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East meets West in dazzling Moscow musical

17.09.2008 - Art & Culture

What happens when you mix Broadway music, modern jazz, hip hop, samba and belly dance into one colourful brew? The answer is “The Images of Love”, an exotic Arabic musical full of colour and costume, which premiered on the Moscow stage this week.

Russian Chamber orchestra plays summer serenades

28.08.2008 - Art & Culture

Do you love classical music how Russian counts did? A collection of serenades is being performed by the Russian Chamber orchestra Kremlin at Moscow’s Kuskovo estate. Having the concerts fully booked organizers show that the audience has starved for this genre.

DeGeneres and De Rossi wed in LA

18.08.2008 - Art & Culture

US talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has married her long-time partner, actress Portia de Rossi, according to the Associated Press news agency.

“Window to Europe” film festival announces winners

18.08.2008 - Art & Culture

The last day of the 16th “Window to Europe” film festival in Vyborg is over. “The Stone Head”, the movie directed by Philip Yankovsky and starring a famous Russian boxer Nikolay Valuyev, won the main prize

Two Russian films to screen at Venice film festival

30.07.2008 - Art & Culture

Two Russian films will screen in the forthcoming Venice international movie festival.

Baby mammoth Lyuba will be a hero of a science film

10.07.2008 - Art & Culture

The 37-thousand-years old baby mammoth discovered on the Yamal Peninsula, Western Siberia will become a hero of a fiction film.

Monastery’s bells head back to Moscow after 78 years

10.07.2008 - Art & Culture

Some Russian relics are beginning their journey home. Harvard University has officially transferred ownership of bells from the St.Danilov Monastery back to Russia in exchange for newly-made replicas.

Russian film director Eldar Ryazanov receives the prestigious international Golden Pegasus

07.07.2008 - Art & Culture

The prominent Russian film director Eldar Ryazanov has received the prestigious international Golden Pegasus award for his career of film-director.

History buffs reconstruct sailing ships in North Russia

07.07.2008 - Art & Culture

A youth maritime festival called “People of the Wind” has been held in Petrozavodsk.

Will Russian audiences 'like it hot'?

01.07.2008 - Art & Culture

‘Some Like It Hot’ shot in 1959 has been listed as the greatest American comedy film of all time. No wonder a 1972 Broadway musical based on it also enjoyed great success. A Russian stage director is now trying to mount his version of the acclaimed show and hopes for no lesser success with audiences.