Putin calls strategic missile defense threat to Russia
Russia will seek to maintain the world’s strategic balance of power and will work to neutralize the threats stemming from creation of missile defense systems and the concept of global strike, Russian...
View ArticleQuestioning life? Read these 10 pearls of wisdom from Russian writers
1) “If your wife has been unfaithful to you, be happy that she was unfaithful to you and not the fatherland.” (This phrase belongs to master of the short story, playwright and novelist Anton Chekhov,...
View ArticleMy life in Russia: Ramnik Kohli from New Dehli, India
"The weather was new to me, I'd never even seen snow before." For Ramnik Kohli from New Dehli, India, Russia turned out to be a completely new world. He first came to Russia in 1997 to study at the...
View ArticleNumber of the week: How far from an exhibition can you protest against it?
First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee for Culture Vladimir Bortko proposed on Nov. 17 to allow citizens to participate in protests against art exhibitions at a distance of no less than 25...
View ArticleKremlin refrains from comments on Michael Flynn’s likely appointment
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has refrained from expressing his opinion of Michael Flynn, whom US President-elect Donald Trump has invited to take the position of national security...
View ArticleRussia cuts number of ‘grey’ fur goods on market by 800% in 6 months
The Russian government has succeeded in reducing the amount of counterfeit goods on the fur market eight times over the past year, according to Deputy Minister for Industry and Trade Viktor Yevtukhov....
View ArticleSuper-conceptual Instagram of a Russian concrete plant
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View ArticleRussian composer awarded European 'Oscar'
Composer Ilya Demutsky has won the "European Composer 2016" nomination for his score of Kirill Serebrennikov's film The Student. The European Film Academy announced the first 2016 winners on Nov. 17....
View ArticleBurger King offers Russian TV star $1.5 million a year to name son ‘Kingo’
The fast food restaurant chain Burger King has offered Ksenia Sobchak, a Russian TV personality and host, an advertising deal to name her newborn son after Burger King in return for a large annual...
View ArticlePhoto of the day: Gorky lights
A young woman smiles as she attends the opening of a skating rink in the Gorky park in Moscow, Russia. Skating, the popular winter fun, has come to Moscow's streets again as winter takes its place.
View ArticleRussians rediscover their Jewish identity
Starting in the late 1980s, a flood of Russian Jews left the country for new homes around the world. Nearly three-quarters of Russia’s Jewish population emigrated. One nation to benefit from this...
View ArticleArmenian president: We had to buy Iskander-M missiles from Russia
Yerevan has been obligated to buy Iskander-M short-range ballistic missiles system to balance the volatile military situation in the Caucasus region, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has said in an...
View ArticleDubosekovo: Monument to a desperate struggle
Photographs by William Brumfield Volokolamsk, located about 60 miles west of the Moscow Ring Road, is among a score of small historic towns surrounding the Russian megapolis, and like the rest of...
View ArticleHealthy eating takes off in Moscow
Moscow catch: Zander fillet in Miso sauseSavvy Muscovites are paying ever more attention to the foods they buy and eat, abandoning traditional meat-and-sauce heavy dishes for simple, healthy ones....
View ArticleFirst tipping online service launched in Russia
Russia's Plazius App for making online payments has launched the first service for tipping in restaurants and cafés by means of a credit card. The press service of Russia's largest bank Sberbank, which...
View ArticlePutin to meet with five leaders on sidelines of APEC summit in Peru
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with the leaders of China, Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines and Peru on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima on Nov.19. The...
View ArticleIskander-M mobile missile systems take part in Far East drills
Crews of Iskander-M short-range ballistic missile systems took part in drills in Russia’s Far Eastern Military district, a military spokesman told TASS on Nov. 19. "A missile formation was put on alert...
View ArticleVyatskoye: From dereliction to ‘Russia’s most beautiful village’
As the bus approaches Vyatskoye (200 miles northeast of Moscow and 25 miles from Yaroslavl), it is welcomed by a pyramid of barrels. Someone in the back seats explains to a neighbor that Vyatskoye is...
View ArticleCrimea’s integration in Russia is quicker than expected - official
Integration of the Crimean Republic, which became a Russian region after the March 2014 referendum, is quicker than the local authorities expected in the beginning, Speaker of the republic’s State...
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