The Bolshoi Ballet’s Olga Smirnova dances with a moonlit glow. In the “Kingdom of the Shades” scene of La Bayadère, she gives the ghostly heroine a hypnotic beauty. Her bursts of dazzling speed don’t break the smooth flow of her dancing: she’s both precise and otherworldly.
Monday 05 August 2013
A US senator has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of behaving like a "schoolyard bully" over his decision to ignore extradition requests from the US government over NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Friday 02 August 2013
Manchester City Council is using its “twinned” status with St Petersburg to pressure Russia into reconsidering its new anti-gay laws.
Thursday 01 August 2013
Russia’s granting of asylum to Edward Snowden may have ended nearly six weeks in airport limbo for the man who leaked some of America’s most sensitive intelligence gathering programmes. But it has further poisoned the already severely strained relations between Moscow and Washington.
Sunday 30 June 2013
“Gay propaganda” is now illegal in Russia after President Vladimir Putin signed a controversial bill into law today.
Saturday 29 June 2013
Russian police have arrested several gay rights activists and anti-gay rights demonstrators who confronted them at a rally in St. Petersburg.
Friday 21 June 2013
Premiers cancel joint opening of exhibition displaying 600 pieces of looted German Bronze Age art
Monday 17 June 2013
Ring was one of many given to the New England Patriots team after they won Super Bowl in February 2005
Saturday 15 June 2013
This year’s meeting of the Group of Eight – or the G8 – begins in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, on Monday. The summit draws the world’s most powerful leaders – as well as protests and disruption.
Friday 07 June 2013
A 17th century Dutch masterpiece that graced the collections of Catherine the Great's art adviser and Russia's Hermitage Museum before being seized by the Nazis sold for nearly $3.4 million (£2.18 million) at auction, a record for the artist Gerrit van Honthorst.
Friday 07 June 2013
The Zenit St Petersburg striker is attracting the interest of Jose Mourinho
Tuesday 14 May 2013
Victim had been drinking with two men, who allegedly started beating him when he revealed he was gay
Tuesday 07 May 2013
Works by masters including Rembrandt, Velasquez and Rubens to be displayed at Houghton Hall in Norfolk
Friday 26 April 2013
A study of the love and hate between 'enlightenment' Edinburgh and 'industrial' Glasgow
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