After two years in the wilderness, and regular verbal sparring at summits focused on the Minsk agreements and a truce in Eastern Ukraine, relations between Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Vladimir Putin may be thawing. However, we should err on the side of caution.
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The Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology, Sergei Donskoi, has declared the end of the shale oil era. He wrote the statement on his Facebook page.
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Russia’s Defense Ministry has published a photo of the first cat to earn its sea legs on a long range voyage with the Russian Fleet to the Syrian coast.
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The necessity of strict observance of the Minsk agreement by all the parties to the conflict in eastern Ukraine was in focus of talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel on May 2, TASS reports.
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The fashionable prosthesis goes well with her little black dress and the feathery ornament in her hair. Model Aymana Moldabekova is being meticulously prepared to go out: Hair-do, make-up, a light white wrap and a black accessory resembling two wings mounted on her artificial hand.
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A Russian naval intelligence ship that sank after a collision with a merchant freighter on the Black Sea near Istanbul on April 27 was of little use to NATO, and it is unlikely that its sinking was on account of sabotage by the alliance, defense analysts told RBTH.
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“Russian sympathies” are with Marine Le Pen, the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) said on May 2 in a press note that announced the results of a nationwide opinion poll conducted by the center.
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At a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin German Chancellor Angela Merkel described Russia as an important partner in the G20, TASS reports.
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A White House document claims that one of the key achievements of the Donald Trump administration’s first 100 days has been the further isolation of Syria and Russia at the United Nations “through successful diplomacy with President Xi Jinping of China.”
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1. Pilot and constructor
Korolev can easily be called a wunderkind because he realized his first successful developments while still in school. At the age of 17 he presented his engineless airplane. At university (in 1926 Korolev transferred from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute to the famous Bauman Moscow State Technical University) he designed the first glider in the USSR, which was supposed to be used for performing intricate aerobatics, including the dead loop. Soviet flying ace Vasily... Читать дальше...
World renowned architects Rem Koolhaas and Sergei Tchoban are working on the project. / Source: SPEECH
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Fifteen Russian citizens remain in Bangkok’s hospital after the incident with a plane Russia’s flagship air carrier Aeroflot, which hit a severe air turbulence on May 1, head of the Consular Department of the Russian Embassy in Thailand, Vladimir Sosnov, told TASS. Those injured suffered multiple fractures of varying degrees.
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The Russian President Vladimir Putin’s May 2 agenda includes a telephone conversation with his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS.
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