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Peppermint jam? Bacon jam? Anything goes at Moscow’s Varenye Festival

Edit RBTH 30 Jul 2016
“Mooom, go on, buy some more of those tasty pine buds,” a chubby five-year old girl whines in the middle of Moscow. At the Varenye Festival, taking place between July 15 and Aug. 7, 2016, similarly exotic foods are there for everyone to try. Varenye is an ancient Russian delicacy that is similar to jam ... Sergei Kiselev / Moskva agency ... Sergei Kiselev / Moskva agency ... Sergei Kiselev / Moskva agency ... Sergei Kiselev / Moskva agency....

Top Edinburgh International Festival dance highlights

Edit Scotsman 30 Jul 2016
Cherkaoui pairs Osipova with dancers Jason Kittleberger and James O'Hara, and sets them in a post-apocalyptic world where they rely on each other for survival.Maliphant takes the structure of a classical pas de deux (duet, solo, solo, duet) – between Osipova and Sergei Polunin – and gives it a modern twist, while Pita uses the “death discs” of ......

Crimea Not Threatened by NATO Sea Breeze 2016 Drills in Black Sea

Edit Sputnik 30 Jul 2016
Crimea does not fear the NATO Sea Breeze 2016 drills in the Black Sea, Head of the Russia’s Republic of Crimea Sergei Aksenov told Sputnik ... ....

New cyber attack hits Hillary Clinton’s Democratic Party

Edit Deccan Chronicle 30 Jul 2016
Washington. Democratic Party officials said Friday they have been targeted by a fresh cyber attack, similar to a breach at the Democratic National Committee that resulted in an embarrassing leak of party emails ... “The investigation is ongoing ... US Secretary of State John Kerry raised the DNC hack with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Laos earlier this week ... There was no immediate comment from the FBI. ....

Russia Denies Plan To Seize Syria's Aleppo After Civilian Evacuation

Edit Radio Free Europe 30 Jul 2016
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov denied allegations that Russia and Syria are preparing to storm Syria's Aleppo after clearing civilians out of the city under the guise of a humanitarian operation. U.S ... "I categorically deny the allegation that some storm is being prepared," Ryabkov told Interfax late on July 29 ... We cannot accept that things should be formulated this way ... Some U.S ... A U.S ... U.S ...  . ....

Syrian civilians begin leaving rebel-held parts of Aleppo

Edit Boston Herald 30 Jul 2016
BEIRUT — Dozens of families and some opposition fighters started leaving besieged rebel-held neighborhoods in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Saturday after the government opened safe corridors for civilians and fighters who want to leave, state media reported ... Gen. Sergei Chvarkov, who heads the Russian center for reconciliation located in Latakia military base, said in a statement ... "This is a game by the regime ... ___ ... ....

What is Kremlin's stake in Washington

Edit Khaleej Times 30 Jul 2016
Whatever the actual intent, for Russian observers, it conjured amusement as much as anything ... But we've already gotten used to the idea that this is Trump's brand - he's very anti-protocol, he negates all the gods of stability, a real rebel in the system," says Sergei Strokan, foreign affairs columnist for the Moscow business daily Kommersant. "This is a media circus, it's just more of the same rhetoric ... "We always go through this ... ....

Pressure Grows on Obama to Name DNC Hackers

Edit The Daily Beast 30 Jul 2016
This week, a bipartisan group of lawmakers—as well as former intelligence officials, retired military officers, and security experts—urged President Obama to call out Russia for the hacking campaign ... That hack was seen as an assault on core American values of freedom of expression ... Earlier this week, while meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry in Laos, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov responded to the allegation by saying ... ....

Great track and field athletes in Olympic history

Edit The Hindu 30 Jul 2016
Let us have a look at some of the big names in the history of Olympics. Jesse Owens. Jesse Owens specialised in the sprints and the long jump and was recognised as "perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history" ... At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Owens won international fame with four gold medals. 100 meters, 200 meters, long jump, and 4 × 100 meter relay ... Bob Beamon ... Edwin Moses ... Sergei Bubka ... Carl Lewis....

The Democrats' Putin dilemma

Edit Politico 30 Jul 2016
Donald Trump was the bogeyman of this week's Democratic national convention. But placing a close second to Trump was Russia's President, Vladimir Putin. Democrats linked the two bad guys together, hammering Trump for his past words of praise for Putin as a "strong leader" and his claim that the U.S ... But just the day before, on Tuesday, Secretary of State John Kerry sat down with Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov ... foreign policy ... ....

SSU Hosts Largest Group of Youth Visitors in School's History (Sonoma State University)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Jul 2016
(Source. Sonoma State University). The second annual Jewish Music Series at Sonoma State University features artists hailing from New York City to the Bay Area, including trumpeter Frank London (cofounder of the Klezmatics) and virtuoso clarinetist Ben Goldberg with his Invisible Guy trio ... [Read More...] ... [Read More...] ... The Imagery Collection at SSU.'. [Read More...] ... [Read More...] ... the piano quintets of Anton Arensky and Sergei Taneyev....

The Epic Honey Trap: A Classic Case Shows Just How Far Moscow Will Go

Edit The Daily Beast 30 Jul 2016
“Eh bien, Dejean, on couche.” ... It was 1964, six years after the KGB had staged one of its long-running and most elaborate honey traps in Moscow against a Western diplomat ... Even Premier Nikita Khrushchev played a role in snaring the high-value mark he himself ordered snared ... Thank You! ... Follow The Daily Beast ... Sergei Mikhalkov, the coauthor of the Soviet national anthem, and his wife Natalia Konchalovskaya, a children’s book writer ... Getty ... ....

City improves on its reputation for bicycles

Edit China Daily 29 Jul 2016
Getting ready to welcome foreign visitors to the G20 Leaders Summit in September, Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, is updating its public bicycle rental facilities with improved functions and more thoughtful services. A total of 2,500 bicycles emblazoned with the G20 logo have been put into service since July 8 at service points around the city ... Contact the writers at yuran@chinadaily.com.cn ....
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