Monthly Archives: July 2017

The head of the state-backed pollster VTsIOM, Valery Fyodorov, is being sued for comments he made during an interview.

If you’re looking to escape the roar of Moscow for the Russian countryside and fresh air, the town of Istra might be the place for you. It’s home to a magnificent monastery, and was inspiration to writers and artists.

Around 10 young men were arrested in Chechnya for allegedly criticizing the republic’s leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, in online messengers.

A sculpture of Russian writer Nikolai Gogol has fallen from a building in central Moscow famous for its stucco depictions of Russian literary figures

The Kremlin has deprived the whole country of fully functioning turbines by transferring them to Crimea secretly

Valentina Cherevatenko, head of the “Women of the Don” NGO in southern Russia, was the first person to be prosecuted under the law.

The remains of 47 Soviet soldiers and three Japanese soldiers have been found on Shumshu Island, the northernmost point in the Pacific Kuril Island chain.

In Russia, running a prison is a business

The Memorial human rights NGO has named Bogatov a political prisoner.

The Memorial human rights NGO has named Bogatov a political prisoner.

Participants of an educational youth forum in the Vladimir region have complained to the head of Russia’s consumer watchdog about the excessively high cost of condoms

Abror Azimov has said men who introduced themselves as retired FSB officers subjected him to electric shocks and fake drowning.

The Siberian cities of Kemerovo, Novosibirsk and Irkutsk have highest rates of the HIV virus in Russia, according to the chief of Russia’s health watchdog.

Relations between Russia and the U.S. may be bad, but that hasn’t stopped young people from wearing New York-themed apparel. Shirts and hats with “Yankees” or “Brooklyn” can be seen from Moscow to Novosibirsk.

One-third of Muscovites who voted against the controversial housing demolition program would participate in protests against the scheme, according to a poll published by independent pollster the Levada Center.

Protesters took to the streets in central Moscow on Sunday to demonstrate against government’s crackdown on internet.

The Russian government asks Google to remove online content more often than all other governments combined.

This weekend, Moscow is going back to its ancient tradition of the weekend market – only now with haute couture and food trucks. Street art and street games round out the weekend.

Russia’s biennial International Air and Space Salon — known as MAKS, its Russian acronym — launched on Tuesday and will run through Sunday.

The president will be answering questions from students and children across the country.

“It is a politically hot summer in Moscow, despite the weather”

In a shop I saw a charming guy sweet-talking the saleswoman. He looked pleased with himself, she smiled in spite of herself, and I understood everything — except what she said.

The Russian president reportedly has a soft spot for luxurious watches

The most prolific goalscorer in the history of Russian football, Alexander Kerzhakov, may join St. Petersburg’s swamp football team, according to the swamp footballer who asked him to join.

Siemens said Russia had “illegally moved to Crimea against clear contractual agreements” four gas turbines the firm had delivered for a project on the Russian mainland in Taman.

A court in Azerbaijan sentenced popular Russian-Israeli travel blogger Alexander Lapshin to three years in prison on Thursday

The American oil giant was found to have conducted business with Igor Sechin, the head of the state-owned Rosneft in May 2014.

A participant of an anti-corruption rally has been handed a 2.5-year-prison sentence.

A Russian film company has announced it will produce a feature-length documentary about President Vladimir Putin in the lead-up to the March 2018 elections

The veteran human rights defender turns 90.

Russia has staked its claim as one of the five worst countries in the world for pensioners, according to a new report.

Last week, it was revelations of an undisclosed meeting between senior Trump campaign officials, including the president’s son and son-in-law, and a Russian lawyer with clear ties to senior Russian officials.

Russia’s arms exports are projected to grow in 2017 for the first time in five years

Latynina said the attack had two messages: “We know where your parents live,” and “You, Yulia Latynina, are a skunk.”

Black Sea towns are the most popular.

The State Duma has unanimously approved amendments to the Criminal Code that could see Russians caught organizing election fraud landed with heavy fines or time behind bars, the parliament’s press service said Wednesday.

American media entrepreneur, Andrew Paulson, died of cancer on Tuesday. He was 59 years old.

North Korean workers in Russia are climbing the social ladder, providing for their families, and gaining financial stability, writes Andrei Lankov of Moscow’s Carnegie Center.

On this day in 1980, all eyes were on Moscow for the Opening Ceremony of the Summer Olympics.

The former China envoy is facing a tough crowd

Want to go to Italy for the weekend? Can’t get away? Go to the Hermitage Garden Italia Fest instead.

The young Russian man behind an online suicide game called “Blue Whale” has been sentenced to three years and four months behind bars

A court in Moscow sentenced 12 individuals posing as mind-readers to suspended sentences and jail terms for fraud, the Prosecutor General’s office said in a statement on Tuesday.

Under the new amendment, terrorists could have their Russian citizenship revoked.

Maverick opposition politician Yevgeny Roizman has said voters are being deceived.

A Moscow district court ordered opposition leader Alexei Navalny and two co-defendants to pay 2.16 million rubles ($35,500) in damages to a timber company, the state-run news agency RIA Novosti reported

Russian and Polish officials exchanged harsh words on Tuesday over Poland’s most recent move to demolish Soviet-era war monuments

The former envoy to China is set to be the new Ambassador to Russia as the Trump administration battles scandal.

Kadyrov was making vile threats long before his HBO interview. It’s time for international action.

Moscow City Hall has authorized an opposition rally in defense of internet freedom to be held later this month.

Russia has been ordered to pay 5.4 million euros ($6.25 million) in damages to the Netherlands for seizing the “Arctic Sunrise” Greenpeace ship and detaining its crew in 2013.

Iraqi security forces reportedly detained an unidentified number of Russian women following a military operation in the city of Mosul, according to unconfirmed reports

Russian sport finally gets some good news.