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News Russia Culture: Africa: Russia-Africa Conference Discusses Education and Culture

Published on: Monday 08 July 2019
Africa: Russia-Africa Conference Discusses Education and Culture
News source: https://allafrica.com/stories/201907090498.html

Russian and African parliamentarians, academic researchers and experts, during their in-depth conference discussions, have called for an increase in the number of government scholarships and grants for the training of specialists for Africa as a significant part of developing and building trust as well as mutual understanding in the current Russian-African relations.

News Russia Culture: Turkey and the Russia's Deadly S-400: The Air Defense System That Changed Everything

Published on: Friday 19 July 2019
Turkey and the Russia's Deadly S-400: The Air Defense System That Changed Everything
News source: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/turkey-and-russias-deadly-s-400-air-defense-system-changed-everything-67942

Secondly, the S-400 introduces not only new capabilities but an alien strategic culture to the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF), noting that contemporary Russian air defense understanding is rooted in ...

News Russia Culture: Concern Over 'Russian' FaceApp Ignores That American Companies Sell Our Data Abroad

Published on: Friday 19 July 2019
Concern Over 'Russian' FaceApp Ignores That American Companies Sell Our Data Abroad
News source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/07/19/concern-over-russian-faceapp-ignores-that-american-companies-sell-our-data-abroad/

The deluge of press coverage and policymaker statements about FaceApp have emphasized not its privacy considerations but rather the simple fact that its lead developers live in Russia. How did we get ...

News Russia Culture: Putin Critic Alexander Sokurov Shuts Russian Film Foundation

Published on: Tuesday 16 July 2019
Putin Critic Alexander Sokurov Shuts Russian Film Foundation
News source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/putin-critic-alexander-sokurov-shuts-russian-film-foundation-1224807

The 'Faust' and 'Russian Ark' director said lack of funding and "unfriendliness and aggressiveness" from Russia's culture ministry promoted the move. Renowned Russian film director Alexander Sokurov ...

News Russia Culture: U.S. says accused American spy's health deteriorating in Russia jail

Published on: Tuesday 02 July 2019
U.S. says accused American spy's health deteriorating in Russia jail
News source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-accused-american-spy-paul-whelan-health-deteriorating-russia-jail-today-2019-07-02/

Whelan's Russian lawyer Vladimir Zherebenkov told CBS News' Elizabeth ... in 2019 in America with type 1 diabetes – it is a death sentence for some people" Pop culture icon changing name of latest ...

News Russia Culture: 14 sailors killed in fire aboard Russian navy deep-sea submersible

Published on: Tuesday 02 July 2019
14 sailors killed in fire aboard Russian navy deep-sea submersible
News source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fire-kills-sailors-russia-deep-sea-submersible-2019-07-02/

Russian news reports said that while the Losharik officially ... Shows and movies you'll want to stream soon The New Yorker's Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic Emily Nussbaum joins "CBS This ...

News Russia Culture: Putin: Elton John Is Wrong About LGBT Culture in Russia

Published on: Tuesday 02 July 2019
Putin: Elton John Is Wrong About LGBT Culture in Russia
News source: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2019/07/02/putin-elton-john-is-wrong-about--lgbt-culture-in-russia-n2549320

The Kremlin has been criticized and investigated by watchdog groups for its reported discrimination against LGBT individuals, particularly with President Vladimir Putin in charge. In 2013, critics ...

News Russia Culture: U.S. and Russia blame each other in near-collision of warships

Published on: Friday 07 June 2019
U.S. and Russia blame each other in near-collision of warships
News source: https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-us-russia-warships-20190607-story.html

"We consider Russia's actions during this interaction as unsafe and unprofessional and not in accordance with the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGS), 'Rules of the ...

News Russia Culture: 'A Blatant Lie': Chernobyl Engineer Says HBO Show Is Full Of Russian 'Vodka' And 'KGB' Stereotypes

Published on: Wednesday 12 June 2019
'A Blatant Lie': Chernobyl Engineer Says HBO Show Is Full Of Russian 'Vodka' And 'KGB' Stereotypes
News source: https://www.newsweek.com/blatant-lie-chernobyl-engineer-says-hbo-show-full-russian-vodka-kgb-stereotypes-1443547

To tell Russia's side of the story, the country's Culture Ministry has allocated $500,000 in funding for its own production which lays the blame with the U.S. Director Alexei Muradov said: "One theory ...

News Russia Culture: Retired Russian admiral defends Russian sailors sunbathing during close call with US warship

Published on: Tuesday 11 June 2019
Retired Russian admiral defends Russian sailors sunbathing during close call with US warship
News source: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/retired-russian-admiral-defends-russian-sailors-sunbathing-close/story?id=63632186

Bray also speculated that there is still a culture in the Russian Navy of not trusting junior personnel with too much knowledge. "Transparency from leadership is not big with them," said Bray. ...

