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29 October, 2011
International award for a Russian cartoon
A Russian cartoon has won an award for best children's animated film at the international festival of animation in the city of Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Woman's Day Gift by Mikhail Dvoryankin is set back in Soviet times, around the 1990s, and revolves around a timid schoolboy who has a crush on a girl in his class. Getting ready for the popular Soviet holiday - International Women's Day on 8 March - Misha creates a lovely gift for his sweetie and goes to school. Will the boy overcome his shy nature enough to hand it over?
The beautiful, hand-drawn cartoon brilliantly shows a typical Soviet school with its non-children-friendly inflexible teachers, and belittled pupils trying to find a common language with the opposite sex.
The Woman's Day Gift has a nostalgic feel and serves as a time machine that takes those who remember an authentic Soviet school "back to the USSR."
Source: RT.com
6 October, 2011
Russian authors shortlisted for Nobel Literature prize
The Nobel Prize in Literature winner will be announced in Stockholm on Thursday.
The nomination is the most intriguing as the criteria to choose the best author are too vague.
This year the shortlist includes the 81-year-old Syrian poet, named Ali Hamid Saeed at birth, but widely known as Adonis; Japan's Haruki Murakami, U.S. poet and singer Bob Dylan, as well as Russian authors- poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko and novelist Viktor Pelevin.
Source: The Voice of Russia
10 September, 2011
Moscow gets animated
Moscow is getting its very own Animation Museum, which is set to become the biggest animation museum in Russia. The new museum will partially occupy the premises of Moscow's Polytechnic Museum right next to the Kremlin and the historic KGB building.
The main exhibition hall features over 100 dolls and puppets that starred in animated movies. Another hall will host temporary exhibitions. The opening of the Museum coincided with the birthday of Russia's celebrated animator Garri Bardin, who turned 70 on September 11
The new museum’s curators have promised that more interactive exhibits will be coming soon. Some of the objects on show are already available for young visitors and their parents to play with. In the future the museum plans to introduce master-classes and other interactive programs for visitors, but only if it can secure extra funding.
Source: RT.com
10 September, 2011
Faust wins in Venice
A drama from nonpareil Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov has picked up the top honors - the Golden Lion award - at the world's oldest film forum, the Venice International Film Festival.
His signature interpretation of Goethe's Faust has also won accolades from the World Catholic Association for Communication. Apart from the SIGNIS prize, the Russian filmmaker has also received the Future Film Festival Digital Award.
It is expected that Faust will have its Russian premiere in later this fall.
His film marks the final chapter in his tetralogy about the relations between man and power that began with Moloch about Hitler, continued with Taurus about Lenin, then climaxed with The Sun about Japanese Emperor Hirohito.
Films by the Siberian-born St Petersburg-based director have been widely praised by critics from around the world. Sokurov's thought-provoking dramas have been playing at the most prestigious festivals.
The award-winning director of Mother and Son, Moloch, and The Sun has always been interested by the phenomenon of power and conformity in his films, one of them was a documentary about the first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin.
Source: RT.com
8 September, 2011
St. Petersburg remembers blockade victims.
September 8 marks a sad day in the history of Leningrad, now called St. Petersburg. On this day in 1941, the city was completely encircled by Hitler's troops.
Air raid sirens will wail this morning as the city pays respects to the victims of the siege that lasted into late January 1944.
About 800,000 people starved or froze to death or were killed in air bombings during the two-and-a-half-year blockade.
Two million Soviet soldiers died in battles near Leningrad.
Source: The Voice of Russia
6 September, 2011
Russian sets highest-ever total for cliff diving.
The cliff diving season has ended with the Red Bull World series grand finale in Ukraine. Russia's Artyom Silchenko wrapped up his campaign in style, notching up his sole stage victory of the year with the highest total score in the sport's history.
For the final stage of the season, 13 of the world's best cliff divers made their way to the Swallow's Nest Castle – one of Ukraine's main places of interest on the Crimean shore of the Black Sea.
