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Russia Bans The Imports: What Would The Consequences Be?
Aug 14th, 2014Creamy French cheeses, Australian Ribeye steak and seafood risottos are heading off the menu at restaurants after the ban on imports of all fish, meat and dairy produce. As a result, Moscow's sweeping sanctions...
Read more »Underground University Casino Shut Down
Apr 15th, 2013As the Russian News Agency RIA Novosti reports, the Moscovian police closed down an illegal casino located on the terrain of Moscow State University of Instrument Engineering and Informatics. They discovered four card tables, three roulettes tables...
Read more »Moscow's „Speaker's Corners“ To Open in May
Mar 19th, 2013According to the radio station The Voice of Russia, two „Speaker's Corners“, comparable to the one in London's Hyde Park, will be established in Gorky Park and Sokolniki Park in May. The opening of the discussion areas had been scheduled...
Read more »New Smoking Ban Stokes Debate
Feb 28th, 2013Russian smokers will soon be forced to take to the streets to enjoy a cigarette once the new law comes into force. President Vladimir Putin recently signed a law prohibiting smoking in public places. The legislation is due to come into force in July...
Read more »Tverskaya to Return to Its Glorious Soviet Past
Feb 27th, 2013According to the announcement of a tender posted on state procurement site Goszakupok, eight small-leaf lime trees will be planted on Tverskaya Ulitsa between Manezh Square and Pushkin Square, while 60 in containers will be installed on the...
Read more »Google Design for Russia by 8-year old
Dec 17th, 2012Pyotr Alexeyev, of Belgorod, a small town in the south of the country, designed a doodle chosen by Google, to be a symbol for Google.ru. His design features a samovar, a nesting doll and a bear holding a tub of honey - traditional Russian symbols....
Read more »Cossacks Back on Moscow Streets
Nov 28th, 2012Beggars, drunks, improperly parked cars and other minor public disturbances might now be attracting attention of Cossacks units. Moscow authorities are now considering to re-establish this tsarist Russia cavalry members as an armed and salaried...
Read more »Face of Putin Sold for $200 000
Oct 1st, 2011A portrait of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has sold for $200 000 at the Art Moscow Fair, which took place in September. The portrait, entitled Putin Couture, was created by Georgian-American artist David Datuna and brought to the art fair...
Read more »Hostel Market Grows in Moscow
Sep 4th, 2011It's no secret that travelling to Moscow can be really quite pricey, starting with expensive visa processes and ending with expensive accommodation options. However, the latter problem seems to be easing for budget travellers with the opening of...
Read more »Putins Army Calls on Smart and Beautiful Women
Jul 30th, 2011A group of young women, calling themselves Putins Army, are encouraging Russias young, smart, and beautiful women to produce videos demonstrating their devotion to Russias prime minister. The initial video posted by the group has gained a lot of...
Read more »Film Festival Wraps Up in Moscow
Jul 7th, 2011One of Moscow's most exciting annual cultural events is the Moscow International Film Festival, which has taken place in the city since 1959. The festival attracts talented filmmakers from Russia and across the globe, as well as many stars of the...
Read more »Countdown to the Film Festival
Jun 5th, 2011One of the brightest stars on Moscow's cultural calendar is the Moscow International Film Festival (23 June - 2 July), now in its 33rd year. This year's scheduled screenings and special events are better than ever, with films from across the world...
Read more »Russia Marks Spaceflight Anniversary
May 1st, 2011Russia has marked the 50th anniversary since Yuri Gagarin was launched into space, beating the US in the space race with the first successful manned space flight. Gagarin circled the earth in his 108-minute journey, and his adventure is remembered...
Read more »Moscow Bids Farewell to Soviet Era Star
Apr 1st, 2011Russia has lost one of its brightest film stars from the Soviet era - Lyudmila Gurchenko, who died on 30 April of a heart attack at the age of 75. Gurchenko first rose to fame in the 1950s with such films as Carnival Nights, a movie which is...
