This year's Rio Carnival has ... The second-placed school also criticised Brazilian leaders in their entry, depicting President Michel Temer as a vampire. Brazil samba schools go political Michel ...

Rio de Janeiro's top 13 samba schools are gearing up for carnival and the parade at Rio's Sambadrome where they will compete on 11 and 12 February to be crowned carnival champions. Ninety-thousand ...

Rio's Carnival officially ended Wednesday, but several large parties are still scheduled through the weekend. The top six finishing samba schools get to march again on Saturday in a champions' parade.

The 1920s marked a turning point with the birth of the first samba schools, which took an active part in the Rio carnival ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, February 11. /TASS/. Russian female dancer Yuliana Titaeva will participate in the samba schools parade at the carnival in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro for the second year a row.