January 1, 2010
Happy New Year!
Russian New Year celebrations include a visit from Father Frost, a Russian Santa Claus of sorts.
Meet Father Frost, Russias answer to Santa Claus and the giver of gifts! His image of an old man clad in a red robe, with a white beard and holding a staff, is radically changing. Make a wish and he will try to make it come true.
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November 8, 2009
Singer Poet Leonid Agutin
The son of a Moscow musician, Leonid Agutin started touring Russia in the early 90’s. In 2005 he gained world recognition by performing with American Guitarist Al Dimeola at the Montreaux Jazz Festival producing the album Cosmopolitan Life with him.
Cosmopolitan Life
November 1, 2009
Pop singer Alsou
The daughter of a Russian Oligarch, Alsou sprang onto the scene a decade ago. Since then she’s released albums in her native Tatar language as well as in English. While the English releases didn’t fare well, she’s still extremely popular in Russia.
Aksou’s Artist Central Page
September 27, 2009
Visiting Russkiy Island
Russia has big plans for Russkiy island that is just off the Vladivostok coast. It’s slated to host a summit in 2012.Resorts and even a movie studio are planned.
Just off the coast of the Russian city of Vladivostok there’s a forgotten island. For much of its population of 5,000, it feels like the mainland is oceans away. Pacific winds can be unpredictable and sometimes no one can leave the island for days.
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September 20, 2009
Visting Ufa
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September 19, 2009
Battleship Pomtemkin
One of the greatest silent films made by Sergei Eisenstein in 1925.
Battleship Potemkin is about a riot after a battleship’s crew are given rotten meat to eat. Based on a true story.
September 16, 2009
Russia’s top automaker shifts workers to toy making
The world economic melt down has been particularly hard on Lada, Russia’s largest car maker. With projected job losses as high as 36,000 the company is looking to diversification to survive.
Given the fact that, out of the 700,000 people who live in Togliatti, 100,000 are employed by the company, the consequences of such a dramatic job cut could have a devastating effect on the entire region.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade has come up with novel ways of trying to keep people in their jobs. They include: producing electric cars, bicycles and children’s toys – something very different from producing automobiles.
The representatives from the workforce have said that they see these latest plans as a direct insult to their car-making skills and were reportedly planning strikes against the possible job losses and these new suggestions in the next few days.
“This is humiliating,” said Pyotr Zolotaryov of the independent interregional trade union for the automobile industry. In his opinion, this is the way for Russia to lose more of its qualified specialists, Interfax reports.c (Russia Today)