Read more »Moscow Cancels St Patrick's Day Parade
Mar 1st, 2011Since its inception in 1992, the Moscow St. Patrick's Day parade has attracted both expats, visitors, and fun-loving Russians alike to the streets for a daytime celebration of all things Irish. This year however, the city and Irish Business Club,...
Read more »Tragedy in Moscow Airport
Feb 6th, 2011Tragedy struck Moscow on 24 January as a bomb exploded in the arrivals hall of the Domodedovo International airport killing 36 and injuring 180 people. Domodedovo is Moscow's busiest airport and Russia's largest, located 42 kilometres southeast of...
Read more »Migalki Tales
Jan 9th, 2011One of the most publicized of Moscows municipal issues of 2010 was the problem of migalki, the blue sirens that high-ranking bureaucrats and businessmen use to avoid the citys notorious bad traffic. Cars equipped with migalki can legally disobey...
Read more »Russia wins World Cup 2018 Bid
Dec 6th, 2010Russia overcame bids by England, Netherlands/Belgium, and Spain/Portugal and was recently chosen to host the World Cup in 2018. At the same ceremony, Qatar defeated South Korea, Japan, Australia, and the United States to host the World Cup in 2022. ...
Read more »Moscow No Longer Most Expensive
Nov 7th, 2010Moscow has been steadily gaining a reputation as an exceedingly expensive city, ranking in fourth place in 2009 and number one in 2008. However, a recent survey by Swiss Bank UBS has knocked Moscow right down to number 56. Other formerly...
Read more »Moscow Mayor Fired
Oct 2nd, 2010Eighteen years after he first became mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov has been fired from his position by Russian president Dmitry Medvedev.The former mayor was a controversial figure during this time in power. While he did improve the economy and...
Read more »Slash will resume solo tour in Moscow
Jun 17th, 2010On the 14th of July, former Guns n Roses and Velvet Revolver guitarist, Slash and his band will arrive in Moscow to play at the "Arena Moskau," as part of his UK and European tour. This is Slashs first solo tour and is in promotion of his new album...
Read more »Dynamo down and out?
Apr 22nd, 2010Dynamo Moscow, one of Russia's most prestigious ice hockey clubs seems to be facing its end. The historic member of Russia's Kontinental Hockey League is to merge with HC MVD, a fellow club of the KHL, due to severe financial problems. Many...
Read more »Poker's dealt the final blow
Aug 3rd, 2009Gambling addicts, already reeling from the Government's banning of casinos in Russia, lost their final legal outlet to win or lose a few roubles this week, after Poker was added to the list of outlawed sports.Following the general gambling ban...
Read more »Russians Scoop World Photo Prizes
Jul 5th, 2009Three Russians are among the winning photographers to be exhibited in this years World Press Photo of the Year Exhibition
Read more »Cheaper Trains and More Time to Savour Museums
Jun 13th, 2009If you're thinking of a summer trip to Moscow this year you might want to take advantage of one of the many discounts just introduced on train fares across the country.It's normal practice for the prices of train tickets to be hiked up, sometimes by...
Read more »Watch out for Rover on your Muscovite Menu
May 17th, 2009Make sure you scrutinize the menu if dining out in Moscow after Russian police arrested a man caught in possession of 15 dog carcasses, en route to the kitchens of some of the city's eating joints. The man was apprehended in the city of Orlov after...
Read more »Sweet Candy On Tour...
Mar 30th, 2009Tall, blonde, drop dead gorgeous and extremely talented Candy Dulfer looks like a model, plays the sax like a pro. The musician was already supporting Madonna's concerts in the age of 17! Twenty years later, she is one of the most successful...
Read more »Investigation On Robbery In Progress
Feb 23rd, 2009Moscow's press agency announced that over $1 million in cash was stolen in a highway robbery. The police states that it is considered one of Russia's biggest armed robberies in years. The unknown suspects stole over 43 million rubles from two bank...
Read more »Raul Castro Visiting Moscow
Jan 22nd, 2009According to Reuter's Press Agency, Cuban President Raul Castro will be visiting Moscow, in token of warming the relationship between the two countries. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited Cuba, which was one of Russia's main cold war allies,...
