Monthly Archives: May 2017

Moscow City Hall’s planned demolition of more than 4,500 homes across the capital could spark an “environmental collapse,” activist group Greenpeace has warned.

Summer in Moscow means enjoying the breeze and stunning views from the city’s terraces. Whether you’re out to hobnob with the elite, hang out with hip crowds or just kick back with a glass of wine, here’s where to go.

Russian police have raided a leading contemporary theater in Moscow as part of a corruption investigation.

The number of Russian children living in state care has more than halved over the past five years, government data has revealed.

Officials in Russia’s remote Far East have been accused of exploiting former Hollywood action star Steven Seagal to promote a Kremlin agriculture scheme.

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service says it’s uncovered a price-fixing cartel in the Defense Ministry’s procurement contracts worth billions.

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov reportedly earned more than Russian President Vladimir Putin last year.

Russian believers have flocked to the capital’s iconic Cathedral of Christ the Savior in a bid to see holy relics from one of Russian Orthodoxy’s most beloved saints.

Almost a quarter of Russians have witnessed or experienced beatings carried out by police and medical staff, a new report has revealed.

Within the last three months, the price war escalated between Moscow’s three major app providers — Yandex-Taxi, Gett and Uber, — making the city’s taxi market a liberal microcosm for an economically illiberal Russia.

Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation has published new latest investigative work revealing what it says is a cartel of businesses owned by Evgeny Prigozhin and contracted by the Defense Ministry.

The annual show by Moscow’s stage designers is being held in an abandoned hospital.

Russia’s military intervention in Syria has paid important foreign and domestic policy returns for the Kremlin.

A Moscow court has ordered the parents of deceased Russian singer Zhanna Friske to return 21.6 million rubles to a charity.

The Soviet Union’s Pioneer Organization marks its 95th anniversary today, May 19, 2017. The Moscow Times looks back at the Soviet Union’s “always ready” children.

Russia’s National Guard is planning to train IT experts and specialists to monitor social networks, the Interfax news agency reported Friday, citing first deputy commander of the National Guard Sergei Melikov.

An investigation into a violent attack on environmental activists last year has ended without any arrests or charges.

When you begin to study a foreign language, at first you are struck by all the differences. But then slowly but surely something really strange happens. It begins to make sense.

Russia’s iconic Tretyakov gallery is set to open its third Moscow campus by the end of 2019.

Arts professor John Lavell’s last big project is to establish a British arts school in Moscow. He spoke to The Moscow Times about his background in art, his work – and his random approach to discovering Moscow.

Russia wants to extend oil production restrictions to drive up prices. In reality, it has few other choices.

Once celebrated as the city of 1,000 churches, these days Moscow is a city of museums. On the evening of May 20, over 200 museums, galleries, and art schools will open their doors to the public for the 11th annual “Museum Night”

A recent court case demonstrates that the Russian church has teamed up with the state to take aim at atheists.

Moscow registry offices have banned live music and champagne receptions for “disrupting officials’ work.”

The Moscow government will vote on new changes to the capital’s controversial home demolition program, despite city prosecutors slamming the law as “unclear.”

Muscovites say money-laundering and profiteering are the driving forces behind the government’s city-wide demolition scheme, a report released by state-run pollster VTsIOM has revealed.

Clothing in an art squat, burgers at the butcher, steak specialists, and culinary students serving up breakfast all day long.

The company behind messaging app Telegram has said it will not hand over information to the Russian state amid reports of government pressure to give up company data.

Moscow’s monorail will disappear from the city’s skies as part of new renovation work, City Hall has announced.

Mayor Sergei Sobyanin takes the tricks Russia plays on foreign audiences and puts them to use against his own constituents.

Hong Kong at the Holiday Inn Sokolniki continues the culinary syncretism of its namesake, drawing on modern Western trends for dishes Europeans would expect on a Chinese menu.

With the promise of summer around the corner, it’s time to get out and make the most of the outdoors. Adrenaline junkie? Fitness freak? Just looking to make friends? Moscow has a wealth of options on offer.