| April 2012 |
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The information department of the Russian Orthodox Church has opened a Facebook account called Patriarch Kirill to inform internet users about his life and work, a deputy chief spokesman for the patriarch said on Tuesday.
More than 60 percent of Russian smokers say they will not give up their bad habit when grim graphic images depicting the impact of smoking on human health begin appearing on cigarette packs in May 2013, the Superjob.ru research center reported on Saturday.
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As tens of thousands of people were gathering to protest against his rule at a rally in downtown Moscow on Sunday, President-elect Vladimir Putin took part in a ceremony to hand over an ancient icon to the Russian Orthodox Church.
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A famous painting by Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch, The Scream, has been auctioned off at Sotheby’s for record $119,992,500.
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Ivan Aivazovsky’s canvas View of Constantinople and the Bosphorus was sold on Tuesday at Sotheby’s auction in London for a record $5.2 million (3.2 million pounds), the auction’s press service said.
A museum train devoted to Gabriel Garcia Marquez will appear in the Moscow subway on Wednesday.
With Russia’s powerful Orthodox Church facing a wave of criticism from what it has called supporters of “radical liberal values,” a Christian publisher presented on Wednesday a book on the religious beliefs of stars of show business and film.
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Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson said on Tuesday she hoped to have another chance to play the role of Russian spy Natasha Romanoff, nicknamed Black Widow, as she prepares for the Russian premiere of The Avengers due in Moscow later in the day.
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Whitney Houston, famous U.S. singer and actress, died on February 12 in the United States aged 48.




