Three female politicians who failed to gain seats in Russian parliamentary elections critics say were marred by fraud are launching a project that aims to prepare the next generation of women lawmakers. Former independent State Duma candidates Marina Litvinovich and Alyona Popova and former State Duma deputy Oksana Pushkina said they want to use their…
Two Moscow restaurants have hung on to their places on The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list, while falling down the rankings. White Rabbit fell to number 25 this year from 13 in 2019, while Twins Garden dropped from 19 to 30 at a ceremony in Antwerp on Tuesday organized by World’s 50 Best, an influential…
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Europe was to blame for the current energy crisis after soaring gas prices spurred accusations that Moscow is withholding supplies to pressure the West. “They’ve made mistakes,” Putin said in a televised meeting with Russian energy officials. He said that one of the factors influencing the prices was…
“House Arrest” by Alexei German Jr., which premiered at the 74th Cannes Film Festival, has just opened in Russian movie theaters. Compared to the director’s earlier multifaceted films − from harsh dramas like “The Last Train” and “Garpastum” to the large-scale feature “Under Electric Clouds” – “House Arrest” is rather simple and clear. The action…
Russia broke its daily coronavirus deaths record Wednesday, passing 900 fatalities as officials warn that new case numbers have tripled since last fall and are on course to pass the 30,000 mark. The government tally said 929 people died from Covid-19 across Russia in the past 24 hours, bringing the official death toll based on…
Hot functional test of the reactor plant, a large-scale stage of commissioning works before the physical start-up, has been completed successfully at Unit 2 of Belarus NPP (its General Designer and the General Contractor being ROSATOM). In the process of hot functional test, the specialists conducted over 260 various tests, the main purpose of which…
The Belarus edition of a popular pro-government Russian newspaper said Tuesday it was shutting down after Belarusian authorities blocked its website and detained one of its journalists last week. Komsomolskaya Pravda Belarus said it reached the decision “having analyzed the events of the past year and especially the past week.” Days earlier, Belarus blocked the…
Leading senators have on the United States to consider expelling up to 300 Russian diplomats unless Moscow issues more visas for the U.S. embassy. The United States protested when Moscow on August 1 barred embassies from hiring Russian or third-country staff, forcing Washington to lay off nearly 200 locals at missions across Russia. In a…
A group of 45 Western countries demanded at the global toxic arms watchdog on Tuesday that Russia provide urgent answers about the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. Moscow now has 10 days to respond to the questions posed by the EU and countries including the United States, Canada and Australia, under the rules of…
On October 6, the World Cerebral Palsy Day, ROSATOM joined the Dobroshrift charity campaign by installing a special font on its websites and social networks. The Dobroshrift project was developed by the “Gift to an Angel” charitable foundation to mark the World Cerebral Palsy Day. It is aimed at drawing the attention to the problems…
Russia on Tuesday stepped up the pressure on Facebook, threatening to hit the company with its largest fine yet for repeatedly ignoring requests to remove banned content. The country’s media regulator Roskomnadzor said that it had drawn up a new protocol to penalize the U.S. social media giant for repeatedly failing “to remove information dangerous…
When the show starts, the audience greets the actors by beeping their horns and flashing their headlights. All over the world, this would be a drive-in movie. But not far from St. Petersburg, the drive-in theater is a real theater with a stage, set decorations and actors. The theater is a joint project of the…
A prominent NGO that tracks abuses in Russia’s prison system says it has received “thousands” of leaked video clips showing inmates being beaten and tortured by guards in several prisons across the country. “This is an unprecedented leak that will send shockwaves across the country. In total we have over 40 gigabytes of files showing…
A Russian actress and director arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday to begin a 12-day mission to make the first movie in orbit. The Russian crew is set to beat a Hollywood project that was announced last year by “Mission Impossible” star Tom Cruise together with NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Actress…
Prominent migrant rights defender Valentina Chupik has fled to Armenia following a 30-year entry ban to Russia, she told The Moscow Times on Tuesday. Chupik, an Uzbek activist who had held asylum in Russia since 2009, was detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport last month, with FSB officers telling her that her refugee status was revoked…