Read more »The Most Expensive Luxury
Nov 19th, 2008According to the American Forbes Magazine, rich people will spend much more money on their usual activities and products in Moscow than they would in any other city in the world. Journalists compared prices of products such as black Petrossian...
Read more »Moscow Tops Expensive Cities Again
Aug 4th, 2008Moscow topped Mercer's cost of living index for the third year in a row in 2008, proving more pricey than even Tokyo and London (2nd and 3rd places) and absurdly expensive next to New York (which slipped down to 22nd place). The survey is intended...
Read more »Medvedev Says Niet
Jul 9th, 2008It was hoped that when Medvedev took over from pugilistic Putin, there might follow a thaw in the icy relations between Great Britain and Russia that have continued for several years now and included some pretty petty behaviour on both sides. ...
Read more »Russia Keep Euro Dream Alive
Jun 16th, 2008After kicking off their Euro 2008 campaign with a humbling 4-1 defeat to Spain, even the most patriotic of Russians must have felt that their national team would be heading home with their tail between their legs by now... But despite their...
Read more »Manchester vs Chelsea In All England Final
May 5th, 2008English football received a boost last week when Manchester United saw off a talented Barcelona side to set up an all English final. It was Chelsea that came through the other semi-final against premiership rivals in what must have been sweet revenge...
Read more »Newspaper Shut Down After Putin Love Life Allegations
Apr 21st, 2008The newspaper which reported that the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, was all set to marry a gymnast half his age has been dramatically shut down, in a turn of events that casts an even deeper shadow on Russia's freedom of press. Earlier this...
Read more »Final Ball Revealed in Moscow
Apr 4th, 2008Adidas revealed their sparkling new match ball for the highly anticipated 2008 Champions League Final in Moscow, which will be played on the 21st May. 'The Finale Moscow' as the ball is dubbed is an eye-catching mix of red and gold and the...
Read more »The End Of An Era?
Mar 4th, 2008In the most predictable contest since Brazil last played Andorra in international football, at home, Dmitry Medvedev romped to victory in the Russian elections this weekend. Western newspapers will point to infringements in the democratic process...
Read more »BBC Staff Attacked in Moscow
Dec 7th, 2007In three separate incidents, on November 24th, November 25th and November 30th, three members of BBC staff in Moscow were attacked by youths at least two of which required hospital treatment. The first attack took place on a subway system, when...
Read more »Kasparov Arrested As Putin Tightens Grip
Nov 26th, 2007Former chess champion turned political dissident, Gary Kasparov was arrested on Saturday after leading an unsanctioned march in Moscow. The purpose of the march was to protest against Putin in the build up to elections that many believe will be...
Read more »Zookeeper Killed by Elephant
Oct 11th, 2007An unfortunate incident at Moscow zoo has resulted in the death of a forty year old zookeeper who was killed by an elephant with which she had worked for many years. Three elephants were being loaded onto a specially-designed truck in order to...
Read more »Starbucks Opens With A Whimper
Sep 11th, 2007It's a sign of how much things have changed in Moscow since 1990 that when Starbucks opened its first branch here last week no one batted an eyelid. The same could not be said of McDonalds first outlet, which caused a national sensation when it...
Read more »Spartak Moscow Travel To Glasgow
Aug 27th, 2007This Wednesday will see a much anticipated Champions League qualifier take place in Scotland, between hosts Glasgow Celtic and visitors Spartak Moscow. The result of the first leg was a one all draw, giving the Scots the benefit of an away goal on...
Read more »Nine Inch Nails Rock Moscow
Aug 2nd, 2007Despite experiencing some problems with their visas (those forms aren't very rockstar friendly!), Trent and his band finally arrived in Moscow in time to kick off their European tour at the Luzhniki Stadium. The double award winning Nine Inch Nails...
Read more »Purge Victims Remembered
Jul 25th, 2007Many more people died under Stalin's Communism than Hitler's Nazism, a fact that is sadly little remembered - even by Russians, 50 percent of whom view Stalin in a positive light as a strong leader who helped Russia to victory in WW2 and not as a...
