20:57
BERLIN OPENS SHOW TO COMMEMORATE BATTLE OF MOSCOW
An exposition, "Moscow in Wartime: 1941-1945", opened in Berlin today to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Moscow. The battle spelt the beginning of the end of Hitler's aggression, and preluded the rout of the Nazi war machinery by the Soviet Army, Alexander Shkurko, Moscow's State History Museum director, said at an opening gala. More details...

17:16
RUSSIAN DIPLOMATS TO WEAR NEW UNIFORMS
Russian diplomats holding the ranks of Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Envoys Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Classes 1 and 2, will soon wear new dress uniforms. The Department of Governmental Information said that Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov issued an instruction regarding this on Thursday. More details...

17:11
THE FIRST SESSION OF THE MARINE BOARD WILL BE HELD IN SAINT PETERSBURG
The first session of the Marine Board under the chairmanship of Mikhail Kasyanov will take place in Saint Petersburg in the middle of December, said Russian Deputy Transport Minister Vladimir Yakunin at a press conference on Thursday. More details...

16:53
BASHKORTOSTAN'S FOLK DANCE GROUP SCORES RESOUNDING SUCCESS IN GREAT BRITAIN
The first performance the state academic folk dance ensemble of Bashkortostan, Russia's republic in the Urals, gave in London on Wednesday night scored a tremendous success. The folk group gave the performance in the Royal Festival Hall, London's most prestigious stage. More details...

16:40
INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FILM FESTIVAL TO BE HELD IN MOSCOW
The President of the 18th International Film Festival for Children and Young People, Armen Medvedev, announced on Thursday that the event would run in Moscow from 17th to 22nd December. More details...

19:02
BULLS BROUGHT FROM PORTUGAL FOR MOSCOW CORRIDA TO BE TAKEN TO RESERVE
The Moscow government has finally determined the fate of the Portuguese fighting bulls which were brought to Russia for the first-ever corrida. It should have been held in Moscow in September but the Russian Orthodox Church and the municipal authorities protested against it. They regarded corrida as a cruel and worthless show. More details...

16:09
THE FOURTH RUSSIAN HONEY FAIR OPENED IN MOSCOW WEDNESDAY
The 4th Russian honey fair has opened in the Central Exhibition Hall Manezh in Moscow Wednesday. More details...

11:48
BARCELONA HOSTS EXHIBITION OF RUSSIAN ICONS
An exhibition of Russian icons of the 16th-17th centuries from the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery has opened in Barcelona. More details...

20:26
RUSSIA PREMIERES WEDEKIND'S "ERDGEIST"
The Malaya Bronnaya company is shortly offering "Lulu" after "Erdgeist", sensational late 19th century drama by Frank Wedekind, German playwright and philosopher. More details...

20:22
FAMOUS SINGERS FOR CHARITABLE APPEARANCE
Jose Carreras and Sarah Brightman are singing at the Bolshoi tomorrow with all returns to go to repair the famous theatre, Carreras and Karl Scheufele, chief concert organiser, said to a news conference. More details...

19:44
JURY DETERMINES "TRIUMF" PRIZE WINNERS IN SCIENCE
The jury of the presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences chose, Monday, the Triumf prize winners in the area of science. The prize is given to Russian scholars who have made a notable contribution to the development of Russian and world science. More details...

17:30
3,000-EURO PRIZE FOR BEST EURO-RELATED PIECE OF ART
A 3,000-euro prize will go to a winner in the Moscow pictorial arts competition dedicated to the new European currency. The competition is timed to coincide with January 1, 2002, the day when the euro is to be put into circulation, and December 11, when the Euro Day is marked in the Russian capital. More details...

17:13
FIRST MIKHAIL LAVRENTYEV PRIZES AWARDED
The first prizes in honour of academic Mikhail Lavrentyev, founder of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (based near Novosibirsk in western Siberia), were awarded to Russian scientists on Monday. More details...

11:01
RUSSIAN SALES IN LONDON
The London Sothby's is due to hold traditional "Russian sales" on Wednesday. According to Joanna Vickery, head of Sothby's Russian department, the auction features a large collection (a total of 256 items) of Russian painters' works, including icons, arts and crafts, painting, graphics, sculpture. She noted that the current auction featured the so-called actual art much better than previous ones. More details...

17:36
NOVEMBER 17 IS 100TH BIRTHDAY OF IVAN PYRYEV, ACTOR AND DIRECTOR
Pyryev's cinema career began as early as in 1925, in the era of the "great silent". In his first satire comedy pictures Stranger Woman and Bureaucrat influence of Pyryev's illustrious actor's past was well sensed. Pyryev had acted under directing of such geniuses as Eizenshtein and Meyerkhold. More details...

