PHOTO REPORTS
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 | | On 21 May Belfast Waterfront and Ulster Hall hosted Русская Ярмарка 2017 / Russian Fair 2017 . With support of the Lord Mayor's office (the guests were greeted by Deputy Lord Mayor Cllr Campbell and Russian Honorary Consul Duchess of Abercorn) Russian schools and theatres, as well as artistic groups of the Ukrainian, Lithuanian and other communities gave a performance for hundreds of spectators. Fair of traditional gifts from CIS and Baltic countries, old Russian vehicles display and Russian language taster sessions were also popular with the visitors. On the previous day, 20 May, the First Russian School Belfast took part in the Slavic Writing Day in Armagh with the Bulgarian community, and first ever round table of Russian community associations was held in Belfast. |
 | | On 18 May Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko took part in in “Travels in Holy Russia with the Temple Gallery” opening in Rossotrudnichestvo. |
 | | On 7th May 2017, a solemn wreath-laying ceremony was held at the Arctic Convoys Memorial in the Cove, Loch Ewe, on the occasion of the 72nd Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. It was Loch Ewe where many vessels that would travel to and from the Soviet Union were stationed during the war. |
 | | On 10 May 2017 exhibition "The Russians in Scotland" was opened in Montrose. The exhibition casts light on one of the lesser known pages of the World War II – the secret mission of the Soviet pilots who brought British transport airplanes from Scotland to the USSR. |
 | | On 11th May 2017, the Russian Consul General in Edinburgh Mr Andrey Pritsepov had a meeting with the Russian Veteran of the Great Patriotic War Mrs Natalya I.Black, to whom he conveyed the congratulations of the President of the Russian Federation on the occasion of the Victory Day. |
 | | In the framework of the commemorative festival in Pool-Ewe arranged by the Russian Arctic Convoy Project on 7th May this year an opening of a new Museum of the Arctic Convoys took place in Aultbea in the bay of Loch-Ewe. |
 | | In the framework of the commemorative festival in Pool-Ewe arranged by the Russian Arctic Convoy Project this year a training ship from St Petersburg "Yunyi Baltiets" with 47 cadets onboard, students of the Maritime Technical College named in honour of Admiral Senyavin, came to Loch-Ewe on 5th May. |
 | | A number of events commemorating 9 May - Day of Victory in WW2 were held in UK. |
 | | On April 26th Consul General of Russia in Edinburgh Andrey A. Pritsepov held a working meeting with the provost of South Ayrshire Helen Moonie. |
 | | On April 27 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the United Kingdom Mr. Erlan Idrissov gave a talk at the Russian Embassy on "Priorities of Kazakhstan foreign policy in changing world" followed by Q&A session. |
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