Read more »Berezovsky On Trial in Moscow
Jul 2nd, 2007Powerful oligarch Berezovsky has gone on trial in Moscow, despite living in exile in London. The millionaire businessman is a well known critic of the Kremlin and is being tried in absentia on charges of embezzling 214m roubles (4.12m) from the...
Read more »Rice and Putin Agree to Disagree
May 17th, 2007Condoleeza Rice, the U.S. Secretary of State arrived in Moscow ahead of the G8 Summit in Germany in June of this year to try and heal the increasing rift between Russia and America, which is being dubbed by some in the media as a Second Cold War. ...
Read more »Yeltsin Buried in Moscow
Apr 25th, 2007Boris Yeltsin, first President of the Russian Federation, died on 23rd April 2007 of heart failure and was buried today in Novodevichy Cemetery (and not in the Kremlin, as with other Russian leaders). Hailed by many as the herald of democracy in...
Read more »Princess Diana in Bolshoi Ballet
Apr 12th, 2007The Bolshoi Ballet have recently announced that they will be premiering a ballet about the life and death of her Royal Highness Princess Diana of Great Britain. The ballet, entitled 'Princess of the People' will be staged at the recently renovated,...
Read more »Fire Emergency at 911
Mar 26th, 2007There was panic at the disco early on Sunday morning when a fire show went tragically wrong at strip club 911. It's thought that a performer's clothes were set on fire which in turn ignited a container of flammable liquid starting the blaze in...
Read more »Moscow Journalist Buried
Mar 8th, 2007Ivan Safronov, the Moscow journalist who recently died following a fall from his 5th storey apartment block, has been buried. Safronov, aged 51, was the latest in a long line of journalists to die in suspicious circumstances after making damaging...
Read more »Russian Exile Ready To Talk
Feb 7th, 2007In the latest development of the Litvinenko case, Boris Berezovsky has gone on record as saying that he is ready to co-operate with Russian investigators. Berezovsky won political asylum in Britain in 2003, and now lives in Mayfair London. An...
Read more »Tusk On His Way To Moscow
Feb 6th, 2007Donald Tusk is visiting Moscow this week in the hope of thawing what have been icy relations between Poland and Russia in recent years. The ultra-nationalists Kaczynski twins, who held power for the last two years in Poland were always keen to rub up...
Read more »"Last Christmas I gave you my cash...
Jan 8th, 2007...And the very next day you took it away," or so one Russian billionaire might well be singing during this festive season. Just twenty miles outside Moscow, an unnamed business tycoon splashed out on the services of none other than George...
Read more »British Detectives fly to Moscow
Dec 4th, 2006British detectives have been granted visas by the Russian Embassy in London to visit Moscow in order to investigate the murder of journalist and ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko. Litvinenko died in mysterious circumstances on November 23rd after being...
Read more »Moscow Property Prices on the Rise
Nov 7th, 2006An unprecedented growth in construction and demand has turned the Moscow retail market into one of the most expensive in the world. The bubble doesn't look like bursting anytime soon either with favourable oil prices flooding the Russian marketplace...
Read more »Russian Champ in Toilet Tantrum
Nov 3rd, 2006Who says chess is dull? Certainly not us at Moscow Life who have been most amused by the latest saga in the chess world, dubbed by the media as 'toiletgate'. It seems that number one in the world, Topalov from Bulgaria, is upset with number four,...
Read more »Bill Gates to vist Moscow
Nov 1st, 2006The Microsoft corporation has announced that Bill Gates will be visiting Moscow on November 7. The itinerary outlines planned meetings with the company's clients and partners and state authorities, along with students and fellow researchers. ...
Read more »CSKA Moscow travel to London
Oct 31st, 2006CSKA Moscow travel to London to face an Arsenal side hungry for revenge, when the two sides clash in their UEFA Champions League encounter, Wednesday night. The moscovites pulled of an upset 1-0 victory over the "Gunners" at home two weeks ago on...
Read more »Moscow is World's Most Expensive City
Sep 29th, 2006Moscow has overtaken Tokyo to become the most expensive city in the world in 2006, according to a survey conducted recently. Seoul, Tokyo and Hong Kong were ranked second, third and fourth. London dropped from third place to fifth this year. ...
