Monthly Archives: October 2017

The editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta listed high-profile attacks on journalists working for his publication, including the murders of reporters Anna Politkovskaya and Igor Domnikov.

After suffering a virus attack which spread to other countries, Russia’s largest state news agency is back

Ksenia Sobchak’s statement of purpose for that new vacancy opening up in the Kremlin.

A Kremlin transcript of a speech by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Crimea edited the text to replace the word “annexation,” in reference to the peninsula.

Amnesty urged the Russian government not to send prisoners away from their home regions, so they could be closer to their families

One of the march’s organizers told the independent television channel Dozhd TV on Wednesday that City Hall had approved a march in Moscow’s Lyublino district.

“Crimea belongs to Ukraine. Period”

The deputy editor of the independent radio station Ekho Moskvy who was hospitalized earlier this week after being stabbed is making a speedy recovery

Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister repeated Moscow’s warnings that it reserves the right to take retaliatory steps against Washington

A shortage of wagons for wheat transport is a cause of concern for the governor

“We believe that this affects our right to confidential communication with sources of information,” the journalists said

The Wagner private contractor group is believed to have played central roles in conflicts in Ukraine and Syria

Alexei Stroganov fell into a coma after the assault and never regained consciousness

Estimates of Putin’s private wealth vary, from the officially declared 8.9 million rubles ($133,000) to as high as $200 billion

The head of Russia’s Central Elections Commission said in October Navanly could only run in 2028

A new law requiring naturalized Russians to recite an oath of allegiance took effect in September

Forget your preconceptions of how airports should look.

The source of the attack has not yet been determined

A decree signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday did not state the reason for the latest increase

The video culminates with the officer calling the video’s author a ‘Swedish homosexual’

“You can laugh at me, but I understand show business”

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call on Tuesday that Felgenhauer was attacked by a “madman.”

“We came to occupy Trump Tower to call attention to political prisoners,” Pussy Riot wrote in a Facebook post on Monday.

Sobyanin’s plans to relocate around 10 percent of Moscow’s population sparked mass demonstrations this summer

Three of the defendants were found to have psychiatric illnesses

The man then pepper-sprays the guard and then ducks under a turnstile, running into the building

Another episode in the San Francisco consulate saga

Venediktov told Radio Svoboda that doctors had said she was in a “medium serious” condition and had lost a lot of blood, but that her life was not in danger.

Russia’s Union of Journalists added the stabbing to a roster of recent attacks against journalists in Russia

Felgenhauer has been hospitalized and her life is reportedly not under threat

When Svetlana Gubareva woke up in a Moscow hospital, one of the first things she heard was President Vladimir Putin offering condolences to the families of the 129 hostages who died in the Dubrovka theater

The Duma will reportedly discuss the establishment of the new representative office on Tuesday

The white winter’s comfort has arrived

The actress said Weinstein invited her to his hotel in Venice

Three funeral homes in the Siberian city of Omsk told RBC on Friday that they are not experiencing difficulties with granite deliveries.

Want to know the meaning of закон подлости? It’s when you go south to improve your health and come back sicker than when you left.

Nurmatov’s lawyer said after the decision that a number of violations were committed during the process

“In our country, anything is possible.”

Russia’s Higher Attestation Commission has convened behind closed doors to decide whether to rescind Vladimir Medinsky’s doctorate in historical sciences

Russian senators are reportedly preparing to blacklist U.S. outlets in Russia is response

To compensate for the shortages, granite imports from China and Ukraine have reportedly increased

Events in Ukraine, North Korea, and Syria ranked in the top five most mentioned events

If you lived in Moscow in the 90s, you’ll remember this

She is a socialite and former reality TV presenter, turned opposition activist, then opposition journalist and — now — presidential candidate

Big business could fund the majority of Sobchak’s $17.4 million campaign, an asset that Kremlin-backed candidates enjoy.

Mark Galeotti explains how Sobchak’s campaign can reshape the Russian presidential election landscape.

The Belarusian-born consultant helped two opposition politicians gain an unprecedented number of seats in Moscow in September

The manufacturing company Mart Group is developing a non-lethal stun shield for riot police to use in 2018

The former reality television host is the daughter of Anatoly Sobchak, the first democratically elected mayor of St. Petersburg and the former boss of President Vladimir Putin

The collapse of Otkritie is third most expensive collapse of a Russian bank in modern history.

Say who?!

Residents who remain are asked to help foreign visitors and avoid fights with the large groups of fans watching the games in bars