More than “16,000 police officers, Interior Ministry troops and police helpers” were on the streets of Moscow this weekend to “ensure order” during the Moscow City Day celebrations (source: RIA...
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North Korean farms in Russia
According to media reports, North Korea are in serious talks to rent a massive area of abandoned farmland in the Russian Far East. Sounds a bit dull on the face of it, but actually it raises some intriguing questions...
A Just Russia make public offer to ally with Communist Party
In one of the oddest public pronouncements of this year’s Russian Duma election campaign, the Chairman of political party A Just Russia has just offered to form an alliance with the Russian Communist Party. This...
Russian Premier League News Sites
If you’re a fan of Russian football (yes, I mean Russian soccer!), then news can be hard to come by. Yes, if you speak a bit of Russian there are plenty of Russian language football news sites around, not to...
Russia Eurovision 2011
It’s May again, which means its time for Europe’s naff-tastic celebration of pop – Eurovision. And as usual on Siberian Light, we’ve got all the news on the Russia Eurovision 2011 entry for your...
BFI Kino: London goes crazy for Russian Films
2011 is possibly the best ever year for a Russian film lover to be in London. Why? Because the British Film Institute has just launched an epic seven month season of Russian films. Kino: Russian Film Pioneers Already up...
Royal Wedding Kate’s Russian Tiara
Oh yes, proof positive that, if you look hard enough, you can find a Russian connection to any story… As Royal Wedding mania grips the United Kingdom, British newspapers have exclusively revealed that Kate...
Russia: Re-Imagining the Myth
British playwright Tomas Hirst writes about The 17, a new play that he is developing about the end of Boris Yeltsin's Presidency.
Yuri Gagarin 50th Anniversary Celebrations
I don’t know what it’s like in your part of the world but, over here in the UK, the media’s going nuts for Yuri Gargarin’s 50th anniversary. Pretty much every newspaper I pick up these days has...
Britain under spell of viral Russian TV ads
It amuses me that, despite all the anti-Russian rhetoric in the British press, two of the most effective and popular viral advertising campaigns at the moment draw heavily on Russian culture – to the extent that...