Новости за 21.06.2017

I confess that, as a child, I was indifferent to honey. Well, I saw it as something ordinary. After all, you don't adore salt, pepper or sugar, which are always present on the table, do you? In my family we had the same attitude towards honey, which was always in the house, even in the most economically dire times. Some other foods may not have been easy to get hold of, but honey was always there and made everything fine.

The classified documents with the seal of approval by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson have all the properties of a meticulously balanced framework agreement aimed at satisfying the demands of hardliners and moderates on Capitol Hill.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's plan, reportedly drafted by the State Department to guide the Trump administration’s approach toward Russia, is an effort on part of the U.S. to make an inventory of Russian-U.S. relations. But it leaves a lot of questions unaddressed, believe experts in Russia.

Moscow is determined to respond to the new U.S. sanctions, Russian Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov said, TASS reports.

Rosneft has discovered the first major oil field on the Eastern Arctic shelf, and it could eventually be the region's largest in terms of oil production. Analysts predict that the shelf will be providing 20-30 percent of all Russian oil by the year 2050, and the oil company shares these high hopes.

Europe's highest sand dunes are located in Russia’s smallest national park, the Curonian Spit, where you can spend up to three days without a Russian visa. Dunes the size of multi-story apartment complexes, pine forests, and Baltic beaches that stretch for many kilometers attract almost a million tourists to the park every year.

Russian ship-based Ka-52K combat helicopters will be deployed on Mistral-class amphibious assault ships that former French President François Hollande, under pressure from his NATO allies, sold to Egypt instead of Russia. The next important task is to reach an agreement on the helicopter’s technical specifications before it goes into service in the Egyptian Navy.

1. Serebryany Bor-2

This is one of most picturesque places for sunbathing. Situated on the bank of the Moskva River, this location has all the conveniences of a beach resort and overlooks both green spaces and urban areas. The beach is secluded enough from the city to be nice and calm.

Address: Tamanskaya St., Beach No. 2. To get here take Bus 390 from the metro station Polezhaevskaya and exit at the Prichal stop.

2. Serebryany Bor-3

People sunbathing on a beach in Moscow’s Serebryany Bor. Читать дальше...

Vorontsov Palace in Alupka, Crimea. Source: Legion Media

1. It was built to the design of the British Royal Court architect

The first owner of the palace, Governor-General of Novorossiya Count Vorontsov, was an Anglophile – the son of the Russian ambassador, he spent his childhood and youth in London. Choosing to have his summer residence in Crimea built in the English style, he invited Edward Blore, an architect and antiquarian famous for his work for the British Royal Court.... Читать дальше...

For Valery Malkov, a truck driver from Bratsk (3840 km east of Moscow) it began as an ordinary January day in 2013. He was traveling by train from Bratsk to the small town of Aldan (4914 km east of Moscow) in search of a part-time job, which was something he did several times a year. This particular night he decided to leave his compartment to go smoke a cigarette before going to sleep.