Read more »Moscow road accidents explained
Sep 21st, 2006Bizarre and uncaused accidents reported at times on the roads of Moscow are actually the result of abnormal energetic activity, experts say. This geopathogenic anomaly is produced because of the overlapping energy currents the earthly and the...
Read more »Madonna switches to Moscow Olympic stadium
Aug 28th, 2006Moscow - Organisers on Monday switched the venue for US pop star Madonna's Moscow concert from a hilltop site overlooking the city to a Soviet-era stadium used in the 1980 Olympic Games because of crowd control fears. Police said they feared up to...
Read more »Madonna to switch Moscow venue
Aug 26th, 2006American pop icon Madonna is all set to switch the venue of her concert in Moscow, after Police have raised security issues. The Material Girl was due to play in front of Moscow State University - one of Moscow's seven 'High Buildings' - however...
Read more »Three charged for Moscow bombing
Aug 25th, 2006A third person has been charged with racially motivated murder over a bomb blast at a Moscow market that left 10 people dead on Monday. A Moscow court also issued a warrant for the arrest of the third suspect - a university student in the capital....
Read more »Lonely Planet gives Moscow a bad name
Aug 15th, 2006Moscow officials have launched an attack on the Lonely Planet series for giving the city a bad name, claiming that guidebook is having an adverse effect on tourism - and Moscow's image as a whole. Practically the first words in the 2nd Edition of...
Read more »Police hold two Hermitage suspects
Aug 7th, 2006ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Police have detained the husband and son of a museum curator on suspicion of stealing hundreds of artworks from Russia's world-famous Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Interfax news agency said on Saturday. The...
Read more »Clapton cancels concert on Red Square
Aug 1st, 2006MOSCOW (Reuters) - Rock guitar legend Eric Clapton has cancelled a concert in Moscow after officials withdrew his permit to perform on the city's landmark Red Square, he said on his website. Clapton had been due to play before 20,000 Russian fans...
Read more »G8 slams N. Korea tests, backs Russia Nuclear fuel plan
Jul 18th, 2006REUTERS - St Petersburg - The Group of Eight industrialised nations condemned North Koreas recent missile tests and endorsed a Russian plan to create international atomic fuel centres to prevent countries from developing nuclear bombs. The...
Read more »Trip to Moscow top prize in Hungary uprising quiz
Jul 18th, 2006BUDAPEST (Reuters) - It may not seem an appropriate prize but schoolchildren with the best knowledge of the 1956 Hungarian uprising, which was crushed by Soviet tanks, will win a trip to Moscow, Hungary's education ministry said on Monday. The...
Read more »Moscow Film Festival honours Depardieu
Jul 4th, 2006French actor Gerard Depardieu has won a lifetime achievement award at the 28th Moscow International Film Festival. Picking up the award, the Cyrano De Bergerac star said his career had been inspired by Russian author Dostoevsky. His latest...
Read more »Moscow tops expensive cities list
Jun 28th, 2006Moscow is this year's most expensive city in the world for expatriate staff, a study released Monday by British human resources firm Mercer HR suggests. Seoul was in the second place, followed by Tokyo which topped the list in 2005, when the...
Read more »Land dispute in Moscow sets dangerous precedent
Jun 22nd, 2006MOSCOW, June 21 (RIA Novosti) - A dispute between city authorities and homeowners over land on the southern outskirts of Moscow could set a dangerous precedent for Muscovites, a member of the Moscow legislature said Wednesday. Residents of Butovo,...
Read more »Moscow-St. Petersburg toll highway to start in 2007
Jun 13th, 2006ST. PETERSBURG, June 12 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's economics minister Monday expressed hope that the construction of a toll highway between two largest cities in the country could start in 2007. "I hope that this new project will start next year,"...
Read more »Russian Orthodox Church slams Da Vinci Code
May 25th, 2006MOSCOW, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - The controversy around the Da Vince Code continued Thursday, as a senior member of the Russian Orthodox Church said it was insulting and could engender religious or ethnic violence. The Hollywood film based on Dan...
