Source link The Ukrainian Embassy in South Korea has asked to cancel the planned performances of a renowned ballerina from the Bolshoi Theatre, citing the ongoing military conflict with Russia. The embassy took issue with a series of shows featuring ballerina Svetlana Zakharova that will take place in the Seoul Arts Center in April. The performance, […]
Source link The Games of the Future, a first-ever phygital tournament held in Kazan, central Russia, has been a huge inspiration to the world, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko told journalists as the event came to a close on Sunday. The competition lasted for almost two weeks, and wrapped up with a closing ceremony […]
Source link White people have been told not to attend two upcoming performances of a play about racism and sexuality in London’s West End. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s office has condemned the move as “wrong and divisive.” Written by Jeremy O Harris, who is black, ‘Slave Play’ opens in London’s Noel Coward Theater in June […]
Source link The Games of the Future tournament, which has been taking place in the Russian city of Kazan during the past two weeks, has managed to gain traction around the world, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko told RT on Saturday, a day before the closing ceremony. He called the games a big success, […]
Source link The Winner of the Miss Europe 2024 beauty pageant, Russian national Roza Gadieva, has been accused of “buying” her way to victory by an outraged Ukrainian contestant who claimed she herself was being bullied. During the competition, which took place in Lebanon last month, Miss Ukraine, Melena Melnichuk, made a number of posts […]
Source link Instagram users have started to complain about the platform’s algorithm showing an increasing number of “breastfeeding” videos in their recommended feeds, noting that many of the women in these clips appear to be OnlyFans models trying to advertise their paid content. While Meta, the owner of Instagram and Facebook, does not allow explicit […]
Source link The Games of the Future, which kicked off in the Russian city of Kazan last Wednesday and feature a unique mix of traditional sports and cybersports, have proved as popular as the prestigious Wimbledon tennis tournament, the event organizer, Igor Stolyarov, has told media. He estimated that the competitions have already garnered a […]
Source link The Games of the Future will take place again in 2025 and will be hosted by a country other than Russia, the head of the phygital tournament Igor Stolyarov told TASS on Monday. The inaugural event is currently taking place in the Russian city of Kazan. The international competition, which combines esports and […]
Source link Dozens of participants have gathered in central Russia to take part in the ‘Battle of Robots’ held as part of the innovative Games of the Future tournament. The contest of steel and technology kicked off in the city of Kazan on Sunday, with 16 teams from Russia, China, India, Iran, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Brazil, […]
Source link Today, the renowned Russian film director Aleksey Balabanov would have turned 65 years old. In the course of his career, Balabanov shot 14 full-length films, including the incredibly successful movies ’Brother’, ”Brother 2’, and ’Dead Man’s Buff’, the scandalous ’Of Freaks and Men’ and ’Cargo 200’, and the absurdist films ’The Castle’ and ’Happy Days’. His creative career spanned 21 years, but Aleksey Balabanov left behind […]
Source link As a child of the Cold War, action movie star Steven Seagal told RT that he was taught to fear Russia, but that visiting his grandparents’ homeland made him realize that it was home to some of the “deepest and most beautiful culture on Earth.” Born in Michigan at the dawn of the […]
Source link The Games of the Future, the first-ever international phygital tournament, which kicked off in Russia on Wednesday, has been nearly out of offline tickets as of Saturday, according to the sports minister of Tatarstan, Vladimir Leonov. Speaking to reporters at a press briefing, Leonov noted that organizers had sold nearly 97% of the […]
Source link Malia Obama, daughter of former US President Barack Obama, has dropped her father’s surname for her Hollywood debut. Malia Ann quietly announced her nom de plume when her first short film, ‘The Heart’, recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The eldest Obama daughter’s change of name was revealed in a ‘Meet the […]
Source link Vice.com has stopped publishing new content and laid off several hundred employees, its CEO announced late on Thursday. The outlet once valued at billions of dollars had to be rescued from bankruptcy last year, by a consortium including George Soros. The website is still available, but its content management system was shut down […]
Source link A Netflix drama-documentary series that depicts the Macedonian ruler and military leader Alexander the Great as being in a gay relationship has been labeled as “extremely poor-quality fiction” by Greece’s culture minister. Lawmaker Lina Mendoni’s comments about the six-part series come amid a brewing scandal over its suggestion that Alexander, king of the […]