Moscow Protests Russian Officials Condemn Police Violence During Moscow Proteststhemoscowtimes.com The Kremlin has said the tough police response to this summer's Moscow protests was justified.
Nuclear Energy The Absurd Strategy Behind Russia’s Nuclear Explosionnewrepublic.com - Ankit Panda A radioactive mess near the Arctic Circle suggests our next superpower arms race will be even more foolish than the last one. The United States and …
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Russia Most Russians Don’t Believe in a Better Future – State Pollthemoscowtimes.com Respondents pointed to instability, low wages and living standards in Russia as the reasons behind their thinking.
Radiation After Radiation Sensors Blink Off, Russia’s Explanations ChangeThe New York Times The bank of the Northern Dvina River in Arkhangelsk, Russia. About 40 miles across the river, a mysterious nuclear accident on Aug. 8 killed at least seven people.
Moscow Stop Comparing the Moscow and Paris Proteststhemoscowtimes.com - Leonid Bershidsky In France, Putin made his first public comments on the protests that were triggered by the authorities’ refusal to allow anti-Kremlin candidates to …
Radiation Russia Nuclear Explosion: Four Monitoring Stations Now Offline as Russia Says Radiation No One’s BusinessThe Daily Beast - Barbie Latza Nadeau Russia has told the Vienna-based Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization that the nuclear-reactor explosion at a White Sea missile test …
Nuclear Energy Russia refuses to share data on blast that caused radiation spikeThe Guardian - Andrew Roth in MoscowRussia has told international nuclear test ban monitors that it does not have to share information on the blast that caused a brief spike in radiation levels in Arkhangelsk region, bolstering speculation
These Russians share their homes with dangerous animals (PHOTOS)Russia Beyond The Headlines - Ksenia ZubachevaTigers, wolves, crocodiles, snakes, you name it. Until recently, Russians could get hold of almost any “pet” they liked. The Law on the Responsible Treatment of Animals will enter into force in January
15 most famous and terrifying Russian military paintingsRussia Beyond The Headlines - Boris EgorovThese paintings are the best depictions of Russian heroism in the course of numerous wars and conflicts, as well of the horror that each war brought. 1. Vasily Vereshchagin. The Apotheosis of War (1871).
Sailing Sailing Into the Past in Lipetskthemoscowtimes.com - Yulia Skopich Flags flutter above linen tents, musicians play ancient melodies on old musical instruments, craftsmen peddle their wares… This might look like the …
MeduzaRussia's property registry retroactively changed the Putin family's names to ‘Sergeyev-Gradsky’ in ownership records formeduza.io The Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography (Rosreestr) retroactively edited its data about a St. Petersburg apartment that …
20 Years of Vladimir Putin: How Russian Society Has Changedthemoscowtimes.com - Yury Saprykin Today’s independent Russia is a country that has risen anew. It has been obliged to solve, practically from scratch, the question of its place in the …
Nostalgia Toxic Nostalgia Breeds DerangementThe New York TimesIn 2014, Peter Pomerantsev, a British journalist born in the Soviet Union, published “Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible,” which drew on his years working in Russian television to describe a society
Russia Life in Russia, warts and allstraitstimes.com August 20, 2019 5:00 AM "Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress," wrote Russian author Anton Chekhov. The same could be said of his …
Radiation Russia's Putin denies increased radiation levels following deadly blastCNN - By Mary Ilyushina, CNN(CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that there's no risk of increased radiation levels following a deadly blast at a military site in Northern Russia earlier this month that killed at least
Music (UK) Prom 41: LPO/Jurowski review – Russian novelties surprise and delightThe Guardian - Andrew ClementsRussian nights at the Proms generally include at least one very familiar, often all too familiar, warhorse. But there was nothing hackneyed in Vladimir Jurowski’s programme from his homeland. It was made
10 best fiction books that describe Tsarist era lifeRussia Beyond The Headlines - Alexandra GuzevaThe personal lives of members of the Romanov dynasty excite readers from many countries. But what was life like for ordinary people in the Russian Empire, be it a nobleman or a peasant? We’ve collected
Play buttonRussia New evidence emerges of Russian role in Ukraine conflictThe Guardian - Shaun Walker Central and eastern Europe correspondentNewly collated evidence documenting Russian military involvement in the conflict in Ukraine will be used to bolster legal claims against the Russian state by Ukrainian volunteer fighters. Forensic Architecture,
Vladimir Putin The 'Celebritization' of Protest in Russiathemoscowtimes.com - Yana Gorokhovskaya On August 10, 50,000 Muscovites took part in a protest on Prospekt Sakharova in support of opposition candidates who have been disqualified on …
Russian babushkas VS. American grandmasRussia Beyond The Headlines - Benjamin DavisOur American writer living in St. Petersburg gives you three reasons why one of the sides wins outright! I first encountered an old lady in Russia on the bus from the airport to the center of St. Petersburg.
Russia Russian Lawmakers Look for Foreign Hand Behind Wave of ProtestsBloomberg - Jake Rudnitsky Leaders of Russia’s lower house of parliament met to discuss alleged foreign meddling in the country’s affairs including in elections, amid the …
Thrillers This sci-fi thriller has just become the first Russian show on Netflix Originalscalvertjournal.com - Katie Davies Russian Culture Minister: US government uses Netflix as mind control A Russian-produced zombie series for Snapchat is heading to your phone screen I, …
Two Russian Radiation Detectors Went Silent After Mystery Nuclear-powered Missile Explosion: 'Very Odd Coincidence'newsweek.com Monitoring stations near the site of a failed nuclear-powered missile test in northern Russia have reportedly stopped transmitting data, bolstering …
Vladimir Putin Long Read: 20 Years of Russia's Economy Under Putin, in Numbersthemoscowtimes.com - Ben Aris and Ivan Tkachev for bne IntelliNews Last week President Vladimir Putin celebrated 20 years in power. We take a look at how the country has been transformed under his leadership by going …
The Arctic Russia to Open Tourism Center in Remote Arctic Archipelagothemoscowtimes.com Visits to Franz Josef Land must be made more attractive to tourists, the local national park director says.
MoscowTeenaged girl becomes a resistance symbol for her peaceful reading of the Russian constitution to a Putin goon-squad (theyboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Article 31 of the Russian constitution guarantees the right to peaceful political assembly, which is why Russian opposition protesters like to wave …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo ‘Do What You Can’ to Stop Moscow’s Repressive Moves toward Dictatorship, Scholars Urgewindowoneurasia2.blogspot.com Staunton, August 16 – A group of scholars has launched a petition calling on all Russians to do what they can to stoop the rising tide of political …
