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The street art world has undergone a massive shift in the past few years, with famous figures like Banksy and Shepard Fairey elevating the medium to mainstream consciousness.

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to the CEO of Siemens AG Joe Kaeser during their meeting in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, March 26, 2014.

The visit of Japan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida to Russia, scheduled to late April, has been postponed.

A group of six Ukrainians visited Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment Thursday to learn about the school and to share information about their native country.

One of Russia's lawmakers who helped create the infamous "homosexual propaganda" bill, which was signed into law by President Vladimir Putin last summer, is now urging for all gay clubs and LGBT social media pages to be banned, Gay Star News reports.

The company classifies its products into two major divisions namely, seamless products and welded products.

Russian ties may be at their frostiest since the height of the Cold War, but at least there's some warmth to the relationship between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

In a note to members, which supposedly stemmed from a Russian request, council members were originally invited to informal consultations on Monday evening.

As far as hotels go, the Brioni Boutique is pretty nondescript. Except, of course, for the neatly printed note on its door with the following message: "As of March 24, 2014 we refuse accommodation to citizens of the Russian Federation because of the annexation of Crimea.

Regulatory: Sberbank: STATEMENT of Material Fact 'On specific resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of the issuer' Sberbank / Miscellaneous 16.04.2014 10:34 Dissemination of a Regulatory Announcement, transmitted by EquityStory.RS, LLC - a company of EQS Group AG.

In the early 1990s, when the German spa town of Baden-Baden was aging and fading, an inflow of Russian money that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union boosted tourism and drove up real-estate prices.

A photographer spent four years travelling across the former Soviet Union, taking pictures of the grand new buildings constructed since the fall of Communism.

Beginning in May, The Cherry Orchard Festival Foundation will hold its 2nd annual International Arts Festival in New York City.

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with All-Russia People's Front activists in his Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, 10 April 2014.

Russia declared Ukraine on the brink of civil war on Tuesday as Kiev said an "anti-terrorist operation" against pro-Moscow separatists was underway, though the crackdown got off to a slow start, if at all.

Speaking for the first time in more than two weeks, President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin showed little sign of agreement on Monday, with the U.S. leader urging pro-Russian forces to de-escalate the situation in eastern Ukraine and Putin denying that Moscow was interfering in the region.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the events that unfolded over the weekend in Ukraine are the work of "Russian provocateurs" orchestrated by the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

DECEMBER 2013: APPLY) Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden poses for a photo during an interview in an undisclosed location in December 2013 in Moscow, Russia.

Sweden's Foregn Minister Carl Bildt, left, talks with Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague, center, and Denmark's Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard at the start of an EU foreign ministers meeting at the EU Council building in Luxembourg, Monday, April 14, 2014.

Pro-Russian men storm a police station in the eastern Ukrainian town of Horlivka on Monday, April 14, 2014.