All eyes were on two athletes. The first was Englishman Gary Hunt, who entered the event as the newly-crowned champion, with four stage wins in a row seeing the Briton retain his world title two weeks ago in Boston. The other was the man who took second in the overall standings, Russian cliff diver Artyom Silchenko, who was looking to claim a first event win.
It was Silchenko who took the lead after the first three rounds of the competition, with flawless execution him ahead of Hunt. It turned out to be more than just a win, with Silchenko claiming the highest total score the competition has ever seen.
Read more on : RT.com
5 September, 2011
Moscow City Day.
Moscow has celebrated its 864rd birthday. Over two days, 2.5 million Muscovites and guests of the capital took part in festive events that were held in various parts of the city.
City Day that is believed to coincide more or less with Moscow's "birthday".
For the first time in the last two decades, a dramatized show took place in Red Square in the presence of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, city mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. Before the show, city authorities laid flowers on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the statue of Marshal Georgy Zhukov.
In the evening the light and music show was organized in the Sparrow Hills and a hip-hop festival at the Tushino air-field. A concert of electronic music as a part of Russia-France Year 2010 took place on Lubyanskaya Square.
A picturesque closing ceremony of the 4th international military musical festival Spasskaya Tower on the Red Square was a real present to the Muscovites on City Day. The performance traditionally began with the Kremlin Chimes ringing at 8 p.m. Moscow time on Sunday. About 1,500 military musicians from 14 countries in Europe, Asia and America performed in the festival.
Read more on : The Voice of Russia
More about Spasskaya Tower military music festival : Itar Tass News Agency
5 September, 2011
Russia second in Athletic Worlds medals count
Russia have grabbed second place in the unofficial medals count at the World Athletics Championships in Deagu, equalling the Soviet Union's 1991 record.
The Russian athletes have won nine gold, four silver and six bronze medals at the event, which ended in South Korea on Sunday.
The first place went to Team USA, who once again proved to be an athletics powerhouse, with 12 golds, eight bronze and five silver medals.
Third position was occupied by Kenya, who have seven golds, six bronze and four silver medals in the bag.
The current World Championships have been the most successful in the Russia's modern history, with the previous best in Paris 2003 and Helsinki 2007 when the country brought home seven gold medals.
The national team of the USSR grabbed nine golds just once, at the Tokyo Worlds of 1991.
The athletes who topped the podium for their country are Valery Borchin (men's 20km walking), Olga Kaniskina (women's 20km walking), Tatyana Chernova (women's heptathlon), Julia Zaripova (women's 3000m steeplechase), Maria Abakumova (women's javelin throw), Anna Chicherova (women's high jump), Sergey Bakulin (men's 50 km walking), Tatiana Lysenko (women's hammer throw) and Maria Savinova (women's 800 m).
Read more on: RT.com
3 September, 2011
Russia marks Day of Solidarity in Fight against Terrorism.
Russia marks Day of Solidarity in the Fight against Terrorism on Saturday, timed to coincide with the 7th anniversary of the Beslan siege in North Ossetia in 2004.
Back then, 334 people, including 186 children, were killed as a result of the terrorist attack on a school in the town of Beslan.
In a show of unity of the state and society, Russians on Saturday pay tribute to thousands of their compatriots earlier killed in terrorist attacks.
37 people died in the suicide bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport on January 24, 2011.
Read more on : The Voice of Russia
2 September, 2011
New president inaugurated.
A legendary Russian conductor has become president. Maestro Valery Gergiev became the new Honorary President of the Edinburgh International Festival.
His celebrated predecessors in the "musical office" were violinist Yehudi Menuhin, and conductor Charles Mackerras, who died last year.
Making the announcement, the director of the festival, Jonathan Mills, sang Gergiev's praises, saying 'not only is he a superb talent, he is a truly international figure and a great humanitarian.' Valery Gergiev brought the Festival 'many outstanding performances with the Mariinsky Opera, London Symphony Orchestra and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and is hugely popular with Festival audiences,' he said.
Read more on : RT.com
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