Read more »Russia celebrates Victory Day
May 10th, 2006May 9th represents one of Russia's most celebrated holidays, the Victory of Soviet Russia over Nazi Germany in World War II. 25 million Russians died in the struggle, millions poor than even the Polish, Japanese (who suffered two nuclear bombs) or...
Read more »Moscow's anti-gay protesters held
May 3rd, 2006Riot police were brought in to control a mixture of right-wing and religious activists, who picketed the club and shouted insults at people leaving it. For two nights in a row, Russia's gay and lesbian clubs have been targeted. A leading gay...
Read more »Moscow contributes 1 million dollars to human rights
May 2nd, 2006MOSCOW, April 28 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has contributed $1 million to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday. "On April 27, 2006, the Russian Federation transferred $1 million to the...
Read more »Moscow's building boom leaves little room for history
May 2nd, 2006MOSCOW -- Built in the late 1920s, the Narkomfin apartment building was designed as the perfect environment for new Soviet Man. A monument to the utopian communist ideals that spilled forth after the Bolshevik revolution, the six-story complex behind...
Read more »Moscow Patriarchateís disagreement over Cuba blockade
Apr 28th, 2006Moscow, April 27, Interfax - The Russian Orthodox church thinks the U.S. economic sanctions against Cuba are unfair. Certainly, we disagree with the economic blocade of Cuba. We consider the presence of an American military base on Cuba as wrong,...
Read more »Anti-fascist youth teams patrol Moscow streets
Apr 21st, 2006MOSCOW (Itar-Tass) -- The youth organization "Nashi sent anti-fascist patrols to Moscow streets on Thursday in a bid to prevent Neo-Nazi supporters from rioting on the anniversary of Adolf Hitler's birth. Nashi sent its patrols to the area of the...
Read more »Piglets seek Moscow Olympic glory
Apr 18th, 2006The pigs attempted running, swimming and football The third annual "Pig Olympics" have been held in Russia where the pigs might not have flown but they did show their prowess in several activities. Some 12 piglets from seven countries took part...
Read more »1,000 rally in Moscow against government control of media
Apr 17th, 2006MOSCOW (AP) - More than 1,000 demonstrators rallied in Moscow Sunday to protest against the authorities' efforts to tighten controls over national media. The protest in downtown Moscow was linked to the fifth anniversary of the state-controlled...
Read more »Movie-maker injured in road accident near Moscow
Apr 5th, 2006MOSCOW, April 4 (Itar-Tass) Famous Russian movie-maker Pyotr Todorovsky received heavy injuries in a road accident on a highway 34 kilometers southeast off Moscow Tuesday, sources at the road police department of the Russian Foreign Ministry told...
Read more »Eric Clapton to perform at Moscow's Red Square
Apr 5th, 2006Eric Clapton (music) announced Tuesday (4/4) that he will wrap up his upcoming European tour with a concert at Red Square in Moscow. Including the new show, Clapton is now scheduled to touch down in 14 countries this spring and summer. The...
Read more »Hundreds protest against military conscription
Apr 3rd, 2006Hundreds protested in central Moscow on Saturday, calling for an end to mandatory military service and criticizing plans to cut draft deferments as the Russian armed forced began their spring conscription campaign, AP reported. The demonstration,...
Read more »Second British airline to fly London-Moscow route
Apr 2nd, 2006MOSCOW, March 31 (RIA Novosti) - Bmi, formerly known as British Midland, is to begin regular flights between London and Moscow, becoming the second UK airline to cover the route, a press-release from the Russian Ministry of Transportation said...
Read more »Astrologer attempts to sue NASA
Mar 31st, 2006MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti) - The Moscow City Court rejected an appeal Thursday lodged by an astrologist against a lower court's ruling to dismiss a huge lawsuit against NASA for crashing a spacecraft into a comet last year. Marina Bai had...
Read more »Moscow denies Saddam claims
Mar 29th, 2006Moscow - Russian defence minister Sergei Ivanov on Tuesday called reports that Moscow had provided information to Saddam Hussein's regime on US troop movements "complete nonsense", the Interfax news agency reported. Ivanov, who is also a deputy...
