Новости за 28.05.2011

Lauren Lynch reports the latest highlights from the French Open. There are no Americans left in the singles draw as Mardy Fish and Vania King fell out. Novak Djokovic defeated Juan Martin Del Potro. Fernando Verdasco was upset by Ivan Ljubicic. All seeds are through for the women including Maria Sharapova, Li Na, Victoria Azarenka, and Petra Kvitova. Azarenka took time to defend best friend Caroline Wozniacki after her upset. Day 8 offers an exciting preview of Federer v Wawrinka, Ferrer v Monfils, and much more.

Paul Goble

Staunton, May 28 – This year marks the 160th anniversary of the birth of Ismail-bey Gasprinsky, the Crimean Tatar leader who sought to unite the Muslims of the Russian Empire on a reformist rather than revolutionary basis in pre-parliamentary times. And some Muslim leaders in the Russian Federation are holding him up as a model for today.

This week, at a Moscow conference on “Ismail Gasprinsky and the Birth of the Unity of Russian Muslims,” academic specialists and Muslim... Читать дальше...

Paul Goble

Staunton, May 28 – Muscovites currently live on average nearly ten years longer than do Russians outside the capital, a reflection of differences in education, income and governmental support and yet another way in which residents of the capital city, on whom so many base their assessment of Russia as a whole, are in fact becoming almost another nation.

In an article posted on the “Svobodnaya pressa” portal yesterday, Svetlana Gomzikova points out that residents of the... Читать дальше...