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Blogs
Stranded in Moscow...by choice
Smoke gets in your eyes ( 2 comments )
Russia Lite
A dwindling natural resource ( 4 comments )
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Surprised by Russia
It's Just Some Holiday
The winter holidays are barely over and already there’s another slew in the offing: Men’s Day (Feb. 23), Women’s Day (March 8), Valentine’s Day and, of course, Maslenitsa — a week of merrymaking and pancake eating ahead of Lent.
It’s a wonderful, wonderful life ( 1 comment )
Seventy-two percent of Russians report that they are happy
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Business Calendar
Global Policy Forum 'The Modern State: Standards of Democracy and Criteria of Efficiency'
9-10 September, Yaroslavl, Russia
Moscow International Automobile Salon/МIAS 2010
and the 6th International Automotive exhibition InterAuto
August 27 through September 5, 2010 in the Crocus Expo International Exhibition Centre
Ethics in business
7 September 2010
Address: The Ritz-Carlton Moscow (Tverskaya, 3)
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Culture Calendar
The Holy Russia sand sculpture
Vsekhsvyatsky Proyezd, near the Christ the Savior Cathedral. Metro Kropotkinskaya
The exhibition runs till October 31
Art-Experiment creative weekend
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, 19A Ulitsa Obraztsova, Moscow
18 and 19 SEPTEMBER 2010
13.00 – 19.00
ALL AGES (children, families, young people and adults)
MIR Caravan 2010 in Moscow !
September 3rd, begining at 19.00
September 4th, begining at 14.00 and 19.00
September 5th, begining at 14.00 and 19.00
Entrance to the festival is free of charge
The address : prospekt Andropova, 39 "Kolomenskaya"
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National Cuisine
It’s a wonderful, wonderful life ( 1 comment )
Seventy-two percent of Russians report that they are happy
It’s a wonderful, wonderful life ( 1 comment )
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Found in translation
Rejecting the ‘isms’ of ideology
Russians have a traditional dislike of any sort of ‘isms’ - especially if they are political. Perhaps left over from Soviet times, anything that suggests collectivism is sure to draw sincere ire.


Latest Stories
Business & Finance:
Turkmenistan and Afghanistan have signed a framework agreement to build the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline (TAPI) running through Pakistan and into India.
Society:
Russia's Glonass satellite navigation system
Sport:
The Olympic Committee of Russia has launched a contest for the future mascot of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
Russia & World:
A decisive moment approaches the military history of the CIS.
Feature:
The glamour and glitz of the Moscow International Auto Show has brought the latest Porsche and Bentley models to town.
Society:
Commemorations to mark six years since the Beslan school siege are to get underway on Wednesday in Russia's Republic of North Ossetia. More than 300 died in the massacre, led by Chechen militants, in 2004.
Business & Finance
A Russian gas tanker completed a pioneering voyage this week through the Northern Sea route, with the new journey expected to transform global trade.
I believe that the starting point for leaders is the boardroom, the office. To create an atmosphere of celebration, you need the right attitude, and you have to bring in that attitude yourself. This may require some form of teamwork. An atmosphere of celebration, of trust, cooperation and a sense of belonging, all have to come.
Rice, buckwheat prices double in Russian Far East
RIA Novosti
Russian-Indian mission to take off to the Moon
Izvestia
Welcome to the rubber club
Viktor Kuzmin, RIR
Vikromaditya: The arrival's near
Aleksandr Emeliyanenkov, Rossiyskaya Gazeta
Politics
The United States abandons its alliance with Pakistan in order to focus on strategic ties with India. All countries in the region could suffer from this change in priorities.
President:
The two leaders effectively declared they were ready to overcome the negative inertia in relations between the two countries over the past 60 years.
Vickram Bahl: Putin is a people person
Vickram Bahl, Editor in Chief, ITMN TV
Liberals push radical agenda
Roland Oliphant
Russia Profile.org
Government switches to e-workflow
Alexandra Prokopenko
ITAR TASS correspondent
Arms control: more alive than dead
Vyacheslav Nikonov, Izvestia
Tourism
In Siberia, along the shores of Lake Baikal, the powers of the shaman to channel and influence the spirits of good and evil, are still respected by those who live here.
Kolomna, an easy day trip from Moscow, features monasteries, estates and tasty treats.
