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An exhibition of Soviet commercial advertising posters from Galina Bandurkina’s private collection has kicked off at the House of Antique Books in Moscow. The show featuring placards of the 1920-1930s gives an insight what the ads of old looked like in the Soviet Russia.
Photo: a poster advertizing the Soviets’ food ministry and its famous buns and rolls
A Russian defector, former Russian security officer and a body guard of Boris Berezovsky Alexander Litvinenko suddenly died in London in November 2006 with symptoms of what British forensic experts described as poisoning with radioactive polonium. Earlier this week, Foreign Secretary William Hague issued instructions to purge the Litvinenko inquest of all evidence that could implicate Russia in Litvinenko’s death or suggest that British special services could have averted the tragedy.
Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday before an international TV audience of around 125 million, winning the annual competition with a barefoot performance backed by flutes and drums.
Russia will do its utmost to secure the return of Russian nationals Victor Bout and Konstantin Yaroshenko, who were convicted in the US, for serving their sentences in Russia. Lawyers for Bout and Yaroshenko insist that their sentences should be revised. Should that prove impossible, they demand that their appeals receive fair hearings.
A senior female Pakistani politician has been shot dead in the southern port city of Karachi.
Russian inspectors today start observation flights over U.S. territory under the Open Skies Treaty.
In Syria, militants have kidnapped the 80-year-old father of the country’s Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad.
With more and more medical data being digitized, hospitals, doctors and pharmacies are becoming more and more efficient in treating patients. It's also changing the way pharmaceutical companies are making their appeals to doctor as they are mining data to help tailor their pitches on the newest drugs. But is all this efficiency better for the patients as whole?
Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday before an international TV audience of around 125 million, winning the annual competition with a barefoot performance backed by flutes and drums.
Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin wished singer Dina Garipova success and victory at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden.
On Friday, IAEA’s head Yukiya Amano visited the Kalininskaya nuclear power plant in Russia and made a report there.
The Baltic Sea Fleet in Russia’s northwest is celebrating 310 years since its foundation.
Next week, the Russian parliament’s lower house is going to consider some amendments to laws concerning adoption of Russian children by foreigners.
Cyprus Finance Ministry has removed restrictions on financial transactions of another six foreign banks. The list features a branch of the Ukrainian Privatbank.
Economic issues took centre stage Saturday when German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Pope Francis at the Vatican, two days after the pontiff called unbridled capitalism ungodly.
Natural disasters have cost the global economy $2.5 trillion since 2000, that’s according to a UN report released on Wednesday. These figures are at least 50% higher than previous international estimates. The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction warned economic losses from earthquakes, floods and droughts will continue to escalate, unless businesses take action to reduce their exposure to disaster risks.
A white-tailed deer crashed through the windshield of a public bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was filmed by a surveillance camera. (VIDEO)
In a harsh rebuttal to George Soros, the President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research Hans-Werner Sinn accused the speculator of “playing with fire” and stated that “Germany will not accept Eurobonds” in spite of the pressure from the investing community.
In an exclusive interview with the Voice of Russia, Wolf Richter talks about the ECB's desperation, the money printing bonanza of the world's central banks and about a French finance minister who is barking at the wrong tree. Wolf Richter is the editor of , entrepreneur, private equity specialist and the author of "Big Like: Cascade Into An Odyssey".
A car journey across Russia by former adult video star Sasha Grey ended after a Russian-made Lada Kalina she was driving broke down three days after the start.
Nigerian military spokesman Brig Gen Olukolade said the army would continue its operation "as long as it takes to achieve our objective of getting rid of insurgents from every part of Nigeria".
The Arctic expedition of Fyodor Konyukhov and Viktor Semyonov has crossed through a crack in the ice more than one kilometer wide and several hundred kilometers long.
Nigeria's army to continue offensive against militants "as long as it takes"
