Yearly Archives: 2017

The six years of perestroika – from 1985 until the end of 1991 when the Soviet Union was dissolved – was a time of wildly syncopated change in the country.

With all this talk in the U.S. about collusion and Russians, I wondered: How do you collude in Russian? You never know when you may want to.

Moscow’s Afghan community centers around a cluster of gray tower blocks that make up the Soviet-era Sevastopol Hotel

Russia has ordered the United States to reduce its diplomatic and technical staff at its Embassy in Moscow and diplomatic missions in other Russian cities in response to a U.S. Senate vote to impose tougher sanctions.

State-run television is the principal source of news for a majority of young Russians, the independent Russian television channel Dozhd reported Friday.

The U.S. Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a bill calling for tougher economic sanctions against Russia

An earlier version of the law passed in 2013 imposed a lifetime ban on draft dodgers.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev described the former Odessa governor being stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship as “tragicomedy” in a Facebook post on Thursday.

The ballet might still premiere this year after billionaire Roman Abramovich intervened, Kommersant reports

This weekend in Moscow the weather will be hot and mostly sunny, just in time for the capital’s most famous music festival — the Afisha Picnic.

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed an agreement with Syria which will give the Russian military access to an airbase on the Mediterranean for another half a century

Moscow has threatened far-reaching countermeasures on the U.S. if new sanctions are implemented

The ad was published back in April, but had gone unnoticed by media until now.

The European Court of Human Rights has ordered the Russian government to pay 6,000 euros in compensation to one of the men convicted in the murder of Russian politician, Boris Nemtsov

“We are fighting for the right for free access to government information, including, political repression in the U.S.S.R.”

“We are fighting for the right for free access to government information, including, political repression in the U.S.S.R.”

Dvorkovich said Siemens had not suspended Russian deliveries entirely, only those to “state companies.”

A monument to Ivan the Terrible has been erected in Moscow, the Russian Military-Historical Society announced on its website on Wednesday

Top Russian officials on Wednesday slammed a U.S. House of Representatives vote in favor of fresh sanctions

Top Russian officials on Wednesday slammed a U.S. House of Representatives vote in favor of fresh sanctions

In an amendment published online, the EU described Arkady Rotenberg as “a prominent Russian businessman who has close personal ties to President Putin.”

In Russia, business thrives on the backs of people receiving old Soviet services

The number of wealthy Russians declaring foreign assets has spiked in recent months, the RBC news outlet reported citing research conducted by real estate broker Tranio and British company Adam Smith Conferences

Inmates at a prison in the Urals have gone on a hunger strike, with some demanding visitation rights for multiple wives and English-language conversation.

Kaspersky Lab has launched a worldwide roll-out of a free antivirus program

Vladimir Putin is having a tough time staying in the movies. Actually, it is not the Russian president himself. It’s his film character.

Yuri Nosenko claims to have been the officer in charge of a KGB file on Lee Harvey Oswald.

Organizers of a children’s drawing competition to mark the centenary of Russia’s security services have warned participants against submitting “bloody” pictures.

Russia and China are holding their first joint naval exercises in the Baltic Sea, in a signal that the countries are bolstering military ties

“Time to go home after 22 years of living here”

The bill expands sanctions on Russian businesses for alleged meddling during the presidential elections in 2016

Russian athletes won’t be allowed to display any signs that associate them with their home country.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said there is no reason for the United States to worry following reports that Turkey is negotiating the purchase of Russian S-400 air defense systems.

Kazan looks on as a deal granting it special status expires

Over the past two years, the Russian authorities have destroyed more than 16,600 tons of food.

The head of the state-backed pollster VTsIOM, Valery Fyodorov, is being sued for comments he made during an interview.

If you’re looking to escape the roar of Moscow for the Russian countryside and fresh air, the town of Istra might be the place for you. It’s home to a magnificent monastery, and was inspiration to writers and artists.

Around 10 young men were arrested in Chechnya for allegedly criticizing the republic’s leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, in online messengers.

A sculpture of Russian writer Nikolai Gogol has fallen from a building in central Moscow famous for its stucco depictions of Russian literary figures

The Kremlin has deprived the whole country of fully functioning turbines by transferring them to Crimea secretly

Valentina Cherevatenko, head of the “Women of the Don” NGO in southern Russia, was the first person to be prosecuted under the law.

The remains of 47 Soviet soldiers and three Japanese soldiers have been found on Shumshu Island, the northernmost point in the Pacific Kuril Island chain.

In Russia, running a prison is a business

The Memorial human rights NGO has named Bogatov a political prisoner.

The Memorial human rights NGO has named Bogatov a political prisoner.

Participants of an educational youth forum in the Vladimir region have complained to the head of Russia’s consumer watchdog about the excessively high cost of condoms

Abror Azimov has said men who introduced themselves as retired FSB officers subjected him to electric shocks and fake drowning.

The Siberian cities of Kemerovo, Novosibirsk and Irkutsk have highest rates of the HIV virus in Russia, according to the chief of Russia’s health watchdog.

Relations between Russia and the U.S. may be bad, but that hasn’t stopped young people from wearing New York-themed apparel. Shirts and hats with “Yankees” or “Brooklyn” can be seen from Moscow to Novosibirsk.

One-third of Muscovites who voted against the controversial housing demolition program would participate in protests against the scheme, according to a poll published by independent pollster the Levada Center.

Protesters took to the streets in central Moscow on Sunday to demonstrate against government’s crackdown on internet.

The Russian government asks Google to remove online content more often than all other governments combined.

This weekend, Moscow is going back to its ancient tradition of the weekend market – only now with haute couture and food trucks. Street art and street games round out the weekend.

Russia’s biennial International Air and Space Salon — known as MAKS, its Russian acronym — launched on Tuesday and will run through Sunday.