Monthly Archives: July 2017

Russian authorities have clamped down on Internet freedoms and introduced “invasive surveillance” online, under the pretext of fighting extremism, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report published today.

Russian consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor has warned against the negative effects spinners could have on the health of minors.

Sergei Kislyak might become a senator after his tenure ends.

Seventy-three percent of Russians use obscene language, according to a poll conducted by Public Opinion Foundation

Moscow fans had a unique chance to watch the premiere of Season 7 of the “Game of Thrones” just one day after its premiere in the U.S. during a Night in the Metro event at the Mayakovskaya subway station.

Justice implies full, not partial, justice. Otherwise, it’s not justice.

Russia’s Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal to reverse its decision declaring the Jehovah’s Witness an “extremist” organization.

Russia and the United States have “almost solved” a row over two diplomatic compounds which were confiscated by U.S. authorities late last year.

The Kremlin came to the defense of Chechnya’s leader Monday, saying controversial comments the republic’s leader recently made about gay men had been “taken of out context”

For some Orthodox believers, the past is not history.

Hundreds of Moscow apartment blocks may be added to lists slated for demolition under a city-wide renovation program that is drawing ire from residents

Some creative folks in Russia have launched an art community called “2d Among Us,” where they share edited photographs with two-dimensional pop-culture characters superimposed on scenes of urban life.

Moscow prepares to welcome the seventh season of the hit show ‘Game of Thrones’ on television, underground, and on the big screen.

A Russian couple living in Estonia have had their custodial rights restricted. Their lawyer says the decision is politically motivated.

Russian conglomerate AFK Sistema announced on Monday a technical default on a debt worth 3.9 billion rubles ($66 million).

A court judge in southern Russia who allegedly splurged $2 million on her daughter’s wedding party is coming under fire for extravagant spending.

Three years after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was downed over eastern Ukraine, international investigators have they will begin investigations and prosecutions in the Netherlands.

A group of 15 relatives of the victims of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 staged a silent protest outside the Russian Embassy in The Hague on Sunday, calling on Moscow to take action.

Highly publicized anti-corruption protests organized by opposition leader Alexei Navalny in June did not bring increase his popularity.

Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced support for an alternative version of the history of Ivan the Terrible, in which the first Russian tsar did not kill his son.

“To purify our blood, if there any here, take them.”

Humans’ life expectancy will fall drastically in the coming decades, a prominent Russian medical scientist said Friday

Against a current of skepticism, Russian surfers are vying for recognition

The expansion of ski resorts near Sochi has increased the danger of landslides and could cut off clean water to 100,000 people, environmentalists warn

Russian police will adopt a zero-tolerance approach towards “half-naked” crowds in the cities hosting FIFA 2018 World Cup matches next summer.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry experienced “large-scale” cyber-attacks originating in Iran and Hungary last month, its spokesperson said

A couple of weeks ago Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made a statement about the war in Donbass. Did he admit Russia’s military involvement or not?

The CEO of Russia’s leading power engineering company was detained by the Federal Security Service (FSB) on Thursday over a case involving the alleged disclosure of state secrets.

The head of the Chechen republic Ramzan Kadyrov said on Thursday that prison sentences handed down to opposition politician Boris Nemtsov’s killers were “strange” and based on unsubstantiated evidence

It’s less exciting than you think.

Soldiers in an elite military unit in Volgograd who guard а World War II memorial have complained of beatings, extortion and other forms of hazing.

Navalny suffers a series of setbacks.

The incomes of Russia’s 10 richest women add up to $3.6 million and range from 56.2 million rubles ($937,000) to 10.5 million rubles

The incomes of Russia’s 10 richest women add up to $3.6 million and range from 56.2 million rubles ($937,000) to 10.5 million rubles

Russian tech company Yandex announced on Thursday it is merging its taxi service Yandex Taxi with Uber

Sergei Polonsky, the founder and former major shareholder in the once mighty property corporation Mirax Group, was found guilty of major fraud on Wednesday, but walked free from court

Half of those polled don’t know the group, but they still want it banned.

Stop the presses! The sun will shine in Moscow on Saturday. And what better way to celebrate the sunshine than a day in the park — doing a triathlon.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, has lashed out at a new film produced by NATO that documents anti-Soviet resistance in the Baltic States after World War II.

The man who shot Boris Nemtsov in the back in 2015 has been given a 20-year sentence.

Five men found guilty of involvement in the murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov were sentenced to lengthy prison terms on Thursday.

Two State Duma deputies have introduced a bill calling for multi-million ruble fines for publishing “false information” on social media.

And may my hands and legs wither if I ever cross over to the enemy’s side.

Liberal journalists are prepared to believe anything but the truth.

Perhaps the biography of Rudolf Nureyev holds an answer to the question of what happened at the Bolshoi Theater just days before the premiere of a show chronicling his life was canceled.

Dmitry Strashnov made Russian Post profitable. So why was he just shown the door?

This multimedia show of works by visual artist Dmitry Plavinsky and filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky takes you back 50 years to a time when these artists were going back 500 years to mine Russia’s ancient past for inspiration.

This multimedia show of works by visual artist Dmitry Plavinsky and filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky takes you back 50 years to a time when these artists were going back 500 years to mine Russia’s ancient past for inspiration.

Moscow is the best city in Russia to live, according to a new report published Wednesday by the state-run Mortgage agency and the Strelka research bureau

Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya said on Tuesday that Donald Trump Jr. met her to obtain “inappropriate” information on sources of U.S. Democratic campaign financing

The premiere of “Nureyev,” a ballet based on the life of gay Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, was unexpectedly postponed at the last minute.

The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) denied late on Tuesday that it requested a Moscow court to replace opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s suspended sentence with time in prison.

Russia’s most notorious cyber-security company wants to give Bloomberg a ‘PhD for ‘banya journalism.’

In authoritarian regimes, the social sciences are the most vulnerable to state interventions