Day: January 17, 2020
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Ukraine President Gives Prime Minister Second Chance After Tape Leak
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday allowed Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk to keep his job after the leak of an embarrassing audio recording prompted Honcharuk to submit his resignation. In a carefully choreographed video of the two men sitting at a desk that was released on Friday evening, in which Honcharuk was mostly silent, Zelenskiy…
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Russia’s Largest Airport Opens New $500M International Terminal
Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport opened the first phase of its newest international terminal Friday. Sheremetyevo is the eighth-busiest airport in Europe, with more than 49.9 million travelers using its terminals last year. Terminal C, the airport’s fifth terminal, covers 127,000 square meters and has an annual capacity of 20 million passengers. With the opening of Terminal…
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From the Archive: A Real Russian Winter From the 90s
As the only remaining independent, English-language news source reporting from Russia, The Moscow Times plays a critical role in connecting Russia to the world. Editorial decisions are made entirely by journalists in our newsroom, who adhere to the highest ethical standards. We fearlessly cover issues that are often considered off-limits or taboo in Russia, from…
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Gazprom supports launch of Pristine Russia Festival
Background The Vernadsky Nongovernmental Ecological Foundation was established in 1995 at the initiative of Gazprom. For more than 20 years, the Foundation has been pursuing its main goal of achieving sustainable environmentally-oriented social and economic development of society based on the scientific heritage of the academician Vladimir Vernadsky. The Foundation comprises over 30 member organizations headed by its founding company, Gazprom. The Foundation serves as a consulting…
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Ukrainian PM Offers to Quit After Tape Suggests He Criticized President
Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk submitted his resignation on Friday after an audio recording suggested he had criticized the president, but then appeared to suggest that he might stay in his job. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy would consider the resignation letter later on Friday, the president’s office said. Speculation over Honcharuk’s position has grown this week…
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Russia’s Northern Fleet to Get New Anti-Submarine Aircraft
Russia’s Northern Fleet is set to acquire new anti-submarine aircraft that will be modeled on a late-Soviet passenger plane. A modified version of the Tupolev-204/214 passenger plane will be the equivalent of U.S. built Boeing P-8 Poseidon that Norway, among other countries, will deploy for surveillance flights over the Barents and Norwegian Seas. The revamped…
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Top Russian University Moves to Ban Political Speech
One of Russia’s elite universities is considering banning its students and faculty from exercising political speech in the wake of high-profile scandals involving free speech last year, according to its newly proposed rules. Moscow’s Higher School of Economics (HSE) became embroiled in several controversies in 2019, including the cancellation of its student talk show after…
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Russia’s Nuclear-Powered Icebreaker Escorts Up 54% in 2019
The number of ships escorted by Russian icebreakers along the Northern Sea Route increased by 54% between 2018 and 2019. The increase in ship escorting is caused by an increase in LNG production on the Yamal Peninsula, Rosatomflot, the company managing Russia’s fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers, said. The 510 vessels that were escorted through the…
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Mikhail Who? Weary Russians Welcome Change of Prime Minister
Few people on the streets of Moscow on Thursday had heard of Mikhail Mishustin, the former Federal Tax Service chief plucked from relative obscurity by President Vladimir Putin this week to serve as new prime minister. But many welcomed the abrupt exit of his long-time predecessor and said sweeping changes at the top had been…
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350K Syrians Have Fled Russian-Led Assault in Idlib, UN Says
Around 350,000 Syrians, mostly women and children, have fled a renewed Russian-backed offensive in the opposition-held Idlib province since early December, and have sought shelter in border areas near Turkey, the United Nations said on Thursday. Conditions for people were deteriorating because of the increased hostilities, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs…