July 2013 |
- mo
- tu
- we
- th
- fr
- sa
- su
Check out this selection of photos showing flying houses and tanks, prehistoric pterodactyls, and a vast array of other homemade flying machines competing at a Moscow festival.
29 July is Global Tiger Day. At the 2010 St. Petersburg Tiger Summit, the 13 countries that are home to tigers set themselves the goal of doubling the number in the wild over the next 12 years, and established Tiger Day.
Watch an interactive report by RIA Novosti to see reconnaissance divers training on land and underwater. Click the player buttons to see the weapons used by the sea commandos.
The 1025th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus was celebrated in Ukraine on Sunday, July 28. Traditionally on this day the Russian Orthodox Church commemorates Prince Vladimir, who baptized Rus. Over 5,000 people attended a patriarchal service in the Kiev Pechersk Monastery, according to the tourism office of the Kiev Pechersk Historical and Cultural Preserve.
The 2013 festival of homemade flying machines known as Red Bull Flugtag “Pilot’s Day” took place this weekend on the Stroginsky Beach in the northwest of Moscow.
Navy Day is celebrated in Russia on the last Sunday of July. This year it was July 28.
Tiny parrots, a hand gliding dog and other animals in the RIA Novosti image gallery.
Shaolin Buddhist monastery in China is the cradle of martial arts. Almost all martial arts originated here, and the combat skills of Shaolin monks are legendary.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev holidayed together in a remote part of Russia’s Tuva republic recently.3