Yearly Archives: 2017

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.

Ever find yourself walking in circles?

Russia’s Supreme Court has refused to overturn the conviction of a man who participated in mass 2012 anti-Kremlin protests, flouting a ruling from Europe’s top human rights court.

A member of a Russian military order known as the Cossacks told the RBC news outlet he recognized one of the captives as a fellow Cossack.

On Oct. 5, 1957, the main headline on Pravda’s front page said the country should prepare for winter. The real news of the day, however, was somewhat clumsily placed at the right margin.

Two men presented to Russia’s human rights ombudswoman as evidence that individuals which have been reported missing are still alive, were actually their brothers, the human rights group Memorial says.

Five men were sentenced for Politkovskaya’s murder in 2014, but the organizer of assassination has yet to be brought to justice

“It will be the first time ever worldwide that a ring can be used as payment for public transport.”

Moscow threatened retaliation on Monday after it said U.S. agents broke into the San Francisco consulate building’s residential section

Navalny was jailed for 20 days on Oct. 2 for calling for organizing unauthorized campaign events

In a released video ISIS claims it captured two Russian soldiers near the city of Deir-al-Zor

Putin expressed his condolences during a ceremony in the Kremlin receiving foreign ambassadors’ credentials

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov hailed Poklonskaya for her patriotism on Telegram