the airports and at the railway stations in Moscow, St. Petersburg and the biggest Russian cities as well. Efficiency of such measures leaves many questions, but metal detectors appeared at the entrances to the Moscow Railway stations have brought some changes into functioning of Rail transport hubs the traveler should know.
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| --16-02-2011-- |
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Russian oligarchs regain their influence
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| After losing the fortune during the crisis, Russian oligarchs are regaining their influence with the help of the authorities, participating in the development of strategic projects.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Valentine's day in Moscow: where to go?
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| According to statistics, 34% Russians are going to celebrate today. They are mainly students, housewives and officials. The shops are full of read hearts and pink stuff to provide gifts for them. When flowers, teddy bears and greeting cards are bought, there is a question coming up: where to go? Moscow restaurants and hotels follow the shops and invent special offers for St. Valentine's day to provide you romantic fabular night. But before the restaurants, if you happen in Moscow on February, 14, we recommend you to go skating a deux: this is a very romantic and specific Russian idea for St. Valentine's day.
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| --16-02-2011-- |
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Russian Archeologists’ Amazing Finds of 2010
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| The season of 2010 became extremely rich for Russian archeologists, who made a great many of surprising and really unique finds. 36 expeditions that worked in Russia and abroad made a number of stunning discoveries, which changed historians’ notions about the past.
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| --14-02-2011-- |
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Scorpion Toxins to Fight Harmful Insects
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| Russian researchers study scorpion toxins, able to selectively bind with sodium channels. These studies will help acquire new information about how ion channels – toxin targets – work.
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| --16-02-2011-- |
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RBS WorldPay Hack. Anikin will give back the stolen money
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| Russian hacker Eugene Anikin recieved a five-year suspended prison sentence for the fraud operation with U.S. payment system RBS WorldPay. Anikin and his accomplices have stolen from accounts of bank customers about 10 million dollars. The fraudsters managed to withdraw money from 2, 100 ATMs located in 280 different cities around the world, all within a twelve-hour period.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Moose farm not far from Kostroma: all what you wanted to know about mooses
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| What do you know about mooses? About their habits and attempts to domesticate them? Do you know why is it almost impossible? And finally wherefore did the people still raise these animals? All the answers can be found at unique moose farmm, which is situated not far from Sumarokovo village, 27 kilometers from Kostroma.
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| --20-12-2011-- |
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Russia’s Space Ambitions
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| After the International space station stops its activities, Russian researchers suggest using it as a basis for a high-latitude orbital space station.
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| --09-02-2011-- |
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A farewell to Russia. Murdoch quits
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| Billionaire Rupert Murdoch is going to sell his assets in Russian business.
"This is purely me, I’m sorry: the more I read about investments in Russia, the less I like the feel of it. The more successful we’d be, the more vulnerable we’d be to have it stolen from us, so there we sell now", — said Murdoch.
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| --08-02-2011-- |
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Russian tourists flow home from riot-hit Egypt
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| Situation in Egypt, one of the favorite travel destinations among the Russians, does not stabilize. The people give already paid tours up, the air carriers stop flights to Egypt. Tour operators are not obliged to pay back in the case of force majeure, but some of them have already promised that they return money to the tourists on their own responsibility. Social tension is still growing, disorders in the streets are going on. A curfew impose is imposed on all the country's territory. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia has issued a warning about insecurity of spending vacations in Egypt these days.
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| --07-02-2011-- |
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Doing business in Russia is like playing roulette
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| Russia looks attractive for investment and business development, but the problem of possible risks still remains. Unfortunately, due to poor law enforcement, the proliferation of weapons and corruption, Russia suffers from a wide variety of crime.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Mars Landing Simulation Practice Started
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| Participants of a famous simulation of manned mission to Mars, called “Mars-500”, are now at most interesting stage of the project – VIRTU technology guides six volunteers, isolated from any external influence possible, through a process of a future “landing” on the Red planet.
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| --04-02-2011-- |
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Kozuli – Russian Fancy Spice Cakes
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| The strange hard-to-translate name kozuli or kozyuli stands for fancy pastry figurines of nanny-goats, deer or other animals with a symbolical meaning. The word kozulya (sg.; kozuli – pl.) is derived from the Russian koza meaning “she-goat”. She-goat was a symbol of prosperity in the house, and making of kozuli symbolized family’s well-being.
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| --04-02-2011-- |
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Russian Far East in Winter: Amur tigers, non-sleeping bears and frontier between yesterday and today
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| Russian Far East, discovered by Russians in 16th century is still at most an enigma for a European. Far East is a kingdom of fire breathing volcanoes and geysers, deep blue mountains and exotic animals, - white and brown bears, and of course, Amur tigers. Brown bears don’t sleep in Kamchatka, and salmon species come here for spawning even in winter. There are some big cities here, but at the same time people still live in yurts and their best transport is reindeer and dog sleds. Here are some examples of winter activities on the Russian Far East.
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| --20-12-2011-- |
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New Parkinson Disease Therapy Tested
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| Parkinson disease is a cross, born by about 3.7 million people – about 7% of those, older than 60 years. Common therapy for this disease is called levodopa (L-DOPA or L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine), which is known to increase dopamine concentrations. However, levodopa has lots of side effects and cannot be used as a drug for long periods of time. That is why a search for new therapy for the Parkinson disease is a burning issue for the mankind.
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| --04-02-2011-- |
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New law "On police" approved. Will anything change?
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| The new Police Law has been approved on January, 28. Experts say that it is not all about just changing the name from "militia" to "police", this is a deep reform that will touch every police structure and every officer. Nevertheless, there are too many pro and contra on this topic.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Kamchatka in winter
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| Kamchatka belongs to travel destinations which don't need any special introduction. Volcanoes, geysers, thermal springs and marvelous wildlife - all of it attracts travelers from Russia and abroad. But there is lack of information about this region: we know more about missing tourists, mainly independent travelers, who neglected professional tour services which however exist. Thermal springs and active volcanoes make seasons on Kamchatka something relative, but there are some special winter things to do there.
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| --31-01-2011-- |
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Advances in Making Perfect Gas Sensors
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| Researchers from Russia and China have discovered that adding small amounts of zirconium in tin oxide films changed electrophysical and gas-sensing properties of these films. For instance, tin oxide films become much more sensitive to vapours of ethanol and acetone at temperatures 100 degrees less, than without zirconium.
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| --01-02-2011-- |
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Antineutrino to Be Measured
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| A new neutrino detector is built within an international Chooz-2 project by Russian and French researchers. New detector will help observe antineutrino from nuclear reactors of the Chooz nuclear power plant, Ardennes, France. Studying fundamental properties of neutrino is important for particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology.
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| --26-01-2011-- |
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Fate and fortunes of airports after Domodedovo explosion
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| Domodedovo airport attacked by suicide bomber, killed 35 people, was blamed by government in that in that security measures in the airport let the terrorist to get there without examination. But is the airport really guilty of the tragedy, more precise of that the people can enter some parts of the building without examination? Moreover, is it possible to prevent terroristic attckas in the crowded places like international airports by reinforcement security measures?
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| --26-01-2011-- |
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History of Russian Bread: from Sitnik to Kalach
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| Bread is not only the basis of Russian table, but also a symbol of people’s wellbeing. This is why there are a number of customs related to bread. From times immemorial the Slavs believed that people who shared bread became friends forever.
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| --01-02-2011-- |
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All about Baikal winter holidays
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| Baikal Lake is a unique place on the Earth with crystal water and breathtaking landscapes. The local public calls it The Sea. Most people think Baikal is a place to go in summer only, when it is not so cold and when it is possible to sail the lake. If the question is sailing and rafting on the rivers, they are right. But if we speak about winter outdoor activities, like jeep, snow mobile and dog sleds safari, skiing and mountain skiing on the rocky shore, with many wild slopes for free riders, ice fishing and ice diving.
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| --24-01-2011-- |
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Protozoa Help Fight Mosquitoes
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| A common means of fighting mosquitoes nowadays is using toxic bacterial proteins. However, these biological substances do not live long after being introduced in the environment; moreover, mosquitoes tend to become resistant to them quite quickly. Russian geneticists and medics united their efforts in solving this problem and suggested encapsulating toxic proteins of Brevibacillus laterosporus in protozoa before treating mosquitoes.
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| --21-01-2011-- |
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Sbiten – Old Russian Honey Herbal Drink
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| Sbiten was especially popular in winter time or in dank and cold weather and was very helpful against catching a cold or some other infirmity. It was also well-known for curing melancholy. Hot tropical spices and hot sweetness of sbiten inspire vivacity and festive joy.
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| --25-01-2011-- |
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Rosneft and BP are planning to drill for oil in a remote region of the Arctic. Is it a slapdash environmental attitude?
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| Russian Rosneft oil company and British BP will explore the Kara Sea, known for its energy resources and the most fragile environment in the world. This fact frightens ecologists.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Reconstruction: How Neanderthal People Hunted
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| Russian anthropologists and biotechnologists have studied peculiar features of Neanderthal skeletons, which differed from skeletons of modern human beings, and reconstructed walk patterns and hunting strategies of ancient humans.
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| --20-01-2011-- |
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Russian North snowmobile safari: Kalevala, Kizhi and beauty of Polar Night
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| Snowmobile safari is the most popular kind of winter leisure in Republic of Karelia. It is amazing winter leisure in combination with visito Kalevala, where Karelo-Finnish epos originates and specific Russian exotic like wooden churches of Kizhi. There are also special Polar Night safari tours in Murmansk Region, also popular last time.
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| --20-01-2011-- |
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Invest in Russia or not?
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| According to the Maplecroft research, Russia has climebed five positions in the ranking of the most risky countries for the investment. In this rating list Russia stands among countries that suffer from armed conflict, but this fact doesn't affect much the income of investors.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Garmon – Russian Accordion
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| Russian Garmon (garmoshka) is a traditional reed music instrument with bellows and two push-button keyboards. The left keyboard is intended for accompaniment: by pressing a button one makes bass or an entire chord sound. The right keyboard is for playing the melody.
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| --18-01-2011-- |
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Making Solar Batteries More Effective
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| Solar energy is a very important part of modern alternative power engineering. New battery types tend to appear regularly and quickly become popular. Researchers work on making solar batteries more efficient – making their efficiency coefficient increase from existing 20 per cent up to 30 per cent. Russian scientists used a different approach – their batteries, made of multicrystalline silicon, have common efficiency coefficient, but they are much more cheap than analogues.
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| --15-01-2011-- |
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Russian Hackers Will Go to Prison
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| An organized group of Russian hackers that have stolen more than 70 million dollars from U.S. bank accounts will spend only a few months in prison.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Electron Accelerator to Help Producing Nanopowder
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| Russian physicists developed a new technique for making nanopowders with particles of a certain diameter – a property, which lack all other technologies of nanopowder production. High-energy electron flow knocks nickel atoms out of a sample, these atoms then deposit on a substrate – that is the way nanoparticles form.
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| --14-01-2011-- |
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Tradition of Merry Russian Sleighing
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| Sleighing has been a traditional Russian winter entertainment, especially popular during Christmas-tide, Maslenitsa (Pancake week), and saints’ days.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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New Year nightmare: who cares?
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| New Year holidays 2010 - 2011 thousands of Russians were fatally flawed after enormous iced rain on December, 26, 2010 which made air services impossible or very hard. Iced wires of electrical lines were breaking under their own weight; that made Domodedovo airport dead for some time. Anti-icing fluid stock run out in Sheremetyevo like smoke.
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| --12-01-2011-- |
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The criminal elite in Russia
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| Pino Arlacchi, Member of European Parliament, Vice-President of the United Nations, talks about Russian criminal elite, comparing it to Cosa Nostra.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Sounds to Help Control Burning
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| Gas detonation is known to be a good means to get significant amount of energy during a very short period of time. However, detonation combustion is extremely difficult to control, and this fact limits perspectives of this technique as an industrial technology. A group of Russian scientists has a solution for this problem – researchers suggest treating gaseous mixtures, in which detonation combustion takes place, with acoustic fields.
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| --31-12-2010-- |
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Russian Christmas Feast: Customs & Recipes
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| On the night of the 6th to 7th January the Orthodox Church celebrates the holy Christmas. For over a month prior to the holiday believers observe the Advent, i.e. Christmas fast.
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| --25-01-2011-- |
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Will Earth Bacteria Infect Mars?
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| An experiment on delivering bacteria from the Earth to Mars and back aboard Russian “Phobos-Grunt” interplanetary station may cause irreversible changes in Marian ecosystem, an Italian researcher worries. However, Russian scientists assure Barry DiGregorio, a member of ICAMSR (International Committee Against Mars Sample Return), that bacteria from Earth would never get to Mars or Phobos.
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| --31-12-2010-- |
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The Cherkizovsky Market revival
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| The Cherkizovsky Market, Europe’s largest marketplace, closed down on June 29, 2009, is going to be revived. Entrepreneurs proposed the authorities to build a wholesale trade complex of about 400 thousand square meters in the industrial area called Kaloshino.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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When you finally landed in Moscow
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| Earlier we have written about difficulties of getting Russian visa and necessity of filling migration cards accurately. It is a reminder that your Visitors Visa may take several weeks to arrive, so Russian journey is to be planned ahead. Now we'd like to offer you some simple tips ...
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| --29-12-2010-- |
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Industrial Breakthrough in Ufa
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| Last week Russian engineers have opened a plant of high-accuracy machines, working by means of electrochemical machining with vibrations, in the Russian city of Ufa.
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| --26-12-2010-- |
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Roman Abramovich's "Eclipse" has enriched Germany for 400 million euros
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| At last the Hamburg shipyard Blohm and Voss has delievered the biggest and the most expensive in the world yacht Eclipse to it's owner, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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LHC: No Black Holes Detected
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| Physicists, Russian scientists among them, who work on Large Hadron Collider’s CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) detector, claim that their search for tiny black holes, which, according to some existing theories, could have appeared in proton collisions in this accelerator, was ineffective – no traces of such black holes have been detected.
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| --23-12-2010-- |
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Discover Russian North: lakes, huge monasteries and Kolyma stories traces
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| Russian North is a region on the north-west of Russia, full of forests, lakes, rivers, ancient towns and monasteries keeping dozens of their secrets. This region is one for encounter with Russia and for the tourists visited Moscow or St. Petersburg only. It is situated not far in the East and gives much of specific national color, from old Russian fortresses and monasteries to life of the Russian province in the 19th century, described in the world-known books of Russian classic writers like Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov.
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| --20-12-2011-- |
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Moscow ethnic riots
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| The murder of a young soccer fan Egor Sviridov by a group of men from the Caucasus in Moscow on December, 6 caused some race riots. Is it time to say there is a problem of ethnic hatred in Russia?
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Places to Eat in St. Petersburg on a budget
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| Eating out in St. Petersburg? There are very many possibilities, from cheap restaurants and eating-houses to the luxury restaurants. Usually, luxury hotels aren't a usual tourist's choice. At the same time, very few things are so important as eating out for a tourist in a foreign city. St. Petersburg, the northern capital of Russia, is rich in good budget restaurants and reasonably priced cafes. Prices for food in St. Petersburg distinguish in the whole from Moscow ones for the better.
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| --20-12-2010-- |
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Is Your Medication Fake?
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| Russian physicists suggest a technique for quick and accurate comparison of any medication with is chemical etalon.
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| --18-12-2010-- |
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Russian Embroidery
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| Embroidery has long been one of the most favourite and widespread kinds of needlework. In days of old all women in Russia practiced this amazing folk art and craft. Embroidery was closely connected with age-old customs and rites of Russian peasantry. With the help of a needle and various threads Russian women transformed simple fabrics into works of art.
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| --20-12-2010-- |
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Is It Windy on Venus?
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| Russian physicists suggest using a heterodyne infra-red range spectrometer for measuring speed and direction of winds on other planets.
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| --15-12-2010-- |
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Smokers in Sheremetyevo aren't abused
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| Smoking in the airports and other public places irritates non-smokers, and the law is on their side. But there are thousands of people, who smokes, and this habit is not yet a crime... Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow, pretending to be modern but passengers friendly as well has opened comfortable smoking lounges in its new Terminal E.
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| --11-01-2011-- |
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Allegro: first high-speed train to Russia
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| High-speed trains Allegro have finally been launched on route St. Petersburg-Helsinki-St.Petersburg. The first trip took place last Sunday, on December, 12, from Helsinki to St. Petersburg. The train will first make two trips a day, then amount of daily services is to be increased to four. Allegro can make 200 km/h and the trip takes about three hours and a half instead of more than six hours of journey by previous trains.
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| --13-12-2010-- |
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New Technique for Radioactive Waste Disposal
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| Russian scientists have developed a new technique for disposing of radioactive wastes, which turns them into chemical compounds similar to natural minerals and friendly for an environment.
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| --10-12-2010-- |
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ICQ servers will be located in Moscow
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| Mail.ru company is ready to transfer ICQ servers to Moscow. This may cause several problems for alternative ICQ clients users.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Christian Tin Miniature
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| Christian tin miniature is a modern type of Christian decorative and applied art of creating miniature sculptures. The handicraft appeared in the late 20th century in Russia in the midst of revival of the Russian Orthodox Church after communistic persecutions.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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We Need Reliable Space Weather Forecast
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| For 1 month Russian physicists and astronomers publish information about space weather on the website of the Russian Space Agency. Among other data the website contains information about solar flares, speed of solar wind, and Earth’s magnetosphere, as well as magnetic storm forecast for next 27 days.
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| --08-12-2010-- |
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Kholuy Miniature Painting
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| Kholuy miniature painting is a Russian folk handicraft that developed in Kholuy Village of the Ivanovo Region. It is a type of lacquered miniature painted in tempera on papier-mâché items, such as caskets, boxes, jugs, needle cases, etc.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Russian Glonass. A rival to GPS?
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| Three satellites with Russian navigation Glonass failed to reach the orbit. What is Glonass and why do we need it? Some facts about this new system can be found below.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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MOSCOW PLAYBILL
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| While it starts getting cold in Moscow, November is a hot month for event goers, as regular schedule events and premieres in top Moscow concert halls and theaters compete with world-name stars coming to Moscow from around the globe.
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| --06-12-2010-- |
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Converting and Storing Sunlight – a Russian Solution
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| Russian physicists have developed a unique device – a photoelectrochemical supercapacitor condenser, able to directly convert sunlight energy into electricity and accumulate it with high density in double electrical layer of electrodes, made of various nanomaterials. New device can be an element of autonomous solar electric generating stations, or illumination systems, being a cheap alternative to foreign solutions.
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| --03-12-2010-- |
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FIFA World Cup is a huge boom for the Russian economy
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| Russia won the right to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup. According to the most conservative estimates this will cost the country more than 50 billion dollars.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Making Drugs less Toxic without Losing Efficiency
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| Russian researchers from Novosibirsk have found out how to make some pharmaceutical agents less toxic without losing in efficiency and healing properties. The process, which does all abovementioned things, is called “clathration” – formation of a complex of a drug with natural polysaccharides.
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| --03-12-2010-- |
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Capital flight frightens Russian banks
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| The Russian Finance Ministery predicted a capital flight by the end of 2010 year. Now it's obvious that these predictions come true. In September and October capital flows increased and experts are trying to find out the reason for this phenomenon. At the same time the future privatization will hardly be able to help resuming the flow of foreign capital investments.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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What Would a Summit in Brussels Bring Russia?
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| Next week Brussels welcomes a summit of the Russian Federation and European Union, at which the parties are expected to sign a document on our country becoming a member of World Trade Organization.
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| --29-11-2010-- |
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Why European tourists don't come to Russia?
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| Last time on TV and on internet many people in Russia discpurse of the reasons why foreign tourists come to Russia not so often as they could and as the tour operators wanted. The state invests money into tour infrastructure to draw tourists from Europe, but the output leaves something to be desired. It is told much about bad infrastructure, lack of information at least in English about Russia, high hotel prices and high crime rate. But others, and among them is Larisa Zazulina chief operating officer of one large tour operator are sure, that the problem is the only one. It is called Russian visa.
