Yearly Archives: 2017

Humans’ life expectancy will fall drastically in the coming decades, a prominent Russian medical scientist said Friday

Against a current of skepticism, Russian surfers are vying for recognition

The expansion of ski resorts near Sochi has increased the danger of landslides and could cut off clean water to 100,000 people, environmentalists warn

Russian police will adopt a zero-tolerance approach towards “half-naked” crowds in the cities hosting FIFA 2018 World Cup matches next summer.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry experienced “large-scale” cyber-attacks originating in Iran and Hungary last month, its spokesperson said

A couple of weeks ago Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made a statement about the war in Donbass. Did he admit Russia’s military involvement or not?

The CEO of Russia’s leading power engineering company was detained by the Federal Security Service (FSB) on Thursday over a case involving the alleged disclosure of state secrets.

The head of the Chechen republic Ramzan Kadyrov said on Thursday that prison sentences handed down to opposition politician Boris Nemtsov’s killers were “strange” and based on unsubstantiated evidence

It’s less exciting than you think.

Soldiers in an elite military unit in Volgograd who guard а World War II memorial have complained of beatings, extortion and other forms of hazing.

Navalny suffers a series of setbacks.

The incomes of Russia’s 10 richest women add up to $3.6 million and range from 56.2 million rubles ($937,000) to 10.5 million rubles

The incomes of Russia’s 10 richest women add up to $3.6 million and range from 56.2 million rubles ($937,000) to 10.5 million rubles

Russian tech company Yandex announced on Thursday it is merging its taxi service Yandex Taxi with Uber

Sergei Polonsky, the founder and former major shareholder in the once mighty property corporation Mirax Group, was found guilty of major fraud on Wednesday, but walked free from court

Half of those polled don’t know the group, but they still want it banned.

Stop the presses! The sun will shine in Moscow on Saturday. And what better way to celebrate the sunshine than a day in the park — doing a triathlon.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, has lashed out at a new film produced by NATO that documents anti-Soviet resistance in the Baltic States after World War II.

The man who shot Boris Nemtsov in the back in 2015 has been given a 20-year sentence.

Five men found guilty of involvement in the murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov were sentenced to lengthy prison terms on Thursday.

Two State Duma deputies have introduced a bill calling for multi-million ruble fines for publishing “false information” on social media.

And may my hands and legs wither if I ever cross over to the enemy’s side.

Liberal journalists are prepared to believe anything but the truth.

Perhaps the biography of Rudolf Nureyev holds an answer to the question of what happened at the Bolshoi Theater just days before the premiere of a show chronicling his life was canceled.

Dmitry Strashnov made Russian Post profitable. So why was he just shown the door?

This multimedia show of works by visual artist Dmitry Plavinsky and filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky takes you back 50 years to a time when these artists were going back 500 years to mine Russia’s ancient past for inspiration.

This multimedia show of works by visual artist Dmitry Plavinsky and filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky takes you back 50 years to a time when these artists were going back 500 years to mine Russia’s ancient past for inspiration.

Moscow is the best city in Russia to live, according to a new report published Wednesday by the state-run Mortgage agency and the Strelka research bureau

Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya said on Tuesday that Donald Trump Jr. met her to obtain “inappropriate” information on sources of U.S. Democratic campaign financing

The premiere of “Nureyev,” a ballet based on the life of gay Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, was unexpectedly postponed at the last minute.

The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) denied late on Tuesday that it requested a Moscow court to replace opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s suspended sentence with time in prison.

Russia’s most notorious cyber-security company wants to give Bloomberg a ‘PhD for ‘banya journalism.’

In authoritarian regimes, the social sciences are the most vulnerable to state interventions

No one needs to tell Muscovites “winter is coming.”

Russia and Saudi Arabia agreed an arms deal Monday valued at $3.5 billion, general director of Russian state-owned corporation Rostec Sergei Chemezov said

Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service (UFSIN) has requested opposition leader Alexei Navalny be imprisoned, instead of serving out a suspended sentence

An inmate at a Russian prison has appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to strip him of his citizenship in protest against torture allegedly carried out at the detention facility

Eighteen people, including one child, have been injured.

The 33-year-old says he regrets his “stupid and non-motivated crime”

Driving out demons might help in cases where professional psychological counselors fail.

The U.S. State Department is once again the recipient of rotten tomatoes from state media after it criticized the Russian authorities’ actions in a non-existent city.

Don’t play with grenades.

The Internet’s ‘Pushkin’ died on July 9, just days after turning 51

“[The story of Nureyev] was the wrong topic, by the wrong guy at the wrong time.”

Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater has unexpectedly postponed the premier of a highly anticipated ballet, just days before it was scheduled to open on July 11

The Kremlin has reacted to a report claiming 27 people were killed by security forces in January

For the ideological crime of depicting Solzhenitsyn, the Central Committee of the Communist Party exiled Glazunov to Siberia to paint portraits of the workers of the Baikal-Amur Railway

Russian political parties have been in a state of deepening crisis since parliamentary elections in 2016

An anonymous Russian website is using controversial identification software to find the names and social media accounts of anti-corruption protesters

Russian state TV was unimpressed with Donald Trump in its coverage of the G20 in Hamburg last week.

A round-up of this weekend’s news

Anything other than a presidential brawl would have passed as a diplomatic breakthrough.

Nossik was reportedly with friends at a dacha when he suffered a sudden heart attack during the night.