Uzbekistan’s first daughter to release new album.
The jet-setting daughter of Uzbekistan’s aging authoritarian president says she’s releasing a new music album.
Gulnara Karimova, who is alternately admired and despised by her fellow countrymen in the former Soviet Central Asian republic, wrote on Twitter that the songs on the album are based on her [...]
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April 21st, 2012 admin Women Logic: The Georgian TV Quiz Show So Offensive, It’s Sparking a National Debate.
Is Salvador Dali a French nudist, an Italian hairstylist or a Spanish surrealist? A television quiz show that portrays the ignorant answers of long-legged, skimpily clad female contestants to trivia questions is sparking an unprecedented outcry in traditionally patriarchal Georgia. Feminist activists [...]
Exchanges
April 21st, 2012 admin Such exchanges have left quite a few Georgian viewers fuming with anger. “Logic does not have a sex,” argued Ninia Kakabadze, a prominent journalist and member of the Media Club, a journalism advocacy group. “There are both stupid men and women out there.”
Not long after the show’s launch in March, a handful of protesters in [...]
Women persist
April 21st, 2012 admin Georgia, though, sometimes seems to contain a mixture of attitudes toward women. A comparative study conducted in 2010 by the Caucasus Research Resource Centers, found far greater support in Georgia for equal access to jobs and education than in Russia, Turkey, Armenia or Azerbaijan.
“In this respect, Georgians’ ideas about gender equality are much closer to [...]
Media
April 21st, 2012 admin Against such a backdrop, Women’s Logic hit a raw nerve. “Programming like this perpetuates the stereotype that a woman must be pretty, well-dressed and brainless,” said Kakabadze. “Media have the power to both make and break the stereotypes,” and Georgian media bear ethical and legal responsibilities not to engage in the former, she added.
The extent [...]
Russian Females
April 21st, 2012 admin Russian Females Ranked 4th in World Beauty List.
Influential Hong Kong-based online magazine Traveler’s Digest has ranked Russian females fourth in a global beauty rating, which strongly contradicts the popular saying that “Russian women are the most beautiful in the world.”
Girls from Sweden grabbed first place in the rating, which the author [...]
Eurotrash
April 21st, 2012 admin When disco diva Grace Jones husked that song in 1981, London was indeed wild for nightlife. The Wag, the Fridge, Blitz, Annabel’s, Tramp, Maunkberrys, the Embassy and the vast, sprawling gay club Heaven clamored nightly for attention. Gay/straight, high/low was the customer mix. And although there was a certain amount of [...]
Fashion design
April 21st, 2012 admin Mr. Ozbek, who is Turkish, was the Florenz Ziegfeld of his day, known for his theatrical catwalk presentations, the most famous of which was undoubtedly his all-white New Age collection shown in 1990. It ushered in the decade of ecstasy-fueled raves with which he then became synonymous. He retired from fashion [...]
Fashion icon Isabella Blow
April 21st, 2012 admin The 25,000-square-foot complex containing LouLou’s and its multifarious offices has swallowed an entire block of Shepherd Market, a neighborhood with the reputation for housing the largest community of prostitutes in town. “The biggest madam lives over there,” chortled club owner Robin Birley, indicating a fairly posh-looking town house as we [...]
Anna Chapman
April 21st, 2012 admin Russian ‘spy’ Anna Chapman to participate in fashion show in Turkey.
Anna Chapman, the “sultry Russian secret agent” who hit the headlines last year after being exposed as a deep-cover operative in the United States, is coming to Turkey this summer to appear in a fashion show, Hurriyet Daily News reported.
Chapman announced on [...]
Moscow fashion show
April 21st, 2012 admin Twilight actress Ashley Greene attended a Moscow fashion show on April 5. Greene, 25, went all out in a full black ensemble with her mid-length dark brown hair fashioned in a slight wave.
Seen on the Daily Mail, Greene’s outfit consisted of a cropped black faux fur jacket and a simple black [...]
Designer Valentin Yudashkin
April 21st, 2012 admin Famed Russian Designer Valentin Yudashkin Opens Moscow Fashion Week With ‘Aggressive Elegance’.
Famed Russian fashion designer turned chief editor of Russia’s first fashion TV channel, Valentin Yudashkin, hopes to use the channel to promote new designers.
He said, “”Young designers are the main and most interesting part of the project. Now it is very [...]
Russia With Money
April 21st, 2012 admin From Russia With Money: How KupiVIP Is Riding The Middle Class Wave.
From a slow start in the aftermath of the Soviet Union, Russia is now Europe’s biggest internet market with 53 million users (compared to number-two Germany at 51 million), and figures from GP Bullhound and comScore indicate that it is also growing the [...]
Like Russia
April 21st, 2012 admin A story that Hartmann tells gives an insight into some of the trials and tribulations of building a startup in a country like Russia:
“It was January 21, 2009, and we were just about to get a new financing round. At the time we had negative 200 million euros in the bank,” recalls [...]
Brand fashion
April 21st, 2012 admin Most recently, the white-label service, which KupiVIP started building two years ago, has now begun to grow in earnest: it now has nine big brands signed on (Adidas being one of the most recent, going live just this week), with plans to have 23 by the end of this year, launching two [...]