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| --29-11-2010-- |
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Hydrogen from Bacteria – New Source of Fuel
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| Russian researchers revealed that Rhodobacter sphaeroides bacteria can be a source of molecular hydrogen, an ecologically friendly fuel. Scientists studied various strains of the mentioned microorganism and demonstrated that hydrogen emission rate depended on pigmentation of cells. Less pigmented strains can be a promising source of molecular hydrogen.
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Made in Russia. Cognac or "kanyak"?
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| Foreign mass media often pays much attention to the goods made in Russia. In this article we'll review the french attitude to the Russian cognac production.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Ready for Moscow life?
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| Jack Randall was one of those american managers who believed in a Moscow's eldorado. In his home city in New Jersey a long way to make a good career had been waiting for him. But suddenly he was invited to work in a Moscow bank on a post that would take him about 10 years to reach if he has been workring for it in his home city. There was something more to come — luxury apartments in the centre of Moscow and a Lexus car provided by the employer.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Krestetsky Flaxen Embroidery
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| Krestetsky stitching(or Krestets embroidery aka Krestsy whitework) is an old Russian folk handicraft that developed in Krestetsky District from the 1860s. Krestetsky stitching is a unique kind of national cutwork-type embroidery.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Who flies cheap in Russia?
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| Russia is one of the countries difficult-to use: it is not easy to get into. Applying fo Russian visa is a sophisticated and uneasy process, moving inland is also not easy, especially for foreigners, who needs registration in every city they visit and stay longer than some specified time. The Russians simply need report their passort details for buying train tickets to neighboring region. But the most complicated, time-taking and expensive thing was flying by plane until online checking in and first discount air carriers appeared in Russia. The situation seems like getting better, and if you want to travel within Russia saving your time on a budget, here is some information about Russian low-cost air carriers.
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| --02-11-2011-- |
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No More Biopsy for Diagnostics of Liver Diseases
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| Hepatic (liver) fibrosis is a devastating disease, which requires a not very pleasant procedure of biopsy to be detected. However, Russian medics developed a technique, which allows skipping this painful diagnostic method and estimating the level of liver fibrosis on the basis of biochemical measurements.
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| --25-11-2010-- |
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Shemogodsky Birchbark Carving
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| Shemogodsky carving is the traditional Russian folk art and craft of birchbark carving that became popular due to masters of Shemogodsky Volost of Veliky Ustyug District.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Tigers: Pardon or Execution?
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| The International Tiger Forum, which started in St. Petersburg this weekend, brought together experts on endangered animals from various countries and government heads of countries, where tigers still live, in order to discuss possible solutions to tiger population decline. The draft programme on doubling tiger population was suggested during a meeting of experts on Bali Island, Indonesia this July.
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| --23-11-2010-- |
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Grab Antimatter and Hold It
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| A group of scientists from CERN, including Russian physicists, has developed an effective technique for synthesizing and trapping antimatter particles for a relatively long time. Antimatter particles were atoms of antihydrogen, consisting of antiprotons and positrons instead of protons and electrons, an article in Nature reveals.
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| --01-12-2010-- |
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Velikiy Ustyug Silver Patination
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| Velikiy Ustyug Silver Patination is the national Russian art and craft that developed in the 17th century in Velikiy Ustyug, nowadays a district centre in the Vologda Region. It is decoration with patina designs of various silver items, such as, for example, cigar cases, glass holders, and tableware sets.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Formula One Comes to Russia – What to Expect
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| For Russia this year is definitely the year of the world-famous auto race. Just think – a Russian driver has finished his first full season in the race, and Russian goverment has signed a contract on bringing the F1 race to our country.
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| --17-11-2010-- |
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Okhta-Centre: pro et contra
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| Okhta-centre is a business centre in St. Petersburg, existing yet as a project of Gazprom Group and city government. It will include the first supertall skyscraper in the city. The main tower of Okhta-Centre is going to be the tallest building in Europe amongst live building proposals. The project mission is to create a new public and business area, moreover, with its its own specific recognizable element. It will be actually this high rise building, supposed to become one of the landmarks of a new Petersburg. The project implies the construction of six buildings united with a common base floor.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Manganese Tells About Your Blood Vessels’ Health
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| Russian researchers advanced significantly in understanding the nature of atherosclerosis by studying how blood vessel disruption depended on various metal content in vessel walls. Experiments of chemical composition of atherosclerotic plaques revealed that zinc, previously considered to have great protective effect, was much less important than manganese.
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| --01-12-2010-- |
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LHC: Possible Evidence of Higgs Boson Registered
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| Physicists, operating Large Hadron Collider's CMS detecting facility, recently registered production of two Z-bosons, which can be an evidence of a "heavy" variety of Higgs boson. CMS is a Compact Muon Solenoid facility, a general-purpose detector, designed for studying
different aspects of proton collisions at 14 teraelectronvolt, the center-of-mass energy of the LHC particle accelerator.
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| --13-11-2010-- |
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Clinical Trials of Insulin in Russia Are Probably Fake
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| Former top manager of MannKind, an American biotechnological company, sues his employers for falsifying results of clinical trials of their anti-diabetes drug in Russia. Diabetes is a group of metabolic problems, due to which human body doesn't produce enough insulin to control blood sugar (Type I), or organism's cells do not adequately react to insulin produced (Type II).
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| --10-11-2010-- |
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Steam engine excursions
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| Railway excursions belong to tour services, demonstrating Russian specific character in very impressive way. The most famous Russian railway tour is certainly a journey on the Trans-Siberian Railroad. But it is not the only one. There are steam engine excursions, which can sink you into atmosphere of the past for a few hous or maybe days
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| --17-11-2010-- |
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Flamingo flowers
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| Flamingo Service is the first Russian flower and gift delivery service founded in 1997 by Dmitry Shamparov. In Russia it’s well known as Service Network “Flamingo” and as “Russianservice” abroad.
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| --08-11-2010-- |
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Baikal freeride
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| The world famous lake of Baikal has recently become very popular among freedivers. Of course, Baikal is worth visiting for plenty of reasons, but now the people go there for deep virgin snow and very long slopes. Unusual interest to Baikal as to freeriding destination was detected last years, so the slopes are not yet very crowded.
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| --03-11-2010-- |
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Biotechnology for Life
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| Vladimir Skulachev, famous Russian biotechnologist, who studies effects of mitochondrial antioxidants on various health problems, including aging, believes that treating agents for eyes disorders, based upon “Skulachev ions”, as mitochondrial antioxidants are also called, can appear in pharmacies by the end of 2011.As for aging cure-all, these drugs will be available for sale within nearest 5 years.
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| --04-11-2010-- |
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Nikita Mikhalkov Knows How to Save Russia
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| The well-known film director, President of Russian Cultural Fund and scandalous persona Nikita Mikhalkov has come out with a political message under the pretentious title Law and Truth. Manifesto of Enlightened Conservatism, in which he calls to change Russian constitution and create a new conservative “guarantee state”.
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| --02-11-2010-- |
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Market of Used Cars Sets a Record
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| “AutoStat” statistics agency has summarized first six months of Russian car market and is ready to show some interesting figures. During first six months Russians reregistered about 1.94 millions of used cars, which is 400 thousand cars more, that during the same period of the previous year, and only 50 thousand cars less, that in 2008, notable for extremely high activity of the car market. Furthermore, used cars are still cheaper, than in 2008, while new cars are 5.4% more expensive, than in 2009.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Archnadzor Requests New Mayor to Preserve Historical Moscow
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| Experts go on discussing political, economical, and financial implications of resignation of Yury Luzhkov and appointment of Sergey Sobyanin to the post of Moscow mayor. Archnadzor – a public movement that consistently supports preservation of historical sites and cultural heritage of Moscow – has its own standpoint.
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| --16-11-2010-- |
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One Step Closer to Quantum Computers
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| Among other important tasks of quantum photonics there is a problem of building an interface between atoms and light photons. Joint think-tank of physicists from Russia and United States studies how single photons interact with quantum objects and has already built a prototype device for transferring information from an atom to a photon. The device is an integrated chip in an artificial atom with a fibre port. The simplest application of future device is a memory cell, as for more complicated things, this device can become a single-photon transistor, working on the level of individual quanta, for building complex logic systems.
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| --27-10-2010-- |
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Hilton hotels in Russia
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| It is not a secret, that Russian hotels are inclined to be either luxury, or awful, even in the Golden Ring Cities. Moreover, amount of stars does not always correspond with level of services provided in the hotel. That's why hotels of world famous brands are very actual for travellers, especially foreigners, because such brands are already something to rely on. Although they are not cheap, they are something familiar. It can be very important in absolutely strange country. There is some information about hotels of Hilton Worldwide on the territory of Russia.
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| --27-10-2010-- |
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First Open Russian Ecological Film Festival Announces its Winners
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| October, 24th, 2010 saw the closing ceremony of the First Open Ecological Film Festival ''Green Carnation'' on Square of Arts in Sochi.The festival has been included into the program of the Cultural Olympic Games “Sochi 2010-2014”.
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| --28-10-2010-- |
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Pulkovo airport
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| Pulkovo airport, an air gate of Russian Northern capital, is a first rate air transportation center, dynamically developing one as well. It yields to Moscow airports of Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo and Vnukovo only in the passenger traffic. It consists of two terminals, for domestic and international flights. Moreover, private jets flights are handled in Pulkovo as well.
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| --02-11-2011-- |
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Poverty in Russia – UN’s Point of View
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| Experts from the United Nations Organization strongly believe that Russian government should develop and introduce special measures for eliminating poverty in order to achieve so-called Millenium Development Goals
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| --25-10-2010-- |
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Drugs Can Promote Memory Loss
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| Researchers pay more and more attention to processes of memory storage and recall. Scientists already know several proteins, which play a key role in memorization processes, and many experimental works were aimed at finding properties of these proteins. A new study of Russian physiologists is dedicated to memory loss, induced in snails and rats by means of blocking a NMDA-receptor.
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| --22-10-2010-- |
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Face of Russia in Computer Games
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| Russian State Duma is considering the possibility of closer work with IT-game industry. There will probably appear a supervising body – an independent advisory council, one of the tasks of which will be tracing of unduly cruel and antipatriotic games in the market and banning their sale in Russia. However, the activities will hardly be limited to prohibition measures only.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Oil and Gas Can Have Abiogenic Origin
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| Common point of view says that deposits of petroleum and natural gas, which are hydrocarbons, formed as a result of decomposition of organic matter of ancient living organisms. However, the theory of abiogenic petroleum origin tends to become more and more popular among researchers these days. An argument between followers of either classic or alternative theories of hydrocarbon origin can soon be solved thanks to a research, performed by Russian geologists and mineralogists, who developed a technique for identifying a source of carbon, which is a part of natural gas.
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| --20-10-2010-- |
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Ice-diving in Karelia: high season despite winter
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| Here in White Sea, all sea flora and fauna appear in all their glory in unusually crystal water, with 50 meters visibility, and all of it happens under arches and vaults of ice, forming fantastic and surrealistic forms.
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| --27-09-2012-- |
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Wedding Recipes
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| Russian Karavai – the traditional round bread loaf - has come down to us from ancient pagan times. Karavai was a must at the Russian wedding feast, with numerous ritual rules observed during its preparation.
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| --25-01-2011-- |
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Mari El Republic: beware of bears, returning to nature
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| Mari El Republic is one of the Russian regions, interesting with their intact nature. More than half of the territories of the Republic are covered with forests. This region is ideal destination for those who is fed up with urban life. Rivers, lakes, forests and sacred grooves are waiting for guests to return them back to nature and give rest their nerves.
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| --20-12-2011-- |
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New Techniques of Secure Data Encryption Developed
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| Russian physicists used multiple-valued logic and fuzzy logic for developing a number of techniques for secure communicative functions in robotic teams. New mathematics algorithms are essential for development of a new generation of intelligence control systems, which would be able not only to make their own decisions, but also learn and safely transfer their knowledge to other robots of their team.
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| --29-12-2010-- |
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Is Your Milk Safe to Drink?
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| Russian biologists have developed testing systems for quick measuring antibiotic concentration in various milk products. New testing systems, based upon immuno-assay technologies, are highly sensitive and specific.
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| --29-12-2010-- |
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Traditional Russian Wedding Feast
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| Weddings in Russia were traditionally celebrated in a vivacious and noisy way, with observation of numerous customs, signs, and popular beliefs. The festivities usually lasted for three days, but sometimes could extend to a whole week. Russian wedding ceremony was certainly accompanied with an abundant and plentiful feast, representing ceremonial dishes of Russian cuisine.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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How to fill an immigration card
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| Russian visa regulations make Russian visas ones very hard-to-get. We try to simplify the travellers' lives provding some information about it in the Visa section of our site and Russian Visa service. But that's not the half of the story. Among other formalities to do and documents to fill there is a migration card you should fill and keep it till the moment you leave the country.
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| --23-11-2010-- |
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Diamonds Dismissed – Nobel-Prize Winning Graphene Enters
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| Two days ago Sochi-born Andre Geim and his fellow researcher Konstantin Novoselov were awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene". What is so revolutionary about the work of two former Russian physicists?
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| --29-12-2010-- |
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Flowers - safe choice for a present
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| We all like getting and giving presents. A present made in time can make peace and cheer up. It is not a secret for anybody. But the choice is so wide, that it makes you dizzy: what shall I buy? But there is a sure-fire way to make a gift: sending flowers, especially if your presentee is a woman.
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| --12-10-2010-- |
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Bouquets of flowers: forgotten language
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| Flowers are maybe the first thing to say: I love you without words and surely one of the oldest and simplest ways to decorate home, dress and hair. And they are still on the top. Flowers are the most popular and maybe the best gift.
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| --12-10-2010-- |
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Did Nobel Prize in Physics Go to Wrong Scientists?
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| Yesterday’s announcement of 2010 Noble Prize winners in Physics unexpectedly lead to a great scandal. Victor Petrik, a full member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, claims that Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim got the highest award in the scientific world undeservedly, and he is ready to prove his words.
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| --29-12-2010-- |
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Nobel Prize fished from the trash
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| Two Russian-born scientists have won the Nobel Prize of $1.5 million for Physics, for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene. One of the two is the first individual to take home both the Nobel and the Ig Nobel.
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| --06-10-2010-- |
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Russia and Egypt telecom companies agree to $6.6 bln merger
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| Russia's VimpelCom Ltd and Weather Investments, the investment company headed by Egyptian telecom mogul Naguib Sawiris, said they are merging to form what would become the world's fifth largest mobile telecommunication service provider in a deal valued at over $6.5 billion.
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| --22-05-2012-- |
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Chitosan – New Material for Medicine
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| Russian researchers from created a new nonwoven fiber material from chitosan, a natural polymer, found in shells of marine arthropods and some insects. Scientists, who work in Karpov Research and Development Institute of Physics and Chemistry, believe that good absorbing properties of a new material promise a good future for it in medicine.
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| --29-12-2010-- |
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Life Should Have Come to Earth from Space
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| State of the art of world science allows scientists to talk only about time when life appeared on our planet, but not about life’s place of origin, head of the Institute of Paleontology, full member of Russian academy of sciences Alexei Rosanov believes.
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| --30-09-2010-- |
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Table Therapy Makes Healthier
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| Engineers and scientists from St. Petersburg have mobilized power of Earth’s gravitation force in a so-called mechanurgy table, which is believed to prevent and cure various illnesses.
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| --29-09-2010-- |
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Moscow's Cap's Blown Away
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| Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday, on a state visit to China, abruptly sacked veteran Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov after nearly two decades in charge.
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| --25-11-2011-- |
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Kalyazin: monument to human blindness
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| A church bell tower sticks out waters of Uglich water reservoir next to Kalyazin town as a monument to human blindness and faith of early Soviet period that nothing but new world is valuable. Most part of the city with almost thousand-years history is now retired under waters, with market square, Holy Trinity Monastery and Nikolsky Cathedral, the bell tower of which is still to be observed.
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| --20-12-2011-- |
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The battle for Arctic is canceled
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| The forum titled “The Arctic- Territory of Dialogue” wrapped up today in Moscow. The forum has already made its contribution to the Arctic’s future, its participants said.
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| --24-09-2010-- |
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Surprises from Large Hadron Collider
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| Physicists, who work on the LHC, recently came across a new phenomenon, which was never predicted by any of existing theories. In a few words, protons collide and generate hundreds of particles. And among these particles, scientists detected pairs, movements of which were coupled for some unknown reason.
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| --29-12-2010-- |
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Hey, guys, let's play the global fray!
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| Legal international arms trade became so familiar over the past few decades that one doesn't even notice any more how sinister the game is.
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| --23-09-2010-- |
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Russian settlers fight for Israel's territorial inviolability
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| The former US President Bill Clinton claims that Russian immigrants and settlers in the Middle East are the main barrier in the way of reaching a settlement in the region.
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| --22-09-2010-- |
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Car Free Day in Moscow
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| September, 22 was a Car Free Day in Moscow and St. Petersburg. And Moscow has failed it completely...
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| --22-09-2010-- |
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Changing course in Moscow
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| Since 2008 Russian foreign policy has begun to swing back toward cooperation with the West. Are hints about a new course for Russian foreign policy remain mostly that: hints?
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| --21-09-2010-- |
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Spectrometer to Help Preserve Ozone Layer
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| Russian physicists used their enormous experience in monitoring atmospheric ozone within millimeter wave range and developed a radio spectrometer for measuring vertical distribution of ozone degrading molecules of chlorine oxide in atmosphere of our planet. Simultaneous measurements of ozone and chlorine oxide help correctly estimating how chlorine oxide affects depletion of ozone layer during cold time of a year.
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| --21-09-2010-- |
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Okroshka and Botvinya
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| Botvinya goes well in summer heat; it tastes lighter than okroshka and has a better refreshing effect.Okroshka and Botvinya are cold soups based on kvass; both are part of traditional Russian cuisine.
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| --25-01-2011-- |
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Quake under the Moscow immovable point
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| Most experts now believe Luzhkov, who is 74, will be forced to retire next summer. But previous predictions of his removal have not come to pass.
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| --17-09-2010-- |
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The farther into the East, the closer the dilemma
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| Washington’s Far East strategy, namely its contradictions with China, may cause problems for Russian Far East.
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| --14-09-2010-- |
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Tips for active rest on Baikal Lake
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| Baikal Lake is a place on the Earth which does not need a special introduction. There are a few things you should know to make your voyage safe and comfortable
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| --15-10-2010-- |
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Who supports "drugs genocide" against Russia?
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| A series of vigorous statements by top Russian officials in recent days show Russia placing anti-narcotics in Afghanistan on an equal footing with the worldwide war on terrorism.
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| --13-09-2010-- |
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New Technique for Delivering Genes into Embryos Developed
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| Biologists and geneticists know that a very convenient way to study functions of certain mammal genes, including their role in developmental disorders, is by means of introduction of these genes into embryos of laboratory animals.
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| --01-10-2010-- |
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Russian legal system: in urgent need of reforms
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| Another ugly scandal convulse Russian police. The head of the Directorate for Combating Economic Crimes and three police officers in Siberian Zabaikalsky Territory are suspected of taking bribes worth more than $450,000.
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| --09-09-2010-- |
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New Facts about Tumor Development
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| Russian scientists from the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Russian academy of sciences) and Pushchino State University performed a research, aimed at finding out conditions, which promoted intensive growth of tumor cells.
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| --09-09-2010-- |
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Strategy 31, an annoying splinter under the bear's nail
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| It's the August 31, less than a quarter of an hour to the planned march of the "Strategy 31" opposition movement in the centre of Moscow. The mayor's office and city government are planning to treat the rally as a provocation.
