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PHOTO REPORTS
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 | | Сhildren's drawing competition "Orthodox church in Scotland" was organized by the Consulate General in cooperation with the Russian Orthodox School in Glasgow. The awarding ceremony and an opening of the exhibition of children's works in Russian Orthodox School of Glasgow was attended by Consul General of Russia in the Edinburgh Andrey A.Pritsepov, Archpriest Georgiy Zavershinsky and Director of the Orthodox School Deacon Sergei Sokolovsky. |
 | | On 31 October by the kind invitation of the Ministry of Defence in partnership with the Royal British Legion and the City of Liverpool Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko took part in a solemn ceremony commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Arctic Convoy missions which was held in Liverpool Town Hall. |
 | | On 21-23 October 2016 an international conference titled "Poets and Power", jointly organized by the All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature, the Moscow Institute of Translation and Moffat Book Events, was launched in the town of Moffat with participation of the diplomats of the Consulate General of Russia in Edinburgh. |
 | | On 21 October Third Secretary of the Russian Embassy Elizaveta Vokorina, Attaché of the Russian Embassy Mr Oleg Shor, Attaché of the Russian Embassy Elena Gorshkova and Assistant Naval Attaché Commander Dmitry Sharapov presented the Ushakov medals to British veterans of the Arctic Convoys at a ceremony in Leeds. |
 | | Eastern Seasons returns to London from 28 November to 5 December 2016 with a week of cultural, sports and business events that will strengthen ties between the people of Eastern and Western Europe. |
 | | On 6 October, a concert given by cellist of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra Fedor Zemlerub with pianist Pavel Kolesnikov and a launch of the book “Medium” celebrating the 85th anniversary of the TSO, marked the start of the UK-wide tour of one of Russia's most important music collectives. |
 | | For third time the President's SAMBO Cup was held in the United Kingdom. First tournament was in 2014 took place in London, the second was held in Manchester in 2015. On 25th September teams from Italy, Spain, France, Netherlands, Russia and Scotland met in Edinburgh. |
 | | On 27 September, Counsellor of the Embassy Konstantin Shlykov presented the Ushakov medals to the Arctic Convoys veterans Mr Francis William HEIGHINGTON, Mr Thomas HEDLEY, Mr George Edgar LOMAX, Mr William DELANEY, Mr John Robert BROOK, who were awarded this military honour by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation for their personal courage and bravery displayed in WWII. |
 | | On 21st September 2016 Veteran Mr David Craig, who had attended the 75th Anniversary Celebrations of the first Arctic Convoy (codename Dervish) to Archangelsk visited the Consulate General. |
 | | On 13-14 September Attaché of the Embassy Oleg Shor presented the Ushakov medals to the Arctic Convoys veterans Mr William AVERY, Mr John GOULDING, Mr Stanley JOHNSTONE, Mr Norman Francis LANCASTER, Mr Frederick SUTHERN, Mr Stephen Kirk PEARSON, Mr Alexander KIRK, Mr Joseph M WALKER, Mr Edward DALY, Mr James Edward ARMES, Mr Douglas Norman REVELL, Mr Bishop HORACE, Mr John PODZUKITES, George Frederick JENKINS, Mr Howard Lewis HODGSON, Mr Harold WATERS, Mr Thomas SHERIDAN, Mr Albert Winn SWEETING, Mr Frank ELVIN, Mr William Edward HOPWOOD and Mr John George TIPPER, who were awarded this military honour by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation for their personal courage and bravery displayed in WWII. |
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