Day: May 27, 2019
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Russian Orthodox Official Compares Anti-Church Protests to Romanov Executions
Recent mass protests against plans to replace a city park in central Russia with an Orthodox cathedral are akin to the execution of the country’s last royal family, the head of Yekaterinburg’s diocese said. Protests erupted in Russia’s fourth-largest city this month after fencing went up around a riverside park ahead of the church’s construction,…
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Bike Riding in Moscow: Not For the Faint-Hearted
This year, the annual bike parade advocating for better conditions for bike riders in Moscow was not allowed by the authorities. Instead, the city government organized a festival that was more of a party than a demonstration for bike rights. We took a ride with Valery Larionov, a bike activist, to see how safe and…
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On This Day: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Solzhenitsyn was born in the southern Russian city of Kislovodsk in 1918. He studied both mathematics and philosophy, literature and history before serving in the Great Patriotic War (the Soviet part of World War II) as an officer, later decorated for personal heroism. But despite his record, his criticism of Josef Stalin’s conduct of…
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Russia Rejects New ‘Monroe Doctrine’ of U.S. in Latin America – Lavrov
The United States’ new foreign policy approach in Latin America goes against international law, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said after talks with his Cuban counterpart. U.S. national security advisor John Bolton has invoked the 1823 policy established by then-President James Monroe to warn other countries, including Russia and Cuba, against interfering in Venezuela.…
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Russia Builds 3 New Churches a Day, Orthodox Leader Says
Russian Orthodox Church leader Patriarch Kirill has claimed that Russia constructs three new churches per day less than two weeks after mass protests erupted over the construction of a new cathedral in Yekaterinburg. The Orthodox Church’s influence has grown in recent years as it has received increased support from the Kremlin. Last year, Patriarch Kirill announced…
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4 Russian Journalists Stabbed Over Refusal to Publish Stalin Article – Reports
At least four journalists in the southern Russian city of Stavropol have been stabbed and wounded, regional authorities and media reports said on Monday. The attack took place in the editorial office of the Russian Communist Party’s Rodina newspaper, the governor of Stavropol region said. The unnamed assailant was taken into custody, he added. The…
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RN-Purneftegaz Finishes Development of Innovative Technology for Oil Production Units
Specialists from RN-Purneftegaz LLC, a subsidiary of Rosneft, have developed and tested an innovative anti-icing technology for oil production units. The novel solution’s feature is the use of an exothermic heating device—a chemical heater consisting of a heating cartridge and a cover that is worn on a well casing or a pipeline section. Exothermic heaters…
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Inmate Dies in Russia After Being Tortured in ‘De Facto Murder,’ Activists Say
An inmate has died in a Russian prison as a result of torture, activists have reported, in what they say was a “de facto murder.” Several leaked videos showing prisoner abuse over the past year have led to a mass outcry over torture and nationwide inspections to root out violence. Alexei Sidyakin, who was sentenced in 2018…
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Russia Takes Baby Steps Toward Integrating the Children of Immigrants
Migrant children in Russian kindergartens are to begin learning the language of their adopted country as the authorities launch a teacher-training program to integrate the kids into society, and tackle a demographic problem. Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers from Central Asia and the Caucasus have traveled to Russia each year since the fall of…
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Russian Official Bodyslams Reporter Asking About Corruption, Faces Jail
A district head in Siberia is under investigation for body-slamming a state-run television journalist during an interview featuring questions about corruption allegations. The Rossia 24 news channel showed Sergei Zaytsev, who heads the Shirinsky district in the republic of Khakasia, snatching the reporter’s microphone and throwing him to the ground. Zaytsev told local media that…
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Major Russian Cities Need 100 Years to Reach Moscow’s Development Level, Study Says
Russian cities with populations of 1 million or greater will need at least 100 years to catch up to Moscow’s level of economic development, according to research by the Strelka Consulting Bureau. The 16 cities contributed almost one-third of Russia’s GDP in 2017, more than half of which came from Moscow, the RBC news website…
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PhosAgro Board Elects Independent Director Xavier Rolet as Chairman
Moscow – PhosAgro (“PhosAgro” or “the Company”) (Moscow Exchange, LSE: PHOR), one of the world’s leading vertically integrated phosphate-based fertilizer producers, announces that its Board of Directors has elected Independent Director Xavier Rolet as its Chairman. The Board of Directors also re-elected as its Deputy Chairman Andrey G. Guryev, Vice President of the Russian Union…
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Kremlin Rebuffs Call to Release Detained Ukrainian Sailors
The Kremlin on Monday rebuffed a call by an international maritime tribunal for Russia to release 24 Ukrainian sailors, saying the court had no jurisdiction over the strait where Russian security forces captured them. The Hamburg-based International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) on Saturday said Moscow should release the sailors immediately and that both nations…
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Tomb of Figure Behind Russian Serfs’ Emancipation Discovered in St. Petersburg
The tomb of a 19th-century figure behind legislative statutes that led to the freeing of Russia’s serfs has been discovered in St. Petersburg, Interfax reported. Yakov Rostovtsev, a career military man loyal to the imperial family, chaired a commission tasked with drafting rules that led to the great emancipation of 1861. Rostovtsev died a year…