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| --31-08-2010-- |
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Biochips Help Criminal Investigators
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| Russian researchers from Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology and Moscow Physics and Technology Institute have developed a biochip, able to establish one’s identity as accurate as 99.6% using only traces of his DNA. This biochip can be very useful for criminal investigations, for instance, in forensic medical examination in order to narrow a circle of suspects or to identify a dead body.
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| --31-08-2010-- |
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Shaman cave on the Olkhon Island: Baikal Lake legends
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| Olkhon Island is usually called "heart of Baikal". It is situated in the centre of Baikal Lake. Olkhon has long been a kind of Mecca for the shamanistic world of Siberia. Moreover, Olkhon is an unbelievable beautiful place...
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| --20-12-2011-- |
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Hadron Therapy Fights Cancer
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| Latest achievements of nuclear physics appear to be useful for fighting tumors and saving lives of living beings. However, surgery and chemotherapy still remain most frequently used techniques for helping patients with oncological diseases.
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| --26-08-2010-- |
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What Mr. Bout can tell about?
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| The decision Friday of a Thai appellate to overturn a lower-court decision and allow Victor Bout's extradition to stand trial in the United States on charges of trying to sell weapons to Colombian guerrillas means he should finally get his day in court.
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| --21-09-2010-- |
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After relative calm militancy flares up in North Caucasus
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| The flow of tourists to alpine resorts in Kabardino-Balkaria has grown much thinner of late, after more than ten police officers and civilians were killed in the region in one month.
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| --24-08-2010-- |
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Russian Handicrafts – Souvenir Gifts with Feeling
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| Russia has always been rich in resourceful masters able to invent the ways of bringing beauty and miracle into mundane living and ordinary household things. The realm of Russian folk handicrafts, which are actually the best gift souvenirs one can find in Russia, is multicoloured and varied; anyone can chose something to one’s liking.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Old prescription is better than two new ones?
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| President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a law on introducing amendments to the law on the Federal Security Service (FSB) about administrative violations that expands the powers of the FSB under the current law.
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| --17-08-2010-- |
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Borsch – Russian Beetroot Soup
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| Borsch is probably the most widespread dish in Slavic cuisines. This type of vegetable soup got its name after the old Slavic name of beetroot – “byrsch” – the vegetable compulsory for this dish.
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| --25-01-2011-- |
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Ancient Bulgaria on the Volga shores
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| In Volga steppes in 140 kilometres from the city of Kazan lies Bulgar fortress-cite, the rests of ancient capital of Bulgaria, which was spreaded out from the White Sea to the Caspian Sea and was famous for its wealth and prosperity, full of beautiful houses, libraries, markets, baths and minarets. Yes, contemporary Bulgaria is a state on Balkan peninsula ...
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| --20-12-2011-- |
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Russian wildfires become faggot for political flame
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| The two-month heat wave in Russia took a political turn as protesters tried to gather in front of Moscow City Hall to demand the resignation of Moscow's mayor.
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| --13-08-2010-- |
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Militia is getting pulled into police
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| A first step in President Dmitry Medvedev's reform of the notoriously corrupt police force will be to replace its Bolshevik-imposed name "militia" with the tsarist-era "police."
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| --11-08-2010-- |
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Black Panther, Bloody Diamond and a Cannibal's Bounty
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| On August 5th, the International Criminal Court in The Hague saw the most beautiful witness in its entire history. Naomi Campbell, a girlfriend of a Russian businessman, testified in the case of one of the most outspoken politicians of our time, the former Liberian President Charles Taylor.
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| --11-08-2010-- |
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New Nanoparticles for Nanolasers
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| Russian physicists from luminescence department of Lebedev Institute of Physics created three-component hybrid nanoparticles, which can be used for building nanolasers.
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| --26-08-2010-- |
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What Do Some Rodents Need Hair in Their Mouth For?
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| Russian biologists now face a new astonishing challenge – they discovered that some species of rodents had hair in their mouth. The research project is conducted by Koltsov Institute of Developmental Biology and Severtsov Institute of Evolution and Ecology Problems, both institutions belonging to Russian academy of sciences.
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| --04-08-2010-- |
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Top-7 Russian sights very difficult-to-visit
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| Russia has plenty of sights and tourist attractions for any taste and budget, but the human nature is always eager of difficulties and many of us believe instinctively that things hard-to-get only are worth looking at. There are some really exciting places in Russia, which are very hard-to-get, on different reasons, from the lack of transportation to the location on the territory of working camp, or even because they are considered by local public as sacred ones, so they can be aggressive towards unbidden guests. Among these places...
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| --20-12-2011-- |
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A rest for a forest
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| The Khimki forest, a 1000 hectare reserve of birch trees just north of Moscow, has become the scene of dramatic confrontation between environmentalists and road builders. Today is the day of a short rest.
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| --03-08-2010-- |
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Belukha Mountain: gates to Shambala
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| Belukha mountain is the highest point of Altay and Siberia, one of the highest mountains of Russia: its altitude is 4506 metres above the sea level. Moreover, Belukha is an ultimatively beautiful mountain: it draws attention of artists and travellers, tourists and scientists, writers and fun-seekers veey year. The Buddhists and Russian Old-Believers think it is a sacred place, and gates to Shambala are situated here. In 1998 Belukha was included into the UNESCO World Natural Heritage List.
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| --20-12-2011-- |
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Far East clenched its fist
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| A court in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the Russian Far East has ordered all local Internet service providers to block access to YouTube.com and four other websites for publishing extremist materials.
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| --30-07-2010-- |
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Electron Beam Helps Building a Fuel Cell
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| Russian physicists from Tomsk (the Institute of High-Current Electronics, Siberian branch of Russian academy of sciences) suggest using some particular features of high-current electron beam for building fuel cells for hydrogen economy.
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| --04-08-2010-- |
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How Artificial Reefs Can Be Useful?
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| Russian scientists claim that artificial reefs are extremely popular with marine inhabitants. Researchers from the Institute of Marine Biology (Far East branch of Russian academy of sciences) say that if Russian coastal shallow waters were filled with such reefs, catches of various commercial species of fish, invertebrates and algae will grow significantly.
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| --28-07-2010-- |
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Ear-to-ear intimacy with a shadow
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| Special programs, potentially dangerous for many mobile phone users, are being sold on the Internet.
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| --27-07-2010-- |
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Guerrillas' spirit or gorillas' brain?
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| It is as a rule useful to analise events after some time has passed. Several weeks ago the “primorsky partisans’” brief campaign came to an end. Police cornered the self-styled group of “partisans” who led a guerrilla war against law enforcement officials in the Primorye Region of the Russian Far East. Members of the group were captured or killed.
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| --23-07-2010-- |
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Blatnyak - Russian Criminal Song
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| Blatnyak (criminal folklore,) is the song genre that sings of life and customs of the criminal world, originally meant for the milieu of prisoners and people close to underworld. The genre originated in the Russian Empire and spread in the Soviet Union and subsequently in the CIS countries.
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| --23-07-2010-- |
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History of Russian Cuisine
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| Before the 17th century Russian cuisine was quite plain and natural, without any gourmet luxuries. It was based, as a rule, on turnip and cabbage, cooked in different combinations and in all possible ways, often flavoured with spices. Russians also consumed all sorts of fish, as well as berries, mushrooms and numerous porridges (kasha).
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| --25-01-2011-- |
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How RNA Molecules Move, While Synthesizing Protein
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| An international think-tank, which consisted of scientist from Russian and Germany, used a technique of cryoelectron microscopy for taking images of a ribosome, a cell protein-making “plant”, during its work. Scientists followed a trajectory of RNA molecules inside a ribosome and reported results of their work in Nature magazine.
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| --16-07-2010-- |
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Laser Microsurgery for Treating Eye Tumors Developed
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| Cooperation of Russian physicists and ophthalmologists resulted in a technology of femtosecond laser microsurgery of subsurface eye tumors, for instance, tumors of sclera – eye protein coat.
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| --14-07-2010-- |
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Samovar – Russian Tea Machine
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| The Samovar – the Russian tea machine, as it was referred to in Western Europe – stands out against all other water-heating devices.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Moscow airports: Vnukovo
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| Vnukovo International airport (IATA code VKO) is the oldest one in Moscow. It is situated 28 km westwards from the centre of Moscow, so it is the nearest one to the city, moreover, it it very easy to get.
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| --02-11-2011-- |
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Mars-500 Chronicles: One Month of Total Isolation
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| It has been 30 days already, since participants of the Mars-500 project were locked in special flight-imitating facilities. There are only 490 days of Martian mission simulation left.
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| --09-07-2010-- |
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Aluminum to Solve Problems with Energy
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| Using aluminum can solve major problems of traditional and hydrogen power engineering, and these are not mere words according to Russian scientists.
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| --07-07-2010-- |
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Is the end of draft dodging coming soon?
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| All Russian men between the ages of 18 and 27 are obliged by law to perform one year of military service, but people are encouraged to evade conscription.
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| --15-07-2010-- |
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Moscow airports: Domodedovo
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| Domodedovo is the biggest international airport in Russia since 2005. In perspective it will be a hub, connecting Western Europe and Pacific Region, situated on the south-east from Moscow. Domodedovo is the only one airport, certified for serving flights on Airbus A380, the biggest passenger liner. Moreover, according to the rating of British independent agency of Skytrax, Domodedovo has entered top-3 best airports of Eastern Europe.
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| --02-11-2011-- |
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Moscow airports: Sheremetyevo
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| When you land in the country, your acquaitance with it begins with the airport. We offer you some information about the main airports of Moscow, and we begin with Sheremetyevo, one of the biggest Russian airports in terms of international regular flights.
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| --02-11-2011-- |
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Observing Nanoparticles in an Organism – Now Easier
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| Today various nano-substances, created for medical purposes, attract attention of many medics, biologists and physicists. Studies of magnetically controlled precise drug delivery by means of magnetic nanoparticles are of specific interest to scientific and medical community.
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| --02-07-2010-- |
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Why Don't People Fall, When Their Arms Swing?
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| When a standing person moves, any kind of motion changes body configuration, and centre of body’s mass shifts. In order to prevent a moving person from falling, a huge coordinated work of muscles, responsible for motion, and postural muscles, helping keep upright body position, is carried out. Russian scientists from the Institute of Information Processing (Russian Academy of Sciences) decided to find out how mentioned coordination was conducted
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| --30-06-2010-- |
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Things not to do in Moscow
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| Like all megapolises, Moscow has enormous latent possibilities for fun and troubles. Some of them are typical, others are particularly indicative for Moscow. They main dangers deal with food, transportation and social communication and conflicts. The food in Moscow is very, sometimes unreasonably expensive, but cheap food should make you think about its quality. Transportation has its own difficulties, especially if you rent a car. What about contacts with the local public, take into account, that there are some things not to demonstrate, to avoid conflict. It doesn't do a credit to Moscow public, though it is very motley.
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| --11-11-2010-- |
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Booking Taxi Online
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| When traveling to Russia, particularly Moscow as the most popular destination, most tourists prefer to allow for all possibilities and think how they can get from the airport to their hotel or apartment beforehand. One of the best ways is to book a taxi online in advance, when you have time to choose the right taxi-company providing English-speaking drivers.
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| --17-02-2011-- |
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Long Live OLEDs
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| Russian physicists developed a technique for making organic light-emitting diodes live longer. For this purpose they added to OLEDs long-living nano-crystals of cadmium chalcogenides, inorganic luminescent sites, which help organic chromophores and simplify production technology of OLEDs with required emission spectrum.
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| --25-06-2010-- |
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Solvychegodsk: Stroganovy Salt Lake city
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| Solvychegodsk is a small town in Arkhangelsk Territory, which appeared in 16th century and became a centre of a huge trading empire, created by Stroganovy merchants. The family of Stroganovy, famous with their art patronage, so active, that the art historians identify specific Stroganov style in icon painting and even in architecture, have built their empire on salt-works and salt trading. The Stroganovy's salt works were prospering from mid-16th till the 17th century. Actually, Solvychegodsk stands literally in the beginning of their business and still keeps some rests of the salt-works and monuments of art and church architecture, demonstrating obviously, such a profitable business it was.
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| --17-11-2010-- |
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Evolution of Proteins Goes On
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| Evolution of protein molecules seems to continue 3.5 billion years after it had begun. It runs on a very slow pace, but even extremely ancient proteins of different species, which come from one common ancestor, keep changing.
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| --23-06-2010-- |
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White nights: time for St. Petersburg
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| The white nights, or nightless nights, phenomenon of high latitudes, when darkness harly falls because the sunsets are too late and sunrises – too early is to be observed in such Russian regions and cities as Cherepovets, Vologda, Magadan, Petrozavodsk, Yakutsk, Vorkuta, Arkhangelsk, Severodvinsk and many others. Moreover, there is the polar day in some of them (Murmansk, Norilsk and Vorkuta). However, there is the only one city, associated with the white nights so strongly: St. Petersburg.
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| --11-11-2010-- |
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Animals That Are Now Lost
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| Darwin Museum of Moscow welcomes visitors – new exhibition “Disappearing World” tells them about extinct and endangered animals.
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| --16-06-2010-- |
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Daily rent of apartments in Moscow
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| Here are some details of daily rent of apartments in Moscow, which is something between booking a hotel and long-term renting. Such service as daily rent of apartments exists in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan and other cities, and the fact that tourists and business travellers choose it indicates its advantages over hotels and hostels. As for Moscow, the main advantage is obvious variation in prices. As soon as daily rent is a special service, I describe its special features in terms of Moscow.
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| --30-06-2011-- |
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Day of Christening of Russia
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| Recently Russian government has introduced another official memorable date – the Day of Christening of Russia that is to be marked on July, 28th. The new holiday, however, is not a day off for Russians. So, what is it all about, this date?
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| --15-06-2010-- |
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Alien Cells Can Change You
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| Russian researchers showed that behavior of laboratory mice changed after transplantation of spleen cells from another mouse.
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| --23-06-2010-- |
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How Space Bodies Collide with Earth: Possible Scenarios
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| Russian mathematicians and physicists calculated consequences of possible collisions of natural cosmic bodied with our planet’s atmosphere and surface, and worked out a collision classification
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| --09-06-2010-- |
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Top-7 Russian tour services
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| The Russians always try to go abroad on their holidays. Some foreigners suppose that there are some things to see and do do there and go to Russia. The variety of travelling possibilities is really wide, from sightseeing in Moscow to the flight on MIG-29 to the frontiers of atmosphere and space. The prices vary from 3, 5 thousands USD to positive infinity. According to the sources, the foreign tourists prefer Bailkal, Trans-Siberian Railway, Kamchatka and Kurily Islands, Cold Pole and such services like military tourism, exotic of Russian village, in complex with hunting and fishing, and everything tied with space flights.
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| --09-06-2010-- |
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Unique Detector for Explosives Created
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| Russian physicists from the Institute of Physics in cooperation with several other research institutions have built a unique device – a photonuclear detector of hidden explosive substances. The device can detect explosives in luggage of air passengers and various closed containers, as well as serve as a portable detect for demining activities.
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| --11-06-2010-- |
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Not official taxi in Moscow – not a good idea
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| Next to the ordinary registered taxi companies, there is a plenty of not official taxis in Moscow. They call them bombilas.You can take it doing like a hitcher, but not in the street and not on the highway. They are considerably cheaper, but we do not recommend anybody and especially foreigners, to command their services. There are a few reasons not to do it and now I am going to specify which ones, telling a story, happened to one my colleague.
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| --17-02-2011-- |
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Solar Patrol to Fight Corrosion
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| Russian space physicists from Vavilov State Institute of Optics developed an unusual technology for fighting corrosion of oil and gas pipelines.
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| --02-06-2010-- |
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New Materials for Aircraft Engines Created
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| Russian researchers from the Institute of Metals Superplacticity Problems (Russian academy of sciences) developed a new technology for creating 3D and flat sheet materials with homogeneous nanostructure.
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| --28-05-2010-- |
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Russian Snacks and Starters
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| A distinctive feature of Russian cuisine is abundance and variety of snacks and starters. Just like in former times, it is still a custom in Russian homes to serve for the arrival of guests all kinds of dainties.
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| --25-01-2011-- |
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Transgenic Plants Grow in Moscow Region
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| Russian biologists use the town of Pushchino, located in the Moscow region, as a field for growing genetically modified plants: wheat, flowers and fruit trees.
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| --26-05-2010-- |
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Russian Kasha: Secrets of Porridge
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| Porridge is undoubtedly a primordially Russian dish. Moreover, porridge is a cult dish. Following old Russian traditions, on wedding ceremony the groom and the bride necessarily cooked porridge.
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| --24-06-2012-- |
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Patterns of Tunguska phenomenon with your own eyes
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| Do you know the Russian region of Evenki Autonomous District in the Krasnoyarsk Territory is famous with? You know, even if you don’t know, that it is situated there. Tunguska phenomenon took place directly in this region in 1908, June, 30 at 7. 17 o’clock (local time). This phenomenon, also known as Tunguska meteorite, is still a thing exciting the imagination of scientists and ordinary people as well. Was it a meteorite, or an accident, happened with some spaceship or something else? It happened more than one hundred years ago but it is still discussed together with little green men and gossips about stars’ private life. Now the place of mysterious catastrophe is a natural reserve and you can visit (even in three ways!) it and see with your own eyes the place above which the explosion, which made the sky above all the Europe to glow with strange colored light for a few days, took place.
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| --17-11-2010-- |
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“Plasma Shell” of Supersonic Aircrafts Can Be Real
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| Russian physicists have studied structure of impact waves in non-equilibrium environment. Among other applications, these studies can help lower negative effects of impact waves on supersonic flying vehicles. Impact waves usually form around bodies of “iron birds”, when they travel in the atmosphere.
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| --21-05-2010-- |
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Caves of Pinega: visibly alive
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| The caves of Pinega are a few systems of including about 100 sinks, situated in the karst area in the Pinezhsky District of Arkhangelsk Region, in the interstream area of the Pinega and Kuloy Rivers. The caves are situated on the territory of the Pinega natural reserve. They have some special features, instead of the caves of Caucasus and others, but the most interesting one is that the changes in the configuration and plan of the caves, be observed during the human life: the Pinega caves live very active life.
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| --20-05-2010-- |
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Large Hadron Collider to Be Modernized
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| Russian scientists from the Institute of Nuclear Physics, located in the city of Novosibirsk, build a new facility, which will enhance LHC’s performance 100 times.
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| --19-05-2010-- |
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Rye Leaven
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| If you plan to bake white bread, similar sourdough can be prepared of wheat flour or “overfed” this rye ferment with wheat flour. The choice of rye flour is explained by the fact that it is much easier and faster to make sourdough from rye than from wheat flour. Wholegrain wheat flour also gives quite good results as compared to refined wheat flour.
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| --25-01-2011-- |
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Giamatrix – New Artificial Skin
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| “Giamatrix”, an innovative bioplastic material, covers injuries or severe burns and cures them, while dissolving. Russian researcher Ramil Rakhmatullin from Orenburg State University invented a new material, based upon polymerized hyaluronic acid, which allows patients to avoid painful dressings. The scientist dreams of growing parts of human organs to replace damaged ones.
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| --03-06-2010-- |
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Traditional Russian Rye Bread
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| Thanks to its agrarian past Russia can be justly called the rye empire. From time immemorial Russian people ate rye bread which both dear to their taste and easy on the pocket. In the beginning of the 20th century consumption of rye flour products comprised over sixty percent. Today this figure is much less, reaching only about 10 to 13 percent. But till now Russia is in the top five of the largest manufacturers of rye.
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| --25-01-2011-- |
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New Electroluminescent Light Sources to Appear
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| Russian physicists developed a technique for creating new planar metal-organic structures, which can serve as a basis for producing submicron electroluminescent light sources with adjustable emission spectrum.