Read more »Moscow neo-Nazi gets 13 years
Mar 28th, 2006The Moscow City Court on Monday sentenced a man who attacked worshippers in a synagogue with a hunting knife to 13 years in prison and mandatory psychiatric treatment. The court found Alexander Koptsev guilty of attempted murder on racist grounds...
Read more »Moscow bids to host Champions League final
Mar 20th, 2006MOSCOW, March 17 (Reuters) - Moscow has submitted a bid to host the Champions League final in 2008 or 2009, Russia's soccer chief Vitaly Mutko said on Friday. "Yesterday, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov signed all the required documents and we have...
Read more »Patriarch thanks mayor for ban on gay parade
Mar 17th, 2006MOSCOW, March 16 (Itar-Tass) -- Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II thanked Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov for his decision to ban a parade of the sexual minorities in the Russian capital. Being aware of your position of principle to the...
Read more »Smertin leaves Chelsea for Moscow
Mar 16th, 2006Chelsea have sold midfielder Alexei Smertin to Dynamo Moscow. Smertin, who has spent this season on loan at Charlton will cost the Russian club 1m. The Russian skipper, 30, has signed a three-year deal with the club, and his move to Moscow...
Read more »G8 energy ministers gather in Moscow
Mar 16th, 2006Moscow: Exploration of fossil fuels and increasing global use of nuclear power will dominate talks in Moscow Thursday between the energy ministers of the G8 countries. The ministers began arriving Wednesday for the consultations that will pave...
Read more »Moscow won't expel British diplomats accused of spying
Feb 22nd, 2006The head of Russias main KGB successor agency said Moscow will not expel four British diplomats accused of spying, a Russian news agency reported today. Nikolai Patrushev, the head of the Federal Security Service, known under its Russian acronym...
Read more »Moscow court selects new jury in Klebnikov murder trial
Feb 16th, 2006MOSCOW, February 15 (RIA Novosti) - The Moscow City Court selected a new jury Wednesday in the closed trial of two men accused of killing the editor of Forbes Russia, Paul Klebnikov. The trial restarted Wednesday with a new presiding judge, who...
Read more »Drunken elephant causes chaos in Moscow
Jan 23rd, 2006MOSCOW: The coldest spell in Moscow in 26 years has brought out the quirkiest in the Russian character with one animal trainer feeding an elephant a bucket of vodka to warm it up only to watch the drunken beast set about wrecking the central heating...
Read more »Moscow State Circus travels to Liverpool
Jan 10th, 2006FROM Russia with love, the Moscow State Circus returns to the UK with a brand new show, bringing thrills, spills and fabulous feasts for the eyes. Coming to the Liverpool Empire from January 24 to 28, the troop boasts a 35 strong cast of Russia's...
Read more »Chelsea sign Maniche from Moscow
Jan 9th, 2006Chelsea signed Portugal midfielder Maniche on loan from Dynamo Moscow on Wednesday, the English champions said. The 28-year-old former Porto player has joined coach Jose Mourinhos Premier League leaders until the end of the season, the English...
Read more »Russia failing to win drink battle
Jan 9th, 2006(THE GUARDIAN, LONDON) Perfume, brake fluid, de-icer, meths, toilet cleaner, nail varnish remover ... "I drank them all," Boris Kuznetsov said. "Everything that burns." Like many Russian alcoholics, the 53-year-old former laser specialist from a...
Read more »Russia-Ukraine gas deal too murky for comfort
Jan 9th, 2006MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Europe may have breathed a collective sigh of relief after Russia and Ukraine signed a long-term gas supply deal, averting a possible repetition of the New Year supply cutbacks that unnerved the continent. But after a...
Read more »Icon smuggler caught at Sheremetyevo Airport
Dec 21st, 2005MOSCOW. Dec 21 (Interfax) - Customs officers have found four icons in the luggage of an Italian citizen at Sheremetyevo Airport, the press service of the Federal Customs Service said. The man told customs officers that he had nothing to declare,...
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