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09/19/10--21:06: Patriarch Kirill arrives in Sakhalin (chan 1966196)

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has arrived on a visit to the Russian Far Eastern island of Sakhalin.




09/19/10--21:06: Patriarch Kirill arrives in Sakhalin (chan 1966196)

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has arrived in the Russian Far Eastern island of Sakhalin.




09/20/10--08:58: RIA Novosti begins work to resurrect Moskovskiye Novosti newspaper (chan 1966196)

RIA Novosti and the publishing house Vremya are beginning joint work on the resurrection of the famous Perestroika-era newspaper Moskovskiye Novosti (MN), which closed down in 2007.




09/20/10--12:21: RIA Novosti to revive Soviet-era Moskovskiye Novosti newspaper (chan 1966196)

RIA Novosti and the publishing house Vremya are beginning joint work on the resurrection of the famous Perestroika-era newspaper Moskovskiye Novosti (MN), which closed down in 2007.




09/21/10--11:10: Patriarch Kirill visits Russia's easternmost monastery (chan 1966196)

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church on Tuesday visited Russia's easternmost monastery on the Pacific island of Sakhalin.




09/22/10--08:03: British trip-hoppers Massive Attack to play one-off Moscow, St. Petersburg shows (chan 1966196)

British trip-hop duo Massive Attack will play a one-off gig in Moscow's Megasport Palace to promote their new album late on Friday.




09/24/10--06:47: Art - Real and “Medialized” (chan 1966196)

“Russian Angle” broke out of its studio to go and visit the annual “Art Moscow” fair - one of the city’s prime events in the field of contemporary art. Chief Editor of RussiaProfile.org Andrei Zolotov, Jr. visited the fair as a guest of art director Christina Steinbrecher and spoke to her about the most relevant trends in Russian contemporary art, on whether the boundary between art and media is being blurred, what can be considered authentic in this world of “medialized” art, and how Russian art market has recovered after the 2008 economic crisis.




09/26/10--16:50: Egyptian police suspect museum employee of Van Gogh painting theft (chan 1966196)

A Cairo museum employee is behind the theft in Egypt last month of Vincent Van Gogh's Poppy Flowers painting.




09/27/10--09:31: The tip of the needle: Russia’s escalating HIV epidemic (chan 1966196)

On a dimly lit street in north Moscow, two drunk men kill time outside a local pharmacy as they wait for the arrival of clean syringes so they can shoot up.




09/27/10--19:29: Sotheby's to auction Warhol's Coca-Cola in November (chan 1966196)

Andy Warhol's Large Coca-Cola will be auctioned in New York on November 9 for the first time in decades.




09/29/10--19:56: Adolf Hitler's watercolor paintings up for auction in England (chan 1966196)

Seventeen watercolor paintings by Adolf Hitler will go under the hammer at an auction to be held in the west of England on September 30.




10/01/10--00:07: Plan to return church property sparks row in Russian Public Chamber (chan 1966196)

Members of the Russian Public Chamber have clashed over a bill on the return of church property seized in the Soviet era, a newspaper said on Friday.




10/01/10--00:07: Plan to return church property sparks row in Russian Public Chamber (chan 1966196)






10/01/10--08:37: Hitler's watercolors snapped up by emerging market buyers (chan 1966196)

A collection of sixteen watercolors by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler sold for $164,800 to buyers from Russia, China and India at an auction in London on Thursday.




10/03/10--05:38: From grunge to glam at Moscow's World of Beauty Festival (chan 1966196)

The VII World of Beauty Festival that took Russia's beauty-conscious public on a three-day tour through the latest trends in hairdressing and makeup came to an end on Saturday in Moscow.




10/03/10--07:41: Egyptians uncover statue of Tutankhamun's grandfather (chan 1966196)

Egyptian archeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old piece of a statue of Amenhotep III, believed to be the grandfather of the famed boy pharaoh Tutankhamun.




10/03/10--07:41: Egyptians uncover statue of Tutankhamun's grandfather (chan 1966196)






10/04/10--00:19: Canonical rock-n-roll as remedy for iPhone-junky Moscow (chan 1966196)

While Russia's capital sees growing iPhone 4 hysteria, the members of a young Moscow rock band say the city needs "canonical rock-n-roll" to wean it off its technological dependence.




10/04/10--08:14: Peter the Great ready to set sail for the Baltic (chan 1966196)

Sculptor Zurab Tsereteli's monument to Peter the Great in the middle of the Moscow River, one of the tallest outdoor statues in the world, has been dividing public opinion in the Russian capital ever since it was erected there in 1998.




10/08/10--06:31: Cirque Du Soleil: Hitting the Russian stage (chan 1966196)

The world-renowned Canadian-based Cirque du Soleil will hit Moscow on Saturday with its second show, Corteo, inside of its traveling big-top which is likely to turn into a permanent ring in Russia.




10/08/10--06:31: Cirque Du Soleil: Hitting the Russian stage (chan 1966196)

The world-renowned Canadian-based Cirque du Soleil will hit Moscow on Saturday with its second show, Corteo, inside of its traveling big-top which is likely to turn into a permanent ring in Russia.




10/08/10--10:08: Moscow students divided over Putin's birthday calendar (chan 1966196)

Emotions are high at Moscow State University following the publishing on Thursday of an erotic calendar by students at the university's journalism faculty in celebration of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's birthday.




10/11/10--11:47: Russian Orthodox Church opens channel on YouTube (chan 1966196)

The Russian Orthodox Church officially opened its channel on the YouTube video content service at a presentation on Monday.




10/11/10--11:47: Russian Orthodox Church opens channel on YouTube (chan 1966196)

The Russian Orthodox Church officially opened its channel on the YouTube video content service at a presentation on Monday.




10/12/10--02:52: Controversial Russian sculptor says may take on Medvedev, Putin (chan 1966196)

Controversial artist Zurab Tsereteli has hinted he may slap together a sculpture of President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.