Ozon
April 21st, 2012 admin There are some areas that are no-go for KupiVIP. For one, Hartmann says that the company will not touch electronics and books, which are already being served well by Ozon and others, because he believes startups first and foremost need to “solve problems that are unsolved.”
Plus he thinks that even for [...]
Designers
February 8th, 2012 admin Designers dive into the deep blue sea for spring/summer 2012
Coral, seahorses and mermaids are central to the new spring/summer 2012 season’s ‘underwater world’ trend.
Amidst the icy cold snap and talk of snowfall, it is brass monkeys more than sea monkeys that spring to mind this week, but when better to look forward to [...]
Karl Lagerfeld
February 8th, 2012 admin At it again: Karl Lagerfeld let’s rip on his world view
Russian men are ‘ugly’, Adele is ‘a little fat’, Greeks are ‘corrupt’ and the monarchy is ‘unnecessary’. Just say what you really mean Karl for crying out loud…
Outspoken fashion guru Karl Lagerfeld has branded British singer Adele as ‘fat’, called Russian men [...]
Russia
February 8th, 2012 admin Bogomolov Jr. to debut for Russia against Austria.
Miami-based Alex Bogomolov Jr.’s Davis Cup dream finally becomes a reality this week – though he won’t be representing the country he has called home for almost 20 years.
Moscow-born Bogomolov has been included in [...]
Men and Women
February 8th, 2012 admin Renowned Orthodox priest criticizes draft on equality between men and women
The document is composed under outside influence and aims at weakening Russia
Draft of the law On State Guarantees of Equal Rights and Freedoms for Men and Women and Equal Possibilities for Realizing them” will destroy the institute of family and result in [...]
Sochi
February 8th, 2012 admin Sochi downhill course set for World Cup test.
The alpine skiing venue for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics is about to get its first big test with the likes of Lindsey Vonn and Aksel Lund Svindal leading the World Cup circuit to the Rosa Khutor resort in Russia.
Following three days of training runs, [...]
Modern women
February 8th, 2012 admin Do Women Take Too Much Initiative in Love?
Are men hunters no more? Is it up to women nowadays to make the first move?
Svetlana Kolchik
These questions popped up in my head after the latest issue of the Russian Marie Claire came out and our magazine once again turned into a large 24/7 dating agency. [...]
Russia’s
February 8th, 2012 admin Their backs to the massive Lenin statue on October Square, the Anarchists were spoiling for a fight. Dressed in black, the young men and women jumped up and down, straining at their rope lines, and chanting again and again: “Аста Ла Виста, беби!Аста Ла Виста, беби!”
I asked a middle aged man who [...]
small city Russia
February 8th, 2012 admin Two days before the Feb. 4 protest march, Dmitry Peskov, Mr. Putin’s spokesman, tried to pop the balloon of political suspense in an interview with The New York Times. On the night of the March 4 presidential election, he predicted, the opposition will cry fraud (fake yawn). And then, the next [...]
Russia’s new generation
February 8th, 2012 admin Boris Nemtsov, one of the bigger egos of the opposition movement, was recently caught on the wrong side of this generational divide. In a secretly recorded conversation leaked to an internet news site, the 52-year-old opposition leader derided Russia’s new generation of dissidents as “internet hamsters.” When his indiscretion was revealed [...]
Russian women Anna Chapman
October 30th, 2011 admin Glamorous Russian women Anna Chapman took part in an erotic photo shoot for Russia’s most popular men’s magazine.
Maxim magazine has released a promotional trailer of the issue which features Russian women Anna Chapman flaunting g-strings and a pistol.
As the magazine’s website states, in addition to the lascivious photo shoot the “mysterious debutante in [...]
Russian woman
October 30th, 2011 admin Former UK spymaster to decide case of Russian woman
Katya Zatuliveter, a Russian woman accused of spying in the UK, is fighting attempts to deport her from the country in a court where one of the panel judges is a former MI5 boss.
She denies all charges of espionage at an appeal before a special [...]
Russian Documentary
October 30th, 2011 admin Static, Tragic and Narrow: What’s To Be Done About Russian Documentary?
In 2010, filmmaker Olga Stefanova left her Moscow apartment to spend a year at Russia’s Bellingshausen polar station documenting the lives of 15 men who live there.
Thousands of miles away, Yulia Panasenko knocked on the door of her neighbor who was suffering [...]
Russian women
October 30th, 2011 admin Russian women win big in boxing
The Women’s national boxing team of Russia has won four gold medals at the European Championship, held in Rotterdam.
The Russian women won the team competition, winning seven medals; four gold, two silver and one bronze.
Russian women Svetlana Gnevanova defeated Lynsey Holdaway from Wales with a score of 13:9.
Russian women Elena [...]
Russian
October 30th, 2011 admin Russian Bolshoi Theatre re-opened on Friday after a lavish renovation that took six years, cost $700 million and revived a revered cultural symbol scarred by centuries of use and abuse.
Politicians, billionaires, film directors and fashion designers of the Russian elite strolled the red carpet leading up to the cream-coloured, eight-columned [...]
Russian Bolshoi Theater
October 30th, 2011 admin Russian Bolshoi Theater reopens after six-year restoration
The Russian Bolshoi Theater, one of the main landmarks of the Russian capital and a symbol of Russian culture, reopened Friday after six years of reconstruction with a gala concert attended by members of the Russian and international beau monde.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and former Soviet [...]