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Featured July 22, 2026
Russian Film Streaming Service Launches In Tajikistan
Russia’s online cinema screening service Wink has just entered the Tajik market, with locals able to access over 35,000 movies, TV series and cartoons via subscription.
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Featured June 25, 2026
Multiculturalism Not Dead: The Russia-India Bollywood Film “Persimmon Of My Love” Gets Rave Reviews
Is multiculturalism dead – or just moving away from the West to the Global South? The joint Russia-India film ‘Persimmon of my Love’ has been playing to rave reviews on a national release in Russia, while co-BRICS film productions are also underway between Russia and Brazil, China, Egypt, Iran and Indonesia amongst others.
April 7, 2026
Russia To Strengthen Ties With Islamic Countries: Lavrov
Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, has met with the Ambassadors of all the 57 Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) members, stressing the need for further cooperation and trade development. The OIC has a combined population of about 25% of the entire world’s people.
April 7, 2026
Russia, Saudi Arabia To Commence Visa-Free Travel From May 11
Russia and Saudi Arabia are to start their mutual visa-free programme from May 11. There are about 20 million Muslims in Russia, in regions such as Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, and Karachay-Cherkessia. The annual Haj pilgrimage to Mecca runs from May 24 to Friday May 29.
March 12, 2026
Israel Attacks Russian Cultural Centre In The Lebanon
Israel has bombed the Russian Culture Centre in Lebanon, flattening the building. No-one was in the building at the time of its collapse. Moscow has called the attack an “unprovoked act of aggression”.
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February 16, 2026
Russia’s Trade With Countries Celebrating The Lunar New Year Of The Horse
Monday (February 16) is Lunar New Year’s Eve and is the traditional day for families throughout Asia to come together, have a huge dinner, and wait for midnight to welcome in the beginning of a New Year. Because a year of twelve lunar months is 11 days shorter than a solar year (which determines the […]
January 21, 2026
First Russian Orthodox Church Opens In Mauritius
The first Russian Orthodox church in Mauritius was consecrated on Sunday, (January 18) on Epiphany Eve, the Patriarchal Exarchate of Africa has announced. The exarchate, part of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, stated that Metropolitan Konstantin of Cairo and North Africa, who is temporarily overseeing the South African Diocese, performed the rite […]
October 17, 2025
Russia-Morocco Bilateral Relations: October 2025 Update
The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, has held discussions in Moscow with Nasser Bourita, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Morocco. They had also met last month in New York. Lavrov had this to say: “We reiterated mutual firm commitment to continuing joint work aimed at further strengthening the traditionally friendly and […]
October 11, 2025
Why The 1935 Roerich Peace Pact Is Relevant To Europe Now
Russia’s Pivot To Asia has been attending the 25th International & Scientific Conference on Roerich Heritage, currently being held at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Nicholas Roerich was a Russian academic, philosopher, artist, and explorer who also initiated the Treaty on the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions and Historic Monuments, an inter-American treaty […]
September 27, 2025
World Buddhist Forum Kicks Off In Russia’s Kalmykia Republic
The 3rd International Buddhist Forum, with the theme “The Buddhist World in the New Millennium” has begun in Elista, the capital of the Kalmykia Republic in European Russia. The Republic Flag is depicted above. Kalmykia is the only Buddhist region in Europe and was originally populated by descendants of the Mongol tribes and other Central […]
September 13, 2025
Is Europe Becoming Evil?
The concept of evil and the ability for it to permeate into entire societies is not new, with perhaps the most recent example being Nazi Germany, where the German people themselves both voted the Nazi party into power and then seemingly looked the other way as atrocities were committed. The concept of evil as a […]