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15.05.2009, 09:08
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In a remote Russian village listed by UNESCO as a world heritage site, age-old traditions are competing with modern trends.
04.03.2009, 12:56
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While the typically Russian strong and all-powerful “macho” man may seem to be destined for extinction, a new strong type is taking over the Russian entrepreneurship scene – the Russian businesswoman.
24.02.2009, 08:39
The Chechen republic in Southern Russia has created its answer to YouTube with a website containing a vast collection of video clips related to the republic’s life and culture.
24.02.2009, 09:26
A discotheque in a central Russian village has an 84-year-old woman who performs strict ‘face control’ – deciding who gets into the club, and who gets booted out.
09.09.2009, 17:50
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9/11 was the day steel-framed buildings fell like sandcastles, the law of physics worked in reverse and the United States Air Force went missing in action. So what is the real story?
10.05.2010, 01:23
Dimitri Tiomkin is a name not so well known as, for example, Enio Morricone, but he also managed to make a very significant career as a film composer in America’s cradle of filmmaking art – in Hollywood.
24.03.2009, 13:27
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It's been ten years since NATO began bombing the former Yugoslavia. New York Resident Lori Harfenist tries to find where public opinion stands on the streets of the city.
02.06.2009, 13:34
A Syrian organization has set up a vineyard that not only produces the best red wine in the region but helps mentally disadvantaged children and employs women who normally do not get economic opportunities.
03.03.2009, 09:52
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It seems some Italians are feeling nostalgic about Benito Mussolini, one of the key figures in the creation of fascism and an ally of Nazi Germany.
27.04.2009, 12:04
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Hardly anyone is willing to help Indian child beggars, or wants to touch them, but a group of volunteers goes into the streets of Delhi to make these children feel wanted.
Published: 01 June, 2009, 09:06
Physicist Zhores Alferov spent almost 60 years of his life working on semiconductors – which won him the Nobel Prize in 2000. Today he heads one of the most innovative labs in Russia researching nanotechnologies.
