Monthly Archives: July 2017

The defendants were reportedly members of a criminal group known as the GTA Gang.

Three Russian non-governmental organizations which have been labeled “foreign agents” have been awarded presidential grants.

The Russian LGBT Network published a new report on Monday, adding to mounting allegations of persecutions of gay people in Chechnya

The controversial urban renewal scheme is scheduled to roll out over two decades

The Kremlin’s ban on VPNs is less about national security than self preservation

Starting Aug. 1, elevator repairs should not take longer than 24 hours and the evacuation of people stuck inside elevators should take place within 30 minutes.

What you need to know about Moscow’s decision to cut U.S. diplomatic staff to 455.

Russia blocked access on Tuesday to U.S. embassy recreational property in a Moscow suburb and closed access to a 2,000 square meter warehouse.

A Russian official has said Moscow will reciprocate with longer wait times if the U.S. Embassy slows up travel visa processing for Russian citizens.

Independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta has published photocopies of documents they say corroborate their earlier investigation into extrajudicial killings in the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya

Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced on Friday it was ordering cuts to U.S. diplomatic staff in Russia to 455 employees by September

Stalinism was criminal, costly and inefficient. Today’s Russia could meet the same fate.

A Ukrainian citizen has been given a 12- year prison sentence for allegedly plotting a terror attack in Russia.

Russia held back with introducing sanctions “for quite some time,” Putin says, but lost hope after Washington’s “unprovoked move.”

Russia’s Navy Day is a national holiday that is celebrated on the last Sunday of July. This year, Navy Day was celebrated in St. Petersburg, Vladivostok and Sevastopol.

The new laws, which come into force Nov. 1, forbid internet proxy services (VPNs) that help internet users gain access to websites that have been blocked by the government.

The expulsions allow Russia to signal displeasure without doing serious harm. But that could change.

For years, Russian-Chinese naval exercises have been staged closer and closer to potential conflict zones and the training scenarios have become increasingly realistic.

The six years of perestroika – from 1985 until the end of 1991 when the Soviet Union was dissolved – was a time of wildly syncopated change in the country.

With all this talk in the U.S. about collusion and Russians, I wondered: How do you collude in Russian? You never know when you may want to.

Moscow’s Afghan community centers around a cluster of gray tower blocks that make up the Soviet-era Sevastopol Hotel

Russia has ordered the United States to reduce its diplomatic and technical staff at its Embassy in Moscow and diplomatic missions in other Russian cities in response to a U.S. Senate vote to impose tougher sanctions.

State-run television is the principal source of news for a majority of young Russians, the independent Russian television channel Dozhd reported Friday.

The U.S. Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a bill calling for tougher economic sanctions against Russia

An earlier version of the law passed in 2013 imposed a lifetime ban on draft dodgers.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev described the former Odessa governor being stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship as “tragicomedy” in a Facebook post on Thursday.

The ballet might still premiere this year after billionaire Roman Abramovich intervened, Kommersant reports

This weekend in Moscow the weather will be hot and mostly sunny, just in time for the capital’s most famous music festival — the Afisha Picnic.

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed an agreement with Syria which will give the Russian military access to an airbase on the Mediterranean for another half a century

Moscow has threatened far-reaching countermeasures on the U.S. if new sanctions are implemented

The ad was published back in April, but had gone unnoticed by media until now.

The European Court of Human Rights has ordered the Russian government to pay 6,000 euros in compensation to one of the men convicted in the murder of Russian politician, Boris Nemtsov

“We are fighting for the right for free access to government information, including, political repression in the U.S.S.R.”

“We are fighting for the right for free access to government information, including, political repression in the U.S.S.R.”

Dvorkovich said Siemens had not suspended Russian deliveries entirely, only those to “state companies.”

A monument to Ivan the Terrible has been erected in Moscow, the Russian Military-Historical Society announced on its website on Wednesday

Top Russian officials on Wednesday slammed a U.S. House of Representatives vote in favor of fresh sanctions

Top Russian officials on Wednesday slammed a U.S. House of Representatives vote in favor of fresh sanctions

In an amendment published online, the EU described Arkady Rotenberg as “a prominent Russian businessman who has close personal ties to President Putin.”

In Russia, business thrives on the backs of people receiving old Soviet services

The number of wealthy Russians declaring foreign assets has spiked in recent months, the RBC news outlet reported citing research conducted by real estate broker Tranio and British company Adam Smith Conferences

Inmates at a prison in the Urals have gone on a hunger strike, with some demanding visitation rights for multiple wives and English-language conversation.

Kaspersky Lab has launched a worldwide roll-out of a free antivirus program

Vladimir Putin is having a tough time staying in the movies. Actually, it is not the Russian president himself. It’s his film character.

Yuri Nosenko claims to have been the officer in charge of a KGB file on Lee Harvey Oswald.

Organizers of a children’s drawing competition to mark the centenary of Russia’s security services have warned participants against submitting “bloody” pictures.

Russia and China are holding their first joint naval exercises in the Baltic Sea, in a signal that the countries are bolstering military ties

“Time to go home after 22 years of living here”

The bill expands sanctions on Russian businesses for alleged meddling during the presidential elections in 2016

Russian athletes won’t be allowed to display any signs that associate them with their home country.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said there is no reason for the United States to worry following reports that Turkey is negotiating the purchase of Russian S-400 air defense systems.

Kazan looks on as a deal granting it special status expires

Over the past two years, the Russian authorities have destroyed more than 16,600 tons of food.