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Cossack song, music and dance trio from New York founded by dancer and singer Valentina Kvasova, singer Victoria Pichurova and Russian button accordion virtuoso Victor Danilochkin in 2007. Ensemble performs Cossack folk music, songs and dances. All members of the group are highly trained in former USSR performers.
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A new phenomenon has been the development of "mini-hotels" in large Russian cities which are providing clean modern rooms with private baths at far lower costs than conventional large hotels, approximately $125 versus well over $250. These small hotels are located within existing apartment buildings and may consist of one, two or more floors located a story or two above street level and often include breakfast. Saint Petersburg has quite a few with more opening all of the time and some are appearing in Moscow.
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The Revolution of 1917 and the ensuing political changes brought new terminology and, along with the spelling reform of 1918, gave written Russian its modern appearance. Literacy became nearly universal and dialectal differentiation decreased in large part due to universal schooling and mass communications. Superpower accomplishments in military, scientific, and technological fields as well as space exploration gave modern Russian its world-wide prestige.
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CHICAGO, July 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Starting in the next few weeks, For Her Information will be seen weekly by more than 1.4 million viewers and broadcast in Arabic, Hebrew and Russian, throughout Israel. In what is considered a popular genre of TV in the Middle East, For Her Information's Conscious TV programming for women fits a new and needed niche in Israeli programming, according to Beth Aldrich, creator and host of For Her Information.
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CBS Evening News are going to run a story about Russian dating scam tomorrow evening. An interview with Elena Garret, the owner and the manager of RD, will probably be shown during that program.
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