Day: July 26, 2019
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Wildfires Engulf Russia’s Siberia
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Russia Sends Mass Quantities of Supplies to Arctic Military Bases
Arctic winters are long and the next one is just around the corner. Stockpiles across Russia’s vast northern coastline and in its remote Arctic archipelagos are already running low and will soon be in need of fresh supplies. The only way to deliver supplies to the region is by boat and the delivery window is…
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Moscow Cinema Accuses Authorities of Censorship in ‘Death of Stalin’ Row
One of Moscow’s few English-language movie theaters has asked the Russian Constitutional Court to settle a dispute over censorship stemming from its release of director Armando Iannucci’s “The Death of Stalin” last year. Pioner Cinema was raided and fined in early 2018 for screening the satirical film on the power struggle that took place following…
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Moscow Warns U.K. Media of Consequences After London Fines RT News Channel
Russia‘s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday warned British media operating in Russia that they should be ready to face the consequences after a British regulator fined Russia‘s RT state-financed TV channel. Moscow was responding after Ofcom, Britain’s media regulator, earlier on Friday fined RT £200,000 ($248,740) for breaching broadcasting impartiality rules in its coverage of the poisoning…
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Russia Demands U.S. End ‘Discriminatory’ Athlete Visa Practices
Russia has called on the United States to end its “discriminatory” visa policy toward Russian athletes after it denied a visa to tennis star Svetlana Kuznetsova, effectively forcing her to skip a tournament to defend her title. Kuznetsova, 34, will not be able to defend her title at the July 27-Aug. 4 Citi Open in…
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PhosAgro’s Domestic Fertilizer Sales Rise by 14.3% year-on-year to 1.65 million tons in 1H 2019
Moscow – Russia’s largest mineral fertilizer distribution network PhosAgro-Region (a PhosAgro subsidiary) increased the total volume of mineral fertilizer sales to Russian agricultural producers by 14.3% year-on-year to 1.65 million tonnes in 1H 2019. Sales of PhosAgro mineral fertilizers to the domestic market increased by 17.4% year-on-year to 1.4 million tonnes in 1H 2019, while…
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Wildfires Engulf Siberia, Sparking Online Pleas for Help
Huge swathes of Russia have been engulfed in wildfires over the past month, prompting hundreds of social media users to issue a plea to the authorities to step up measures to put out the flames. European scientists have rung the alarm about the 100 and counting “unprecedented” wildfires that have hit Russia’s Arctic and Siberia since…
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RT Fined by British Regulator for Breaking Broadcast Rules over Skripal and Syria
Britain’s media regulator fined Russia‘s RT £200,000 ($248,740) for breaching broadcasting impartiality rules in its coverage of the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal, the policies of Ukraine and the conflict in Syria. Relations between London and Moscow sank to a post-Cold War low over the 2018 poisoning of Skripal, a mole who betrayed hundreds of Russian…
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Russia’s Retirees Dazzle on the Dance Floor
On July 25, hundreds of retirees joined a 10-hour dance marathon in Moscow’s Sokolniki Park. Part of the Moscow Longevity project, where Moscow’s senior citizens are invited to continue to develop their skills in IT, sport and dance, 220 couples in their golden years twisted and tangoed for the contest’s main prize. Here’s a look…
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What’s Killing Russia’s Honey Bees?
As footage pans over honey bees lying dead on the ground, a beekeeper breaks into tears. “How can we go on?” he says. From the Moscow suburbs to the Altai republic more than 4,000 kilometers to the east in Siberia, millions of bees were reported to have died off this summer. Mass bee deaths were…
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Russia to Ban Atlantic Council Think Tank Over ‘Security Threat’
Russia said Thursday it was preparing to ban the Atlantic Council, a think-tank formerly run by the U.S. ambassador to Moscow, which Russia‘s prosecutor general described as a security threat. “It has been established that the activities of this organization present a threat to the fundamentals of the constitutional order and security of the Russian Federation,” the prosecutor…
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Russian Police Drag Opposition Candidate Onto Street on Couch to be Detained
Russian police dragged opposition candidate Lyubov Sobol out of the Moscow election office on a couch as she staged a sit-in protest on Thursday night against the exclusion of several opposition candidates from upcoming local elections. Sobol, a longtime aide to opposition leader Alexei Navalny, had declared a hunger strike nearly two weeks ago over…
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Don’t Discriminate Against Russia’s Rich, Top Senator Says
Rich Russians should not be discriminated against, the country’s senate speaker has said days after Forbes published a ranking of the 100 wealthiest civil servants. Regional deputies, governors and federal executive and legislative officials collectively earned 71 billion rubles ($1.1 billion) in 2018, Forbes Russia said earlier this month. The business magazine used the incomes…