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| --12-05-2010-- |
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130 years old park of Sokolniki: from hunting land to the fine sample of garden art
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| Sokolniki is one of the biggest parks in Moscow, very popular among the Moscow people and guests of the Russian capital. Actually, Sokolniki is a name of profession, tied with hunting: Sokolniki are the people, who trained hawks for the sport of kings. Since the 15th the forests here were the favorite hunting place of the Moscow princes and, later, tsars. The whole village of Sokolniki was situated there in the 17th century serving the needs of the royal hunting. Later the forest was used for military maneuvers, and then the park was laid out there and used for the festivities. Finally it was turned into that we have now: a huge more or less regular park with 7 radial, 1 ring and 2 semi-circular alleys, with restaurants, sports complexes, skating rinks in winter and beaches functioning in summer, and even rose houses. But the name of this park and of the big district on the East of Moscow is still the same: Sokolniki. Some events also take place in the park, for example, the Ice-Cream Fest, coming soon, on the May, 30.
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| --17-11-2010-- |
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Diamond Mixed with Graphite
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| Russian physicists developed a technique for making thin graphitized layers inside a diamond. These layers, combined with technology of diamond photolithography, open wide perspectives of using diamond-graphite structures in electronics and optical electronics.
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| --05-05-2010-- |
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Taking a Taxi in Moscow
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| Booking a taxi, as well as an apartment, in many countries is often easy, safe and cheap. Still, lots of foreigners come across problems when ordering a taxi in Russia.
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| --17-02-2011-- |
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Making Gold Ingots from Gold Dust
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| Russian scientists made a great contribution to understanding how fine gold particles with time turned into large pieces of the yellow metal. The key factor in concentrating gold is microorganisms, which can concentrate up to several kilograms of this precious metal per year.
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| --23-04-2010-- |
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Russian Cities Attractions: All-Russia Exhibition Centre (former VDNh) in Moscow
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| All-Russia Exhibition Centre is one of the most popular resorts in Moscow, where you can spend your free time skating, riding a bike or skateboarding. If you haven’t got a bicycle or roll-skates, you can rent them for reasonable price. The complex of All-Russia Exhibition Centre is a monument of Stalin-Style architecture and garden art as well, which were creating not only the myths, but also environment for the New Human of coming communism. The buildings of pavilions initially dealing with all the soviet republics and branches of national economy and now are turned into exhibition and sale areas. There are some permanent exhibitions and museums there as well, and such more common things like the largest in Europe Big wheel and playgrounds for children.
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| --02-11-2011-- |
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Heart of Tiny Atomic Clock Starts Beating
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| Russian physicists from the Institute of Physics (Russian academy of sciences) work on a compact atomic clock of a new generation, and they have already created clock’s “heart” – a small quantum discriminator, which would allow new clock to be as accurate as one millionth part of a second per 24 hours.
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| --21-04-2010-- |
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Fist Fights: Old Russian Tradition of Martial Arts
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| The tradition of fist fighting existed in Russia from times immemorial till the early 20th century. Apart from being a sort of sportive folk entertainment it was a peculiar fighting school that developed skills necessary for defense of the native land.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Hunting and fishing in Russia
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| Hunting and fishing are traditional Russian leisure activities, but many foreign tourists find them exotic like a flight on the MIG-29. Such services also cost much. The tour costs from 3, 000 euro, without cost of the flight and accommodation in the hotel. The tour operators provide different services, in order to the guests could feel themselves like the Russian counts and princes: they can try themselves in hawking (sport of kings), hunting with hounds of venery and the Russian wolfhounds. The hunting and fishing tours take place in different exotic regions. For example, fishing on the Baikal Lake or bear hunting on Kamchatka compose exotic tour to place and exotic activity.
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| --20-04-2010-- |
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Morning Star Loses Its Mysterious Cover
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| A Russian scientist compiled first full geological map of the Morning Star, which will help finding answers to many questions about planet’s and Solar system’s evolution and history, as well as about possible future of our own planet.
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| --14-04-2010-- |
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History of Guitar in Russia
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| The history of guitar in Russia is rich and original, with quite a complicated way of its development.
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| --18-01-2011-- |
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The Bear In Russian Culture
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| The Bear — a significant factor of Russian culture - appears in many Russian literary works, folk tales, epics, proverbs and sayings, not infrequently acting as a protagonist. The Bear was the emblem of the XXII Olympic Games held in Moscow in 1980.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Very Light Aircraft – Almost Like a Feather
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| A Russian engineer has built a very light aircraft with unique properties, which can be used as a basis for building purpose-made aircrafts with specified characteristics.
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| --09-04-2010-- |
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Muromtsevo: Gothic ruin next to Golden Ring
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| Country-seat of Muromtsevo is situated almost on the way between Vladimir and Moscow. You have a chance to get there if you take the wrong way in the trip from Vladimir to Suzdal. Suzdal lays in 40 km from Vladimir northwards, the little town of Sudogda, which is not mentioned in the traveller’s guides lays in 40 km as well, but to the south-east. The town is notable because of the outstanding beautiful Muromtsevo country estate, built in the Gothic style in the late 19th century, then turned into a forest research institute, which did not exist long, and then it was little by little ruined, and that must be also in the Gothic style. It is not very easy to reach and it is really ruined. The people fond of architecture and romantically-minded persons, welcome! But please, be careful.
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| --17-11-2010-- |
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Gap in the Mendeleyev Table Filled
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| Russian scientists form Joint Institute of Nuclear Research (JINR) and their American colleagues have reported about first successful synthesis of 117th element of the Mendeleyev periodic table.
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| --07-04-2010-- |
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Wooden palaces of Chukhloma
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| Chukhloma, famous with its wooden architecture, is a little pretty provincial town in Kostroma Region. It stays on the beach of the Chukhlomskoye Lake which is sometimes called Chudskoye after the ancient Finno-Ugric people, which lived in this densely wooded country and was called Chud’ by the Russians. But it is not the same lake where the Neva battle with knights Order of the Brothers of the Sword took place in the 13th century. That Chudskoye Lake is situated on the frontier with Estonia. The exotic place names like Edomsha, Vozega, Morega still keep the memory about the Finno-Ugric peoples.
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| --17-11-2010-- |
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Crab Shells Protect Your Favourite Cheeses
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| Biotechnologists from Moscow developed a new coating, made of chitosan, which can cover cheese during maturation and save it from rotting. New development is safe and edible, and soon will be ready for use in food industry.
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| --31-03-2010-- |
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New Wound-Healing Substance Created
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| Russian scientists from the Institute for Energy Problems of Chemical Physics (Russian academy of sciences) currently work on a new type of healing substances, based upon copper nanoparticles. The innovation has already got a patent in Russian Federation.
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| --26-03-2010-- |
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One fifth of Russia or what to do in Yakutia
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| What is Yakutia (Sakha Republic) usually associated with? Diamonds, the Pole of cold, huge territories with wild northern nature, almost uninhabited, huge rivers, tundra, taiga, reindeers and Northern shining. 40 per cent of its territory is situated beyond the polar circle. It is a real paradise for the hunters and fishers. This region, occupying one fifth of all the territory of the Russian Federation, is populated mainly with the Yakuts ingenious people of this land, whose origin and ethnogenesis goes back to antiquity and is still not very clear. They still keep their traditions and beliefs, and you can see it. This country is however available by train and by air.
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| --17-11-2010-- |
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Mountain Shoria
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| Mountain Shoria, Mountainous Shoria, or Gornaya Shoria is a mountain-taiga region lying on the south of Western Siberia between the mountain systems of Altai and Sayan. It is called after the Shors, the ingenious ancient people, very original but small one, still living there. The Mountain Shoria is a considerable mining area on the Russian national scale. The Kuznetsk Basin the coal resources of which are being tapped is situated next to here. But the tourists come here all the year not because of the natural resources, but for the wide possibilities for tourism. In winter the Mountain Shoria is a ski resort, in the summer the tour operators offer you different modifications of active rest backpacking to the rafting and cave tours.
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| --23-03-2010-- |
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Something about Sleep
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| Every night, when people fall asleep and dream, their brains switch off the ability to control their bodies, paralyzing every muscle, Russian somnologists say.
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| --19-03-2010-- |
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Adventure tourism in Russia
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| Some people prefer spending their vacations and holidays in the hotels on the first line with nothing to do except sunbathing, swimming and lying next to swimming pool with a cocktail. Some evenings they devote to sightseeing excursions. Others cannot be satisfied with it and cannot imagine their leisure without breaking the routine of life, getting new skills and acquisition knowledge and the contact with nature, of course. There are no precise definitions of the adventure tourism, but it includes all that want the people who is bored by the hotels on the seashore. There is even no unified conception of what such tours should include, but no doubt, Russia is a wide field for activities and experiments in this type of tourism.
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| --19-11-2010-- |
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Smoother Plexiglas Developed
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| Russian physicists developed and tested a technique for making polymethylmethacrylate (known under trade name Plexiglas) surfaces smoother in nanometer and subnanometer range. The technique involves exposure to vacuum ultraviolet radiation with wavelength of about 124 nanometers.
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| --17-03-2010-- |
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Some tips for bicycle touring trips in Russia
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| Bicycle touring in Russian has wide geography. You can ride along the tundra of Kola Peninsula, or in the mountains of Caucasus, Altai or Urals. In the Mari El Republic you will follow through the taiga. The bicycle touring trips are carried out in vicinity of Baikal Lake, which doesn’t need presentation. There are also Golden Ring bicycle tours. The possibilities are wide as well, from the well-organized tour services different level of difficulty to trips organized by the clubs for bicycle touring everybody can find on the forums and join them or even create her/his own one. The operator’s services and club events differ in the categories of difficulty and length. There are also bicycle tours combined with a quest. We are going to mention some places and give some advices.
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| --11-11-2010-- |
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Advances in Nanotechnologies: Reusable Nano-Containers
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| Russian scientists from the Institute of Applied Mechanics have made a significant contribution to the field of reusable nano-containers.
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| --10-03-2010-- |
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How Vancouver was not won (a time to gather stones)
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| As it has already become obvious, the winter Olympic Games in Vancouver were rich in the failures. The cohort of the non-achievers is headed by United States, Russia, Austria and Germany. Many sportsmen have been the forth ones, and that is even worse as to be among the last ones. The Russian team, disappointed the fandom, was awaited to be more successful. There are many ideas and explanations of that, from the self-condemnation to condemnations of everybody except us. The professionals offer opinions like these:
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| --09-03-2010-- |
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Another Breakthrough in Nanotechnologies
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| Russian physicists from several scientific institutions successfully synthesized regular one-dimensional nanostructures, which period didn’t exceed 90 nanometres. For this purpose, researchers treated solid surfaces with multipulse femtosecond laser radiation in air or water environment.
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| --05-03-2010-- |
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Russian Proverbs and Sayings
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| Russian proverbs and sayings are keen winged expressions created by Russian people, or translated from ancient written sources and borrowed from literary works; they express wise ideas and thoughts in concise and witty form.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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127 Meters of Evolution
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| State Darwin Museum, located in Moscow, prepared a new interactive exhibition, which invites everyone to follow all steps of evolution.
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| --27-02-2010-- |
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New Plant Tranquilizers Developed
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| Russian scientists from the city of Tomsk currently work on an original nootropic tranquilizer, made from Atragene speciosa Weinm, a rare perennial vine. Main difference of this plant-based preparation from similar synthetic drugs is total lack of side effects.
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| --24-02-2010-- |
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Sviyazhsk: combining incompatible
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| Sviyazhsk is a settlement on the island in the Middle Volga, which has been turned into a huge water reservoir. Earlier it was not an island, but a town on the hill. If I ask you where such different odious characters as Ivan the Terrible, Leo Trotsky and Judas Iscariot could meet, the answer is Sviyazhsk.
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| --17-11-2010-- |
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Russian Drunkenness
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| Everywhere we hear statements that Russians are the nation most intemperate in using of alcoholic drinks and it was allegedly like that from time immemorial. Often we, the Russians, also repeat the affirmations about the "historical predisposition" of Russians to alcohol. However, the history of Russia refutes this myth.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Luminescent Microbes to Indicate Toxicity
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| Russian researchers suggest using genetically modified coliform bacteria Escherichia coli with integrated gene from luminescent marine bacteria for as a simple test system for preliminary assessment of nanomaterials’ toxicity.
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| --19-02-2010-- |
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Gorny Altay: getting around for the single travelers
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| Some people like guided excursions and tours with a rich program, leaving no time for the individual planes. Others like to be absolutely independent, instead of some difficulties like buying tickets, looking for and booking hotels and hostels, etc. If you have decided to visit Gorny Altay but do not want any guided and excursions, whatever interesting and comfortable for the foreign tourist it would be, you maybe need some information.
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| --17-02-2010-- |
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Fighting Cancer – What Russian Science Suggests
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| Russian authorities decided to fund production of several anti-cancer nano-agents with precise delivery of active component to a malignant growth. The results of this programme would be effective and affordable anticancer treatment with precise delivery in the form of liposomes, immunoliposomes and monoclonal antibodies.
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| --17-02-2010-- |
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Enigma of Old Russian Ornaments
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| Russian ornamentation is justly considered one of the most interesting phenomena of the world art culture. It represents a unique realm of artistic images. Throughout centuries the Russian ornament was changing and transforming, but unalterably excited imagination of contemporaries with its inherent poetry and beauty of lines and colours.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Peptides Fight Cancer and Ageing
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| Biologically active peptides or peptide bio-regulators are known to reduce development frequency of some tumors and to increase average life expectancy. Russian scientists from carcinogenesis and onco-gerontology of the Research Institute of Oncology have studied effects of peptide bio-regulating molecules for 35 years and finally decided to share their results with the public.
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| --11-02-2010-- |
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Renting an apartment in Russia: step by step
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| Renting an apartment in Russia, especially in Moscow and St. Petersburg, is a budget alternative of living in a hotel. The market of apartments for rent is very rich in various offers in both Russian capitals. The variety of the prices is considerable and even disorients at the first. But nevertheless it is possible, and you can do it promptly. Like everywhere all over the world, you find a flat which passes to you, command some renting agency’s services or contact the owner directly at your own risk and peril and conclude a rental agreement.
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| --11-11-2010-- |
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Artificial Skin to Treat Severe Burns
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| Extensive burns are a very difficult thing to cure – the larger is damaged area, the harder it is to cover the wound. However, Russian medics recently saved two people, 98% of whose skin was burnt.
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| --04-02-2010-- |
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Mysterious Altay: cradlehand of civilizations and plenty of tourist possibilities
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| Altay is one of the most enigmatic places in Russia and maybe in the world. It is a cradleland of ancient civilizations, which left their tumuli, stone statues with mysterious writings and signs. The nature is still wild and maiden there. The tourist possibilities of Altay are really huge. The tourists are offered multiple types of services summer and winter alike, including horse or camel riding, rafting, trekking, ski and helicopter tours. The fans of alpinism, paragliders and speleologists will be also satisfied. The ethnic history and present of Altai is also very rich: this is the place where three great religions of Buddhism, Christianity and Islam. Moreover, there is national Altay epos Maaday Kara having nothing to do with these ones, and tales, and legends.
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| --16-02-2010-- |
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Bacteria Eaters Help People
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| Medics are seriously worried – antibiotics become useless, when treating many deathful infections. The only solution, according to medics, is in viruses.
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| --29-12-2010-- |
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Khibiny Mountains: skiing, snowboarding and reindeer safari behind the polar circle
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| First of all, Khibiny Mountains is one of the two main mountain ranges of the Kola Peninsula (Murmansk Region). It is the highest mountain range in Russia, which is situated beyond the Polar circle. Moreover, Khibiny is the oldest mountain range in Russia, that’s why they are not very high. They are about one milliard years old. They exist like mountains all this time.
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| --28-01-2010-- |
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Vladivostok Fortress: labyrinths of defensive constructions
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| Vladivostok is a well-known Russian port on the Pacific Ocean, the destination point of the Trans-Siberian railroad. It was closed for all the foreigners from 1958 until 1991. The city is rather young (founded in 1860), but it disposes an architectural monument which is worth to be visited anyway if you are found of industrial and military tourism or not. It is defensive constructions, visible from the city, the theme for numerous legends and rumors. Everybody who has ever been in the city noticed the strange concrete constructions on the tops of the hills, on the feet of the rocks, along the roads and on the seashore. If you look attentively, you can recognize direct lines of breast works, made of concrete. You can walk around them all alone with your camera, or address to the local diggers’ club: they give you a real tour. It is rather interesting, even if you are not a fan of military tourism.
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| --25-01-2010-- |
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Laser Welding for Restoring Masterpieces
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| Painters from the Hermitage, world-famous museum of St. Petersburg, developed a new technology for restoration of art works, which were made of metal. The technology is based upon a recently developed compact laser, which became a reliable instrument in restorer’s hands.
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| --21-01-2010-- |
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Skating in Moscow: where to go?
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| After a few warm almost snowless winters we are finally having one looking like winter. It means that skiing and skating is possible again. Skating is one of the traditional Russian winter outdoor activities. The rinks appear again in the yards for skating and playing hockey. These are like for the private use of the people living in neighboring houses. There are also public open rinks in the centre of Moscow, where there are rental stores, check-room and related services like skates grinding. I tell you about some of them.
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| --11-11-2010-- |
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Physics and Mathematics to Help Fighting Tumors
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| Russian physicists developed a physical and mathematical model of a malignant tumor, which can help telling whether anti-tumor therapy would be effective or not and predicting behavior of cancer cells.
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| --14-01-2010-- |
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28th Russian Antique Salon as a motive to visit Moscow
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| The 28th Russian Antique Salon opens in the Russian capital on the February, 27, 2010 and will continue till the March, 7, 2010. This regular selling exhibition, taking place twice a year has already become a traditional rendezvous for the antique dealers and classic art enthusiasts from Russia and abroad. As usually, it takes place in the Central House of Artists, Krymsky Val Stret, 10. Instead of the economy crisis, the previous Antique Salon passed and the organizers hope the same happens this time.
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| --11-11-2010-- |
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Ignatyevskaya cave: Paleolithic art gallery with tens of names
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| There are some caves is Chelyabinsk Region, but the most interesting, tourists friendly and storied in Ignatyevskaya limestone cave. It is situated on the bank of the Sim River (feeder of the Belaya River, or Agidel) in the Southern Urals (Chelyabinsk Region) in 7 kilometers from the settlement of Serpievka, Katav-Ivanovskiy District. The cave is a significant site of federal significance, because of its Paleolithic paintings.
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| --17-11-2010-- |
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Russian baths: ethno spa
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| Tour operators, providing adventure, ecological, ethnographical tours, especially the winter ones, include the Russian baths into their services. The Russian traditional baths have a long history and combine washing with spa procedures like massage, conditioning and aromatherapy. When properly used, Russian baths can prevent some diseases and otherwise, it can do ill if used not properly. Consulting a doctor is anyway appropriate, because there are some contraindications.
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| --11-11-2010-- |
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Reindeer safari: Evenki style
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| Every country, disposing territories on the north like Finland, Sweden and Norway cannot help but offers reindeer safari among its winter tourist services. Russia is not exception. In Russia you can choose between Karelia, Murmansk Region, Yamal peninsula and so on along the north of the country down to Chukotka. And all the small peoples of the North living on this huge space use reindeer teams as traditional mean of transport. Each region has its own national color...
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| --11-11-2010-- |
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Detector for Toxic Substances Developed
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| Cooperation of several research institutes of Russian Academy of Sciences resulted in creation of a new high-precision sensor for detecting substances, hazardous and toxic for DNA.
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| --29-12-2009-- |
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Amino Acids Help Maintaining Muscle Tonus
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| Russian medical experts suggest a technique for compensation nitrogen losses in muscles, which were not active for some time due to various reasons. Medics claim that taking a mixture of several amino acids – leucine, isoleucine, methionine and arginine – can prevent patient’s muscles from degradation.