October 5 marked the start of a comprehensive, ecological expedition to study the western part of the Northern Sea Route (NSR); the expedition is overseen by Moscow State University’s Marine Research Centre. Commissioned by ROSATOM, the study will take place aboard the research vessel “Aleksey Maryshev,” which was provided by ROSATOM-subsidiary, The Hydrographic Enterprise. The…
Chepetsky Mechanical Plant (ChMP), an enterprise of Rosatom’s TVEL Fuel Company in Glazov, Russia’s Udmurt Republic, has mastered the technology of zirconium sponge production. The ceremony of the new facility launch took place on October 5, 2021 with participation of Director General of ROSATOM Alexey Likhachev and President of TVEL Fuel Company Natalia Nikipelova. Until…
Ivan Lubennikov, one of Russia’s most original and celebrated monumental artists, died at age 70 on Sunday. His funeral was held today at the Kuntsevo cemetery. His mosaics, murals and mixed media installations can be found in Moscow and other Russian cities as well as abroad. One of his most famous works is the new…
Russia broke its daily coronavirus deaths record again on Tuesday as the rising toll and the spike in new cases prompt regional response centers to reimpose restrictions that have been absent since the start of the year. The government tally reported 895 Covid-19 deaths across Russia in the past 24 hours, bringing the official death…
Russian officials highlighted the need to develop the country’s own “sovereign” social media platforms after a massive outage at Facebook’s vast family of apps affected billions of users worldwide late Monday. Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms essentially “disappeared” from the internet for several hours after a traffic routing problem left the sites unreachable for…
Russia on Tuesday is set to launch an actress and a film director into space in a bid to best the United States to the first movie in orbit. If successful, the Russian crew will beat a Hollywood project that was announced earlier this year by “Mission Impossible” star Tom Cruise together with NASA and…
Russia said Monday it has developed software that monitors social media to help authorities prevent young people from harming themselves and others, but which critics say could be used to silence dissent. The initiative comes after an 18-year-old student at Perm State University last month shot dead six people in the latest in a growing…
Moscow car enthusiasts had the opportunity to visit the annual Bolshaya Progulka (“Big Walk”) exhibition next to the Kremlin on Saturday. This year’s theme centered on the 1990s, when Russia opened its doors to the mass import of foreign-made cars:
The operator of the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to Germany — criticized by some Western countries as a geopolitical weapon — said on Monday it had begun filling the pipeline with gas. The latest step pushing the Baltic Sea pipeline to completion comes as Europe faces an energy crisis with natural gas…
Leaked financial papers published by an international group of investigative journalists Sunday implicated several close associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin in allegedly hiding mass amounts of wealth in offshore firms. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists said that Russian nationals are “disproportionately represented” in the Pandora Papers, with 14% of the more than 27,000…
Rosneft has started design work and a set of engineering surveys for Vostok Oil’s key energy facilities
The Museum of Russian Impressionism in Moscow has once again organized a show of little-known but fascinating Russian art. “Other Shores” is a partial reconstruction of an almost forgotten exhibition held almost 100 years ago in New York, in 1924. The exhibition included works by Petr Konchalvsky, Igor Grabar, Mikhail Lariononv, Aristarkh Lentulov, Boris Grigoriev,…
Russian film director Klim Shipenko said Monday the first movie in orbit would be an “experiment,” on the eve of his journey into space hoping to beat a rival Hollywood project. The 38-year-old director and one of Russia’s most famous actresses, Yulia Peresild, 37, are due to blast off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan at…
The November-class K-159 submarine sank in late August 2003 while being towed in bad weather from the closed naval base of Gremikha on the eastern shores of the Kola Peninsula toward the Nerpa shipyard north of Murmansk. Researchers have monitored the wreck ever since, fearing leakages of radioactivity from the two old nuclear reactors onboard…
Russia’s top cabinet official on Monday criticized the country’s stalling vaccination rates for failing to slow the spread of Covid-19 as Russians die in numbers not seen since the start of the pandemic. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said health officials have made it easy for people across the country’s 11 time zones to get the Covid…
Belarusian security officers detained a pro-government reporter who covered a deadly shooting incident involving Belarus’ KGB security agency and an IT worker in Moscow before transporting him to Minsk, activists said Saturday. Russian officials and media executives have criticized the actions, along with other steps seen as the continuation of Belarusian authorities’ crackdown on remaining…
