Moscow: News & Openings
Russian Hacking Allegations Could Get Putin Reelected (Op-ed)
Russia’s Most Famous Poet: Alexander Pushkin
It Takes Two Museums to Cover the Work of this Prolific German Neo-Expressionist
Hospitalised Russian Mercenary in Possession of Syrian Maps and Cash
Russian Social Network Now Allows Political Advertising – but There’s a Catch
Cold Weather Could Trigger Rise in Russian Inflation, Says Central Bank
Changing Places: Nomadic Arts Curator Kate Fowle Loves Moscow’s Dynamism
Changing Places
Russia Mulls New Committee to Fight Western ‘Election Meddling’
Church of Scientology Raided by Russian Security Forces (Again)
This Artist’s Worldview Drips With Unending Pessimism
Wine Time: A Real Corker
Russian Man Kills 9 in Drunken Party Rampage
Director of Ukrainian Library in Moscow Handed 4-Year Suspended Sentence
Russian Magazine The New Times Closes Print Amid Financial Troubles
Moscow TV Round-Up: Literature, Justice and the Third Reich
The Wars of the Future: Russian Defense Ministry’s New Modernization Plan
Eataly: Bringing the Mediterranean to Moscow
Russia Eases Sanctions on Turkey
Talking Heads: How Russia’s Videobloggers are Shaping Public Opinion
Get Out of Town: 7 Great Festivals Outside Moscow This Summer
Russia to Import 100,000 Barrels of Iranian Oil per Day
Russia’s Jehovah’s Witnesses Meet in Defiance of ‘Extremism’ Ban
Why the Kids Are Bastards (Op-ed)
From Extravagance to Exile: What to See at the Chekhov Theater Festival
It’s a Small World: Children in Moscow
Deadly TU-154 Christmas Day Plane Crash Caused by Human Error, Says Russian Defence Ministry
Waiting for a Miracle: Muscovites Line up to See the Remains of St. Nicholas
Russia’s Yandex Unveils Self-Driving Car
Welcome to The Machine: Inside the Secretive World of RT
After ‘Hurricane,’ Muscovites Ask Why They Weren’t Warned
32% of Russians Support Physical Punishment for Teens — Poll
Frank Lloyd Wright-Designed Buildings (and One Doghouse) Open for Rare Tours in Honor of the Architect’s 150th Birthday
Why It’s So Hard to Find the Original Owners of Nazi-Looted Art
The Protests That Aren’t Going Away
France-Russia: An Improbable Reset That Quickly Turned Sour
Russian Court Orders Navalny to Apologize for Government Corruption Claims
Explore Crucian Cuisine on a New U.S. Virgin Islands Food Tour
Gang Attacks Navalny Campaign’s Landlord in Siberia
Forged Safety Documents Aided Russian Teen’s Gun Rampage — Reports
Russia to Crackdown on ‘Dishonest’ Microlenders
Student Jailed for Murder of Russian Journalist Tsilikin
Moscow: News and Openings
Edith Wharton Recruited the World’s Greatest Artists to Raise Money for WWI Refugees
Summer Music in Moscow
‘Leviathan’ Director Zvyagintsev Wins Jury Prize for New Film ‘Loveless’ at Cannes
At Least 11 Dead as Storm Sweeps Moscow
In Pictures: Fatal Thunderstorms Sweep Moscow
Two North Koreans Found Dead in Moscow Hotel
BarDelhi: How to Spice Up Dinner
Dane Arrested in Russia for ‘Extremist’ Jehovah’s Witnesses Meeting
Moscow TV Round-Up: Propaganda and Patriotism
Kantemir Balagov’s “Closeness” gets Cannes Festival’s International Critics’ Prize
“Closeness,” a debut of 26-year-old Balagov, is set in 1998 in the director’s home city of Nalchik “Closeness” by Russian film director Kantemir Balagov, along with Robin Campillo’s “BPM (Beats Per Minute)” and Pedro Pinho’s “The Nothing Factory,” won International Critics’ Prizes at the Cannes Festival on Saturday. The FIPRESCI Jury awarded three prizes: two…
More than two-thirds of Russians say would like to venerate St Nicholas’s relics
The requests people would like to address to St Nicholas the Wonderworker concern personal health, assistance in the rectification of personal problems and maintenance of peace Arrival of the relics of St Nicholas from the Italian city of Bari to Russia has become a considerable event for the Russians and 72% of them would like…
Patriarch Kirill I sends condolences to Coptic Church over terrorist act in Egypt
“The cowardly attack victimized totally innocent people, icnluding children, who were en route to an antique monastery for gratuitous work and prayer,” Kirill I said in his message The Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill I on Friday send condolences to Pope Tawadros II, the supreme hierarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria…
This week in photos: Trump with Pope, St Nicholas relics in Moscow and Zuckerberg’s degree
The world in pictures in a photo gallery by TASS President Donald Trump’s Vatican visit, St. Nicholas’ relics in Moscow, Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard degree and other best photographs of the week. The world in pictures in a photo gallery by TASS
Bolshoi Theater vows to put on at least 10 new shows next season
Among the expected productions are works by renowned directors Katie Mitchell and Rimas Tuminas With the 241st Bolshoi Theater season still underway, plans for next year have already been announced, the theater’s director Vladimir Urin told TASS on Thursday. Among the expected productions are works by renowned directors Katie Mitchell and Rimas Tuminas, while the…
Space technologies offer glimpse at Tsar Ivan the Terrible’s rare portrait
The portrait was engraved in copper and subsequently imprinted on the leather cover of Russia’s first exact-dated printed book — the “Apostle” Multispectral imaging, a technology used in space research, allowed scientists to take a glimpse at the only portrait of Russia’s 16th century ruler Ivan the Terrible made during his lifetime and worn away…