Discoveries on the eastern railroad (Part 1) ( 1 comment )
Aanchal Anand, special to RIR
Discoveries on the eastern railroad: Nizhniy Novgorod and Perm (Part 2) ( 1 comment )
Aanchal Anand, special to RIR
Discoveries on the eastern railroad: Yekaterinburg, Omsk and Krasnoyarsk (Part 3) ( 1 comment )
Aanchal Anand, special to RIR
Discoveries on the Eastern Railroad: Irkutsk, Baikal and Vladivostok (Part 4) ( 4 comments )
Aanchal Anand, special to RIR
Russia & World
South African President Jacob Zuma, while on a state visit to China, expressed the desire and willingness of his country to join the informal club of four developing nations, namely Brazil, Russia, India and China, known as BRIC.
Moscow cuts red tape on visas to usher in more foreign workers
Nikolaus von Twickel, The Moscow Times
India Nabs Russian ‘Spy’
The Moscow Times
Millions of small doses
Ivan Egorov, Rossiyskaya gazeta
Russia, China concerned by growing Afghan drug threat
RIA Novosti
Culture
Exhibitions:
My Life as a Russian Novel
Emmanuel Carrère
Culture Calendar (Washington DC)
Nora FitzGerald
An open exchange of books
Nora FitzGerald, Russia Now
If there is something to desire ( 2 comments )
Nora FitzGerald, Russia Now
Feature
A thorough examination of Russia’s great literary heritage yields no clear explanation as to what the so-called mysterious Russian soul really is and how it differs from the souls of other peoples.
Space: Roskosmos and the European Space Agency collaborate on a project to prove that mankind will walk on Mars
Living in Moscow’s endangered utopia
Phoebe Taplin, special to Russia Now
Paper architects and the razing of Moscow ( 1 comment )
Nora FitzGerald, Russia Now
Schwarzenegger promises to preserve Russian fortress Fort Ross
Russia Now
Making an impression — Russian style
Karen Schafer, The Gazette
Society
Science:
Roscosmos and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) initially planned to send two lunar rovers to Phobos: One bigger (Russian) and one smaller (Indian).
Science:
Russia is the largest buyer of earth images taken from space by Indian satellites, Murthy Remilla, Deputy Director of Antrix Corporation Limited, told RIA Novosti.
Public offered a say in police reforms
RIR
Russian democracy turns 20 ( 1 comment )
RIR
Time matters: two time zones out
RIR
Mathematician wins Millennium Prize
RIR
Opinion
The biography of larger-than-life characters, such as Mother Teresa, always contain seemingly insignificant facts that give us a clue as to what makes them exceptional. But often these clues are hard to notice.The biography of larger-than-life characters, such as Mother Teresa, always contain seemingly insignificant facts that give us a clue as to what makes them exceptional. But often these clues are hard to notice.
The right of every human being to safe drinking water and basic sanitation should be recognized and realized.
Modernisation challenges
Andrei Volodin, specially for RIR
India and Russia: strategies of cooperation
Kanwal Sibal, Former foreign secretary of India
Russian studies revival on campus ( 2 comments )
Mark H. Teeter, The Moscow News
Majority rule
Richard Lourie, The Moscow Times
History
Russia celebrated the 65th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany (May 9) with the biggest display of military might since the end of the Cold War two decades ago at the historic Red Square in Moscow
World War II:
Interview: A renowned military expert, economist and historian on the peculiarities of the war economy
Archives reveal strategy switch on Afghanistan
Russia Now
Afghan invasions ( 1 comment )
Vladimir Snegirev, special to Russia Now
Stalinґs grandson loses libel action ( 1 comment )
Newsru.com
The ennobling truth ( 2 comments )
Alexander Melikhov
Sport
After a disappointing Vancouver games, Russian athletes and sports federations set their sights on 2014, when they will be on home turf.
Olympics: The next Winter Games will take place in the subtropics
FIFA would be wiser betting on the new
Ilya Zubko, Rossiyskaya Gazeta
Looking for a local after Hiddink goes
Combined reports
Russian Tennis Headed for Success
Alexander Yerastov, RG
Defence
India to order another 59 Russian Mi-17 helicopters
RIA Novosti
India may spend $2 bn upgrading Su-30 fighters
RIA Novosti
Blogs
Russia Lite:
Why do Russian men have such a terrible life expectancy? Our blogger explains.
Stranded in Moscow...by choice:
While Western countries spend time and money on anti-smoking campaign, Muscovites have no qualms about this guilty pleasure.
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