7 February, 2012
A Russian journalist Svetlana Kolchik studies if the dating rules still work or Russian women take too much initiative in love. In her new article she tries to answer the question if it is up to a woman nowadays to make the first step in the relationship.
7 February, 2012
A Russian immigrant in the United States who recently won a lottery that pays $1 million a year for life said on Tuesday she will have to move because of increasingly threatening requests for money from fellow Russians, according to Ria Novosti website.
Yuliya Lankri, a 37-year-old mother of three from Valley Stream, New York, won New York's $1 Million A Year for Life game in late January.
7 February, 2012
Among the today's news on bettor.com is another victory of a Russian national at PTT Pattaya Open. Russian tennis veteran, Anastasia Rodionova beat the superior ranked French competitor, Iryna Bremond, in the opening round of the tournament on Monday. The final scores were 6-4, 6-0, in favour of Rodionova.
7 February, 2012
Searchers have rescued a Russian woman who went hunting alone in the Siberian wilderness and was trapped there for two months by huge snowdrifts and extreme cold. Ria Novosti informs that a 46-year-old Russian woman was finally found in a hunter's hut on 5 February after she had gone hunting on December 8.
Siberia and the Far East are currently in a deep freeze at minus 40 degrees Celsius.
6 February, 2012
Russia topped the World championships in winter swimming held in Jurmala, Latvia, January 19th-22nd, 2012. With 30 gold medals the national team was first overall. Russia's Natalia Usacheva from Krasnoyarsk took gold and silver medals in women's 25 meter breaststroke.
Source: Vesti.ru
6 February, 2012
Russia's Superjob.ru website held an online vote to determine what the books in the Russian language are.
Respondents placed Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" at the top of the list. Mikhail Bulgakov's novel "The Master and Margarita" came in second. Next on the preferred list is Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment", followed by Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse "Eugene Onegin." Rounding out the top five is Mikhail Sholokhov's "And Quiet Flows the Don."
"Woe from Wit' by Alexander Griboyedov, "Dead Souls" by Nikolai Gogol, "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Turgenev, Anton Chekhov's short stories, Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina", are also consodered by Russian readers to be still relevant today.
The complete survey can be seen on Russia Beyond the Headlines website.
6 February, 2012
Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova's victory over Silvia Soler-Espinosa ensured a 3-1 lead for Russian women's tennis team and provided their progress to the semifinals of the Federation Cup with the score 3-2 over Spaniards, the Moscow News reports.
The semifinals will be held in Moscow in April.
5 February, 2012
RIA Novosti interviewed alleged Russian spy Katia Zatuliveter earlier on Saturday. Russian national, unfairly pursued by MI5 and accussed of spying for Russians, but finally won her fight to remain in the UK, is now finishing an own book about her life in Great Britain.
She hopes to publish the book in Englihs online by March. The print version would go on sale next summer
5 February, 2012
European Athletics informs that Russia's Anna Chicherova cleared a Russian indoor record and world-leading mark of 2.06m at the 36th Hochsprung mit Musik event in Arnstadt, Germany, on Saturday.
4 February, 2012
The participants of Russian beauty contest "Miss Zemlyachka" listed most terrible things a Russian woman from province may experience in Moscow.
Failing to enter a university is considered the top awful failure that would make a young girl go back to her home city. Coming across various types of cheaters and criminals, like robbers, scammers, thieves and swindlers is rated a second most terrible fear. The least thing young Russian girls are concerned of is getting married to a Moscow's local.
Around 200 girls from various regions of Russia took part in the poll.
Source: Utro.ru.
4 February, 2012
Maria Sharapova grabbed a 2-0 lead on the opening day of the Fed Cup quarterfinals against Team Spain. She gave just three games away to her Spanish rival, Silvia Soler-Espinosa, cruising to a confident straight set victory, Russia Today informs.
4 February, 2012
Congratulations to Olga Zaitseva of Russia, who was placed second during women's 10 km WC biathlon pursuit race in Holmenkollen in Oslo on February 4, 2012. Belarus biathlete Darya Domracheva finished third, Yahoo Sports reports.
4 February, 2012
The Orthodox Christian religion is being made a compulsory school subject in four of Russia's regions (Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga and Smolensk regions). In 11 other regions across the country it will be taught as an optional subject.
Supporters say the move will help protect traditional spiritual values in Russia. Critics say it violates the constitution of the secular state. Read about the feedback of the Russian society on this innovation on news.bbc.co.uk.
More about education in Russia.
3 February, 2012
Thailand welcomes Russian tennis stars: Vera Zvonareva, who has been named as the top seeded players of the 2012 PPT Pattaya Open and seeded player Maria Kirilenko.
Russian world No.8, Vera Zvonareva and No. 29 Maria Kirilenko have already started their preparation in Pattaya, since Saturday. The tournament is scheduled to be held from February 5-12, 2011. www.livetennisguide.com reports.
2 February, 2012
Biathlon News International announces the results of Women's 7.5 km Sprint that took place in Holmenkollen, Oslo, Norway on 2 February.
Darya Domracheva of Belarus took 2nd place having finished 38.2 seconds back with one missed target. Russia's Olga Zaitseva was 6th, Olga Vilukhina came 19th, Anna Boulygina was 21st, Ekaterina Glazyrina - 39, Ekaterina Yurlova - 65th and Svetlana Sleptsova - 71st. The leader out of 75 competitors was Germany's Magdalena Neuner who picked her sixth victory of the season by taking the sprint in 20:41.9.
2 February, 2012
After changing its name from militia, Russia's police force is also striving to change its image, becoming more 'people-friendly'.
Ludmilla Putina's designer, Igor Chapurin, and a team of costume designers from the Mosfilm studios have created new outfits for the Russian police. Heels, skirts and leather jackets will be soon part of the new uniform designed for female police officers in Russia. The new uniform, men's and women's, will switch from a bland grey to the dark blue used in the uniforms of Imperial Russia.
Source: Russia Today
