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Blogs
Stranded in Moscow...by choice
The coffee safari ( 2 comments )
Stranded in Moscow...by choice
Smoke gets in your eyes ( 2 comments )
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Surprised by Russia
It's Just Some Holiday
The winter holidays are barely over and already there’s another slew in the offing: Men’s Day (Feb. 23), Women’s Day (March 8), Valentine’s Day and, of course, Maslenitsa — a week of merrymaking and pancake eating ahead of Lent.
It’s a wonderful, wonderful life ( 1 comment )
Seventy-two percent of Russians report that they are happy
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Business Calendar
Russian Business Week 2010:
“Modernisation of the Economy in a post crisis environment”
20th March 2010
London School of Economics and Political Science
MATTEX (MOSCOW AQUA TECHNOLOGY THERM EXPO) 2010. International “World Climate” Exhibition of Heating and Water-Supply Systems, Sewage Disposal and Gas Supply
March 9-12. Expocenter, Moscow
EXPOFOREST 2010. International Specialized Exhibition
March 9-12. Moscow Crocus Expo international exhibition center
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Culture Calendar
Russian Fashion Week: Fall/Winter 2010/2011
April 1-6, 2010, Congress Hall of World Trade Centre, Moscow
“Holy Russia: Art from Kievan Rus to the Russia of Peter the Great”
2 March – 24 May, Louvre Museum, Paris
Enamels of the world, 1700–2000. From the Khalili Collections
Until 14 March 2010 in the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg
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National Cuisine
New rituals for the New Year ( 7 comments )
The best New Year's recipes from Russia Now
Pancake pleasure... a la Russe ( 1 comment )
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Found in translation
Rejecting the ‘isms’ of ideology
Russians have a traditional dislike of any sort of ‘isms’ - especially if they are political. Perhaps left over from Soviet times, anything that suggests collectivism is sure to draw sincere ire.


History
Events  | Stories  | People  | Stalin  | World War II 
World War II:
Alexander Mekhanik, Expert magazine
Sixty-five years on, was World War II motivated by ideology or just self-preservation?
Vladimir Snegiryov, special For Russia Now
Afghanistan: What was it that made the Soviets decide that they should intervene?
Archives reveal strategy switch on Afghanistan
Russia Now
Ex-Soviet partisan Vasily Kononov fights his last battle ( 1 comment )
Yuri Vasiliev, special to Russia Now
What Obama Could Learn from Gorbachev
Robert Crews, Special to Russia Now
Afghan invasions ( 1 comment )
Vladimir Snegirev, special to Russia Now
Jelalabad lessons
Vladimir Snegiryov, special For Russia Now
The West’s campaign to keep the Wall
Dmitry Babich, Ria Novosti
Stalin’s ghost
Oksana Naralenkova
Stalin resurrected ( 1 comment )
Donald Rayfield
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