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| --22-12-2009-- |
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Why Grass at Sakhalin is Giant?
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| Russian scientists now have an explanation for an interesting natural mystery – why ordinary grass plants become giant, when they grow at the Russian Far East.
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| --15-12-2009-- |
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Birchbark Manuscripts
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| Birchbark manuscripts represent one of the most enigmatic phenomena of Russian history. Proved to be amazingly long-lasting, they open up unlimited possibilities for learning about the past in historical areas where quests for new sources were recognized hopeless.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Chicken Embryos Cure Severe Wounds
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| Russian scientists from Stavropol State University have developed a new technology for extracting substances from chicken embryos for curing burns, slowly healing wounds, trophic ulcers and other diseases.
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| --08-12-2009-- |
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Birchbark Handicraft
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| Birchbark wickerwork is an old Russian handicraft. At all times amazing natural qualities of beautiful birchbark were considered irreplaceable in household. The famous Russian lapti (aka bast shoes) are among the numerous articles handmade of birchbark.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Some records of Trans-Siberian Railroad
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| The fact, that Trans-Siberian Railroad is the longest continuous rail line on earth, is well-known. As if it was not enough, Transsib has made some other records, like progress rate of the works and project costs. There are some more curious facts about Trans-Siberian Railroad and some records of this monster, going through 12 regions, 2 territories, 2 republics, 1autonomous region and one district included in the region.
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| --09-12-2009-- |
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From Russia with … Fake? Find Authentic Souvenirs!
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| Russian Folk Arts and Crafts, embodying original artistic traditions of multi-national Russia and centuries-long experience of aesthetic perception, undoubtedly make an integral part of world culture. Today there is a growing interest in revived craftsmanship traditions both in Russia and abroad.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Circum-Baikal Railroad: golden buckle on the Russia's steel belt
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| Circum-Baikal Railroad is a part of the famous Transsib, it is still sometimes called "golden buckle on the Russia’s steel belt". Circum-Baikal Railroad is a railway, getting round Baikal Lake. It is not made of gold, but it cost so much and the result was so beautiful and technically sophisticated, that it is worth to be compared with a jewel.
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| --02-12-2009-- |
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Skopin Ceramics
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| Among the centres of folk handicraft of pottery, unique is the phenomenon of decorative ceramics of Skopin town of the Ryazan Region. The craft owes its appearance to clays lying in great quantities in the environs of the town of Skopin. Ceramic dishware in the area, where Skopin was founded later, had been made as far back as in the Kievan Rus’ epoch. Ryzan lands rich in traditions of various folk arts and crafts became the cradle of pottery ware and modeled clay whistles.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Clean as Lotus
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| Russian scientists from the physics faculty of Moscow State University and Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelemental Compounds applied a combination of two techniques and suggested an elegant solution to the burning problem of modern science.
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| --01-12-2009-- |
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Trans-Siberian Railroad and the wars of 20th century
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| The longest railway on the earth, going through the Europe and Asia, connecting the Far East with central Russia and European countries is in an important thing from the economical point of view and strategically as well. Trans-Siberian Railroad figures in all the main military conflicts have taken place on the Russian territory from the first years it’s functioning.
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| --30-11-2009-- |
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Perm Animal Style
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| Famous Perm animal style (shaman images, images of the Chud people and cult casting) is one of the most mysterious cultural phenomena of the ancient Urals. Scientists still can’t tell exactly who created those amazing objects and when it happened.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Dyatkovo Crystal-Glass
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| Dyatkovo crystal-glass ware production has existed for over 200 years and has a rich history. The artistic and material qualities of Dyatkovo crystal-glass make it a true pearl of Russian artistic glasswork.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Hen Eggs Can Carry Human Proteins
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| Russian scientists have recently developed brand new system for biotechnological production of pharmaceutical proteins. The protein, which name is lactoferrin, has a well-known mighty antioxidant effect and protects organisms of human babies, which immune system is not yet fully formed, from various diseases.
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| --24-11-2009-- |
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Ornamentation of Wood Carved House
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| The tradition to decorated one’s house with wood carving is rooted in pagan times, when every sign left with a man’s hand – be it a notch or a dent – had some magic power and had great sense and meaning in struggle with the powers of nature.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Alpine skiing without leaving Moscow Region
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| There are many skiing resorts in Russia in the highland regions. But you can find ski centers near Moscow. The Muscovites created them with a view to economy their time and maybe money. If you like snowboards and alpine skiing so much, this service is for you. In spite of the fact, that a true Russian winter seems to fall victim to global warming, there are some real skiing resorts and other places with special equipment like artificial snow making machines, lighting and rent-a-ski in Moscow and Moscow area, functioning all the winter season at any time of day. It is an optimal variant for the people, having a weekend on hands. Of course, they lose out to real skiing resorts in mountains in vertical drop and length of the ski slopes.
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| --11-11-2010-- |
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Motor Fuel Can Be Made of Solid Wastes
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| Russian scientists developed a technology, which provides plasma processing of solid wastes into motor fuel components without emitting any toxic or hazardous substances.
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| --17-11-2009-- |
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Seven wonders of Russia: don't miss out
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| The Places of interests in every country have different score of attraction. Some of them are worth to be seen, some of them should be seen, and others do not deserve much attention. Russia is so rich in tourist attractions, that it could be supported by the tourist industry only, but for narrow-minded businessmen, trading the natural resources in the straight sense of the word. Of course, not all of the tourist attractions are equally interesting. In order to define the main ones, a competition was carried out in 2008. As a result, following seven wonders of Russia were chosen by way of secret vote.
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| --16-11-2009-- |
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House Wood Carving
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| The preserved monuments of Russian wooden architecture provide evidence of high building craftsmanship, artistic skills and subtle taste of folk artisans. Masterpieces of old Russian architecture win admiration with simplicity and nobility of shapes, original solving of building challenges, and richness of interior trim.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Red Stones clove: tale of the Thule
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| The Red Stones clove in vicinity of Norilsk (Krasnoyarsk Territory)is rather difficult to access but extremely beautiful place with red rocks, waterfall cascading from them to a lake at its bottom. This place was detected by the geologists in 60-s, whose settlement, Talnakh, is situated in 6 kilometers from the Red Stones. They were searching the ore. The rocks wouldn’t disappoint the alpinists, others can enjoy the sights: they are really unusual, not to say surrealistic. Everything looks strange in the crystal northern air. Especially the red rocks and waterfalls.
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Cell Therapy to Fight Traumatic Coma
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| Medics from the Russian city of Novosibirsk developed an effective rehabilitation technique for patients, who suffered from serious head injuries and were in coma.
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| --11-11-2009-- |
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Kuzova Isles: an ancient Saami pantheon
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| The archipelago of Kuzova, famous for the incredible beauty of its sights, is a group of islands in the White Sea on the route from the town of Kem to Solovki Isles. The title of the archipelago means "The spruce isles". The archipelago includes uninhabited 16 domelike isles covered with spruce forests and spots of lichens, varied in color. The biggest isles are Russky Kuzov and Nemetsky Kuzov. Kuzova are well-known not only because of their nature, but also because of the ceremonial artifacts preserved there from the ancient times: labyrinths made of stones, sacred stones and early man sites.
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| --17-11-2010-- |
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Antioxidants Help Restoring Eyesight
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| Russian scientists under supervision of academician Vladimir Skulachev have showed that SkQ antioxidant, aimed at fighting ageing processes, was able to treat age-related ophthalmological illnesses in laboratory animals, since no tests on human beings were performed yet. The compound, named SkQ, could treat mentioned diseases in rats and rabbits, as well as restore eyesight in horses, cats and dogs.
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| --03-11-2009-- |
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Kasli Iron Casts
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| Kasli, one of the oldest towns of the South Ural, is famous world over thanks to its iron cast sculptures and works of applied art. Ural casting is the leader of artistic and architectural casting of iron and bronze of the 18-20th centuries, known among both art collectors and general public.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Volcanoes valley: river under lava flows
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| The volcanoes valley, or Khi-Gol fold, is curious or even unique place, situated in the East Sayan Mountains (Republic of Buryatia). This fold is a water gap of the rivers Khi-Gol and Zhombolok, filled with lava from the volcanoes Kropotkin’s and Peretolchin’s, which were active just a few thousands years ago. Their volcanic necks look tiny by contrast to the mountains around, but their ringside view is showy. The thickness of the lava layer in the valley reaches 150 meters, and nothing grows on its grey surface, in spite of the volcanic necks.
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| --15-10-2010-- |
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Kukarka Lace
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| Kukarka Lace (aka Vyatka Lace or Kirov Lace) is a type of traditional handmade bobbin weaving and one of the well-known folk Russian arts and crafts. The centre of Kukarka lace handicraft is the town of Sovetsk (formerly Kukarka Village of the Vyatka Province) in the Kirov Region. In its artistic significance, valuable folk traditions and creative finds of the recent times the handicraft is on a par with other lace-making centers.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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“Stolby” of Krasnoyarsk
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| The capital of Krasnoyarsk Region, Krasnoyarsk is famous for the unique nature monument of Krasnoyarskiye Stolby (Rock Pillars). These Stolby are numerous giant granite rocks formations up to 100 meters high, many of very extraordinary shapes. Almost each of them has the name.
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| --17-11-2010-- |
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Yelets Lace
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| Yelets Lace is a famous Russian handicraft of bobbin lace woven from bobbin threads of brown, white, yellowish, black or grey colours. The centre of the handicraft is Yelets town of the Lipetsk Region. Lace-making sprang there in the late 18th century, and in the 19th century already Yelets gained the lead in lace producing in Russia. Yelets craftswomen wove measured lace, kerchiefs and collars.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Russian Anti-HIV Vaccine Ready for Clinical Trials
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| Russian medics from St. Petersburg developed a vaccine, which fights HIV-1 subtype A virus, the most common cause for AIDS in Russia and countries of the former Soviet Union, and reported about it during the 18 International Conference “AIDS, cancer and public health”.
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| --27-10-2009-- |
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Caucasus dolmens: contemporaries of the Pyramids
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| The group of dolmens is a sightseeing attraction of the Krasnodar Region and Northern Caucasus. They are situated in the foothills (about 250-400 meters above the sea level) along the coast of the Black Sea. This chain is the biggest conglomeration of dolmens in Europe. Some of them are the popular tourist objects; others are hard-to-get.
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| --15-10-2010-- |
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The Drunks and The Grain Store (The Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon).
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| It is a case of east meets west as the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of The Drunks at the Courtyard theatre kicks off its four year celebration of theatre from the eastern bloc, giving us a sneak peek of life beyond the iron curtain.
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| --25-10-2009-- |
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Pavlovoposadski Print Shawls
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| Print Shawls produced in Pavlovski-Posad town are a unique phenomenon of Russian culture and are often perceived as one of the national symbols of Russia.
Both Russians and foreigners have always highly estimated traditional Pavlovo-Posadski print shawls. They appeal with the multicolored palette, finest elaboration of floral ornaments, thorough drawing of every flower, among which the rose is a favourite and a sort of a symbol of the Pavlovo-Posadski kerchiefs.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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The lucky cave of Kapova
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| The Kapova cave (or Shulgan-Tash), famous with its beautiful cave paintings of the Paleolithic age, is situated in the Bashkortostan Republic, on the Belaya River in the mountains of the South Ural on the territory the Shulgan-Tash nature reserve. The cave is interesting not only because of the paintings; its interior is notable too. It is well-known between the tourists and the scientists as well. The museum of The Kapova Cave is opened in it, and a spelaean laboratory will be opened soon.
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| --15-10-2010-- |
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Orenburg Downy Shawls
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| These beautiful and cozy, light and warm hand-knitted shawls of fine down are among the popular symbols of Russia. The downy wool of Orenburg goats is the finest in the world: it is only 16-18 micrometers, while angora goats’ wool (mohair) is 22 to 24 micrometers thick. This is why Orenburg downy knitted items – shawls and gossamers - are especially gentle and soft.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Bee Hives as Thermostats
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| Large crowds of bees are able to regulate their temperature, which allows them to survive either during sever frosts (-20 degrees Centigrade), or during exhausting heat (+35 degrees Centigrade), Russian scientists found out.
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| --20-10-2009-- |
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The journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow
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| The most intensive transportation in Russia is high-density traffic between St. Petersburg and Moscow. Two Russian capitals are tied by several means of transport, and each of them is preferred by different people, having different reasons for that. Each type of transportation, by car, by train and by plane has its advantages and disadvantages, tied with the price and time you spend traveling.
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| --20-10-2009-- |
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Vologda Lace
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| “No other centre of lace manufacturing in Russia enjoyed such fame as the city of Vologda and its modest dwellers” – Sophia Davydova wrote in her well-known research book Russian Lace and Russian Lace-makers.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Ethnographical tourism in Russia
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| As it is known, the ethnological tourism is based on the interest of the public to the traditions of different peoples, mainly aboriginal ones, with their culture, customs and traditions and folk art. As far as Russia is a multiethnic and multicultural country, the possibilities for the ethnical tourism in Russia are very wide.
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| --11-11-2010-- |
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Kholmogory Bone Carving
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| Since long ago dwellers of the Russian North procured seal bones and walrus tusks in the polar seas and gathered fossil mammoth bones on the shores of the Arctic Ocean. The bone carvings from Kholmogory were notable for excellent craftsmanship and perfected technique. The best carving masters from Kholmogory were invited to work in the Kremlin's Armoury, which performed orders for the tsar’s court.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Solar Wind Removed Water from Venus
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| Solar wind removed a significant amount of water from Venus’s atmosphere – this is what data from automatic interplanetary station “Venus-Express” revealed to astronomers. The probe also shed light on characteristic patterns of winds in the atmosphere of the brightest planet on our night sky.
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| --13-10-2009-- |
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National park of Kenozerye: land of the lakes and sacred grooves
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| The National park of Kenozerye is situated on the South-west of Arkhangelsk Region not far from the frontier with the Republic of Karelia. The name of the park is tied with the lake of Kenozero on its territory. This lake is a part of the system of lakes, forming the water route. This natural area of preferential protection is however notable not only for the variety of species on its territory, but also for the monuments of material and spiritual culture, the authentic culture of the Russian North
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| --17-11-2010-- |
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Ural Malachite
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| Few Russian gems are considered to be undoubtedly better than their foreign analogues. Few gems have their own patron. It is widely known that the best malachite was produced in the Urals.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Ecotourism in Russia
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| Ecotourism becomes more and more popular in Russia. It s no wonder. The cultural and environmental heritage of the country is so very rich and various, that Russia can be called one of the most promising countries for the development of the ecotourism.
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| --11-11-2010-- |
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Abramtsevo-Kudrino Wood Carving
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| Abramtsevo-Kudrino Wood Carving is a famous Russian handicraft that took shape in the vicinity of Abramtsevo Estate situated near Moscow. The appearance of the handicraft was closely associated with artists of the Abramtsevo circle, and first of all with Elena Dmitrievna Polenova, who organized a carving and woodwork workshop in the estate of Savva Mamontov.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Earth’s Crust Is Shrinking
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| Researchers from all over the world are still unable to tell whether our planet shrinks, expands or somehow pulses. What prevents them from making the final decision is the lack of objective data about Earth’s radius changes. However, Russian geologist from Russian Kant State University managed to use most recent data and concluded that Earth should be shrinking.
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| --06-10-2009-- |
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Hiking in Russia: where to go
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| The most outstanding feature of Russia is its size and distances. The best way to feel the distances is walking. Consequently, walking tourism, or hiking is the most optimal type of tourism for experiencing the specific character of the country. The tour operators could offer you a big variety of walking tours in Russia, depending on the region and season. Forests and mountains, summer and winter trips, one-day and long tours different difficulty level are provided by them. Moreover, it is healthier, than traditional tourism with visiting big cities and their superfits.
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| --11-11-2010-- |
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Talashkino Carving and Painting Workshops
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| One of the remarkable places of the Smolensk Region is the small settlement Talashkino situated 18 km away from Smolensk. Talashkino, today a museum reserve, was one of the most important artistic centres of Russia of the late 19th – early 20th cc, associated with the study and revival of Russian applied and decorative arts.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Dog sleds tours in Russia
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| The traditional sightseeing tourism cannot satisfy everybody, more and more people prefer outdoor activities, especially in winter. One of the most exotic and exciting types of the outdoor activity in Russia is dog sleds safari. The dog sled is a traditional mean of transport of the Thule peoples and Siberia. Now the dog sleds tours are provided by many tour operators in different regions of Russia, from Kamchatka to the Moscow Region. Moreover, some of the international the sled dog races take place in Russia.
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| --24-01-2011-- |
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What You Should Know About Sweeteners
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| Those, who try to lose weight by means of removing sugar from their diet, should be aware that sugar substitutes not always do good to health, moreover, their effects vary with seasons, Russian scientists and medics believe.
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| --30-09-2009-- |
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Polkhov-Maidan Painting
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| Polkhov-Maidan painting is one of the youngest folk handicrafts of Russia. The most popular souvenirs are matryoshkas, Easter eggs, and decorative turned sculptures on themes of Russian folk tales and country life.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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What to see in Yaroslavl
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| Yaroslavl is one of the Golden Ring cities, celebrating its millennium in 2010. It means that all the circumstances for a big flow of tourists are already created. Moreover, since 2005 Yaroslavl is the UNESCO World Heritage Site, because of its architectural monuments, churches and civil buildings of 16 – 18 centuries. So, it is worth to be visited even after the anniversary celebration. Museums acquaint the tourists with the exciting history and splendid art of the place. The hotels provide you rooms and apartments, from the luxurious to modest ones. Big variety of cafes and restaurants solves the food problem. Yaroslavl is a transportation hub, so it is not a problem to reach it by car, by train and by water.
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| --15-10-2010-- |
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Mezen Painting on Wood
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| The origin of Mezen painting ornamentation remains a mystery. The original profound symbols deserve to be seriously studied by researchers. The symbols of Mezen painting are rooted in mythological beliefs of the people of the ancient North. For example, the frequent use of many-tier patterns suggests following the shamanic tradition.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Pereslavl-Zalesskiy: Old-Russian color and windsurfing
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| Pereslavl Zalessky is one of the cities of the Golden Ring, which are visited by thousands foreign and Russian tourists every year. It offers medieval churches, museums and Russian souvenirs as all such cities. Except these traditional attractions, Pereslavl Zalessky is famous with such natural feature, as Pleshcheevo Lake, the centre of the Pleshcheevo Lake national reserve.
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| --17-11-2010-- |
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Chocolate Can Harm Your Health
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| Russian scientists performed a study and found out that, when stored under improper temperatures, chocolate can harm health of chocoholics.
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| --22-09-2009-- |
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Lipetsk Painting Designs
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| Lipetskie uzory i.e. ‘Lipetsk designs’ is a folk handicraft of making wooden articles with artistic painting in the Lipetsk Region. It is also known as the name of a factory producing these articles.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Horse riding holidays in Russia
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| To spend your vacation in the open air on the horseback is an amazing adventure, which can be dangerous or pleasant; it depends on you. It is more comfortable than hike, because you don’t need to walk all the time, carrying your things on your back. Riding a horse is healthily, and horsed trip is a good possibility to gain some skills in riding. Moreover, the regions, where this tourist service is provided, are famous with their beautiful nature and various landscapes.
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| --11-11-2010-- |
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Zhostovo Lacquered Trays
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| Zhostovo black lacquered metal trays painted with rich colorful flower ornaments represent one of the most famous Russian arts and crafts, Zhostovo painting, developed in the village of Zhostovo, Mytishi District of the Moscow Region.
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| --02-12-2011-- |
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Why Earth’s Poles Never Have Earthquakes?
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| Earthquakes are powerful natural disaster, which human beings often fail to predict accurately, live alone controlling them. However, scientists all over the world search for some peculiar phenomena, which are associated with earthquakes.
