Day of Russia-at EXPO 2010 in Shanghai.

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BEIJING, September 28 (Itar-Tass) - Day of Russia at the World
Universal Exhibition EXPO 2010 started with the ceremonial hoisting of the
Russian tricolour. President Dmitry Medvedev completes his three-day
official visit to China with the participation in this bright event.
Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping acted as "a guide" at the
exhibition. Chinese teenagers - students of Shanghai high schools,
studying the Russian language, greeted the Russian leader with hundreds of
small flags.
The huge screen at the EXPO centre airs Russian state symbols from
Tuesday morning: Peter the Great against the backdrop of a sail fleet is
replaced with portraits of famous Russians of the modern history -
designers of spaceships, planes as well as researchers. Skolkovo is
presented as the development of national science and technologies against
this historic background.
The brass band of the Moscow cadet music school gave a pep to the
numerous audience with a mischievous performance. Boys showed ancient play
of actors, using wooden spoons and pipes and performed a medley of Russian
folk melodies with tattoos; they were replaced with another children's
musical group. And then, the stage was occupied by Yakutia virtuoso violin
players and a dance company from the North Ossetia Republic.
Day of Russia was not dampened even by a Shanghai drizzle: it was
joyful and lively inside the Russian pavilion. Incidentally, this
atmosphere reigns here always despite whims of Mother Nature. Designers
and architects developed an idea of organisers and supplemented it with
the slogan "The best city is the one where children are happy".
Over 240 countries, territories and international organisations put on
display their exhibits at the EXPO 2010. More than 40 of them, including
Russia, erected their own pavilions on the grounds of the exhibition.
Great numbers of visitors are daily welcomed by the Russian pavilion that
is deservedly included in the list of the most beautiful structures
architecturally. It is a composition of 12 towers, circumventing a giant
cube.
One of the "gingers" of the Russian exposition is a children's park
city, located at the second level of the pavilion. Pictures, painted after
Russian fairy tales invariably draw great numbers of small visitors who
leave the fairy city always satisfied.
The atmosphere of holiday is also felt outside the EXPO 2010: the
Pallada and Nadezhda sailboats specially arrived in Shanghai for Day of
Russia. They became floating branches, as it were, of the Russian pavilion.
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