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On February 07, 2014 billions of people all over the world were able to witness an exciting show - the XXII Olympic Games Opening Ceremony.

The Sretensky Monastery men's choir sang the Russian National Anthem, while 240 volunteers stood in formation wearing glowing suits of white, red, and blue to represent the Russian flag. The Russian state fla ... Read more »

On December 04, 2013 Russian Post issued the postal stationery devoted to the Space Olympic torch. Total edition are 1 000 000 envelops. The cover says: the Olympic torch is in outer space – for the first time in the history of the Olympic movement. On November 09, 2013 two Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy took an Olympi ... Read more »

On February 06, 2014 at 21:30 UTC the Ariane-5ECA (VA-217) rocket- carrier was launched from Kourou space center in French Guiana. The rocket orbited ABS-2 and ATHENA FIDUS telecommunications satellites.

The ABS 2 spacecraft for Hong Kong-based Asia Broadcast Satellite was built by Space Systems/Loral of Palo Alto, Calif., USA. The satellite will beam direct-to-home television, multimedia and data transmission services across the Eastern Hemisphere, reaching a geographic swath from Europe and Africa, across the Middle East, Russia and India, to Southeast Asia and China.

On February 05, 2014 at 22:22 UTC (on February 06 at 02:22 Moscow time) the Russian "Progress M-22M” unmanned supply spacecraft docked to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was docked to the Russian "Pirs” (Pier) module. The spacecraft carried about 2400 kilograms of cargo for the six-member ISS crew.

On February 05, 2014 at 16:23 UTC the "Progress M-22M” unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was orbited by the "Soyuz-U” rocket-carrier.

On February 03, 2014 at 16:21 UTC the "Progress M-20M” unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the Russian "Pirs” (Pier) module of the International Space Station. The spacecraft is to be deorbited on February 11, 2014.

On January 27, 2014 Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy performed a spacewalk to install a pair of video cameras on the exterior of the International Space Station.

The spacewalk began at 18:10 Moscow time. The cosmonauts, Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazanskiy, installed high- and medium-resolution cameras outside the "Zvezda” module.