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| --17-09-2009-- |
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Kamchatka peninsula-2: transportation and accomodation
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| After you have read the previous article about the natural monuments of Kamchatka peninsula and maybe got interested in traveling there, it’s time for some information like how to get there, which cities exist there, what king of transport is being used there to get to the volcanoes and geysers from the cities and settlements ultimately where to sojourn at an inn and what to do there. Moreover, there are some tourist possibilities on the peninsula, except the simple sightseeing.
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| --31-10-2011-- |
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Gorodets Painting
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| Gorodets painting is one of the most famous folk arts and crafts of Russia, and a vivid phenomenon of the so-called naïve art. Bright and laconic Gorodets painting (genre scenes, figurines of horses, roosters, and flower patterns) performed with free strokes of paint brush, with white and black graphic outlining, decorated distaffs, furniture, doors and shutters.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Kamchatka peninsula: Volcanoes, Valley of geysers and Valley of Death
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| Kamchatka, one of the most outstanding volcanic regions in the world, is famous with its Volcanoes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 12% active volcanoes in the world are situated on the Kamchatka peninsula. The second thing, drawing the interest to this place, is the Valley of Geysers, equal in beauties to geysers of Island and ones of Yellowstone Park and New Zealand as well.
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Historical festival of the Kulikovo Field: reconstruction of a medieval battle
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| The historical festival of the Kulikovo Field is a complex of the festive events dealing with the reconstruction of the battle on the Kulikovo Field, which happened in 1380. This battle became a decisive event in the opposition of the Russian princedoms and the Golden Horde and formation of the Muscovy.
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| --19-11-2010-- |
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Khokhloma Painting
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| Khokhloma is a traditional folk Russian handicraft that appeared in the 17th century in villages under Nizhni Novgorod. One of the most famous kinds of folk Russian decorative painting, it is used in creation of splendid ornate wooden tableware and furniture.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Baikal: No Reaction on Global Warming
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| Changes, which took place in a unique ecosystem of Lake Baikal, have always attracted scientists. Heating of Baikal water column was of extreme interest – climate warming near the lake was two times faster than average values for any place on the globe.
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| --08-09-2009-- |
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Fedoskino Miniature Painting
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| Fedoskino miniature is one of the types of traditional lacquered miniature painting. Painting is made in oils on papier-mache articles. This handicraft was developed in the late 18th century in the Fedoskino Settlement under Moscow.
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| --01-09-2011-- |
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Plastic, at the Same Time Rubber
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| Russian chemists created polymer materials with a unique property – their rigidity or elasticity modulus gradually changes in given direction in such a way, that one side of material is a solid plastic and the other – soft rubber.
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Old Ladoga – the first Russian capital
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| The small settlement of Staraya Ladoga (Leningrad Region) on the Volkhov River is perhaps the oldest Russian city and the first Russian capital. Ladoga (in Swedish Aldeigjuborg) was founded not later than 753. The historians suppose that the genesis of the Russian nationhood is closely tied with this place. The archaeological finds and evidences of the sources enlighten its history. The surviving buildings like the fortress, St. George’s church, tumuli on the Volkhov’s bank and the exhibition of the museum re-create the incidents of the long-ago.
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| --15-10-2010-- |
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Gzhel Ceramics
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| Gzhel follows old Russian traditions of folk arts and crafts. Gzhel masters paint every item exclusively by hand. The painting is made with cobalt, which acquires the characteristic blue colour in the technological process.
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| --01-09-2011-- |
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Don’t Allow Your Job to Exhaust You
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| Does positive attitude, or absorption in work, as psychologists say, help avoiding professional exhaustion? Two points of view exist – some researchers say that positive attitude never accompanies professional exhaustion, some think it does, unfortunately.
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| --25-08-2009-- |
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Zhbannikovo Clay Whistle Toy
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| Zbannikovo toy is a traditional folk handicraft spread in the villages of Zhbannikovo, Rompino, Ryzhukhino and other settlements of the Gorodetski District of the Nizhni Novgorod Region.
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| --01-09-2011-- |
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The air show MAKS: interesting and cognitive
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| The air show MAKS is an international air show, where not only the aircrafts but the weapon systems and space vehicles are demonstrated. The show includes the demonstration of aircrafts on static displays, flight demonstrations of the aircrafts, and demonstration flights of the aerobatic teams. Moreover, MAKS provides a special program for the businessmen and symposia and conferences as well. The air show takes place in the town of Zhukowski (Moscow Region), a capital of the Russian aeronautics, in the end of summer. Some of the technique units can be seen only there, because the demonstration of them abroad is impossible for some reasons.
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| --19-11-2010-- |
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Branched Peptides Instead of Antibiotics
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| Microorganisms, bacteria in particular, which show resistance to all antibiotics, even the newest ones, can be defeated with a natural substance, existing for millions of years on our planet.
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| --18-08-2009-- |
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Chukchi Bone Carving
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| The Extreme North is inhabited by over 20 peoples and ethnicities, all of them keeping their ancient and interesting culture, an important place in which belongs to useful arts. From olden times the northerners have made clothes, household articles and decorations using natural materials, such as fells of animals and birds, fish skin, wood and plants, and, certainly, carved bone.
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| --02-12-2011-- |
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The Armory Chamber: treasure house of Moscow Kremlin
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| The Armory Chamber is a part of the Grand Kremlin Palace’s complex. The museum holdings and exhibitions consist of the precious items preserved for centuries in the tsars’ treasury and the Patriarch’s vestry. Some of the artifacts were made in the Kremlin’s workshops; others were accepted as ambassadorial gifts.
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| --18-08-2009-- |
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Bird of Happiness: Wooden Guardian of Family Hearth
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| The fascinating carved wood toy called the Bird of Happiness has long been a guardian of family happiness and wellbeing among the Russian people. In former times such a charm used to hang in every house, under the ceiling at the entrance area, so that every person entering the house passed under it. The amulet is believed to take away negativities that a guest might bring along, and lets only good things into the house. So it helps to make the house peaceful and free from quarrels and people kinder to each other.
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Kuskovo country estate
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| The country estate of Kuskovo on the outskirts of the modern Moscow is a unique monument of artistic culture of the 18th century. It is one of the earliest surviving summer country seats in Russia. This country estate was built through the count Sheremetev’s request for parties, large theatrical performances and mass outdoor festivities. The architectural complex of Kuskovo includes 20 unique architectural monuments. The mansion-house survived its interiors, full of authentic accessories and art works of the Russian and European artists.
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| --17-11-2010-- |
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Palekh Miniature
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| One can hardly believe that these fairytale-like paintings on lacquered black caskets, which seem to be popular exemplars of something “old-Russian”, in some way owe their appearance to the notorious revolution of 1917. Let alone the centuries-long icon-painting tradition of Palekh masters, of course.
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| --01-09-2011-- |
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Derelict buildings as a tourist purpose: industrial tourism in Russia
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| If you are sick and tired of the traditional types of the tourist services and you want to see something unexpected and even ambiguous and dangerous, you can join the people, who are found of visiting and making pictures of the derelict buildings or even cities. In Russia they call these industrial tourists stalkers, but it is not absolutely correct. The people, who examine and photograph derries, are not principally interested in that the objects they visit are abnormal, they simply should be left by the people. There are some things to have in mind to provide your safety and not only your.
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| --11-11-2010-- |
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Abashevo Clay Whistles
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| In the 19-20th cc the village of Abashevo was the leading pottery centre of Russia. Clay toys made by Abashevo masters were exhibited in Moscow, London and Paris. They are profoundly traditional: from generation to generation the artisans passed down these peculiar images of domestic animals, birds, deer, horsemen, ladies, etc., and yet, each of the masters let these images deep inside and breathed life into them, creating inimitable inspired characters.
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Railway services between Moscow Railway Terminals and airports
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| As it is known, traffic jams is one of the main problems of Moscow. They are really sick-making for the travelers who have to spend hours going to the airports. The danger to miss your trains and plains because of jams is absolutely real if you go by car. The safest way to reach the Moscow airports without troubles is special railway services.
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Kargopol Clay Toys
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| As compared to bright and clear-coloured Filimonovo and Dymkovo toys, these figurines from the northern lands of Russia might seem pretty stern. However, this first impression is only due to the palette including black, dark-yellow and brown colours. As for the toys’ subject matter, they have lots of amusing images, sculpted plainly but with great warmth and folk wit.
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| --01-09-2011-- |
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Where to eat in Moscow harmless for your money and health
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| It is not a secret, that cafes and restaurants in Moscow are very different in their prices and quality of food. Some of them are incredibly expensive; others look too bad to enter them. But there are cafes and restaurants, where you can have a meal for the reasonable price, and I’ll tell about some of them.
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| --15-12-2010-- |
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Filimonovo Clay Toys
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| These wonderful handmade ornamented clay toys are a famous handicraft of the village of Filimonovo in the Tula Region. Here lived the last masters who revived the forgotten art in the 1960s. The toys are amusing and fanciful, but at the same time simple in manner and very expressive. The majority of Filimonovo toys are traditional whistles.
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Yeasts Will Save From Rabies
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| Experts consider rabies to be almost irremediable, killing up to 50 000 people every year. Unfortunately, Russia is not an exception. Russian scientists from Research Centre of Molecular Diagnostics and Treatment started development of first domestic rabies treatment.
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| --28-07-2009-- |
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Traveling in the couchette cars: a little hardcore in your trip
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| Some people think that extreme travel is something connected with snowboarding, alpinism, rafting, long expeditions to the forests and deserts. Others, and I am among them suppose, that we should look around to notice the elements of the real extreme in the habitual attributes of traveling. I explain it on the example of the couchette cars, harmless at first sight.
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| --15-10-2010-- |
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Wooden Bogorodskoe Toys
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| Two wooden figurines, a man and a bear as two blacksmiths at work– once you pull the toy’s plank, they start hammering on the anvil in a funny way. These amusing toys, known in Russia for more than three centuries, have long become the main handicraft of the Bogorodskoe village, one of the most famous centres of wood carving tradition in Russia.
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Stone to Store Electricity
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| Russian scientists and power engineers suggest storing energy in the form of heat by means of a natural material, called talcum peach or talcum chlorite.
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| --21-07-2009-- |
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Vargan, the Russian Jew’s-harp
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| In the Stalinist epoch the vargan was banned as an adverse vestige of the past, in particular because of its close connection to shamanism. In spite of that, the older generations contrived to preserve the traditions of vargan playing and pass them on their children and grandchildren.
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| --18-01-2011-- |
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Zhaleika
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| The origin of the word zhaleika remains unknown. Some researchers point to the similarity of the roots of zhaleika and zhal’nik, the latter denoting a grave of an ancient Slavic man, and surmise the instrument could have been used at funeral repasts. The timbre of the zhaleika is piercing and nasal, sad and compassionate.
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| --18-01-2011-- |
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Saliva and Dental Calculus to Make Diagnostics Easier
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| Scientists from Omsk State University perform interesting experiments - they grow dental calculus in vitro. The aim of the experiment is learning how saliva affects structure and chemical composition of dental calculus, and this knowledge can help linking properties of saliva and dental calculus with human health.
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| --14-07-2009-- |
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The Captain's Daughter by Alexander Pushkin
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| The Captain's Daughter (Kapitanskaya dochka)- historical novel written by Alexander Pushkin.
It is a common knowledge that the poetry of Alexander Pushkin cannot be translated well. That’s why Pushkin is not so famous abroad as Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. But there are some novels, written in prose, that are worth reading to understand the great gift of the greatest Russian national poet.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Nanotechnologies Against Cancer
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| Scientists from the Institute pf Gene Biology (Russian Academy of Sciences) currently work on nanotransporters, which will deliver anti-cancer treatment to tumors.
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| --07-07-2009-- |
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Kuvikly
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| The kuvikly (kugikly) is the Russian variety if the many-piped flute, internationally known as the Pan-flute. The type of music instrument is widely spread in various parts of the world, with every people having its own name for it: in England they call it panpipes or pan-flute, sampogno in Latin America, nai or muscal in Moldavia and Romania, skuchudai in Lithuania, larchemi (soinari) in Georgia, etc.
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| --07-07-2009-- |
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Most Important Inventions of the XX century – Russian Version
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| All-Russia Public Opinion Research Centre (VCIOM) published data on what inventions, made in the 20th century, Russian people considered to be most important, and what discoveries our fellow nationals were waiting for in the 21st century.
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| --30-06-2009-- |
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Russian Railway
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| Travelling by Russian trains is fast, convenient and secure and you can get your train tickets without leaving your house.You can purchase the tickets in real-time booking system. Choose dates, time, destinations and seats at your site.
Here you can read about life on a board of the Russian train. Tipes of trains and the most famous train "Krasnya Strela" or "Red Arrow" connecting Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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| --15-10-2010-- |
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Olfaction and Alzheimer's Disease Are Connected
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| Alzheimer's disease, the plague of human civilization, appears to have strong connection with sense of smell. Russian scientists found out that parosmia or olfaction disorder can be the first sign of this terminal disease.
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| --23-06-2009-- |
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Moscow and St. Petersburg night skating and bike rides
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| As it is known, night skating and riding is a European entertainment, which lets the people to enjoy their sport in the city without traffic. It has become very popular in Russia recently. Many people find it very amusing to begin their weekend with a trip across the sleeping city without cars and buses in a good crowd. Some of them really have no time by day for skates and bicycles. The great majority of such events happen on Friday’s night, though there are some exceptions. For the foreigners (especially tourists) it could be also interesting...
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| --19-11-2010-- |
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Abkhazia – one of the most beautiful health-resorts is still in war ruins
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| Who has just for once been to Abkhazia would not forget it. This place is like a piece of tropical land in a northern latitudes. Picturesque bamboo gloves, tropical dark forests, fruit trees and palms surround warm Black Sea caves. Abkhazia is a very exotic country with rich history, manners and traditions. It suffered much because of the war but now it has almost got the independence because of Russia support.
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| --03-07-2009-- |
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Glasses from Organic Materials
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| Russian biophysicists developed revolutionary techniques for diagnostics, prevention and treatment of age-related eye pathologies.
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| --16-06-2009-- |
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New service – Russian visa support online.
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| Now foreign visitors can get Russian visa support document or a letter of invitation, they can also get help in visa processing at the Russian consulate.
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| --23-11-2010-- |
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Hitch-hiking on Russian Highways: Pro et Contra
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| Lots of people in Russia prefer hitch-hiking as a way of traveling and ignore ordinary means of transportation, supposing hitch-hiking to be more interesting, faster and simpler than trains or buses. Furthermore it is free. Others argue that this way of traveling fits for emergency situations only and it is rather dangerous. Both positions have their advantages and disadvantages, which aren’t obvious, so they are to be considered. In my honest opinion...
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Walking about Moscow centre
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| In summer, when the weather is sunny, it is a pleasure to walk about Moscow Kremlin, the Red Square, to go by boat down the Moscow River and look at the city from Vorobyovy (Leninskie) Gory where the Moscow State University is situated. Here is some more information about the places that are worth seeing in Moscow.
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| --14-08-2012-- |
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What Is Ball Lightning Made Of?
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| Russian scientists suggested a principally new cluster model of a lightning ball – a plasma crystal, formed by water kvatarons. This hypothesis gives explanations to the majority of observed properties of ball lightnings, especially their great destructive power.
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| --09-06-2009-- |
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Public opinion of Russian citizens against some points of the European Social Charter
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| More then 5000 Russian citizens signed the letter from Russian Orthodox Church to Dmitry Medvedev. The letter is against some points of the European Social Charter. Public opinion of a large part of Russian citizens on the creation of the institute of the Juvenile Judiciary and the introducing the sexual education at school differ from the points of the European Social Charter.
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| --15-06-2009-- |
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Viking-Age festivals in Russia
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| It is not something extraordinary that the historical reconstruction of the everyday life of 9-11th centuries exists in Russia. The culture of the Viking age in Russia demonstrated a fancy symbiosis of the different cultures, so fans of the medieval history have great possibilities for self-realization. As a result, or maybe by accident, the Russian historical reconstruction clubs studying this period are notable for accuracy in simulation of clothes, culture, habiliments, and arms. This direction of the historical reconstruction seems to be the most developed one in the country. There are three big festivals worth to mention and to visit in the first place, even when you are not enthusiastic in historical reconstruction.
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The third round of comprehensive Russia-U.S.A. talks will take place in June in Geneva.
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| The discussions about new strategic arms reduction will take place in late June in Geneva between Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Abama. There are several pro and contra of the following arms reduction which you can see below.
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| --10-06-2009-- |
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Sunscreen Made of Silicon Nanoparticles
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| Traditional sun protecting creams and lotions are based upon mineral filters, mainly titanium or zinc oxides. Recently sunscreen producers started adding silicon to their protective emulsions. Is this element effective enough against furious sun?
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Prioksko-Terrasniy Nature Reserve: Bisons, Beavers and Tawny Owls in their Natural State, Unique “Flora of Oka”.
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| The national biosphere reserve "Prioksko-Terrasniy" is situated in the south of the Moscow Region in 12 km from the city of Serpukhov and next to Danki settlement. Leaping ahead, the species living in the reserve are interesting every way, but the location of such an ecosystem in the Moscow Region is really unusual.
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EU-Russia summit in Khabarovsk
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| EU top officials and Dmitry Medvedev discussed the ways out of the world economic crisis, energy problems, the delivery of Russian gas and a new structure of European security. They also discussed Eastern Partnership project, which is considered by Russia as an attempt to create another cordon around Russian borders and spoil the relationships with Russian neighbors. Still Russia cannot resolve all gas problems without Europe – the main importer of Russian gas. A good way out of the situation seems the involving a third player in the game – the new gas importers China and some Asia countries.
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| --09-06-2009-- |
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Tibetan Yoga Fights Stress and Hypertension
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| Breathing exercises according tummo (yoga of Tibet) treat atherosclerosis and can be used as non-medication doping for athletes under conditions of low temperatures and altitude hypoxia.
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Once more about Yuryev-Polsky
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| Instead of its name, this town has with Poland nothing to do. “Polsky” means here “Laying in the fields”, in contrast with another Yuryev which is in 80 km from Kiev. Yuryev-Polsky is an old Russian town and the administrative center of Yuryev-Polsky District of Vladimir Oblast, Russia, located in the upper reaches of the Koloksha River, 68 km northwest of Vladimir. It was founded by the same person whose name is associable with Moscow. Instead of Moscow, it was actually Yuri Dolgoruky, who founded Yuryev-Polsky in 1152. The Prince named the town in favorem of him. As it is obvious from the date, Yuryev-Polsky is one of the oldest towns in the central Russia.
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Novodevichy Convent: convent, fortress and prison
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| Novodevichy convent is situated in the South-Western part of Moscow on the bank of Moscow-river. The religious house was funded in 1525 is a witness of few historical events during its existence. The architectural ensemble is very notable for its structural integrity
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Dark Side of GM Plants
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| Over 125 million hectares in the world are currently under transgenic or genetically modified plants, and about one-fifth (21-23%) of these plants are resistant to pests. Recent research showed that plants, producing bacterial toxins, which kill pests, might have negative effect on our environment.
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| --19-05-2009-- |
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Results of Eurovision Song Contest Moscow 2009
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| The major event of the last week was certainly the triumphant final of the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time held in Russia. Alexander Rybak representing Norway became the winner in a close contest in the final. Alexander was born in Minsk, Byelorussia, and considers the Russian language to be his mother tongue
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| --18-05-2009-- |
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The fortress-site Staraya Ryazan
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| The article is mainly about history and archaeological findings of Staraya Ryazan, the ancient Russian city ruined in an instant during the Tatar invasion headed by Batu in 1237 and never came alive again.
