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Events in Ukraine, North Korea, and Syria ranked in the top five most mentioned events

If you lived in Moscow in the 90s, you’ll remember this

She is a socialite and former reality TV presenter, turned opposition activist, then opposition journalist and — now — presidential candidate

Big business could fund the majority of Sobchak’s $17.4 million campaign, an asset that Kremlin-backed candidates enjoy.

Mark Galeotti explains how Sobchak’s campaign can reshape the Russian presidential election landscape.

The Belarusian-born consultant helped two opposition politicians gain an unprecedented number of seats in Moscow in September

The manufacturing company Mart Group is developing a non-lethal stun shield for riot police to use in 2018

The former reality television host is the daughter of Anatoly Sobchak, the first democratically elected mayor of St. Petersburg and the former boss of President Vladimir Putin

The collapse of Otkritie is third most expensive collapse of a Russian bank in modern history.

Say who?!

Residents who remain are asked to help foreign visitors and avoid fights with the large groups of fans watching the games in bars

The legendary punk musician Iggy Pop is performing in Moscow this week as part of the world tour for his Post Pop Depression album.

Pavlensky’s wife will meanwhile remain in custody.

“Isn’t it beautiful when a man of such great power sexually harasses you?”

Autumn in Moscow is always a time of openings and premieres, on the dining scene as much as on stages and in museums. Here’s a variety of new places, from a spot to grab a cup of Joe to restaurants serving more elaborate cuisines.

Pavel Durov said he had received 200 offers, including from famous lawyers who were prepared to defend Telegram pro bono

CNN, Voices of America, and Radio Liberty are all included in the list. The names of the two other outlets have not been disclosed.

Serebrennikov alleged during the hearing that for several years, he had been tailed by intelligence agents

It ranked behind Paris, Tokyo and London in terms of overall safety.

Russia is steadily making China into its most important trade partner

Teenagers have played a leading role in a series of rallies organized by opposition leader Alexei Navalny and presidential hopeful this year

The ECHR on Tuesday ruled that the Navalny brothers’ right to a fair trial was violated and that their convictions fell outside the definition of fraud

The Worldwide Short Film Festival, or “shnit,” is an international festival of short films that opens in Moscow on Wednesday.

Their orders were to “uncover and highlight existing problems and social issues in the United States”

The unveiling was reportedly attended by DNR leader Alexander Zakharchenko and Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov

Not since Josef Stalin’s first General Plan for the Reconstruction of Moscow in 1935 has the Russian capital changed so radically and so quickly.

Former Bolshoi ballerina Anastasia Volochkova told The Daily Beast that she had attended “gala nights” for ballerinas and Russian oligarchs during her career

The case has implicated Roskomnadzor’s spokesman, the head of its legal department among other top officials

A Moscow court on Monday fined Telegram for failing to give security services decoding data targeting six phone numbers

The designer of The Moscow Times shares his experience in creating the first newspaper layout

France granted Pavlensky and his partner asylum in May, months after Russia fined him for a 2015 arson attack of the Federal Security Service building.

A Danish bank is under investigation for helping launder a $230 million fraud committed by the Russian treasury and uncovered by the late Sergei Magnitsky

The company has 10 days to appeal the verdict

“Doesn’t this mean that for other countries, it is useless to agree on anything [with the U.S.], because they’ll change their minds?”

A source close to the Defense Ministry and another in the aviation industry said a second misfiring occurred 25 minutes after the first

The trolls were ordered to watch the hit series “House of Cards” in English and had English lessons to correct their grammar.

In another ominous sign of the souring relationship between Russia and NATO, a prized sturgeon given to Norway by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev has died in a tragic accident.

Construction workers at Russia’s Far East spaceport are staging a hunger strike for the third year in a row demanding salaries that they haven’t received in six months

A science and education-themed train will soon launch in the Moscow Metro

Despite arson threats from a vigilante group, a film about Tsar Nicholas II’s affair with a Polish ballerina will be screened by Russia’s biggest cinema chain

Already over budget, Moscow’s infrastructure revamp will now last another three years

Russian women have President Vladimir Putin to thank for the lack of sexual harassment incidents that are coming to light in the United States

The State Duma ethics committee will reprimand ultra-conservative St. Petersburg lawmaker Vitaly Milonov for inciting hatred against the LGBT community

This week I begin my trek through time stuck in a traffic jam. The place: Moscow. The year: 2005.

The tumultuous decades have left their mark on Russians’ inner life

A Novosibirsk man has been fined for taking his automobile for a ride on a hot air balloon

Russia’s mixed martial arts union wants to ban fights involving children under the age of 12 after a recent tournament south of Moscow featured 6-year-old fighters

Trust in Russia’s military and intelligence services has grown while trust in government agencies, banks, and big business has faltered over the past four years

A monument to the English playwright William Shakespeare will be installed in central Moscow by 2019