Russia said on Monday it had launched a new hypersonic cruise missile from a submarine, the latest test of emerging weapons President Vladimir Putin has dubbed “invincible.” Moscow has in recent years touted the development of weapons that it hopes will give it the edge in any arms race with the United States at a…
The ROSATOM’s first Sustainable Development Report for 2020 was first posted on the website of the UN Global Compact Network October 1, 2021. The report is qualified rated at level “Active”. Head of Sustainable Development Department of ROSATOM Polina Lion commented: “The adherence to the sustainable development principles requires the company’ fundamentally new level of…
Leaked financial papers published by an international group of investigative journalists Sunday implicated Russian President Vladimir Putin’s close associates — including his alleged mistress — in amassing secret offshore assets. Financial records show that Svetlana Krivonogikh became the owner of an apartment in Monaco in 2003 via an offshore company created weeks after she gave…
Russia has confirmed 7,612,317 cases of coronavirus and 210,801 deaths, according to the national coronavirus information center. Russia’s total excess fatality count since the start of the coronavirus pandemic is around 596,000. Oct. 4: What you need to know today Russia on Monday reported 25,781 new coronavirus cases and 883 deaths. Russian residents may soon be able to receive vaccines not…
Russia has confirmed 7,586,536 cases of coronavirus and 209,918 deaths, according to the national coronavirus information center. Russia’s total excess fatality count since the start of the coronavirus pandemic is around 596,000. Oct. 3: What you need to know today Russia on Sunday reported 25,769 new coronavirus cases and 890 deaths — a new record high number of fatalities. Russian residents may…
“It is like something in a novel,” wrote Vladimir Lenin of the original Lockhart plot — an ill-starred Anglo-French plot to overthrow the Bolshevik government in the summer of 1918. He may as well have been talking about Jonathan Schneer’s new book of the same name, a thoroughly researched, vividly novelistic account of politics, romance…
An Azerbaijan-born Russian billionaire wanted by Moscow over his alleged role in two murders has been arrested in Montenegro, media reports and his lawyer said on Saturday. Telman Ismailov was arrested in Podgorica late on Friday on an international arrest warrant issued by Russia, local media reported. His lawyer, Milos Vuksanovic, said a Podgorica tribunal…
Georgia opposition parties on Sunday cried foul over municipal elections held after ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili’s arrest on his return from exile, deepening a protracted political crisis in the Caucasus nation. With 85% of precincts counted, the ruling Georgian Dream party garnered nearly 48% of the votes in Saturday’s elections, against 52% for all of the…
This week the light shifted, the temperature dropped and just like that, it’s soup season! Longtime readers of this column will know that this is cause for glorious celebration in my household: the first order of business was to unearth my largest soup pot, which had languished all summer at the back of the pantry.…
Russia has confirmed 7,560,767 cases of coronavirus and 209,028 deaths, according to the national coronavirus information center. Russia’s total excess fatality count since the start of the coronavirus pandemic is around 596,000. Oct. 2: What you need to know today Russia on Saturday reported 25,219 new coronavirus cases and 886 deaths. Russian residents may soon be able to receive vaccines not…
The former president of Georgia’s alleged return to the country ahead of local elections is a “circus,” the Kremlin said Friday. Georgia’s flamboyant ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili said Friday he had returned from exile despite the threat of arrest, calling on his supporters to take to the streets against the government. “Listen, wherever Saakashvili is, there…
Ukraine said Friday it wants Germany and the United States to impose sanctions on Russia’s gas export monopoly Gazprom over its controversial deal with Hungary and Kiev’s loss of transit capacities. Kiev slammed as “political” this week’s contract that will supply 4.5 billion cubic meters of Russian natural gas to Hungary every year until 2036…
October 1, 2021, 17:00 Today, Hungary and Croatia started receiving Russian natural gas via a new route: the gas is supplied by the TurkStream gas pipeline and further across the national gas transmission systems of Bulgaria, Serbia, and Hungary. Supplies via this route were made possible thanks to a new gas trunkline built in Hungary by FGSZ Ltd., as well as the completion of expansion of the national gas transmission…
Mali Defense Minister Colonel Sadio Camara saluted a burgeoning partnership with Russia after taking delivery of four Russian military helicopters. Camara enthusiastically welcomed “the reliability and serious nature of this partnership — which has always given us satisfaction.” The development of the hardware which Camara said was from the Russian Federation is likely to raise…
