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International Year of the Golden Grains

11:25 05.11.2013 Alexander Moiseyev

International Year of the Golden Grains

In a Moscow supermarket my attention was drawn to a new product on the shelves of cereals - quinoa (la quinoa). And then I remembered that the current year 2013 was declared by the United Nations to be the "International Year of Quinoa." This is a very ancient crop. The …

About Lviv, In A Travel Notes Style

20:43 01.11.2013 Vladislav Gulevich

About Lviv, In A Travel Notes Style

Lviv is an ancient city, whose history is inextricably linked with the history of Russia. These days, Lviv is not associated with Russia, but with the Ukrainian nationalist ideology. Many people mistakenly think that Lviv is not only the center, but the epicenter, the main place for nationalist ideas, but …

Parisian evening: The Russian Diaspora In California

20:40 01.11.2013 Elena Studneva

Parisian evening: The Russian Diaspora In California

Russian compatriots living and working in different countries and cities, certainly find common interests, not only in the professional sphere, but also in their leisure time, which there is very little of, generally speaking. However, the Russian diaspora in Sacramento (California) has presented itself as an appreciative audience for classical …

70th anniversary of the conference which outlawed war

20:28 01.11.2013 Elena Studneva

70th anniversary of the conference which outlawed war

The 70th anniversary of the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers of the USSR, the USA and the UK took place in a mansion house at 17 Spiridonovka Street, which in 1943 saw the adoption of a document which later became the prototype for the UN Charter. In his address at …

Second after Chopin

16:03 21.10.2013 Vladislav Gulevich

Second after Chopin

He is called the outstanding Polish composer of the twentieth century, and one of the most important to have created work after Chopin. Hailing from the remote province of Little Russia, half- Polish, half German, he went on to became the musical Olympus of Warsaw, where he arrived as a …

"Tales of Broca Street" played on the Arbat

15:56 21.10.2013 Elena Studneva

"Tales of Broca Street" played on the Arbat

"Tales of Broca Street" by the French writer Pierre Gripari played for the first time at the Russian Theater in Geneva on September 11th and was produced in cooperation with students from the Theater department of the International Center of the Lomonosov Moscow State University (LMSU). This creative team will …

The hard path to a nuclear-free world

15:52 21.10.2013 Andrey Torin

The hard path to a nuclear-free world

The Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBTO) Dr. Lassina Zerbo In early October of this year, the newly appointed Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBTO), Lassina Zerbo, paid a visit to Moscow. The visit …

The U.S. in the Middle East: betting on Turkey

15:48 21.10.2013 Vladislav Gulevich

The U.S. in the Middle East: betting on Turkey

With the arrival of Barack Obama in the White House, Washington began an active revitalization of US -Turkish relations in all directions. With the revitalization of American policy toward the Middle East, this was a necessity, and it was important to Washington to combine its hegemonic aspirations with Ankara's regional …

Revival

15:44 21.10.2013 Olga Ivlieva

On the 22nd of September, a solemn liturgy heralded the rebirth of the spiritual life of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Moscow. The service was held in the newly constructed Cathedral of the Resurrection. This central area of Moscow, near Olympic Avenue, has no shortage of new, non-standard architectural structures, …

Interview with L.Zerbo, Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Compehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization

19:41 05.10.2013

Interview with L.Zerbo, Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Compehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization

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