On the Olympiad’s threshold journalists have two favorite questions for coaches, sportsmen and officials. That’s about number of medals to be gained and about change of time zones. Almost in all countries the coaches and athletes share...

The Olympiad had begun for Russian team a few days before official start as it got deprived of minimum two gold medals. Seven Russian sportswomen are “temporarily suspended” for any competitions held by IAAF. Five of them are now former...

Evgeny Evtushenko is 75. As usual, he celebrates his birthday with his readers in a recital in the Politechnichesky Museum. As usual, he recites his old lyrics, required by the audience, and the newly appeared ones. In recent years, Evgeny...

I recall the final match of Yaromir Yagr in Russia on 28 January 2005. Then the ticketless fans tried to take the Ice Palace by storm. After the match the storm on the Czech was made by the journalists. Yagr ran out into the street....

Remaining are her parts, the masterpieces with no sense to be compared to anything. There is no coordinate system where even her own roles could be compared to one another. She has put all her soul into “different, different faces”. And...

The 30th Moscow film festival is over now and only one year remains to the 50th anniversary of the venue (the first one was held in 1959). So there’s not much time to solve old problems and to treat chronicle “diseases” of the forum that...

A Hollywood-made action “Wanted” by Timur Bekmambetov is attacking the Russian audience. 850 copies have been put on our distribution and exhibition system simultaneously with the American premiere. This guy from a Kazakh city of Atyrau,...

On his way in filming In my childhood I did not take any interest to films. I wanted very much to work in Toyota Company and to deal with car designs. But I failed to graduate from the institute and had to leave; actually I was made to...

Just imagine a many-thousand crowd standing in the central square of Kiev in the pouring, for two and a half hours. With the drops penetrating through umbrellas and the puddles growing into Mariana Trenches, no one had any idea of going...

After match versus Sweden Guus Hiddink said it was a great day for Russia. He was content with every member of the team as none of them had committed silly mistakes done during match with Spain. He also said he would like to see the...

The Turkish team did so much and more. What it did explains why the mankind should spend time, money and efforts for a rather simple sport. During 15 minutes the most experienced defense at the championship was torn to pieces, crushed and...

Well, presence of the Russian team at the European great venue adds the adrenaline but decreases significantly the esthetic component of the event. The World Cup 2006 in Germany went perfectly without Russia. And in European Cup 2004 and...

Eurovision show is something like a circus tent for modern music lovers and something like nirvana for soft pop music fans. It’s been for several years that Russia struggled hysterically for the first prize, but the second place was the...

Bykov said he is light in weight, and not easy in character, and he doesn’t like being lifted up, as it should be done to everyone in the team… …I had never seen Sergei Fedorov, who was the world champion as far back as in Soviet Union...

What looked like “cultural safari” for foreigners 20 years ago is becoming an ordinary event. A few pages from recently published memoirs by a Russian painter Grisha Bruskin are dedicated to the legendary Sotheby’s auction that was held in...