Official actions

August 12, 2015

http://stpetersburg.usconsulate.gov/zydeco3.html

On July 15 – 20, the Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience group from New Orleans introduced the Russian public to the music of zydeco. Zydeco combines the charm of French folk music and vigorous rhythms of the African, Caribbean and Creole melodies. The leading musical instruments used for performances are accordion and… washboard.

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Russia Beyond the Headlines

August 6, 2015 Tatyana Kutarenkova, special to RBTH

Volunteers from all over Russia are working in the Vologda Region to save a unique monument of 18th-century architecture – the Church of the Nativity in the village of Krokhino – from destruction. For 50 years, it has been surrounded by water after the village was flooded during the construction of the Volga-Baltic Canal in 1964.

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Russia Beyond the Headlines

July 30, 2015 Vladimir Romanov, special to RBTH

Every year on July 26, the small town of Totma in Russia’s Vologda Region celebrates Russian America Day at the same time as Fort Ross in northern California, once the southernmost outpost of the Russian empire in the Americas and founded by Totma native Ivan Kuskov. Vladimir Romanov reports on how Totma marked the event this year.

http://www.rgo.ru/en/article/underwater-geography-0

Russian Geographical Society

29 July 2014

In the framework of the “Underwater geography” project scientists and divers explore the unique waters of the”Vologda Lake District.”

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/

May 22 2015

Severstal's "The Way Home" Charitable Foundation was founded on 18 February 2005 in Cherepovets, Vologda Region, by Chief Executive Alexey Mordashov.

http://rbth.com/multimedia/2015/06/24/vologda-region-attracts-european-tourists-chinese-investors_146189

By Vladimir Stakheev, Anna Kuchma, Ruslan Faizulin

At the 2015 Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum, the Vologda Region signed a series of agreements that will help it to develop tourism infrastructure to European levels and attract Chinese investments in industrial manufacturing.

http://www.phosagro.com/

28.05.2015

Moscow – PhosAgro (Moscow Exchange, LSE: PHOR), one of the world’s leading vertically integrated phosphate-based fertilizer producers, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Indian state corporation Indian Potash LTD regarding supply of over 1.35 mln tonnes of NPK, NPS and DAP fertilizers to India between 2015 and 2018. The memorandum was signed at the International Fertilizer Industry Association conference in Istanbul.

http://www.voices-festival.org/

The VOICES Festival will take place from July 3th to 6th, 2015 in the beautiful Russian city of Vologda.

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Apr 28, 2015

Joe Crescente, for RBTH

RBTH takes a look at Russia’s 26 UNESCO heritage sites: this time the journey begins with the white monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal before heading sharply north through Yaroslavl and Vologda to Kizhi pogost and the Solovetsky Islands of the White Sea.

29 April 2015

http://www.severstal.com/

PAO Severstal, one of the world's leading vertically integrated steel and steel-related mining companies, ran a number of events in April aimed at engaging its employees in health and safety, in line with the World Steel Association (worldsteel) campaigns recognizing the “World Day for Safety and Health at Work”*.