Новости за 13.01.2017

The exhibition, "Roma Aeterna: Masterpieces of the Vatican Pinacotheca. Bellini, Raphael, Caravaggio," at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow is sold out for the remainder of its duration, said the museum on its website. 

Audiences tuning into C-SPAN, which provides live TV broadcasts of speeches by U.S. politicians, instead found themselves watching Russia Today (RT) for almost 10 minutes. C-SPAN called the problem an "internal routing error."

Resumption of charter flights from Russia to Egyptian resorts is a matter of near future, Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov told reporters.

Moscow resident Andrey Villevald was shocked to get a 3,379,800 rubles bill ($57,000) for parking his car at Sheremetyevo Airport. He wrote about this incident on the VKontakte social network on Jan. 12, and said he parked his car for only 45 minutes, but the system calculated that his car had been parked there for more then 17 years. 

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Syrniki. Photo courtesy: Odesa-mama restaurant

Our main tip for restaurants serving traditional Russian food applies to all kinds of restaurants in Moscow: Due to the devaluation of the ruble in 2014 you’ll probably be surprised by how affordable the menu prices are. Take a stroll through the city center and let your gastronomic adventure begin!

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The Royal Academy of Arts, in association with the Courtauld Institute of Art, presents a two-day academic conference to coincide with the exhibition Revolution: Russian Art 1917–1932 for scholars, students and those interested in the period.

Russian astronomer and researcher at the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics Leonid Elenin has discovered a new comet with a telescope in Australia and the automated observatory remote control software.

Talking in his study - a book-lined room dotted with gold-backed icons in Cambridge University's medieval Magdalene College, where he is currently Master, Williams speaks of the influence Russia has had on his life.

The relations between Russia and NATO need a ‘joint review’ of approaches to countering present-day threats, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Meshkov told TASS on Jan. 13.

Distribution rights to the Russian historical blockbuster ‘Viking’ have been sold to more than 60 countries, the press service of Channel One TV told TASS on Jan. 13.

Natalia Chekina, a volunteer at the Shcherbinka shelter in Moscow, answers yet another phone call from residents of the Novye Cheremushki district. 

In the beginning of 2017, China launched yet another railway freight route to Europe. The new route connects the city of Yiwu in eastern Zhejiang province with London, making it the longest railway freight route in the world.

U.S.-Turkish relations now face their most difficult period in years, and it seems Ankara and Washington have exhausted their strategic partnership in the form of efforts to contain Russia, and to force regime change in Syria. 

DNA testing experts have identified more than 70 victims of the crash of Tu-154 aircraft operated by the Russian Defense Ministry over the Black Sea, some sources in the Forensic Medical Examination Office informed TASS on Jan. 13.