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04.12.2009, 16:05
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A sculpture originally created to crown the 37-meter-high Soviet pavilion of the World's Fair in 1937 has recently been restored and returned to its place at the All-Russia Exhibition Center in Moscow.
27.05.2009, 20:48
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The new digital library in St. Petersburg is said to be without comparison in the world. It houses scanned copies of the entire Russian state historical archive.
07.09.2009, 17:00
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The last days of the Romanovs… An exhibition of personal photographs taken by the French tutor of the five children of the last Russian Tsar opens in Moscow’s State Historical Museum on Red Square on September 8.
08.09.2009, 19:24
Continuing the theme of Russian art heritage created outside the country, the exhibition “Russian Americans” unveils the works of Russian artists of the beginning of the 20th Century, created abroad.
19.05.2009, 19:46
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The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts opens the exhibition of the great goldsmith who worked for the Imperial family, Karl Faberge.
28.12.2009, 17:43
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Former president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev’s remarkable ad for Louis Vuitton has been named one of the best print ads of the decade by one of the world’s leading advertising trade publications, Adweek.
16.05.2009, 09:07
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A rare 19th century collection of chairs and sofas from the Russian Imperial Winter palace in St. Petersburg has been discovered at Helsinki’s Bukowski auction.
01.06.2009, 09:55
A 19-year-old Russian girl spent several months in hospital after a bloody car accident which turned her into a promising photographer.
10.07.2009, 15:14
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Author of “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, Nobel prize-winning American novelist Ernest Hemingway was allegedly on the list of Soviet KGB agents in America back in the 1940s.
14.07.2009, 10:58
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There’s now a royal road to learning about the Russian imperial family through a large-scale exhibition entitled “Moscow: Splendours of the Romanovs”, which has opened at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.
Published: 18 March, 2009, 21:37
Russian writer and dramatist Ludmila Ulitskaya is on the shortlist for the International Booker Prize. A total of 14 authors from 12 countries, are competing for the honour. Seven of the books are also translations.
