- 16:00 12/05/2012
Aerobatic pilots from the Strizhi and Russian Knights air display teams demonstrated figures from their new summer program in the skies above Kubinka in the Moscow Region on Friday.
- 20:55 11/05/2012
Fans of England’s Blackburn Rovers Football Club released a live chicken onto the pitch during the game to protest their team’s poor showing. Blackburn Rovers lost to Wigan Athletic on their home pitch.
- 19:40 11/05/2012
To mark its 77th anniversary, the Moscow metro launched the Aquarelle train with a new exposition from the State Tretyakov Gallery.
- 18:40 11/05/2012
Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani turned 80 on May 11. His name is associated with women’s wear and 30 different hues of red.
- 14:35 11/05/2012
Baby lemurs at the zoo in Marlow, Germany, like to travel on their mother’s back. Tapir calf Bala who lives at the zoo in Lima.
- 19:16 10/05/2012
The Olympic torch is lit as part of the rehearsal in Archaia Olympia ("Ancient Olympia") before the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
- 12:42 10/05/2012
Parades and celebrations marking the 67th anniversary of the Soviet people’s victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 were held in many Russian cities. This year’s Victory Day parade in Vladivostok was held on Svetlanskaya Street in the city’s central district.1
- 12:33 10/05/2012
Victory Day fireworks displays lit up the evening skies over Moscow and other Russian cities on May 9.
- 20:50 09/05/2012
Superjet-100 aircraft disappeared from the radar screens on Wednesday on a demonstration flight near Jakarta.
- 14:52 09/05/2012
A Victory Day military parade was held in Red Square on May 9 to commemorate 67 years since victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.
- 19:21 08/05/2012
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was confirmed as the country’s new prime minister by a majority of votes in the State Duma on May 8. United Russia and Liberal Democrats factions, all in all 299 deputies, voted in favor of his candidacy, 144 - Communists and A Just Russia lawmakers - voted against.
- 17:29 08/05/2012
Anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny on late Monday announced the beginning of “ongoing day-and-night folk festivity’ protesting Vladimir Putin’s return to presidency and urged his supporters to gather near a monument to heroes of the 1877-78 Russian-Turkish war near the downtown Kitai-Gorod metro station.
- 10:08 08/05/2012
Only those who have seen such beauty with their own eyes know why unconquered mountains attract climbers. The seven summits in the RIA Novosti photowire are the highest mountains on each of the seven continents.
- 14:20 07/05/2012
Vladimir Putin was sworn in as Russian president on May 7 in a glittering ceremony in the Grand Kremlin Palace. Some 2,000 guests gathered to witness his inauguration for a six-year term.
- 20:45 06/05/2012
Police cracked down hard on an anti-Putin rally in Moscow on Sunday and detained some 250 protesters.
- 18:10 06/05/2012
Thousands of people gathered in downtown Moscow for the so-called 'March of Millions' on Sunday to protest the May 7 inauguration of Vladimir Putin.
- 16:05 06/05/2012
The final rehearsal of the May 9 Victory Day parade was held in Red Square, Moscow, on May 6.
- 00:02 06/05/2012
From the outset of his time in office, Dmitry Medvedev has sought to position himself as an active Internet user. He was the first official in Russia to make active use of blogs.
- 00:01 06/05/2012
Vladimir Putin showed a knack for appearing in public in the most varied roles, thus creating excellent coverage opportunities, during his first two presidential terms.