19:13
290TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF MIKHAIL LOMONOSOV
Monday, November 19 is the 290th anniversary of the birth of the prominent scholar and public figure Mikhail Lomonosov. More details...

18:21
RUSSIA AND LEBANON SIGN PROGRAMME ON CULTURAL COOPERATION
Russian Ambassador to Lebanon Boris Bolotin and Lebanese Minister of Culture Ghassan Salameh signed a programme on cultural cooperation between Russia and Lebanon for 2001-2003 in Beirut on Friday. More details...

16:12
5TH CONGRESS OF UNION OF FILMMAKERS OPENS IN MOSCOW
Valentina Matvienko, Russian deputy prime minister, called Russian cinema "a grand national property." Mrs. Matvienko spoke before participants in the 5th Congress of the Russian Union of Filmmakers, which opened in the Central House of Cinema in Moscow. More details...

14:06
RUSSIAN FILM TAURUS BANNED IN INDIA
"Taurus", the film by Russian director Alexander Sakurov which portrays the last days of Lenin's life, was banned after two performances at the international film festival in Calcutta. The festival's organisers were obliged to take the step following severe protests by youth organisations from the Indian Communist Party (Marxist) which rules in the state of West Bengalia. More details...

21:54
IVAN VELESOV: THE RETURN OF THE ROMANTIC
A solo concert of the bright pianist Vesselin Stanev took place yesterday in the Rachmaninoff’s hall of the Moscow State Conservatory. The critics say he is a first-class master with exquisite taste, expressing naked emotions. Stanev was awarded the first prize at Chaykovsky’s International contest – for the best interpretation of the great composer’s work. More details...

18:09
CHINESE PRESIDENT THANKS BOLSHOI THEATRE ARTISTS FOR REMARKABLE PERFORMANCE IN BEIJING
On Thursday Chinese President Jiang Zemin met the artists of the Bolshoi Theatre and thanked them for their remarkable performance in Beijing noting the highest standards of the Russian ballet school, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports. More details...

12:39
JEWISH CULTURAL CENTRE OPENS IN MOSCOW
A Jewish cultural centre is to open in one of the most beautiful residences in Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street on Thursday. The centre was founded with the support of the US Jewish Joint distributive committee. More details...

10:46
RUSSIAN-FINNISH FORUM ON CULTURAL COOPERATION OF EUROPEAN COUNTRIES OPENS IN VELIKY NOVGOROD
The second Russian-Finnish forum on the European countries' cooperation in the sphere of culture opens in Veliky Novgorod on Thursday, the press service of the Novgorod regional administration told RIA Novosti. More details...

16:39
11TH INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION SHOW OPENS IN MOSCOW
The 11th International Television Show called Teleshow Autumn 2001 opened in Moscow on Wednesday. Manufactures and distributors of film, television, and video products, representatives of national and regional television channels, cable television networks, foreign and domestic television networks, film studios, and producer groups gathered in the Centre for International Trade. More details...

12:51
SERIES OF CONFERENCES OF EXPERTS OF EURASIAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY
A series of conferences of experts from Eurasian Economic Community (EURASEC) member states will begin in Moscow on November 15, EURASEC general secretary Grigory Rapota has said. More details...

12:45
IV INTERNATIONAL SPANISH EVENINGS" FESTIVAL OPENS IN ST. PETERSBURG
On Tuesday, St. Petersburg launches into the IV International Festival of Spanish Music, "Spanish Evenings." According to the founder and artistic director of the festival, Alexis Soriano, the highlight of the festival programme will be a concert staged amongst Spanish paintings of the 15th-17th centuries in the State Hermitage, one of the world's biggest art and historical museums. More details...

12:19
RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES HOLDS GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN MOSCOW
On Monday members of the Russian Academy of Sciences convened for a general assembly to last till November 17. The agenda includes electing the President and administration staff. The elections are held every five years. More details...

12:03
BRITISH VIDEO ART EXHIBITION OPENS IN ST. PETERSBURG'S STATE HISTORICAL MUSEUM
Black Box, an exhibition of British video art that opens in St. Petersburg's State Historical Museum on Monday, is a good chance for Russians to familiarize themselves with one of the most auspicious trends of modern art. More details...

19:30
WREATHS LAID AT SOVIET MEMORIAL IN LONDON
The British capital Sunday saw a wreath-laying ceremony at the monument to Soviet citizens who died in the Second World War. More details...

14:05
BRITISH OFFICIALS TO LAY WREATHS IN LONDON TO MONUMENT TO SOVIET CITIZENS KILLED IN WORLD WAR II
On Sunday, the British will lay wreaths to London's monument to Soviet citizens killed in World War II. Conceived as one of the items on the program of Britain's Commemoration Day, the ceremony is due on the grounds of the Imperial Military Museum. More details...