Новости за 13.11.2016

Exhibition of tactile pictures for visually impaired people in Moscow

A visitor by the "The Still Life with Attributes of Art" picture by Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin at the opening of 'To Visiualize the Invisible', Russia's first exhibition of tactile pictures for blind and visually impaired people held in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts' Italian yard.

'These people visited Moscow. More than once'

Russian diplomats did have contacts with supporters of both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign but these were "routine diplomatic" contacts, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Nov. 13.

'Our president has been speaking about bringing closer the positions'

Speaker of Russia’s State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin says the Donald Trump’s position in fighting terrorism, in structuring of effective Russian-U.S. relations and in defending national interests is similar to the position of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.

Military musicians sing Vidovdan and Tamo Daleko

The song and dance ensemble of the Russian Airborne Troops has performed in Belgrade’s Russian House as part of the Slavic Brotherhood international military drills singing songs in Serbian, the ensemble’s director, Vladimir Strelkov, told reporters on Nov 13.

‘To Visualize the Invisible’ exhibition held at Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

An exhibition for visually impaired and sightless people titled ‘To Visualize the Invisible’ that presents tactile replicas of six masterpieces of West-European painting opened on Nov. 12 at the famed Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.

Evgenia Medvedeva will compete in the Grand Prix final stage in December
Russian figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva has won the fourth stage of the ISU Grand Prix series underway in France with a score of 221.54 points.

She scored 143.02 points in free skate. Russia’s Maria Sotskova took the second place with 200.35 points, while Japan’s Wakaba Higuchi got the third place scoring 194.48 points.

The second game in the World Chess Championship between Russian grandmaster Sergey Karjakin and Norway’s Magnus Carlsen, has ended in a draw.