Lezginka and Caucasian cuisine: Moscow Spring Festival kicks off
In Russia's Year of Unity of the Peoples, the Moscow Spring Festival has begun. Visitors explored the vibrant Lezginka dance and Caucasian cuisine on Tverskoy Boulevard.
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Chinese New Year 2025: How Moscow celebrates the Year of the Snake
The festival "Chinese New Year in Moscow" is currently taking place in the capital of Russia. Muscovites and tourists are celebrating the Year of the Snake according to the Chinese calendar. The festivities include exhibitions, master classes and traditional Chinese New Year treats.
Why falcons are symbol of status in the Middle East
Falcons have always been part of the Bedouin culture, and the tradition of falcon hunting remains a long-established pastime
Museum of words opens in Turkiye
Turkish words meet art in the capital Ankara's and Türkiye's first "Museum of Words"
Saudi musicians to write coffee symphony
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture announced that it would run a competition called “Maazoufat Al-Qahwa Al-Saoudiyya” (Saudi Coffee Symphony), as part of the “Year of Saudi Coffee” activities
Exhibition "Disappearing and Eternal" opened at the State Museum of Oriental Art (photo report)
The exhibition "Disappearing and Eternal" has opened at the State Museum of Oriental Art today. It presents the work of three contemporary artists - Chinese Cheng Ran and two Europeans Anatoly Zhuravlev and Item Idem …
World prepares for Nowruz
The UN has marked 21 March as International Nowruz Day — a celebration of spring and the connection between humans and nature. Here, we look at the similarities between, and peculiarities across, the nations that commemorate this ancient rite, National Geographic writes. Every March, 300 million people from across the world take part in celebrations that involve leaping over bonfires, performing folk music and reciting poems, cleaning every inch of their homes and eating copious amounts of home-cooked food in the process.
Seda Khaitaeva: "Caucasian choreography is the best way to form the main female qualities"
The interlocutor of Vestnik Kavkaza is Seda (Star) Khaytaev, People’s Artist of the Chechen Republic, soloist of the State Dance Ensemble Vainakh, which celebrates its 80 anniversary last year. Seda was born in 1987, she had to see and …
Valery Kazakov: "Nogai was international language"
One of the small nations' main problems is the preservation of national culture, traditions and language
Elena Khripushina: "Caucasus is one of the most beautiful places on Earth with the best people"
Interethnic marriages are considered one of the foundations of multinational Russia. The interlocutor of Vestnik Kavkaza Elena Khripushina was born in the Voronezh region, graduated from the Voronezh Institute of High Technologies with a …
Irina Ramazanova: "Living by strict Caucasian principles makes my sons real men"
Interethnic marriages are considered one of the foundations of multinational Russia
Tahir Amiraslanov: "Azerbaijan's tea tradition should be added to UNESCO Intangible Heritage List"
Head of the National Culinary Association and the National Culinary Center about the tea culture
Irina Kiyanian: "Stereotypes about Iran have nothing to do with real situation in the country"
Interethnic marriages have always been considered the basis of popular diplomacy, interstate interaction in the humanitarian sphere. The interlocutor of Vestnik Kavkaza Irina Kiyanian, who studied at the Faculty of World Economy in …
Goat Blood at origins of Valentine's Day
From pagan rituals to a dozen roses, Valentine's Day has come a long way
Dungans in Kazakhstan
One of the little-known peoples of multinational Kazakhstan
New Year's lucky food
6 New Year’s food traditions from around the world
Spiegel on Armenian women's fate
1400 pregnancies are terminated every year in Armenia, because many don't want a girl
Novruz is effective tool to unite peoples
Holiday of spring, family, cleanliness, kindness and mercy
Love, North Caucasus style
In the North Caucasus, traditional and modern expectations of relationships are more chequered than a patchwork quilt. Here’s how young couples negotiate them
Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan: Disorient
Geographers intend to reconsider a border between Europe and Asia