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| --15-10-2010-- |
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Russian Sacred Music
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| The Old Russian church singing, just like icon-painting, was anonymous, and yet, some written sources mention the names of the outstanding masters of the 16th – 17th centuries; among them are brothers Vasili (Varlaam as a monk) and Savva Rogovs from Novgorod, Ivan (Isaiah as a monk) Lukoshko and Stephan Golysh from the Ural, and Ivan Nos and Fyodor Krestianin (i.e. Christian) who worked at court of Ivan the Terrible.
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| --09-06-2009-- |
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Krom and Dovmontov gorod: the urban node of medieval Pskov
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| The Pskov Krom (in other words Kremlin) is historical and architectural centre of Pskov. It consists of fortification system and some buildings including The Holy Trinity cathedral and commercial buildings of 17th century. Krom is built upon the confluence of rivers Pskova and Velikaya. Its square is about 3 ha. From 11th to 16th century Krom was the centre of spiritual life, administration and law of the medieval Pskov.
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Checking Pipelines Without Excavators
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| Russian researchers, who deal with diagnostics of heat and power objects, developed a technique for remote noncontact monitoring of municipal underground heat pipelines. The innovative technique detects corrosion in metal pipes, which is the main reason for their high breakdown rate, and helps finding defect locations without starting excavation works.
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Russian Cities Attractions: Novgorod: Some Facts And Places To Visit
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| The article describes particular qualities and some places of interest in Novgorod
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The heroes of Great Patriotic War (partII)
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| Thousands of soldiers and ordinary people were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union during the Secon World War, the highest distinction in the Soviet Union. A lot of people fought heroic for their Motherland but remain unknown for us. Not only men fought for the freedom, but also women showed themselves courageous with strong will and character there are 87 heroes of the Soviet Union among women.
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| --07-05-2009-- |
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What’s That Smell?
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| Russian biophysicists and economists found out, which components form smell of porcini (Boletus edulis) and oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus). Scientists advise how to cook these mushrooms to preserve their delicious aroma.
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| --05-05-2009-- |
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The heroes of Great Patriotic War
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| The 9-th of May is the day of victory in the Second World War, which was the Great Patriotic war for Russians (1941-1945 years). This day all Russians remember people who fought for the victory and reached the independence and freedom from German fascism. A lot of people heroically defend the Motherland, without their deeds our country would not have saved the independence from invaders. Of course, some of them are not alive but we love, remember and respect them all.
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The Trans-Siberia Railway: Moscow to Beijing
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| Crossing a dizzying ten time zones and two continents, the Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railway in the world. Built during the Tsarist era of Russia, between 1891 and 1916, the railway connects Russia to the Far-East, and has become iconic as the ultimate train journey, with one of the best views in the world from your train window.
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| --10-11-2009-- |
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New Point of View on Bermuda Triangle
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| Researchers from the Russian city of Tumen suggest a new hypothesis of the Bermuda Triangle mystery. Scientists link the famous effect with accumulation of gas hydrates in Atlantic waters.
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| --29-04-2009-- |
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Active Travel in Altai
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| Altai mountains are situated at the South -East of West Siberia. It is an unforgettable - from eternal ice and snow at the tops of high mountains to luxuriant vegetation in river valleys. Altai is a treasure for tourists. Everyone can find some thing special: alpinism and hiking, rafting and equestrian sport - anything you like.
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How Multicellular Organisms Appeared?
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| How multicellular organisms came into the world, happily inhabited by unicellular organisms? Perhaps the explanation is self-organization of individual cells into multicellular agglomerations, Russian biologist believes.
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| --21-04-2009-- |
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New Discovery Helps Understanding Stars
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| International research team, supervised by Artem Oganov and Yanming Ma, discovered that sodium (chemical element Na) gets transparent under very high pressure. This fundamental discovery is a great contribution to understanding of metal properties under high pressures, for instance, in stars and giant planets.
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Atoms Through a Microscope
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| Russian engineers from the town of Dolgoprudny (Moscow Region) currently work on a new measuring device with subatomic resolution – protonic nano-introscope. This device is expected to expand existing methods of electron and probe microscopy, as well as unveil new horizons for studying structures with atomic and subatomic dimensions.
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New Anti-Epileptic Agent Discovered
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| Scientists from the Russian city of Novosibirsk currently work on developing new effective and cheap anticonvulsants, which are also less toxic than existing anti-epileptic drugs.
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| --31-03-2009-- |
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Tips for Single Girls Traveling in Russia
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| Russia’s vast expanse of untamed wilderness and grand cities teeming with historical sights make it a tempting choice for the backpacker and solo traveler. There’s something romantic about stepping out alone on the stark Russian plains, or exploring the museums and famous city squares with no-one to tear you away.
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Household Furnishing and Utensils of the Old Russians
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| Interior furniture in houses of the nobility and rich merchants was naturally quite different from plain furnishing in humble huts of peasants and craftsmen.
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Special Gel to Improve Oil Production
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| Russian scientists invented a polymer-gel system for extracting additional oil from a well and reducing water content in hydrocarbon materials. The system was called “Temposcreen”.
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Traditional Men’s Headwear
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Traditional Women’s Headwear
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Early Diagnostics of Schizophrenia Is Now Possible
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| The most severe form of schizophrenia – chronic schizophrenia – is hereditary. Russian scientists found out the genotype, which was common for men, suffering from a chronic form of this disease.
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Easier Extraction of Underwater Minerals
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| Russian scientists suggest an innovative technology for openworking of sand, sand-and-gravel and other types of water-bearing deposits. Main targets of the technology are aggregates: crushed stones, sand, gravel, quartz and even gold.
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| --11-03-2009-- |
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St Patrick’s Day in Russia
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| March 17th is St Patrick’s Day, a National Holiday and celebration of all things Irish, from the Shamrock to the Leprechaun. The patron saint of Ireland, St Patrick was a fifth-century Christian missionary, who became an emblem of Ireland’s rich heritage when the Church declared a ‘feast day’, in his honour.
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Izrazets - Russian Glazed Tile
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| Long time ago the izrazets, i.e. Russian glazed tiles took quite a special place in Russian applied arts and household. They were used on a wide scale: from tiled stoves and window aprons to decors, bas-reliefs and friezes.
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How Lightnings Form
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| Russian physicists found that lightnings – giant electric discharges in atmosphere – appear due to flows of charged particles (so-called “cosmic rays”) from space, and are accompanied with gamma ray bursts
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National Russian Dress: Basic costume garments
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National Russian Dress: Outerwear
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National Russian Dress: Footwear
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National Russian Dress: Headgears
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National Russian Dress: Costume decorations
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Architectural Décor of Old Russia
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| In Old Russia, the country of boundless forests, where wood was the most accessible material, wooden architecture took a special place, gaining perfection, and had a great influence on Russian architecture as a whole.
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Microcapsules to Carry DNA-Vaccines
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| Russian scientists developed a general technique for producing micro-containers, which will be perfect for creating DNA-vaccines, able to provide stable and powerful immunity for those, who take them.
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Stem Cells to Restore Brain Activity
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| Russian neurologists work on a new technique for treating neurological disturbances by means of mesenchymal stromal cells, extracted from human adipose tissues
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| --17-02-2009-- |
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Young Scientists for Russia
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| Students of Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI) recently presented some of their scientific projects, and, honestly speaking, their innovations heat the imagination of not only ordinary people.
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| --10-02-2009-- |
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Celebrate Valentine’s Day in Russia
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| Celebrating Valentine’s Day is becoming increasingly popular in Russia, but they still have their own way of doing things! With its classical architecture and historical intrigue, St. Petersburg - often named one of the most romantic cities in Europe - is an ideal backdrop for inspiration.
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Scientists Fight Hyperammonemia
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| Biologists from Russian town of Puschino developed a new technique for fighting hyperammonemia. This disease starts, when patient’s blood contains too much free ammonium ions that may lead to encephalopathy and death.
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| --03-02-2009-- |
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Studying in Moscow
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| As a stazhirovka,, studying in Moscow, a city synonymous with politics, cold weather, vodka and glitzy glam, can be an exciting opportunity. Even though it’s been declared one of the most expensive cities in the world, it’s possible to explore this vibrant city on a student’s budget.
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| --19-11-2010-- |
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Coca-Cola plans to take over the Russian market
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| In tough times the majority of international companies tend to cut jobs and wind down business projects, but it has nothing to do with Coca-Cola strategies – the global leader in the beverage industry says it eyes to start expanding its business empire by acquisition of smaller drink producers unable to survive now and promoting new brands.
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| --02-02-2009-- |
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Russian Priorities in Space
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| According to RosCosmos, Russia has four main priorities in space. Here are a few words about each of them.
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| --27-01-2009-- |
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Genetic Consequences of Cell Therapy
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| Safety of cell therapy is very important for medicine, and researchers from Russia faced a great challenge – they decided to find out whether stem cells, a common tool of genetic engineering and basics of cell therapy, were genetically stable.
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| --20-01-2009-- |
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National Russian Dress
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| We know our predecessors by their tales, songs and legends, as well as by a great variety of original clothes and household things created mainly by some unknown talents. When looking at ancient holiday garments of peasantry one cannot help wondering at their unusual harmony and power of life emanating from these things and their ability to hand down the visible image of our ancestors and convey their spiritual essence to us.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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The Universe Expands Faster Every Minute
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| International scientific think-tank under supervision of Alexei Vikhlinin (Institute of Space Research, Russia) performed experiments, which confirmed that the Universe expands with acceleration, and showed how it developed in time. Currently astronomers are developing new orbital X-ray observatory with one of the tasks of performing necessary measurements of “dark energy” with unprecedented accuracy.
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| --13-01-2009-- |
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Top 10 tips to travel in Russia on a budget
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| There are several hostels in Russia, including several St Petersburg hostels and cheap hostels in Moscow. 10 top tips to travel in Russia on a budget are provided here for people with limited resources.
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| --19-11-2010-- |
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Russian Ruble Will Outstay
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| Russia has all chances to overcome the financial turbulence almost unharmed.
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| --10-12-2008-- |
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Cure-All or Kill-Them-All?
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| Nanoparticles can get into various types of cells and accumulate there; they travel along blood and lymphatic vessels and cause oxidative stress and inflammation. Nanoparticles can cause death of laboratory animals. Russian scientists discussed how prevent possible cure-all from becoming an invisible killer
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| --09-12-2008-- |
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Cell Technologies from Belly Button
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| Russian Institute of Human Stem cells (Hemabank) celebrated 5th anniversary by developing new cell technology on the basis of cord blood. Hemabank is the combination of storage for cell materials and laboratories, where scientists create technologies for isolating stem cells form cord blood, collected at child’s delivery.
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| --03-12-2008-- |
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Another Composite Material – Better than Polyethylene
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| Russian chemical physicists developed a new composite material, which looks like polyethylene, but has improved properties. New composite is much more rigid and better resists high temperatures.
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| --28-11-2008-- |
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New Way of Treating AIDS: View of Russian Scientists
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| Russian scientists say that successful recovery from AIDS, about which German scientists recently reported, requires years of testing. Even if the patient in fact got rid of AIDS, 10-15 years would pass before the technology would be introduced into clinical practice.
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| --19-11-2008-- |
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Russian Books for Children
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| The account of Russian writers’ world-known works addressed to children and youth should be started from the first third of the 19th century.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Improved Scanning Microscopes for Nanotechnologies
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| Scanning probe microscopy approved itself the most effective technology for studying objects of nano-size and properties of surfaces with super-resolution. Today the field of nanotechnology generates tasks, which become more and more complicated, and that is why new requirements to involved hardware appear.
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| --12-11-2008-- |
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Energy from Wastes
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| Organic wastes can become a great energy source, renewable and ecologically friendly, Russian scientists say
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| --05-11-2008-- |
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Backpacking in St Petersburg
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| Although twice the capital of Russia in the past, elegant St. Petersburg is now the country’s second city. However, that’s not to say that it has any less history, culture or significance that it’s main rival, Moscow.
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| --19-11-2010-- |
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Why Did Mammoths Die?
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| Russian scientists say that mammoths died due to geological and ecological changes, not to hordes of hunters, who killed them for food. Said changes caused severe bone diseases – the hypothesis was confirmed, when researchers examined bones from “mammoth cemeteries”, areas with fossilized bones of ancient giants.
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| --31-10-2008-- |
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Sapphire Capillaries Help People
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| Russian scientists developed a unique technology for growing profiled sapphire crystals. Such crystals have great values for medicine and oncology, in particular, since sapphire capillaries and light guides will make laser therapy and diagnostics less traumatic and painful than in case of quartz and polymer light guides.
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| --22-10-2008-- |
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Golden Age of Russian Poetry
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| The sparkling term Golden Age is referred to the first half, or to be more exact, the first forty years of the 19th century. This period is remarkable for an unprecedented upsurge of creativity illuminated by the genius of Alexander Pushkin. It was the poetry of the early 19th century that turned to be the impetus, which still goes on driving Russian literature forth
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Ten Years of Exploring Space
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| Mankind collects atoms of information about surrounding space for several decades, and here are some worth discussing results
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| --23-10-2008-- |
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On Russians' drinking habits
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| A SuperJob.ru survey says most Russians believe alcohol abuse is their most negative character trait(!). 22% of 1800 respondents believe it is so, while 20% claim Russian's curse is their laziness.
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| --17-10-2008-- |
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Silver Age of Russian Poetry
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| With the end of the 19th century “the Golden Age” of Russian literature finished giving place to a crucial stage that later went down into history under the beautiful name of the Silver Age. It engendered a great flight of Russian culture, at the same time becoming a beginning of its tragic fall down.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Top 10 Russian Innovations
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| Here are ten best ideas of Russian scientists and engineers according to National Association of Innovations and Development of Information Technologies (NAIRIT)
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| --11-10-2008-- |
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Mystery of Fanny Kaplan
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| The Jewish-born political revolutionary Fanny Kaplan was shot at the age of 28 for an attempted assassination of Vladimir Lenin. She approached the Leader near a Moscow factory and fired three shots at him. Some historians question the actual role of Fanny Kaplan in the crime and many consider the “Kaplan legend” as another Bolshevik canard.
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| --17-10-2008-- |
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Supercomputers Fight Thromboses
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| Supercomputers and distributed computing help Russian scientists to create new pharmaceuticals, which fight thromboses, very quickly. Researchers found substances, which may become the basis for new effective therapy against thromboses and components for blood substitutes.
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| --03-10-2008-- |
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Backpacking in Moscow
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| In the last ten years, Moscow has undergone something of a transformation. Once notorious for its gangsters and economic woes, the city is now a buzzing modern metropolis with the culture, restaurants and nightlife of a major international city.
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| --19-11-2010-- |
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Microwaves and Hurricanes
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| Russian scientists developed a technique, which allows studying the way hurricanes move and finding out the amount of heat and moisture they carry to mid-latitudes and mid-high latitudes from tropics. The technique is based upon data of Earth’s satellite monitoring in the microwave range.
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| --26-09-2008-- |
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Nikolai Zinin - Aniline for the World
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| Nikolai Zinin was the great Russian chemist, who discovered how easily aniline could have been synthesized.
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| --14-01-2009-- |
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Russian Investment Companies
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| Investing in Russia’s fast emerging economy often seems a good idea for foreign businessmen, who beckoned by high profits put money in steel works, oil-processing plants and other fields. Here is the list of leading Russian finance companies, which can make investing process in Russia easier.
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| --26-10-2011-- |
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Are Vitamins Harmless For Our Health?
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| Human beings quite often complain that chemicals invaded our environment. In early spring, when our organism needs help to survive the stress, the solution is vitamins, which are mainly synthetic. Can this source of health harm what it is aimed to improve?
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| --19-09-2008-- |
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Moscow Metro
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| A brilliant example of Soviet architecture, the Moscow metro has become popular among tourists for its ornate and elegant design. Opened in 1935 it is now second most heavily used subway in the world. It has 12 lines, 117 stations, and some 10m people traveling every day.
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| --20-09-2008-- |
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Russia and Ireland are 35 years together
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| On September 22 Russian Prime-Minister will hold negotiations with Irish Prime-Minister and his counterpart. And on September 29 the two countries will mark 35th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations.
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| --19-09-2008-- |
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New Horizons of Thermodiagnostics
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| Mosquitoes are genial nature’s creation – unique natural thermal sensors, costing evolution millions of years. Well, it took Russian scientists much less time to develop new thermally sensitive elements for thermal diagnostics of oncological diseases
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| --17-09-2008-- |
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Literature in Post-Soviet Time
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| Mikhail Gorbachev’s assumption of office in 1985 and the following epoch of glasnost (i.e. publicity) in Soviet mass media, including press, brought about sweeping changes into Russian literature.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Andrey Kolmogorov - Numbers Rule the World
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| Andrey Kolmogorov was the Soviet king of mathematics - he reigned everything, which had numbers in it.
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| --10-09-2008-- |
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Russian Literature during Thaw and Stagnation (1960s-1970s)
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| In the early 1960s the demand for greater freedom of artistic expression in literature and arts manifested itself with new power, especially by efforts of “the angry young men”, the most well-known of whom became poets Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko and Andrey Andreyevich Voznesensky.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Cobalt and Nanodiamonds – Shaken, not Stirred
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| A think-tank of Russian physicists, employed at several science and research institutions of Moscow and Moscow region, currently develops production conditions for a new composite material with diamond matrix and prepares to investigate its properties.
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| --05-09-2008-- |
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Rouble plunges against oil prices decline
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| On Thursday the rouble dived against the dollar, which increased by record 34 kopecks. The Russian national currency’s fall is caused by foreign investors who hurriedly convert roubles to dollars and Euros and leave the Russian stock market due to political risks.
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| --22-09-2008-- |
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Russian Literature under Stalinist Regime
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| Stalin’s strengthening of his dictatorship in the early 1930s predetermined total submission of literature and art. In 1932 the Central Committee ordered to dismiss all literary associations and establish a single all-national Union of Soviet Writers, which was founded two years later at the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Backpacking in Russia
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| Russia is a fantastic backpacking destination – exciting, exotic and affordable. What’s more, with the recent relaxation of visa laws allowing travelers to enter the country independently rather than just by organized tours, it’s become much more accessible.
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| --19-11-2010-- |
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Particle, Particle in Space, Tell Me About Earthquakes
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| The crew of the International space station finishes preparations for “Vsplesk” (“Burst”) experiment, results of which are expected to help in developing methods for real-time forecasting of earthquakes.
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| --29-08-2008-- |
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Post-Revolutionary Literature in Russia
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| The first turbulent years after 1917, when in accord with new social forces released by overthrow of autocracy there appeared numerous confronting literary groupings, were the only revolutionary period of literature development in the Soviet Union.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Emil Lenz - One Science Is Not Enough
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| Emil Lenz was among those geniuses, whose playground lied in several scientific fields. What we would have done without Lenz's law, I wonder?
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| --27-08-2008-- |
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Beware of Icicles
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| In summer not only sledge should be prepared for winter, but also roofs, which in Russia and other northern countries will definitely be covered with tons of snow and icicles. What shall we do to save our lives from icy threat?
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| --22-08-2008-- |
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Great Reforms and 19th Century Literature of Realism
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| Unusual flourishing of Russian realistic literature in the second half of the 19th century was going on against the background of social and political distemper that started in the 1840s, under the reign of Nicholas I (1825–1855).
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Sportsmen switch countries to get Olympic medals
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| To get Olympic medals more and more sportsmen represent non-native countries. American sportsmen can play for a Russian team and Russian for American. Though it doest contradict the Olympic rules, international sport organizations start expressing more concern about it.
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| --21-08-2008-- |
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Search for National Identity - Russian Literature of the 18th Century
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| The inevitable consequence of Russian and West European literatures drawing together was that the former, being less mature fell under the influence if the latter as a more developed one. With the introduction of a more refined lifestyle in the courts of the post-Peter the First epoch the encouraging of sciences and arts became sort of a fashion. Subtle poetry starts to be appreciated.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Live at Full Charge
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| Russian researchers created a unique charger for mobile phones and laptops. The world is flooded with various power sources, and no one even thought about changing anything. That is why the idea of Russian scientists was so astonishing for many experts and professionals in power engineering.