News Russia Culture: Alphabet-Owned Jigsaw Bought a Russian Troll Campaign as an Experiment

Published on: Wednesday 12 June 2019
Alphabet-Owned Jigsaw Bought a Russian Troll Campaign as an Experiment
News source: https://www.wired.com/story/jigsaw-russia-disinformation-social-media-stalin-alphabet/

The subject is especially fraught given Jigsaw's ties to Alphabet and Google. "The biggest risk is that this experiment could be spun as 'Google meddles in Russian culture and politics.' It fits ...

News Russia Culture: State of decay: Moscow's rubbish prompts protests in Russia

Published on: Thursday 06 June 2019
State of decay: Moscow's rubbish prompts protests in Russia
News source: https://www.aljazeera.com/ajimpact/state-decay-moscow-trash-prompts-protests-russia-190605140940553.html

Arkhangelsk, Russia - It was June 2018 when hunters traversing the forests ... scouring dumpsites for minimal pay in a country that has virtually no recycling culture. "Moscow could handle all its ...

News Russia Culture: Long Under Attack, A Russian History-Essay Contest Now Draws Scrutiny From FSB

Published on: Wednesday 05 June 2019
Long Under Attack, A Russian History-Essay Contest Now Draws Scrutiny From FSB
News source: https://www.rferl.org/a/long-under-attack-a-russian-history-essay-contest-now-draws-scrutiny-from-fsb/29983419.html

And Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky has routinely emphasized positive aspects of Russian and Soviet history, often at the expense of negative ones. In February, Medinsky sent a letter to museums ...

News Russia Culture: Private collectors key to boosting Russia's art market

Published on: Sunday 02 June 2019
Private collectors key to boosting Russia's art market
News source: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/article/Private-collectors-key-to-boosting-Russia-s-art-13916745.php

MOSCOW (AP) — For Russian art collector Roman Babichev, a visit to an artist's family living in a cramped St. Petersburg apartment yielded an unexpected sight. In a cardboard folder under one of the beds was a stash of paintings taken off their frames because they would have filled one of the two rooms the family of four lived in. "They were just lying there, awaiting their destiny," Babichev said. He bought them, adding these works by landscape painter Alexander Vedernikov to his collection of Russian modernist art. It's just one example of how, at a time when sanctions and economic woes push the topic of culture down the Kremlin's agenda, wealthy individuals are filling a gap by bringing much-needed cash to a struggling art market and supporting young Russian artists. The tradition of private art collectors in Russia precedes even the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution when magnates like Sergei Shchukin and Pavel Tretyakov amassed priceless troves, now in the country's top museums. Today's collectors may not have the same stature, says Pushkin Museum director Marina Loshak, but they are key to developing Russia's art scene. "Collectors are the big impetus. Without collectors there are no galleries and these are the laboratories, the test tube, in which everything happens," Loshak told The Associated Press. DISCOVERING RUSSIA'S HIDDEN MODERNISTS Babichev gave up a successful business career in the 1990s to collect art. His apartment on Moscow's outskirts is both a gallery and a living space, with paintings and sculptures displayed floor to ceiling. Babichev dug back into Soviet history, discovering forgotten artists of the 1920s-50s. With determination and detective work, he tracked down their neglected works and pieced together the artists' stories. Many had studied...

News Russia Culture: Russia Making Own TV Series on Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

Published on: Thursday 06 June 2019
Russia Making Own TV Series on Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
News source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/russia-making-own-tv-series-chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-1216383

a Russian TV network is creating its own take on the 1986 nuclear disaster. The series was commissioned by NTV, a top free-to-air network, owned by Gazprom Media, the media arm of the natural gas ...

News Russia Culture: Offset Travels to Russia for Bar Mitzvah Gig

Published on: Saturday 25 May 2019
News source: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/offset-travels-russia-bar-mitzvah-233058337.html

Earlier this week, Offset traveled all the way to Moscow, Russia, for a lavish bar mitzvah gig at an undisclosed ... including "Lick" off his debut solo album Father of 4 and "Slippery" from Migos' ...

News Russia Culture: Saudi Culture Ministry to take part in major international AI exhibition in Russia

Published on: Thursday 23 May 2019
News source: http://www.arabnews.com/node/1501281/saudi-arabia

JEDDAH: The Saudi Ministry of Culture is to take part in a major international exhibition aimed at exploring the future role of artificial intelligence (AI). And two artists from the Kingdom, Lulwah ...

News Russia Culture: Change and continuity in Russian Society and Culture 1900-1928 - Change and continuity in Russian So

Published on: Friday 24 May 2019
News source: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/change-and-continuity-in-russian-society-and-culture-1900-1928-change-and-continuity-in-russian-so-12128182?theme=3

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