Monthly Archives: October 2017

Russia has temporarily shut its border checkpoints with Ukraine amid reports that acts of sabotage could have left southern Crimea without power and gas supplies.

New regulations increasing Russian state control over the Internet by banning anonymous web surfing went into force on Wednesday.

Gennady Onishchenko claimed there was a “belt of biological warfare facilities surrounding” Russia

The Kremlin is following the Russia probe ‘with interest’

The Kremlin’s policies are locking in a generation of Ukrainians who will detest Russia

Russia’s new ranking places it ahead of many Western countries such as Belgium and Italy, and just behind Japan.

The head was delivered to a businessman who offered his furniture store as a venue for Navalny’s meeting

The Telstar 18 ball, designed by Adidas, is named after a line of U.S. communications satellites

The cause of death is still a mystery

This major retrospective of Mikhail Shemyakin is a rare example of an artist who did not conform to the dictates of socialist realism, but continued to work, paint and even exhibit.

More than 12 million working Russians earned less than they need to support their families in 2016

Moscow’s vanity projects in the Far East could spark more and larger protests.

Photo project “Victims of Repression” tells the story of lost loved ones and uncovered truths

The Russian government labeled the human rights group a “foreign agent” last October

Roman Abramovich is reportedly Russia’s biggest buyer

The court said that the FSB’s request “did not violate or concern the law, liberty or interests of the plaintiffs.”

The court said that the FSB’s request “did not violate or concern the law, liberty or interests of the plaintiffs.”

Papadopoulos admitted to lying in a January interview with the FBI about his contacts in London with a Russian professor

Vladimir Putin said four times fewer non-profits were blacklisted in 2017 than the previous year

Tatyana Felgenhauer’s colleagues have blamed state media for the attack

The threat comes days after IS published a poster of Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi behind bars crying bloody tears

‘I also come from a harsh authoritarian regime’

A federal grand jury in Washington D.C. has approved the first charges in Robert Mueller’s investigation

“I am not a representative of glamour, I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth.”

Kirill Serebrennikov, artistic director, may be under house arrest, but his newest production has premiered at the Gogol Center with and without him.

City officials said the memorial’s decrepit condition posed a safety hazard for local residents, Radio Svoboda reported

Putin twice ordered withdrawals of Russian forces from Syria in 2016

The suspect reportedly “had no time for state channels”

The suspect reportedly “had no time for state channels”

Forty-one percent of surveyed Russians believe Moscow should support separatists in Ukraine’s Donbass region, according to a new Levada Center poll

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The cause of Sergei Poddubny’s death at age 36 is named as “incineration of the body”

The cause of Sergei Poddubny’s death at age 36 is named as “incineration of the body”

“Like everyone, I needed the money”

I’m convinced that there isn’t a family in Moscow who doesn’t have IKEA frozen meatballs in the freezer

A list of possible targets includes 33 Russian defense and six intelligence sector organizations

You know that chemistry between Marshall and Lily? In Russian it’s not химия. Really.

One in five couldn’t name who they’d vote for, while one in 10 said they wouldn’t cast ballots

Moscow food scene has expanded dramatically over the past decade

Fearing new sanctions, Russia’s wealthiest individuals are busy hiring lawyers and searching for lobbyists

In his weekly YouTube show on Thursday, Navalny addressed concerns that Sobchak could split the liberal opposition ticket

Putin made the comments at an award ceremony for Russia’s highest-ranking officers

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov cast doubt on the report’s findings

“We did not come to this decision lightly,” Twitter said.

Igor Mukhin’s photos capture the colorful personalities that made up Russia’s underground music scene in the 1980s

Whatever pundits believe about Sobchak, she is among the most recognizable personas in Russia — one that can put on a show

Russia has placed a bid to host the opening match of the 2020 European football championship, Deputy prime Minister Vitaly Mutko said Thursday.