Russian News

In this issue: President returns to Krymsk. The upper house voted for the banning bills again. Russia is admitted to WTO. Community television is allowed to be born. Jubilee of the theatrical virtuoso Peter Fomenko...

This year at the prestigious biennial Mietta Song Competition in addition to the competition there are master classes in German and Russian singing styles. The experienced choir Nicholas Cowall Russian is excited to take part. Sondtrack court...

The BBC World Service for 70 years has been synonymous with Bush House , but on 12 July the news was broadcasted from the building for the last time. Yuri Goligorsky worked in the BBC Russian Service for 30 years and now the time has come to remi...

Aid agencies say millions of women are likely to benefit through a new commitment from the federal government to expand access to contraceptives as part of Australia's aid program.   Funding for family planning programs will increas...

New migrants and refugees often have a hard time getting into the Australian workforce. There are a number of well-documented reasons for this, but new research suggests a lack of social capital is emerging as an important factor. Being plugged in...

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the new bill «About the state language policy». The document establishes Ukrainian as a state language. Nevertheless, if in certain regions the number of speakers of regional language is more than 10 percen...

Sydney author Serafima Lapteva claims that as a result of her literary investigation she found that Russian tale "Scarlet Flower" by S. Aksakov is nothing more than an exotic Australian flower "Desert Pea".

The Volatinsky Trio plays original world music laced with the flavours of Russia and the Balkans on an exotic combination of instruments - cimbalom, cello, domra (Russian mandolin) & guitar. Lucy Voronov is one of the great players of cimbalom and...

With the 2012 London Games fast approaching, we take a look at the history and politics of the Olympics from its ancient beginnings to nowdays. Feature Attila Mosonyi

In this issue Was the tragedy avoidable? The slander-law, Russian Wikipedia strike, the voice of blameless reputation.

Tatiana Taratynova is the volonteer leader of a Russian mother and children play group at Carlton. She shares ideas with other mothers attending the group and as Darya Slobodchikova and Elena Tolchenova explain, it is also the great opportity for...

Pushkin Lyceum principal Marina Makarova last week attended the 10th National Community Languages Schools State Conference.

A church that doesn't have a priest, let alone a steeple, is set to celebrate its 20th birthday The Serbian Orthodox Church in the South Australian outback opal mining town of Coober Pedy has the very unorthodox distinction of being underground.Bu...

Microsoft Corp. announced the winners of the 10th annual Imagine Cup, the worlds premier student technology competition, honouring student technology innovations that address the worlds toughest problems. The winning Software Design project devel...

A Sydney author Vsevolod Vlaskin has been awarded the V/Rozanov Literary Prize.