Новости за 13.06.2017

Food for the body and the soul

“I wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off," dreamt the itinerant author. Читать дальше...

The mystical Zarro Kobzarro. / Personal archive

Have you ever encountered the crazy people who ride on the roofs of subway cars and long-distance trains, and post James Bond-style videos full of death-defying stunts and special effects? This dangerous “train surfing” isn’t done by professional stuntmen, but mysterious characters wearing masks - and not surprisingly, their life expectancy is not the highest.

The unflappable “Zarro Kobzarro” for short - one of the aforementioned... Читать дальше...

U.S. filmmaker Oliver Stone, who recently released a documentary about Russian President Vladimir Putin, could not have made a low-quality picture, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. "Oliver Stone is a very gifted filmmaker so he could not have made some low-quality picture," he said, TASS reports.

Lom-Ali Gaitukayev, convicted for the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, has died in a hospital for convicts located in the Vologda region, the press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service’s regional branch told TASS adding that Gaitukayev had been suffering from a severe chronic disease for a long time.

In summer, you can hardly see any houses in the village of Sigovo. They become almost invisible thanks to the lush greenery of the trees and gardens, and the silence is broken only by the occasional barking of dogs. In summer, local residents come to the village to start a season at the dacha, and on special days, the indigenous Seto people come from Estonia to bow to the graves of their ancestors and visit their old parents' homes.

Thanks to its "Women's Viagra" drug, the Russian Ivix company has won first prize at the annual StartUp Village Conference, which took place from June 6 to 7 at the Skolkovo technopark (18 km west of Moscow). Ivix was subsequently awarded five million rubles (almost $90,000). The Startup Village has been held in Skolkovo since 2012. It’s the largest startup conference in Russia and the CIS countries for technological entrepreneurs, welcoming around 20,000 participants from more than 80 countries. Читать дальше...

Moscow’s Simonovsky court has ordered the administrative arrest of Russian opposition activist and blogger Alexei Navalny for 30 days for staging an unauthorized protest of the opposition.

A park with full-size sculptures of ancient animals opened on June 10 in Kotlas, the Arkhangelsk region, TASS reports. Right at that place, in the late 19th century, a geologist and paleontologist Vladimir Amalitsky discovered a huge burial place of animals, which lived during the Permian period - it was the first discovery of this kind in Russia. The animals were much older than well-known dinosaurs. This discovery was the beginning of Russian paleontology. Dvinopark (River Dvina + park), where... Читать дальше...

On June 8, Mariinsky Theater artistic director and conductor Valery Gergiev unveiled the program of the 2nd International Far East Mariinsky Festival, which will be held July 15 to August 13. In addition to Vladivostok, Pyeongchang and Tongyeong (South Korea) and Sapporo, Japan will also serve as venues.