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The Philippines' candidate to the Miss World 2014 competition in London, Valerie Weigmann, made it to the quarterfinals late Sunday (almost 12 midnight, Philippine time).
The music of Russian masters Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninov and Dmitri Shostakovich took center stage in the third concert of the Manila Symphony Orchestra (MSO) at Banco de Oro’s Francisco Santiago Hall. Pianist Victor Asuncion was the featured soloist in Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
Air travel to Russia has spiked 330 percent for the World Cup, led by American, Spaniard and Canadian FIFA World Cup fans.
FIFA World Cup fans from all around the world applauded them for their discipline when it comes to proper waste disposal.
Music competitions world-wide are a-dime-a-dozen, and they produce winners and losers of contrasting mindsets.
An exhibition at a state museum in Belgium featuring previously unseen Russian paintings has sent ripples through the art community, with some experts claiming the works are "fake".
Twenty-six works supposedly by famous avant-garde artists, including Kazimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky, have been on display since October at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, on loan from a collector named Igor Toporovski, who insists they are genuine.
When photographs of the pieces appeared online they caused a storm, leaving art experts in Russia and abroad questioning whether such a prominent collection of unknown works by highly sought-after artists could have been amassed in secret.
Russia may be a gracious World Cup host, but not everyone is welcome in the world’s largest nation. Belonging to...
Statues of the German philosopher Karl Marx are still a common sight in Russia and most cities have a street named after him despite the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s.
New Russian road safety regulations bar transsexuals, transvestites and others with sexual "disorders" from driving, ostensibly for medical reasons.
Russia Ambassador Igor Khovaev underscored the “mutually beneficial engagements” between Russia and the Philippines at the Day of Russia reception on June 8.
