| June 2013 |
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The 50th Paris Air Show, which is underway at Le Bourget Airport in France, runs from June 17 through June 23.
Ethnic Boryats, a Mongol people who make up the largest indigenous group in Siberia, celebrated their culture last weekend at the Yordyn Games festival in the eastern region of Irkutsk.
In mid-May, ligress Zita, the pride of the Novosibirsk Zoo, gave birth to her second litter of offspring: three baby liligers. A month later, visitors to the zoo were able to see the cubs for the first time.
June 16 will mark the 50th anniversary of when Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly into outer space.
White lions, wild horses, guanaco and other animal news from around the world in the RIA Novosti weekly image gallery.
Che Guevara, the famous revolutionary, was born 85 years ago today. He is often described as “the linchpin of the resurgence movement in the countries of Latin America,” and is credited with forming the notion of a “new man.”
The civil unrest in major Turkish cities was sparked by the government’s plans to demolish Gezi Park in central Istanbul and replace it with rebuilt Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall. About 5,000 people have been injured and at least four people have died in demonstrations across the country in the past two weeks. Watch the photo chronicle of the events as seen by RIA Novosti photo correspondent Andrei Stenin.
Sergei Tsapenko is a Cossack in America, and on Russia Day this year, he dazzled fellow Russian Americans with a glimpse of part of his prize-winning collection of military memorabilia from tsarist and Soviet times.
This weekend activists set out an art installation of more than a million replicas of human bones in Washington, in a call for the U.S. government to more actively fight global genocide.
The son of an African-American émigré to the Soviet Union and a Russian mother, Jim Patterson played an iconic part as a toddler in the legendary 1936 Soviet film “The Circus” before going on to a career as a Soviet naval officer and a well-known poet. Together with his mother, he emigrated to his father’s homeland in 1994 following the Soviet collapse but became a virtual recluse after her death in 2001. After spending around 18 months in the hospital, he returned home to his apartment in downtown Washington last year, where he continues to write and hopes to publish a collection of his poems in Russian and English.
Saint Isaac’s Cathedral was consecrated 155 years ago, on June 11, 1858. St. Petersburg’s biggest and most beautiful cathedral was rebuilt four times and has a dramatic history.
Russia’s first vintage bike ride was held on June 9 in Moscow’s Sokolniki Park.
Young lemurs and meerkats are growing up in zoos around the world, while European green crabs invade the Gulf of Maine.
Photos of Moscow’s Red Square taken by a chimp named Mikki were sold this week at Sotheby's for 50,000 pounds sterling. Mikki performed at the Moscow Circus in the 1990s and was taught the art of photography by his colleagues, the circus artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, as part of a project called Collaboration with Animals.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife, Lyudmila, announced after a joint outing to a ballet performance on Thursday that their marriage is over, ending years of media speculation about the couple’s relationship.
RIA Novosti presents the planet’s most pristine places that haven’t yet been polluted by man. Mongolia hosts this year’s World Environment Day (WED).
While their peers run around in parks or play video games, these 8-year-olds pose for magazines and catalogs, strut down runways, star in sitcoms, attend high-society events and learn to catwalk, act and always use proper manners.
The changing of the guard, with participation by Kremlin Regiment servicemen, Children’s Equestrian Ceremonial Division cadets and Kremlin Riding School horsemen, was held on Sobornaya Square in the Kremlin to mark International Children's Day.
The Miss Moscow 2013 beauty pageant took place on Red Square on June 2.