... Project O.G.I. 10 p.m.
Blues iz Sigarnoi Korobki:
blues. Cool Train. 9 p.m.
Blues Party with Petrovich
(harmonica). B2 small hall. 8 p.m.
Denis Mazhukov and Off Beat:
rock a la Jerry Lee Lewis. Roadhouse. 9 p.m.
DOK:
power pop from Ukraine. Gogol. 8 p.m.
Jazz in Motion:
Bobby Harden (vocals) and the Alexander Gureyev Quartet. Durov. 8 p.m.
Kubikmaggy:
jazz, punk. Dom. 8 p.m.
Levan Lomidze and Blues Cousins.
Igor Butman Club Na Chistykh Prudakh. 8:30 p.m.
Nastya Kontsevaya and Band:
blues, rock, soul,...
... event, which runs throughout Saturday night, Flacon will host a series of lectures in the evening, with curators discussing their favorite international museums.
In Hip We Hope will see DJs such as Drugoye Delo and The Cacao play old school hip-hop, jazz, instrumental and rap music to take the festival into the next day.
"Amsterdam Day" runs from 12 noon on Sat. to 6 a.m. Sun. Flacon Design Factory. Metro Dmitrovskaya. Tel. +7 (495) 790-7901.
www.flacon.ru
. Admission is free.
451326...
... skating outfits. The designers recommended "a straight skirt, with a single deep front pleat and a straight jacket with a waist belt."
In her everyday life, Virtanen, whose interest in Stalin-era fashion evolved from a keen interest in prewar jazz, is a strict follower of 1940s fashion in her own wardrobe.
The collector and historian organized a preview event for her exhibition in the form of a 1945 fashion show. Held in the courtyard of the Konyushenny Wing, not professional models but ordinary...
... "Jewels." "Each part," she said, "represents a different stage of Balanchine's career," "Emeralds" harking back to the decade he spent in France after leaving the Soviet Union in 1924, "Rubies," with its jazz-influenced Stravinsky score, a tribute to the United States, where he spent the remainder of his life, and "Diamonds" paying homage to Russia and the classical-dance "upbringing" he received in his native St. Petersburg.
The day...
... Director Valery Fokin and composer Alexander Bakshi create a stage version of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s existentialist novel “Notes From Underground” especially for Raikin. Satirikon Theater. 7 p.m.
L.G. Sinichkin:
Yury Yeryomin stages a jazz version of Dmitry Lensky’s 19th-century Russian vaudeville with texts by Nikolai Erdman and Mikhail Volpin. Tabakov Theater. 7 p.m.
Landing Stage:
(See Tues. listing.) Vakhtangov Theater. 7 p.m.
Marienbad:
Yevgeny Kamenkovich’s adaptation...
The Investigative Committee has opened an inquiry against self-exiled businessman Boris Berezovsky, who recently pledged a $1.5 million bounty for the arrest of Vladimir Putin.
Horror film "Chernobyl Diaries," with its ghostly tale of terror near the infamous, abandoned nuclear plant hits theaters after protests that it sensationalizes a disaster that had tragic human consequences.
Laos, a small nation dependent on aid and rice farming, wants to join the World Trade Organization. WTO powers including the United States, China and the European Union want it to.
The U.S. ambassador and the U.S. State Department said they were surprised by blistering criticism from the Foreign Ministry regarding comments McFaul made to students last week.
After global leaders conclude the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in September, the purpose-built $2.3 billion conference center on a remote island off the coast of Vladivostok will become a university.
Boldness of the sort displayed by U.S. President Richard Nixon in opening discussions with China is needed now in the negotiations over Iran's nuclear program.
Ukraine may never recover all of the billions of dollars it has spent to co-host next month's European football championship, and the outlay might complicate its chances of servicing its debt.
A tabloid claims that Russian intelligence agencies are investigating the possibility that the U.S. military may have brought down the Sukhoi Superjet that crashed in Indonesia.
Sweden’s Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest in Azerbaijan on Sunday before an international TV audience of 100 million, days after angering Azeri authorities by meeting rights activists critical of the host country’s human rights record.
Russia's group Buranovskiye Babushki has made it into the finals of the Eurovision Song Contest in Baku, Azerbaijan, bringing the elderly folk singers from a far-off Russian village to the attention of more than 100 million viewers around the world.
Ukraine's ruling party has triggered violent protests with a move to upgrade the official role of Russian, a sensitive issue opponents say will split the country.
Sergei Udaltsov and Alexei Navalny emerged from prison Thursday, while a dramatic standoff erupted at a State Duma hearing over a bill that would hike fines for illegal demonstrations.
Following the president's order to cut the number of officials entitled to use flashing lights to skirt through traffic, several incidents of alleged abuse involving high-profile figures have come to light.
As Moscow gears up to celebrate its victory in World War II, 67 years ago Wednesday, the shadow of political conflict shrouds the capital as hundreds of arrests cloud Victory Day festivities.
A stunning 121-megapixel snapshot of the Earth was taken by a Russian weather satellite in what is thought to be the highest resolution picture of the planet ever taken from space.
Search and rescue helicopters and volunteers struggling through thick forest and mountainous terrain spotted bodies but no survivors on the Indonesian mountainside where a Sukhoi Superjet 100 crashed by the time darkness forced an end to the search Thursday night.
A tabloid claims that Russian intelligence agencies are investigating the possibility that the U.S. military may have brought down the Sukhoi Superjet that crashed in Indonesia.
A 46-year-old furniture magnate was killed with six gunshot wounds to the head and chest early Sunday as he arrived in his Mercedes at his home in the Moscow region.
Three thrill-seekers who climbed two Vladivostok bridges earlier this week and took photos from the top were fined 300 rubles ($10) each for trespassing.
President Vladimir Putin on Monday announced the makeup of the new Cabinet answering to Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, with three-fourths of the members having been replaced.
A dark cloud was cast Wednesday on the revival of Russia’s aviation industry when a Sukhoi-built Superjet 100 with 50 people on board disappeared from the radar screens of Indonesian flight controllers.
On Monday, Vladimir Putin will take the presidential oath of office for the third time. After 12 years in power, Putin has increased his control over the country's major institutions, the siloviki and state bureaucracy.