About 10 years ago, Ed Michaud was driving home to Ellsworth when music came on his car radio unlike any he had heard. The singer seemed to be doing the impossible, vocalizing several different notes simultaneously. "It blew my mind

Tuvan Prime-Minister Sholban Kara-ool gave a press-cinference at Russia's largest Information Agency - RIA NOVOSTI in Moscow. It is the first press-conference ever given by a Tuva's head on a federal news-platform. 'In 1970 when all over Russia Lenin's 100

One of Russia's leading oncology centers is suffering from a lack of medicine. The Cancer Treatment Center in the Siberian city of Kyzyl, in the Russian republic of Tuva, is well known for its effective methods of treating cancer patients.

On November 23, a day of memory was held in Moscow for the legendary Russian ethnographer, archeologist, orientalist-turkologist, Professor Sevyan Vainshtein (1926-2008). His friends, colleagues and students, including those from Buryatia and Japan, gathered in his apartment. Among them was

JOHANNESBURG, December 14 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Kseniya Sukhinova has won the Miss World 2008 title at the international beauties competition in South Africa after beating 108 contestants. The top five finalists also included Miss India, Parvathy Omanakuttan, Miss Trinidad

MOSCOW, December 13 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will continue to gradually expand the ruble's exchange rate corridor in the interests of society and business, the deputy head of the Central Bank said on Saturday. "Here there is a political and

MOSCOW, December 13 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will carry on delivering fuel to North Korea as part of a six-nation denuclearization deal and urges other nations to meet their energy aid commitments, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday. Russian Deputy

MOSCOW, December 13 (RIA Novosti) - Russian student Ksenia Sukhinova was crowned as new Miss World at the 58 th international beauty pageant in Johannesburg on Saturday. Sukhinova, a 21-year old student from Siberia (Image gallery) , is the winner

MOSCOW, December 13 (RIA Novosti) - Emergency workers have recovered a fifth from a collapsed building near a pedestrian street in central Moscow popular with tourists, an official said on Saturday. "Rescuers found a fifth dead worker and removed the

Adds ruble comments, details in paras 7-12) MOSCOW, December 13 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will continue to gradually expand the ruble's exchange rate corridor in the interests of society and business, the deputy head of the Central Bank said on

MOSCOW, December 13 (RIA Novosti) - A number of Russian politicians and public figures came together on Saturday at a congress to officially found a new opposition movement called Solidarity. The movement's founding members included the former leader of the

MOSCOW, December 13 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and Switzerland signed an agreement on Saturday on the Swiss Embassy in Tbilisi representing Russia's diplomatic interests in Georgia, which broke off ties after August's conflict. The Caucasus state severed diplomatic ties with

MOSCOW, December 13 (RIA Novosti) - Police in Moscow arrested eight members of a left-wing youth movement on Saturday for holding an illegal protest near the Greek Embassy, a police spokesman said. The members of the neo-leftist Red Youth Vanguard,