Yearly Archives: 2017

Members of the anti-Putin punk band Pussy Riot were briefly detained on Monday for unfolding a banner in support of political prisoners in eastern Russia

While the world buzzed over new sanctions, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin went on a fishing trip with some of his colleagues. Check out the catch.

Volunteers working for opposition leader Alexei Navalny clashed with police on Saturday in the Kostroma region as they organized a public speaking event in the city’s central October Square

“Any diplomat, Russian or not, works to better understand the political situation of the place where he is stationed.”

It was clear days before he put pen to paper on Wednesday, that U.S. President Donald Trump would sign the latest round of sanctions against Russia

A top European human rights court has said the extradition of a gay journalist from Russia to Uzbekistan is illegal as long as the court has not decided on his case, according to his lawyer.

A top European human rights court has said the extradition of a gay journalist from Russia to Uzbekistan is illegal as long as the court has not decided on his case, according to his lawyer.

The European Union on Friday will agree to extend sanctions on Russia over the secret delivery of Siemens turbines to Crimea, Reuters reports.

When State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin reprimanded a young Communist for failing to recognize a quote by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, he might have miscalculated.

An English word in Russian is like a long-time expat who, after a few years in Moscow, makes everyone wear slippers in his apartment and doesn’t consider a meal complete unless there’s soup.

The love affair with the U.S. president is over.

A U.S. State Department spokesperson has responded to allegations that fresh U.S sanctions on Russia amount to a “declaration of economic war”

“It was a private meeting,” Natalya Veselnitskaya told the Rossia-24 channel’s Vesti news program

“It was a private meeting,” Natalya Veselnitskaya told the Rossia-24 channel’s Vesti news program

A Moscow court has fined opposition leader Alexei Navalny 300,000 rubles ($5,000) for encouraging his supporters to distribute political fliers

Two-thirds of those polled by the Romir research company in June, said they did not find that the quality of food products that fall under a Russian import had deteriorated in the past year

Russia and the United States are capable of steering the world towards confrontation or cooperation

Putin is free to take his U.S. policy in any direction that he sees fit.

The long-time host of Russia’s most popular talk show on state television is reportedly quitting his job due to political pressure.

Construction workers clashed in a brawl on a construction site on Moscow’s outskirts. Six of the workers were reportedly hospitalized.

A Moscow court ruled on Tuesday that an openly gay journalist writing under the pen name Ali Feruz had violated Russian immigration laws and would be deported to Uzbekistan

A decade ago Eddie Aronoff came to Russia to teach English and ended up becoming a film and theater producer.

An award-winning teacher from the Moscow region, who claimed he was fired last week for his political activities, has been reappointed.

Moldova’s ambassador to Moscow Andrei Neguta was summoned to Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday after his government declared Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin a persona non grata

The new sanctions are “a full-fledged economic war on Russia,” Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev wrote.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova lashed out at the U.S. Embassy in Russia late last night

The White House announced last Friday that Trump would sign the legislation, which passed through the U.S. Congress with near-unanimous support.

Seventeen deputies in the State Duma were inactive during sessions for a year, according to an RBC report published Monday

This year’s National Paratroopers’ Day marks 87 years since the founding of the corps. Often a rowdy celebration, paratroopers in their blue berets and striped shirts lay claim to park fountains.

Moments after Nikita Razvozzhayev began his live broadcast, he was approached by what appeared to be a heavily intoxicated man who punched him in the face

At least 40 Russians have died fighting in Syria this year alone.

There were only two guards, one of whom was female, for the entire group, according to the Moscow Investigative Committee.

“If a person has had one drink too many, he needs to rest somewhere.”

A Moscow court has ruled to deport an openly gay journalist to Uzbekistan where homosexuality is a punishable offense

The embassy was required to leave the dacha in Serebryany Bor as well as a diplomatic warehouse in an industrial area on Dorozhnaya Street by Aug. 1.

Demakhin was awarded the “Teacher of the Year” prize personally by Vladimir Putin in 2012.

The defendants were reportedly members of a criminal group known as the GTA Gang.

Three Russian non-governmental organizations which have been labeled “foreign agents” have been awarded presidential grants.

The Russian LGBT Network published a new report on Monday, adding to mounting allegations of persecutions of gay people in Chechnya

The controversial urban renewal scheme is scheduled to roll out over two decades

The Kremlin’s ban on VPNs is less about national security than self preservation

Starting Aug. 1, elevator repairs should not take longer than 24 hours and the evacuation of people stuck inside elevators should take place within 30 minutes.

What you need to know about Moscow’s decision to cut U.S. diplomatic staff to 455.

Russia blocked access on Tuesday to U.S. embassy recreational property in a Moscow suburb and closed access to a 2,000 square meter warehouse.

A Russian official has said Moscow will reciprocate with longer wait times if the U.S. Embassy slows up travel visa processing for Russian citizens.

Independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta has published photocopies of documents they say corroborate their earlier investigation into extrajudicial killings in the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya

Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced on Friday it was ordering cuts to U.S. diplomatic staff in Russia to 455 employees by September

Stalinism was criminal, costly and inefficient. Today’s Russia could meet the same fate.

A Ukrainian citizen has been given a 12- year prison sentence for allegedly plotting a terror attack in Russia.

Russia held back with introducing sanctions “for quite some time,” Putin says, but lost hope after Washington’s “unprovoked move.”

Russia’s Navy Day is a national holiday that is celebrated on the last Sunday of July. This year, Navy Day was celebrated in St. Petersburg, Vladivostok and Sevastopol.

The new laws, which come into force Nov. 1, forbid internet proxy services (VPNs) that help internet users gain access to websites that have been blocked by the government.

The expulsions allow Russia to signal displeasure without doing serious harm. But that could change.

For years, Russian-Chinese naval exercises have been staged closer and closer to potential conflict zones and the training scenarios have become increasingly realistic.