Yearly Archives: 2017

The court said that the FSB’s request “did not violate or concern the law, liberty or interests of the plaintiffs.”

The court said that the FSB’s request “did not violate or concern the law, liberty or interests of the plaintiffs.”

Papadopoulos admitted to lying in a January interview with the FBI about his contacts in London with a Russian professor

Vladimir Putin said four times fewer non-profits were blacklisted in 2017 than the previous year

Tatyana Felgenhauer’s colleagues have blamed state media for the attack

The threat comes days after IS published a poster of Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi behind bars crying bloody tears

‘I also come from a harsh authoritarian regime’

A federal grand jury in Washington D.C. has approved the first charges in Robert Mueller’s investigation

“I am not a representative of glamour, I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth.”

Kirill Serebrennikov, artistic director, may be under house arrest, but his newest production has premiered at the Gogol Center with and without him.

City officials said the memorial’s decrepit condition posed a safety hazard for local residents, Radio Svoboda reported

Putin twice ordered withdrawals of Russian forces from Syria in 2016

The suspect reportedly “had no time for state channels”

The suspect reportedly “had no time for state channels”

Forty-one percent of surveyed Russians believe Moscow should support separatists in Ukraine’s Donbass region, according to a new Levada Center poll

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The cause of Sergei Poddubny’s death at age 36 is named as “incineration of the body”

The cause of Sergei Poddubny’s death at age 36 is named as “incineration of the body”

“Like everyone, I needed the money”

I’m convinced that there isn’t a family in Moscow who doesn’t have IKEA frozen meatballs in the freezer

A list of possible targets includes 33 Russian defense and six intelligence sector organizations

You know that chemistry between Marshall and Lily? In Russian it’s not химия. Really.

One in five couldn’t name who they’d vote for, while one in 10 said they wouldn’t cast ballots

Moscow food scene has expanded dramatically over the past decade

Fearing new sanctions, Russia’s wealthiest individuals are busy hiring lawyers and searching for lobbyists

In his weekly YouTube show on Thursday, Navalny addressed concerns that Sobchak could split the liberal opposition ticket

Putin made the comments at an award ceremony for Russia’s highest-ranking officers

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov cast doubt on the report’s findings

“We did not come to this decision lightly,” Twitter said.

Igor Mukhin’s photos capture the colorful personalities that made up Russia’s underground music scene in the 1980s

Whatever pundits believe about Sobchak, she is among the most recognizable personas in Russia — one that can put on a show

Russia has placed a bid to host the opening match of the 2020 European football championship, Deputy prime Minister Vitaly Mutko said Thursday.

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.