... bulldogs, serve up some cheese sandwiches with crisps, and dish out the chocolate cake after a rousing rendition of “Happy Birthday”. No, if you are foolish enough to offer up your home to the masses nowadays, in many parts of the world entertainers are a standard, a glass of wine for any accompanying parents is expected, and party bags are non-negotiable. And don't even think about trying to get away with just putting some stickers and a piece of cake inside it, you cheapskate. Not...

Family entertainment will be added to the activities at Moskva-City with the opening of Masterslavl, or the City of Craftsmen, in the fourth quarter of the year. Family entertainment will be added to the activities...

... departure was motivated by political reasons. Lobkov told Dozhd Internet television channel Wednesday that "propaganda might increase" on NTV now that Kartozia has left. Once a flagship for opinion-driven programming, NTV has focused more on entertainment in recent years. The channel has come under fire for engaging in what critics say are biased attacks on the political opposition. 179742

... experience the taste and flavor of the country." The Ritz-Carlton Moscow provides a suitably opulent setting for the second half of events — the Venetian Carnival Ball. Black-tie and Venetian-mask clad guests will be treated to a plethora of entertainment: solos from mezzo soprano Henriette Serline Schenk and baritone Oleg Alexandrov, a masquerade dance by students from the Bolshoi Academy and a silent auction. The top raffle prize is two airline tickets to Abu Dhabi. The MC for the evening...

... advantage by adding tours to Ireland from Britain, said Valeria Krasilnikova, head of the British and Irish section at the PAC Group tourist company. Russian tourists who go to Ireland are generally experienced travelers, over 35, looking for cultural entertainment such as literary walks and visiting historic homes and "to try good Guinness." However, there is currently only one direct flight to Russia on S7 Airlines and that only flies between April and October. Aeroflot is inquiring about...

... Scottish fare: neeps and tatties (yellow turnips and potatoes) as well as haggis. Wee drams of Scottish whisky will, as might be expected, accompany the meal. Scottish group The Glenhoulachan Midge Band, also known as the "Midgies" will provide entertainment for the night. The group travels around the world performing at ceilidhs and spreading their love of Scottish music. "Russia has embraced the work of Robert Burns more than any other country in the world with the obvious exception of...

... inspire poets, songwriters and artists, and roofs are certainly among them. They have been depicted in many films about the city, and despite the fact that walking on them has been forbidden by the police, it remains one of the most popular means of entertainment. Finding an apartment with roof access is considered truly lucky, and those who venture up onto a rooftop in the middle of summer may be surprised by how many other people have had the same idea of going up there to sunbathe, paint, or...

... that the program was being taken off air,” said Ksenia Sobchak, the show’s host. Russian MTV explained the decision by saying the political talk show had only a limited appeal for the channel’s young audience that, it said, expected entertainment rather than politics. “It was not related to Navalny,” a spokeswoman for the channel said. 179743

... Cirque du Soleil is stealing viewers away from the traditional Russian circus — not least because tickets to its show are four times as costly as Nikulin's performances, whose cheapest tickets go for $13. "It's a completely different type of entertainment," he said. 179738

... managed to create a most enchanting staging — a co-production with the Washington Opera and the Los Angeles Opera, where her husband served at the time as artistic director — with only some slight touches of the occult, making for fine opera entertainment with no excessive mystification and more of an illustrative twist, rather than a philosophical approach. The scenery — designed by Giovanni Agostinucci — was elaborate and ornamental, and was well-suited to Domingo's artistic...

... catch it much more quickly when it does occur," the memo said. Some of the most significant changes would be to ban jobs in factories, warehouses and other places like seafood packing plants. The agency also plans on "re-emphasizing the adult entertainment industry prohibition by specifically prohibiting jobs with escort services, adult book/video stores, massage parlors, and strip clubs." In one of the worst cases of abuse, a woman said she was beaten, raped and forced to work as a stripper...

... president and CEO of GE in Russia and the CIS, which works with the U.S. Commercial Service, praised the reset as a boon to his corporation’s local businesses, which include technology infrastructure, energy infrastructure, financial services and entertainment. “In short, it has helped us a lot,” he said in an interview in November, two months after GE announced that it was expanding here with multibillion-dollar deals to set up two joint ventures in health care and energy. “U...

... ever since contested Duma elections on Dec. 4. In the first flush of protests that took place the following day, Dec. 10 and Dec. 24, actors, composers, directors and writers were prominent among the growing crowds. And yet anyone who thought that the entertainment world was going to speak with a single, unified voice was sorely mistaken. We were reminded of that when maverick Yekaterinburg playwright, director, educator and theater manager Nikolai Kolyada announced in mid-January that he had joined...

... frequently feature popular and classical performances. Schedules and tickets can be found at 72afisha.ru/afisha/performance . Yermolayev (37 Ulitsa Lenina; +7 3452-29-76-25; ermolaev72.ru ) is a beer bar popular with the locals, featuring a nightly entertainment program starting at 9 p.m. On holidays it is usually impossible to go to Yermolayev without an advance reservation, in which case you might be better off at O'Brian's (7a Ulitsa Krasina, +7 3452-68-50-50), an Irish-themed pub that has both...