SKA St. Petersburg beat Torpedo 1-0 in a Kontinental Hockey League match. The international professional ice hockey league in Eurasia was founded in 2008 and is considered to be the strongest ice hockey league in Europe.
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov is a Soviet and Russian physicist and academic who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. He is an inventor of the heterotransistor and the winner of 2000 Nobel Prize.
The Legends of Norwegian Vikings Festival takes place over the weekend at the Peter and Paul Fortress, including vendors and performances by actors in period garb.
Aerobatics motor-freestyle show showcases world-renowned stars from the world of freestyle motorcross. The participants take part in performing motorcross stunts.
The Russian billionaire Sergej Polonsky announced that the company Mirax Group began construction of an exclusive tourist resorts with about forty villas (project "Zavala"). Budva, Montenegro. 08/06/2010.
Insomnium Community, Klastic, and the Malang Lomography society held a black-white lomo photo exhibition, with theme "Noire" at Galeri IFI, Surabaya. Featuring 30 photos from 15 lomographer. Surabaya, Indonesia. 16th January 2012.
Individuals forming part of the 'Anonymous' movement protested against the Church of Scientology at the Dianetics and Scientology exhibition near Blackfriars station on Queen Victoria Street. London, UK, 15/01/2011
The Portland Anonymous collective gather outside the home of Scientology in Portland by 12th and SW Jefferson to continue their war against the church which they see as a money making scam amongst other reasons. Portland, Oregon, USA. 19/06/2010.
In the traditional manner since 1981 ARM Cuauhtémoc (BE-01) sail training vessel of the Mexican Navy, sets off on a voyage of seven or eight months allowing cadets naval arts and sciences studies to practice their skills.
Protests take part opposite the Russian Embassy on an International Day of Solidarity with Maria Alyokhina, attending a court hearing over her plea for her sentence to be suspended, so she can raise her son until he is 14.
About one hundred activists participate in a rally to commemorate May 17 day that homosexuality was removed from the International Classification of Diseases of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1990.
In dojo of sensei Isam Nur parent of young boys and girls can look a first competetion of free-kumite. Indeed, this dojo is Karate-shotokan school, but main aim of this event to give to young fighter
North Vietnamese women, whose singing consoled soldiers on the front line in the Vietnam war, were central in a dance production at the Edinburgh Festival. In addition Marinsky Opera staged a Strauss operatic tour de force. UK. 31st August 2011
manifestation in berlin friedrichshain, around 3000 taking part ("kiezparade"), it´s the 3rd against a shop in berlin which is selling neonazi clothings ("tromsö"-shop, selling "thos steinar")
Battir preserve was awarded the "Milena Cory" to preserve the natural and cultural heritage, provided by UNESCO. The area now is threatened by a split due to the separation barrier.
Royal Academy of Arts exhibition 'Building the Revolution' brings together artwork of the Russian avant-garde architecture made from 1922-1935, a short-lived period which was supposed to build the new Soviet Socialist language. UK. 6th November 2011
Images of Russian standard map showing the Kuril Islands belong to Russia. On Japanese maps, the Kuril Islands are shown to be Japanese territory. Russia. 13th October 2011
World's biggest picnic organized in Lisbon as a farewell to the National Football Team just before departure to World Cup in South Africa. Lisbon, Portugal. 05/06/2010
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