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Backstage at the Bolshoi: Warehouses, Workshops and a Hidden Stage…

16:02 31/03/2013

The Bolshoi Theater has lifted the veil on how it creates and stores scenery for its productions. Watch this RIA Novosti video for a backstage tour of Russia’s premier theater.

Baby Koalas in Germany’s Duisburg Zoo and Other Animal News
10:27 31/03/2013
Cute koala babies, a butterfly exhibition in London, the birth of a Malayan tapir and the transfer of walruses from Moscow Zoo to Hamburg Zoological Garden – these and other events can be found in this RIA Novosti image gallery.
3D Printer Makes Roses in Tomsk
08:36 31/03/2013
Researchers at Tomsk Polytechnic University can print flowers on their 3D printer, not to mention a hammer capable of hammering real nails, a mini pipeline system and much more.
Timber Processing in Novosibirsk
18:20 30/03/2013
The Novosibirsk taiga is a unique natural phenomenon, located exclusively in the mountains of southern Siberia. The area is home to 23 forestry enterprises, with the forestry sector employing around 3,000 people.
Russian Paratrooper Priests Jump with Mobile Cathedral
08:30 30/03/2013
A group of Russian paratrooper chaplains jumped from a transport plane with a large mobile cathedral that they set up in the field upon landing.
Russian Paratrooper Priests Jump with Mobile Church
22:12 29/03/2013
Russian paratroopers were holding parachute exercises near the city of Ryazan, about 200 kilometers southeast of Moscow. But among the so-called ordinary paratroopers there were paratrooper priests making their jump complete with a mobile cathedral.
Three Years Since the Double Bombings in the Moscow Metro
21:58 29/03/2013
On March 29, 2010, two suicide bombings claimed 40 lives at the Lubyanka and Park Kultury metro stations in Moscow. This RIA Novosti video features interviews with witnesses and friends and relatives of those who died.
From Launch to Docking: Short Cut to the International Space Station (ISS)
19:02 29/03/2013
A Soyuz spacecraft with a new International Space Station crew took a faster route to the space station that took just six hours instead of 48 hours for the first time in history. Watch the flight, from lift-off to docking, in this video.
Seven Days in Photographs, March 23-29, 2013
18:23 29/03/2013
The death of Russian tycoon and former Kremlin insider Boris Berezovsky, the situation in Cyprus and BRICS summit in South Africa made headlines this week.
How the Bolshoi’s Set Designs and Props are Made
09:00 29/03/2013
The Bolshoi Theater has revealed how it makes and stores its sets. RIA Novosti has put together this photo report from backstage at Russia’s number one theater.

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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday condemned attempts to blame him for the Soviet Union’s breakup.

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Arsenal shareholder Alisher Usmanov does not pay the wages of Russia manager Fabio Capello, a spokesman for the Russian oligarch said Saturday.

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Gorbachev Warns of New Protest Wave in Russia

New protests will hit Russia if the country’s leadership fails to implement reforms, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned on Saturday.

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Recent media reports that North Korea had declared a “state of war” with South Korea might have been based on a mistranslation, Russian media reported on Saturday.

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