Monthly Archives: October 2017

Hyper-nationalist pro-Kremlin activists have once again removed a plaque installed in honor of murdered opposition politician Boris Nemtsov

Football fans traveling to St. Petersburg for the 2020 European Championship will benefit from state regulated hotel prices

Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has complied with a court order and removed a video alleging a corruption scheme among high-ranking officials

Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has complied with a court order and removed a video alleging a corruption scheme among high-ranking officials

Rutracker.org, one of Russia’s most popular torrent websites, will cease to appear in the search results

Journalist and socialite Ksenia Sobchak does not deny a possible presidential campaign in the November issue of Glamour Russia

Just how much damage did last month’s bomb threats cause?

Business in Russia today may be more stable, but it is not as much fun for foreigners

The government plans to shape the regional agenda ahead of the presidential elections with 100 state-run anonymous channels on the messaging app Telegram

The TV series is based on real events and, according to some, real people too

Allan Chumak, the famous Russian television faith healer of the Perestroika era, died yesterday in Moscow at the age of 82

A Krasnodar-based blogger has been summoned for police questioning after sharing an excerpt from a Soviet children’s novel

A Krasnodar-based blogger has been summoned for questioning after sharing an excerpt from a Soviet children’s novel

Russia has cut foreign aid for the first time since 2012, according to a study by the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

A Russian fighter-bomber skidded off the runway in Syria, killing its crew

Roman Rubanov, the director of opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, was detained outside his home on Tuesday morning

The Justice Ministry has warned three U.S.-funded news outlets based in Moscow that their activity may be defined as that of a “foreign agent” and restricted accordingly

The new U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman is willing to work to overcome the “low point” in bilateral relations

Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater and New York’s Metropolitan Opera are teaming up for the first time to stage three shows

The Kremlin has distanced itself from the fake burger allegedly sold in a New York restaurant in honor of President Vladimir Putin’s 65th birthday

The founder of The Moscow Times looks back

Russian senators want to cut the number of U.S. media outlets in the country in response to Washington’s request that the RT America news channel registers as a foreign agent

Foreign citizens can now be deployed in Russia’s military operations abroad, according to a new decree signed by President Vladimir Putin

Russian science is in a crisis state, according to the new head of the country’s Academy of Sciences

Russia’s excessive military spending has left the fields of infrastructure, health, science and education largely underdeveloped.

Russia’s excessive military spending has left the fields of infrastructure, health, science and education largely underdeveloped.

On Putin’s 65th birthday, protests swept across Russia

Anti-Kremlin protests are taking place across the country

Protests are planned in 80 cities.

More than 20,000 Muscovites were evacuated Friday from some 100 buildings in the capital

Russian prosecutors are considering a retaliatory response following Washington’s request that the Russia Today America news channel register as a foreign agent

The methods of these Soviet health spas are unconventional, but for the patients nothing is too outside the box.

For the first time, the Hermitage Museum is hosting an exhibition without a single original item.

To celebrate The Moscow Times’ 25th anniversary, I’m walking down a linguistic memory lane…

Russian radio hosts insist that their report on male mortality rates is not related to tomorrow’s date

Russian radio hosts insist that their report on male mortality rates is not related to tomorrow’s date

Russia has gone a bit blockchain bonkers.

Former British spy Christopher Steele to discuss his dossier on Donald Trump’s Russia ties with Robert Mueller

The train was traveling from St. Petersburg to Nizhny Novgorod on Thursday night

A recent wave of false bomb threats swept 50 Russian regions

People are scared to work with RT, Simonyan says

St. Petersburg authorities have rejected more than 10 applications to hold events with Navalny this Saturday,

The first phone from the limited-edition set is reserved for the president himself

The terrorist group showed a video of two Russian soldiers earlier this week

Alphabet removed RT from YouTube’s package that charges premium ad rates

Up to 20,000 Russian citizens own property in Catalonia

The initial law was written before the existence of social networks

On Thursday morning Russian authorities raided the homes of opposition activists working for exiled oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky

The opposition leader has called on his supporters to take to the streets this weekend from behind bars

Oct. 7 could see protests in 80 cities

Without the Bolshevik revolution in 1917, Russia might have become considerably more prosperous and populous

Samuel Raphael Friedman was an American idealist. His dreams to build a socialist utopia ended with his execution as a spy.

President Vladimir Putin took part in the Russian Energy Week forum in Moscow on Wednesday.