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Wednesday, 09 November 2011 14:54 |
France, Cannes: Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.(AFP Photo / Eric Feferberg) European stock markets dropped sharply after Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi confirmed he will step down after failing to win a confidence vote. The Italian stock market tumbled 3.7% with European stocks following the trend. UK’s FTSE 100 dropped 1.2 %, while G... |
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Wednesday, 09 November 2011 13:43 |
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Ad shows couple getting steamy in a voting booth with the slogan 'Let's do it together' Vladimir Putin's United Russia party has come under fire for a suggestive election advert as the party's popularity hurtles towards record lows. The slick advert, released this week, shows a young couple flirting at a polling site, before the woman grabs the man... |
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Wednesday, 09 November 2011 13:00 |
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The Russian administration is concerned about NATO's plans to redeploy the vessels armed with guided missiles in northern seas. Such actions of the North Atlantic Alliance pose a huge danger to Russia. They always underestimate this threat when they speak about the missile defense issue. It will also curb Russia's Arctic ambitions... |
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Wednesday, 09 November 2011 03:23 |
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The haunted icons of Soviet architecture have fallen in and out of favor, but the towers are being reinvented again.
 They are no longer the only high-rise buildings in Moscow, but the Seven Sisters remain the most striking. The skyscrapers, dubbed wedding cakes by critics of their neo-classic, tiered appearance, are emblematic of the city's... |
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Wednesday, 09 November 2011 03:21 |
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HRH, my "handsome Russian husband," puts in, on average, a 17-hour workday down at The Difficult Start-up. He's up at an ungodly hour in the pitch black and comes home long after what I consider cocktail time and what many people feel is past dinner time. I miss his company, of course, but what really sticks in my craw is that he's not doing his... |
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Wednesday, 09 November 2011 03:20 |
Marina Tsvetaeva, one of Russia's most remarkable poets of the Silver Age, took her own life 70 years ago, on Aug. 31, 1941. In recent years, her poems and her story have emerged as a dramatic chronicling of the first half of Russia's 20th century - a wrenching tale of revolution, exile, émigré life, espionage and the inevitably fatal encounter w... |
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Wednesday, 09 November 2011 03:17 |
READ RUSSIA
RN launches a column, Read Russia, which will feature reviews of books to be presented at BookExpo America in New York City June 4-7, 2012, where Russia will be the guest of honor.
TITLE: "2017" AUTHOR: Olga Slavnikova PUBLISHER: Overlook/Duckworth Publishing
I n the mythical Riphean Mountains, gem prospectors, called rock... |
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Wednesday, 09 November 2011 03:14 |
 Preparing our students for the 21st century and its demands is a global challenge. We cannot forget the importance of preparing a citizenry who will be able to work across borders and join with international colleagues in a global society, and we need teachers who are taught themselves to support intercultural understanding. This is a tall order,... |
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Wednesday, 09 November 2011 03:10 |
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There is hardly a day when Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's Islamist prime minister, is not doing something that grabs the attention of the media worldwide. He preaches democracy to the Egyptians, threatens Israel with naval action, promises the Palestinians to recognize their as yet non-existent state and declares publicly that he is no longer on... |
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Wednesday, 09 November 2011 03:08 |
 Next year marks the 100th birthday of one of the 20th century's most admired figures: Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Jews from Nazi persecution in World War II Hungary only to be swallowed up himself in 1945 by Stalin's Gulag. Although Soviet leaders claimed in 1957 that Wallenberg had died suddenly in the Lubyanka prison on July 17,... |
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