Buy golden honey in golden autumn Rumor has it that golden autumn is about to appear in Moscow after a month of cold days, rain, and gloom. Any of Moscow’s many parks would be a good place to spend a sunny day this weekend — or even long strolls along the Boulevard Ring in the…
Representatives of ROSATOM spoke about advanced projects and solutions in the field of nuclear technologies at the European Conference on Research Reactors (RRFM), which was held from September 24 to 30, 2021 in a hybrid format. The event, organized by the European Nuclear Society, brought together more than 170 experts from 18 countries representing government…
A descendant of Russia’s last emperor Nicholas II has wed in a lavish ceremony on Friday, marking the country’s first royal wedding since the Bolshevik revolution overthrew the monarchy a century ago. Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov tied the knot with his Italian fiancée Rebecca Virginia Bettarini at St. Isaac’s Cathedral in St. Petersburg in…
Message to the Media October 1, 2021, 12:50 According to preliminary data, Gazprom produced 378.1 billion cubic meters of gas in January–September of 2021, which is 17.3 per cent (or 55.7 billion cubic meters) more than in the same period of last year. Gazprom ramped up its domestic supplies from the gas transmission system by 15.9 per cent (or by 23.9 billion cubic meters) over said period of 2021. The Company…
Russia broke its record for new coronavirus deaths for the fourth day in a row Friday, with new infections surging amid slow vaccination rates and health experts warning of a months-long wave of new infections. The government tally reported 887 Covid deaths in the past 24 hours. That brings Russia’s official coronavirus death toll to…
Russia has urged Tajikistan and the Taliban to avoid confrontation on the Afghan-Tajik border amid conflicting reports of a buildup of fighters in the volatile Central Asian region. Russia’s Foreign Ministry issued the call for calm on Thursday days after the Taliban accused Tajikistan of interference, and a Taliban government spokesman tweeted that “thousands” of…
Russia has confirmed 7,535,548 cases of coronavirus and 208,142 deaths, according to the national coronavirus information center. Russia’s total excess fatality count since the start of the coronavirus pandemic is around 596,000. Oct. 1: What you need to know today Russia on Friday recorded its highest coronavirus death toll for a fourth day running. A government tally reported 24,522 new…
News organizations in Russia risk being labeled “foreign agents” for covering corruption, crime and other issues within the military and space industries, under new rules that will likely further strain the country’s media landscape. The Federal Security Service (FSB) published a 60-point list of information Tuesday that is not classified as a state secret, but…
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September 30, 2021, 19:10 Twenty-five years ago, in September 1996, the first pipeline supplies of Russian gas to Greece commenced. Over the past quarter of a century, Gazprom has exported upwards of 54 billion cubic meters of gas to this country. The annual amount of supplies has grown by more than 15 times. All these years, the cooperation has relied on a long-term contract with the Greek corporation DEPA.…
Troops from Russia’s Western Military District take part in Zapad-2021 military drills in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The drills, carried out with Belarus, were designed to demonstrate Russia’s capability and willingness to defend its interests in its neighbor to the west. Yevgeny Polovodov / mil.ru
Samotlorneftegaz, an enterprise of Rosneft Oil Company’s production complex, has planted 350,000 seedlings of conifers – Siberian pine and Scots pine on the territory of the Megion forestry in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District–Yugra.
Russian authorities added prominent investigative journalist Roman Dobrokhotov to the country’s wanted list, his lawyer said Thursday, charging him with illegally crossing the Russian border. Dobrokhotov, editor-in-chief of The Insider, tweeted that Federal Security Service (FSB) agents searched his parents’ home at 6:00 a.m. as part of an investigation into the alleged illegal border crossing. Electronic devices were…
Thousands of employees from companies linked to sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska were dispatched to Moscow for a business trip on the final day of voting in Russia’s parliamentary elections, and some of them told The Moscow Times they were expected to be on standby for a pro-government rally in the capital. Several enterprises partly owned…
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed deepening defense industry cooperation with Russia during talks with his counterpart Vladimir Putin this week, the Turkish leader was quoted as saying Thursday. Erdogan and Putin held their first face-to-face talks in 18 months in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Wednesday, with the Syrian conflict high on…