Enlisting the drama of Prokofiev and the elegance of Tchaikovsky, St Petersburg's new Mariinsky theatre staged a gala opening on Thursday designed to silence critics of the starkly modernist building erected in the heart of Russia's imperial capital.
The $700-million glass and limestone building, (...)
Terek Grozny will be fined 200,000 roubles ($6,500) and play one match at a neutral venue after Chechnya's leader called the referee a "sellout" and a "donkey" over a loudspeaker during a recent match
Initially it was believed the stadium announcer had insulted FIFA referee Mikhail Vilkov after he (...)
Yekaterina Samutsevich has few regrets about the day a year ago when she marched into a Russian Orthodox church with four other members of the Pussy Riot punk band, pulled on a balaclava and reached for her guitar.
Guards grabbed her before she could join in the band's "punk prayer" against (...)
Saudi Arabia started a fight against oil smuggling to outside the country, local Al Hayat newspaper reported on Sunday.
As part of the measures adopted by the Supreme Council for Petroleum and Minerals, the authorities would follow up petrol stations, especially those with expired licences, sources (...)
Anna Karenina starts off well enough; the novel begins by plunging you straight into the action and the film's director, Joe Wright, follows suit. The film takes a sudden theatrical turn and its numerous locations are set up like a stage where the characters move effortlessly between different (...)
Bahrain's National Carrier, Gulf Air is pleased to announce that after extensive negotiations with Airbus and Boeing - its two key suppliers of wide-body and narrow-body aircraft - it has signed amendment agreements with both aircraft manufacturers to realign its original orders to meet its (...)
وجدنا على موقع اليوتيوب فيديو لاستعراض دريفت جديد ومذهل قامت بتقديمه قناة "Subaru Team Russia" على الجليد من بطولة سيارات "سوبارو STI".
عزيزي القارئ شاهد استعراض الدريفت على الجليد، ولاتنسى أن تشارك اصدقائك بالخبر على "الفيسبوك" و"التويتر" و"الجوجل بلس" بالضغط على الازرار الموجودة بالأسفل.
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A law that aims to protect children from harmful internet content by allowing the government to take sites offline has taken effect in Russia.
The authorities are now able to blacklist and force offline certain websites without a trial.
The law was approved by both houses of parliament and signed (...)
People's religious feelings must be respected, but Russia is a secular state, President Vladimir Putin stated in a comment on a recent controversy over a Russian school banning Muslim girls from attending classes while wearing a hijab.
“We should see how our neighbors, European states deal with (...)
حدد موقع «GAYOT» عشرة من أفلام «سلسلة بوند» لتكون الأفضل والأشهر «TOP 10» أولها فيلم «The Spy Who Loved Me» الذى عرض عام 1977، بطولة روجر مور وبربرا باش وكورد جورجينز، وهو من إخراج لويس جيلبارت، وفيلم «Goldeneye» للمخرج مارتين كامبيبل وتم عرضه 1995 وهو من بطولة بروس بروسنان وشون بين وإيزابيل (...)
تألق العديد من النجوم فى شخصية العميل 007، وكان النجم الأسكتلندى شون كونرى هو الأول فى تقديم الشخصية عام 1962 فى الفيلم الذى أخرجه تيرانس يانج «دكتور نو»، وأدى كونرى دور عميل المخابرات البريطانية فى مكافحة التجسس الذى يحبط خطط شخص مصاب بجنون العظمة باقتدار.
وفى 1963 قدم كونرى أيضا فيلم «From Russia (...)
شخصية المحقق من أهم الشخصيات وأشهرها فى سلسلة أفلام «جيمس بوند»، وقد تألق عدد من النجوم العالميين فى تقديم تلك الشخصية، لكن جودى دانش تعد من أهم النجمات وصاحبة نصيب الأسد فى تقديم تلك الشخصية، حيث قدمتها فى عدد كبير من أجزاء جيمس بوند منها «Golden Eye» عام 1995، كما قدمت فيلم « Tomorrow Never Dies» (...)
The Bank of Russia said Friday it is leaving interest rates unchanged despite increased signs of the same inflationary pressure that caused it to raise rates in September.
The central bank said that consumer prices had risen 6.6% in September from a year earlier, "which exceeds the upper limit of (...)
Hindus have welcomed the reported statement of Russian prosecutors of not disputing the rejection by Tomsk regional court in Siberia (Russia) of proposed move to ban their ancient scripture Bhagavad Gita (Song of the Lord).
Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, (...)
Emerging markets telecoms operator Vimpelcom posted a 83 percent increase in second-quarter net profit on Wednesday, beating market expectations as subscriber numbers grew across its markets.
The company said net profit totalled $488 million, up from a pro forma $267 million a year ago, while (...)
EDINBURGH - Empress Catherine the Great demonstrates her powerful and enduring cultural influence over Russia in a new art exhibit at Scotland's National Museum that opened on Friday.
The Edinburgh museum's show in collaboration with the Hermitage museum is overflowing with incredibly rich and rare (...)
Britain has the biggest stockpile of Plutonium in the world, but there are no definite plans for how to get rid of it - and the delays are costing the UK taxpayer billions, according to news reports.
A record number of radioactive particles have been found on beaches near the Sellafield nuclear (...)
GELENDZHIK - Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered investigators to find out whether local officials could have done more to prevent floods killing 150 people in southern Russia after flying to the region to handle the first big disaster of his new presidency.
Putin, who was criticised for his (...)
Manchester College has cited “safety” and “security” reasons for asking a UK Muslim woman to leave the school's parents' night after she arrived wearing a veil.
Maroon Rafique was stopped from entering Manchester College by security staff, who told her that for the security of teachers and pupils, (...)
Top-seeded David Ferrer beat unseeded Philipp Petzschner 6-3, 6-4 Saturday to win the Unicef Open grass-court tournament for the second time.
Ferrer broke the German's serve twice in the opening set and once in the second, closing the match with a love game to comfortably win the Wimbledon (...)
Five-time champion Roger Federer reached the Gerry Weber Open final for the seventh time by beating Mikhail Youzhny of Russia 6-1, 6-4 on Saturday.
The second-seeded Federer broke the 31st-ranked Russian twice to wrap up the first set in just 21 minutes. He was in such control that one fan (...)
Tens of thousands of Russians flooded Moscow's tree-lined boulevards Tuesday in the first massive protest against President Vladimir Putin's rule since his inauguration, as investigators sought to raise the heat on the opposition by summoning some of its leaders for questioning just an hour before (...)
When the next version of Firefox hits the streets in Russia, Google -- and not Russia's own Yandex -- will be the default search engine.
That's according to The Next Web, which speculates that though Yandex enjoys a 60 percent share of Russia's search market compared with Google's approximately (...)
The Bank of Russia has decided to leave its key refinancing rate at 8% at its Thursday policy meeting.
The central bank said the decision balanced current inflationary risks and economic growth prospects.
“The annual rate of consumer price growth stayed low at 3.6 percent in April compared with the (...)
ابتكر شاب روسى روبوت يقوم بإطلاق الرصاص بغزارة على الأعداء في المعارك دون الحاجة إلى دفع الجنود للإشتباك عن قرب فى معارك متلاحمة والروبت الجديد عبارة عن طائرة صغيرة جدا مجهزة بمدفع رشاش ويتم التحكم فيها عن بعد بواسطة الريموت كونترول كما هو الحال في الطائرات التي تعمل بدون طيار
ويتم التحكم فى (...)