Russian rock band U-Peter begins the final stage of its tour marking the 25 th anniversary of cult Russian rock band Nautilus Pompilius. During the tour which lasted for more than a year U-Peter played in many cities of Russia and the CIS. →
Numerous reports of the western mass media speak about the gas revolution, caused by an increase in the amount of natural gas produced from shale fields. Shale gas production experienced an 8 per cent growth in the recent three years in the US, which encouraged China to start increasing the share of shale gas to 25 per cent by 2030. →
The "Quartet" of international mediators for the Middle East, including Russia, the USA, the United Nations, and the European Union, is slated for a meeting in Moscow on March 19 th , It will adopt a statement to confirm, among other things, that it denounces the construction by Israel of new Jewish settlements on the occupied Palestinian lands. →
An air mobile hospital of the Russian Emergencies Ministry is working round the clock in Santiago. Russian doctors and their Chilean colleagues are saving dozens of lives in the wake of the devastating earthquake, which destroyed most of the local hospitals and medical centers. →
The second plane of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry carrying humanitarian aid to Chile, which has been devastated by a series of earthquakes, landed in Santiago on Saturday in a move earlier initiated by President Dmitry Medvedev. The Il-76 plane brought a 28-ton humanitarian cargo comprising tents, diesel generators, blankets and dishes. →
After the Olympics in Vancouver drew to a close, the Sochi Mayor received the Olympic flag at the closing ceremony of the 21 st Winter Games. Sportsmen are awaiting analysis of their performance and look forward to the preparations for the next Olympics. →
Russian ruble ranks third among the currencies, which have demonstrated the highest growth against the dollar. It has obtained such an honorary position among the currencies of the G20 states on the results of last month. In the former months the Russian ruble remained one of the most stable currencies while the other currencies were subjected to ups and downs. →
The Russian city Sochi has taken the baton from Vancouver, Canada. The Mayor of the 22d Winter Olympics city Anatoly Pakhomov received the Olympic flag from the IOC president Jacques Rogge during the 2010 Games' closing ceremony. After that Vancouver's central stadium turned for several minutes into a huge Russia House, with Russia presenting the forthcoming Sochi-2014 Olympics. →
Russia has two Vancouver gold medals in the biathlon - one taken by the mass-start racer Yevgeni Ustyugov, and the other, by a quartette of female relay racers. The haul of its biathlon team also includes one silver medal and one bronze. It is only one bronze medal less than the result in Turin. →
American poultry producers are stepping up efforts to return their products to the Russian market as they prepare for a fresh round of poultry talks due in Moscow early next week. Earlier, Russia banned all U.S. poultry imports over non-compliance with new food safety requirements introduced by the Consumer Rights Protection Service, Rospotrebnadzor, as of January 1, 2010. →
Struggle for medals in hockey Olympic competitions in Vancouver is over for the Russia team after it has been beaten by Canada 7:3 on Wednesday. The match between two of hockey's super powers was spectacular and breathtaking. It was obvious from the very first minutes that the game won't be easy. →
An Orthodox Cross is expected to appear at the southern tip of the South American continent, Cape Horn in the memory of seamen who perished there. This was suggested by the well-known Russian traveler Fyodor Konyukhov, who is determined to implement the idea. →
Russian bobsledders Alexander Zubkov and Alexei Voyevoda have won the bronze medal in the two-man bob competition at the Vancouver Olympics. The gold and silver medals went to the German bobsledders, and small wonder, since bobsleigh is the number one sport in Germany. →
In Vancouver the Russians have finally won the long-awaited gold medal in biathlon. Yevgeny Ustyugov hit all the targets, denied his rivals any chance of winning and won the mass start race. What's more, he was all alone when crossing the finishing line. Russian woman biathlete Olga Zaitseva also did her utmost and won the silver medal. →
The U.S vice president, Joseph Biden, addressing a gathering at the Washington University on National Defense has →
The International Luge Federation and the Olympics-2014 Organizing Committee have reached agreement that a bobsleigh/luge track for the next Winter Olympics in Sochi would make it impossible for athletes to travel at such high speeds as in Vancouver when getting down the track. This came in a statement by the Secretary-General of the International Luge Federation Svein Romstadt. →
Competitions in one of the most spectacular and popular sports - ice hockey - have started at the Olympic Games in Vancouver. Despite the fact that the first matches don't influence the final one and it doesn't matter whether a team wins or not, all sportsmen are victory-oriented. →
Women lugers have had their training runs at the Whistler bobsleigh/luge track, which has been shortened and made less dangerous following the tragic death of the Georgian athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili. Russian women-lugers, in Group B, put on really impressive performance, with two of those making it to the 10 best. →
Today is the opening day in Vancouver, Canada, of the main sporting event of the year - the XXI Winter Olympics, where athletes from 80 countries will be vying for the top awards in 15 Olympic disciplines. →
The world-famous Mariinsky Theatre from St. Petersburg beg its new season at the Kennedy Centre in Washington on February 9 th with the presentation of Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Sleeping Beauty". The performances of the famous ballet troupe are actually the part continuation of a wide-scale musical festival "Russia in Focus". →