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| --16-08-2008-- |
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Sergey Chetverikov - Butterflies, Genetics, and Evolution
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| Sergey Chetverikov was an eminent Russian biologist, who found that genetics and evolution were closely related.
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| --12-01-2009-- |
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South Ossetia: war actions are temporary stopped
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| Today the Georgian president has signed an order about a cease-fire. Georgia is going to put the law on Russia at the International Court of Justice after having killed about 2,000 people in Ossetia.
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| --12-08-2008-- |
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Russian Steel Producers ready to sweep U.S. Market
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| Russian steel giants are gradually expanding their presence on the American market by acquiring U.S. steel producers. No wonder, they are thought to be among potential bidders for AK Steel, the third largest steel maker in the USA.
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| --08-08-2008-- |
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Russian Middle Class – Sociologists’ View
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| Russian sociologists finally understood what was Russian middle class and how it changed during last 15 years.
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| --09-08-2008-- |
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Church Influence and Old Russian Literature
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| As compared to West European countries Rus’ adopted Christianity rather late, not before the 10th century. Initial development of Russian literature was under the influence of Byzantium, i.e. the Eastern Roman Empire with the capital of Constantinople.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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Georgi Vitsin. Shy Little Man Who Made the Country Laugh
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| --14-01-2009-- |
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Geologists Help Archeologists
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| Soil sounding, which is a common operation for geologists, reveals not only rocks and relic forms of relief, but also archeological artifacts.
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| --01-08-2008-- |
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St. Petersburg Presents: Roofs, Vodka and Dostoevsky
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| The authorities and travel agencies of St. Petersburg put much effort to make the city more attractive for foreign tourists. However, the influx of tourists decreases every year. The main reasons are the expensiveness and underdeveloped infrastructure. In order to attract foreign guests to St. Petersburg the local travel companies have introduced a number of new non-standard tours around the city.
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| --19-11-2010-- |
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Ivan Sechenov - Father of Russian Physiology
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| Ivan Sechenov was the one who found how reflexes affect human behaviour and mental life.
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| --13-01-2009-- |
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Russia to Domesticate Helicopter Engines Production
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| “We will have our own gas-turbine engine in around 10 years. We have some engineered projects but we need to modernize the industrial base and test facilities. It is going to be an engine of an absolutely new level with which we plan to outstrip the competitors”.
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| --26-07-2008-- |
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Microexplosions Result in Nanodiamonds
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| Despite the sharp interest to nanodiamonds and rapid development of this industrial branch, Russian scientists still remain trendsetters in growing tiny diamonds, but it is getting harder every day.
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| --26-07-2008-- |
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Oleg Basilashvili, Actor with Penetrating Look
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Mystical Moscow: a Walk with Ghosts
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| Not only England and Romania are known to be a favourite residence for spirits. As a city with rich history and the bloody past, Moscow is wrapped in legends and myths, and some of the city streets and districts have a strong mystical reputation.
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| --19-11-2010-- |
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Russia Declares War on Nicotine
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| Russian authorities initiated a heavy anti-smoking campaign comparable to the one seen in the USA in the 1990s. Experts believe the campaign is well-timed, but requires to be implemented carefully – some restrictions may cause rebel among numerous smokers.
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| --23-07-2008-- |
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Hair and Feathers – Are They Relatives?
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| How did hair and feathers appear? Many scientists desperately seek answer to this question, and Russian biologists from Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution seem to find it.
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| --18-07-2008-- |
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Active Travel in Russia
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| Active travel in Russia is a ticket from weekdays to an adventure and an opportunity to have a bright journey one would remember again and again. Unfortunately, active travel in Russia is still surrounded by stereotypes of the Soviet era and the most difficult thing about it is to break the ice.
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| --19-11-2010-- |
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Alexander Stoletov - Iron and Light
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| Eminent Russian physicist, Alexander Stoletov, shed light on photoeffect and magnetic properties of iron.
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| --13-01-2009-- |
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Not Russian Vodka
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| Last week Russia lost its biggest producer of vodka: Central European Distribution Corporation (CEDC) based in Poland and British Lion Capital LLP closed a transaction on acquisition of 90% of shares in Russkiy Alkogol (Russian Alcohol). The management of the Russian company will hold the rest 10% of the stock.
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Rozhok
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| Rozhok is an ancient Russian folk music wind instrument. According to 18th century descriptions, rozhok producing a very strong and shrill sound was used not only by shepherds at work, but also “in taverns for entertainment” and “in boats to accompany oarsmen’s singing”.
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| --18-01-2011-- |
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How Much is Solar Eclipse?
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| On the 1st of August 2.20pm Moscow time a total solar eclipse will cross the territory of Russia. It will last for only 2 minutes but the opportunistic travel companies already estimate the profit brought by the eclipse. Where to observe the black solar circle and how much it costs?
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| --19-11-2010-- |
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Russia Becomes Nano-Superpower
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| Russia has a perfect chance to become a leading scientific power with highly developed nanotechnologies. All we need is making Russian science and education interdisciplinary.
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| --11-07-2008-- |
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Liya Akhedzhakova, Our National Wonder
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Vera Mukhina, Queen of Soviet Sculpture
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| Vera Mukhina was undoubtedly the most famous Soviet sculptor; her sculpture group Worker and Kolkhoz Woman that crowned the building of national Russian pavilion at the International Exhibition in Paris in 1937 is still one of the major sculptures shaping the Moscow city landscape.
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| --07-10-2008-- |
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How to Make Nanoporous Carbon
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| Russian scientists develop an effective technique for making nanoporous carbon materials with predetermined properties and shape. Such materials have a variety of applications: from sorbent for water purification to supercondenser elements and catalyst carriers.
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| --25-06-2008-- |
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Russia Hits British Council with Taxes
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| Russia-UK relations have deteriorated again: the Moscow department of the British Council claims it has received a “punitive and incorrect” tax bill for 2004-2006 by the Russian authorities.
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Russian Romance, the Spell of Sentimental Art Song
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| Russian romance means intimate lyrical songs that touch the soul, it is feelings set to music, and poetry that makes one cry and smile. Romance as a music genre is a traditionally Russian type of music creativity: it is in romance that the so-called “mysterious Russian soul” has found ways of expressing its passions. Just recall the famous "Ochi Chyornie" (Black Eyes)!
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Russian Radio Stations
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| When coming to Russia many would like to know a lot about the country and music, the locals regularly listen to, which is a significant part of everyday life. You would probably like to turn on your walkman and check the most popular Russian radio stations. Here are some of them.
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| --25-10-2011-- |
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Valentina Tereshkova - First Woman in Space
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| Her life is a story of seemingly impossible dreams coming true.
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| --14-01-2009-- |
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Svirel, Ancient Russian Pipe
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| Svirel is an old folk Russian wind instrument of the end-blown flute type. In the Old Rus’ this instrument was made either of hollow reed or cylindrical wood branches. A legend says that Lel’, son of the Slavic goddess of love Lada was a svirel player. In spring he would make his svirel of birch branches.
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| --18-01-2011-- |
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Petawatt Laser Is Coming
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| Russian physicists developed a laser unit, which entered top 5 most powerful lasers of the world.
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| --18-06-2008-- |
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Chinghiz Aitmatov, Great National Writer
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Russian Media Abroad: Mission or Business?
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| The 10th World Congress of the Russian Press takes place in Moscow June 10-13. Publishers and journalists from around the world – from Latvia to New Zealand - have gathered to discuss professional matters and development of a united international Russian-speaking space.
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| --13-06-2008-- |
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No Acid in Your Eyes
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| Siberian scientists know how to protect eyes from chemical burns – they developed “contact lenses”, which turn dangerous liquids (like acids and alkalies) into safe ones (like water) – seems that magic is involved.
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Grushinsky Festival
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| Grushinsky Festival (aka Grusha, Grushinka, and so on) is a famous open-air music festival that is annually held in midsummer in Russia.
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| --10-06-2008-- |
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Piercing and Halloween are outlawed in Russian schools
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| Talking about children’s morality has become a very popular topic in the Russian State Duma. Russian officials suppose the time has come to think how to protect children from undermining influence of “bad values”.
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| --10-06-2008-- |
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Sex? No thanks
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| Russian scientists, currently employed in Harvard University and Josephine Bay Paul Centre in comparative molecular biology and evolution, made a fantastic discovery.
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| --04-06-2008-- |
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Russian Sculpture: History Outline
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| Since in Old Rus’ art served exclusively religious aims and the Orthodox Church disapproved of sculpturing human figures, there was no Russian sculpture in the real sense of the word before epoch of Peter the Great.
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Russian Masterworks Go Under Hammer
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| Russian arts and literature of the 20th century has been enjoying close attention of the West in recent years, the antique masterpieces making high-interest lots at world’s foremost auctions. Thus, lately Bloomsbury Auctions New York has been lucky to benefit from the unique collection Masterworks of 20th Century Russian Literature and Illustration sold out with a bang on May 21.
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| --24-10-2008-- |
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Konstantin Skryabin – Worms Won’t Go
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| Konstantin Ivanovich Skryabin is a world famous Russian biologist, who dedicated his life to fighting human enemies.
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| --22-09-2008-- |
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Russian Real Estate Developers
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| Russian cities are growing high and changing. New buildings of traditional and extraordinary design emerge in the streets showing the new look of old towns. Russian developers don’t miss a chance to take advantage of increasing prices on the real estate market – they expand business, take up new projects and then skim the market. Here are the key players of real estate.
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| --26-10-2011-- |
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Where’s Water on Mars?
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| Scientific equipment of the “Mars-Express” orbiter allowed detailed studies of water cycle on the Red planet.
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| --28-05-2008-- |
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Russian Traditional Music Instruments
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| As time passed by lots of new music instruments came to be used by folk musicians. Nowadays different styles are in fashion yet there is still hope that interest in traditional Russian music will never ever fade. Traditional folk music instruments have come to be used in lots of modern styles and eclectic ways in recent years.
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| --05-04-2011-- |
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Rattle Russian Treshyotka!
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| The folk music instrument treshyotka (translated as rattle) produces a variety of peculiar percussion sounds similar to hand clapping. This originally Russian instrument consisting of a number of wooden plates thread on a string was very popular and widely used in dances during wedding ceremonies.
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Buben, or Russian Tambourine
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| From time immemorial Eastern Slavs have used bubens. These powerful instruments were most widely exploited by warriors and skomorokhs (wandering minstrel-cum-clowns). Back then all sorts of percussion instruments with drumheads were called buben.
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| --18-01-2011-- |
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Healthy People for Healthy Society
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| Russian scientists discussed new generation of pharmaceuticals for therapy of hematological oncological diseases, and these drugs showed results so good no one has ever dreamt about.
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| --20-05-2008-- |
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The Gold Coast beckons Russian Investors
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| Investing in resorts and recreation zones seems to earn popularity easily and fast in Russia. Unfortunately Russia can’t boast numerous long sandy beaches and sunny days all year long. The region of Sochi is probably the only place in the whole country attracting businessmen. No wonder, they search for other opportunities to purchase a house on the sea shore.
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| --16-05-2008-- |
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Yakov Zeldovich - Black Holes and Distant Galaxies
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| Zeldovich Yakov Borisovich, famous Soviet physicist and astrophysicist, made an enormous contribution to explanation of the surrounding world.
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| --14-01-2009-- |
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How Many Microbes Are in the Air?
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| Scientists from Russian state science and research institute of biological instrumentation developed a device, which measures real-time concentration of biological aerosols in air. This device promises to be helpful in case of huge technogenic accidents or (God forfend!) terrorist attacks.
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| --13-05-2008-- |
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Actor Vladimir Etush, the Inimitable Eccentric
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| The range of roles played by Vladimir Etush, one of the most famous Russian comedy actors, is incredibly wide: from fairy tale czars to fakirs and petty tricksters.
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| --12-01-2009-- |
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Hotel Prices: US$60 in New York, US$200 in Moscow
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| The average cost of a hotel room in New York is US$60 (40 EUR) while in Moscow it is US$200 (135 EUR). Besides, even hotels of the same network differ in prices in Moscow and the rest of Europe. It can be seen in the example with Hyatt hotel complex. An average room in this hotel in Hamburg is 175 EUR a day; in Moscow the price reaches 600-700 EUR a day.
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| --07-05-2008-- |
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Shortlist of Recent Russian Inventions
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| Federal Service on intellectual property, patents and trademarks (RosPatent) awarded top 100 Russian Inventions. The ceremony was timed to the International day of intellectual property.
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| --06-05-2008-- |
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Oil Production goes down in Russia
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| Russia has cut oil production for the first time during the past 10 years. Other oil exporting nations also prefer to save their oil deposits rather than sell it on the international market. No wonder, their profits head all the records anyway.
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| --06-05-2008-- |
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Yuri Yakovlev as Ivan the Non-Terrible
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| Actor Yuri Yakovlev came to be a favourite of many-millioned Russian public and of highly cultured audience of Evgeny Vakhtangov Moscow Theatre. In the 1960-70s his characters, among them Lieutenant Rzhevsky, Ivan Vasilievich and Ippolit naturally continued people’s folklore: entire country got infected with his intonations and catchy words and phrases.
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| --14-01-2009-- |
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Advances in Space Technologies
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| Recent conference “Technological development of space industry” allowed leading Russian experts in this field to discuss burning issues of rocket-and-space industry of our country.
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| --29-04-2008-- |
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International Helicopter Exhibition in Moscow (May 15-17, 2008)
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| For the first time ever in Russian history a specialized helicopter exhibition HeliRussia 2008 is to take place at Crocus Expo Exhibition Centre in Moscow on May-15-17, 2008. 128 companies have applied to participate in the exhibition, including 18 foreign companies from the UK, Italy, Germany, France, the USA, Switzerland, Belarus, and Ukraine.
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| --19-11-2010-- |
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Russian law to lock children at home
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| Russian police is concerned about growing number of crimes against children. The head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs claimed that it is essential to introduce restrictions on time of the day when under-18s are permitted to stay outdoors in order to avoid possible crimes against them. He believes that 10 p.m. should become curfew for children and teenagers.
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| --25-04-2008-- |
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Celtic Music in Russia
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| The Russians missed the first wave of interest in Irish music that spread over the world in the 1960s -70s. But then Russia fitted very well into the second wave and is successfully taking part in this international process at present.
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| --05-05-2009-- |
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Mstislav Keldysh – Grey Matter is What Matters
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| Mstislav Keldysh is a world famous mathematician and physicist of Russian origin, father of space flights.
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| --24-04-2008-- |
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North Pole as a Travel Destination
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| Not so long ago a new tendency appeared in tourism: instead of having a rest in a noisy crowd at a hot beach people seek quietness and isolation, seek those few places on the planet where mobile phones do not work, where there are no artificially created things, and where no one can draw you away from enjoying wild nature.
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| --19-11-2010-- |
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Protect Your Computers with Russian Innovations
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| Russian engineers, dealing with generation and processing of three-dimension images, developed a device, which is aimed at raising computer’s protection level from any kind of unauthorized access.
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| --22-04-2008-- |
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St. Icon-Painter Andrei Rublev
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| Andrei Rublev is widely known as the foremost master of Moscow school of icon-painting, monumental and book painting of the 15th century. His oeuvre presents one of the pinnacles of Russian and world culture.
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| --07-10-2008-- |
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Dollar is no longer popular in Russia
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| Since the dollar began to slide down inevitably, a true revolution happened in the minds of the Russian citizens. According to the recently conducted research, the number of Russians, who trust the U.S. currency has reduced tenfold for the last six years.
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| --17-04-2008-- |
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Filter Your Kerosene
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| Russian scientists developed and patented a very effective and convenient filter. This filter purifies various types of petroleum products, solvents and oils from dirt particles and water drops.
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| --18-06-2008-- |
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Moscow Hosts 2008 UEFA Champions League Final
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| The Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow will host the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League Final. The prospect of an all-English showdown even could make the Premier League move the Final venue to the UK. But Moscow insists on the UEFA regulations and all preparations done not to lose its right to hold club football's most prestigious event. The furthest East cup final could cause some tourist visa hindrances for English or Spanish or just all football supporters who are eager to get to the match.
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| --14-04-2008-- |
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About Russian Pop-Music
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| Modern Russian pop music owes much to city romance, as well as to Russian people’s song in general. However, when Soviet power came to rule, overall extermination of everything “bourgeois” started in music along with all other spheres.
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| --16-06-2009-- |
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Nikolai Kibalchich - Science for Terrorism
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| Kibalchich Nikolai Ivanovich, a famous Russian inventor and father of first Russian jet engine and flying vehicle and a revolutionary, did his best to make the world better.
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| --10-04-2008-- |
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Russian Machine-Building Plants
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| The Russian machine-building industry has struggled through the time of the desperate 1990s, when the vast majority of enterprises had to close down or went bankrupt without the governmental support. Some plants stopped manufacturing military goods and turned to civil production, but others survived and here is a short list of them.
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| --26-10-2011-- |
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Are Nanoparticles Safe?
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| Nanotechnologies make humans beings contact with nanoparticles. But are they safe for human health? This is what Russian pharmacologists think.
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| --08-04-2008-- |
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Country Music in Russia
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| Country music in Russia has forever become a symbol of something traditionally American. Thus it is little wonder that during Perestroika the Russian people started to reach for this style as embodying a genuine “oversea tidbit”.
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| --04-05-2009-- |
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Russia and USA: No breakthrough, but strengthening relations
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| The last summit for the present Russian and American presidents took place in Sochi, Saturday, April 5. The two presidents without breaking though signed a Strategic Framework Declaration, which will be the base for the future relations between Russia and the USA under new presidents.
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| --07-04-2008-- |
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A Glimpse of Hip-Hop Culture in Russia
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| It all started in Russia, as usual, with 10 or 15 years of delay. Sprawl of hip-hop culture slow and sure is encompassing territories of the unbounded country despite many obstacles, among them some racist attitudes, conservatism and subjectivity of the Russian population and the huge territory of Russia.
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| --21-05-2011-- |
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How to Pretend a Muscovite in Moscow
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| Looking and behaving like a pure Muscovite can be useful when visiting Moscow. It partially reduces the risk of being robbed and can allow to buy tickets to some museums and other cultural and entertainment establishments at a lower price, due to many of them set higher prices for foreigners.
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| --19-11-2010-- |
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Saga about Neutrons
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| Russian nuclear physicists confirmed some aspects of current hypothesis of origin and structure of the Universe.
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| --01-04-2008-- |
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Brief History of Jazz in Russia
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| Jazz sprang up in the USSR in the 1920s, when it was flourishing in the USA. The first jazz orchestra of Russia was founded in 1922 in Moscow by poet, translator, dancer and theatre worker Valentin Parnakh and was titled “The RSFSR First Eccentric Orchestra Jazz Band of Valentin Parnakh”.
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| --11-06-2009-- |
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Women and Intense Cultural Life Save Moscow’s Attractiveness
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| Amongst the advantages of Moscow the tourists mainly mention two: plenty of seductive prostitutes with a wide spectrum of prices on their services and the intense cultural life of the city. In this way Moscow does not appear on the list of the most boring European cities that includes, for instance, Brussels, Zurich, and Warsaw.
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| --19-11-2010-- |
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Russian Easter Recipes
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| One of the major ritual dishes of Russian Easter feast is paskha made of curds and shaped as a truncated pyramid, which symbolizes the Holy Sepulchre. A special sectional wooden mould was traditionally used for cooking this rich festive dish.
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| --28-08-2011-- |
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George Gamow – Father of Russian Brain Drain
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| George Gamow is a world famous American physicist of Russian Empire origin, who was the first to talk about big bang and mucleotide triplets.
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| --12-01-2009-- |
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