Irina Burmistrova

A four-time Australian all-around champion, 2022 Commonwealth Games clubs champion, team silver medalist, and all-around bronze medalist, Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva won the all-around at the 2024 Oceania Championships and will represent Australia at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

92-year-old Tamara Spiridonovna Plastovets came to Australia after the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army. She celebrated her last birthday with her family thousands of miles away from home.

The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) hosts the Pharaoh exhibition, dedicated to three thousand years of ancient Egyptian art and culture. The exhibition was created in partnership with the British Museum as part of the Winter Masterpieces series. Listen about the exhibition and other important…

This year, her turtle won an international soft toy competition in Germany and won a Teddy Oscar. Listen to the interview about lives of teddy-makers, the Teddy Bear Bazaar exhibition, and the collection of Australian animals as Vikings.

How was Wi-Fi invented? Why did they grow a mould room at the institute? Who gifted people the joy of hearing? And what does this have to do with shells on the beach? The second season of the podcast "Koo-koo, kookaburra!" is all about Australian inventions. Audio in Russian only.

How was Wi-Fi invented? Why did they grow a mould room at the institute? Who gifted people the joy of hearing? And what does this have to do with shells on the beach? The second season of the podcast "Koo-koo, kookaburra!" is all about Australian inventions. Audio in Russian only.

How was Wi-Fi invented? Why did they grow a mould room at the institute? Who gifted people the joy of hearing? And what does this have to do with shells on the beach? The second season of the podcast "Koo-koo, kookaburra!" is all about Australian inventions. Audio in Russian only.

"Pouehali" is an SBS Russian podcast where we talk about the waves of emigration from Russia and the Soviet Union. In the second season, we talk about the emigration of Jews from the USSR to Australia, which began in 1974.

Nina Sanadze, a visual artist and sculptor from Melbourne, opens the Goldstone Gallery in February. The first exhibition will be the first solo show by Russian photojournalist Evgeny Feldman. It commemorates the one-year anniversary of Alexei Navalny’s tragic death in a Siberian penal colony

Melbourne is hosting the Melbourne Comedy Festival 2025. Among the venues is the Russian House, where concerts will take place on April 11, 12 and 19. Elena Strelnikova started performing as a stand-up comedian after Russia invaded Ukraine. She calls comedy her way of psychotherapy and says that…