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But a cross-country whistle-stop tour now being planned as a kind of rolling public art project by the artist Doug Aitken might give train travel considerably more cultural cachet.

The Shaolin Temple, known as the cradle of Chinese kung fu, is preparing to stage its first cultural festival in the United States as p art of efforts to expand its global clout.

The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, New York Live Arts' resident dance company, today announced the touring programs and productions for the 2013-2014 season, continuing the Company's 30th anniversary celebrations.

Courtesy photo Remy Lamping, an Aspen native who is participating in a three-year program with the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, poses in Red Square.

" The Worlds of Bernice Bing " by San Francisco filmmaker Madeleine Lim took home the Queer Women of Color Film Festival Audience Award on June 16 in San Francisco.

Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle said the Russian delegates were interested in how government helps establish research parks.

A vast wasteland close to St Basil's Cathedral and Red Square that once housed a giant Soviet hotel is set to become a landscaped park, Moscow officials said Tuesday as they revealed details of a 10 billion-ruble regeneration plan.

Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 in Aeroflot livery comes to land ahead of the Farnborough Airshow 2012 in southern England July 8, 2012.

Beijing, June 18: The Shaolin Temple, known as the cradle of Chinese kung fu, is preparing to stage its first cultural festival in the US as part of efforts to expand its global clout.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says authorities will shut down a paper mill on the shores of Lake Baikal, which environmentalists say is a major pollutant threatening the world's largest fresh water lake.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says authorities will shut down a paper mill on the shores of Lake Baikal, which environmentalists say is a major pollutant threatening the world's largest fresh water lake.

Vice-president of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, chairperson of the Azerbaijani Youth Organization of Russia Leyla Aliyeva has initiated a charitable blood donation campaign in Moscow.

Meet at front of Bill Graham Auditorium - 99 Grove St. Civic Center, San Francisco.

Mr Ambassador, Armenia and Belarus celebrate an anniversary 20 years of establishment of diplomatic relations.

Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev attends a meeting with members of the government in Moscow, June 13. The political impact in Russia is likely to be limited by the fact that it was former president and current prime minister Medvedev, not Putin, who is named as the target of NSA spying.

Moscow is one of the world's most expensive cities. But now EasyJet offers low-cost flights from Gatwick and Manchester to the Russian capital, it is fast becoming a budget destination.

About 1,500 Japanese, including sumo wrestlers, showed up Nov. 3, 1906, at the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco to celebrate Emperor Mutsuhito's 54th birthday.

Sea Change, a 70-foot sculpture adorning the grass area in front of Pier 40 created by Mark diSuvero, is just one of the art installations profiled in a new app released Monday by the San Francisco Arts Commission.

RBTH has compiled a listing of the top food festivals and farmers' markets to be found in Russia this summer.

SAN FRANCISCO – The Salty Lady pitched and rolled, reared up to unsettling verticality and slammed down with a percussive thud.