The Moscow Times 30/10/2016

Your Next Moscow Uber Ride Could Include Some Expensive Teleportation

Russia — 1 day ago

Thanks to apparent efforts by the Kremlin to spoof geolocation signals in central Moscow, 21st-century taxi services have gained the impressive power of teleportation, though customers complain the glitch is costing them hard cash.

Moscow — 2 days ago

Remembering Soviet Repression in Moscow

More than two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the subject of state-sponsored repression under Stalin remains a controversial topic in Russia. Yet ...

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Putin Rejects Russian Defense Ministry's Request to End ‘Humanitarian Pause’ in Syria

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Twitter Lays Off Its One Russia-Based Employee

Moscow — 2 days ago

More Weekend Fun: Moscow Animation Festival

By Andrew Kuchins

“You Americans Never Learn”: How Valdai Showcased Putin's Terms for U.S.-Russia Cooperation

Opinion — 2 days ago

When Vladimir Putin told the audience at the 13th meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club on Oct. 27 in Sochi that “the United States is not a banana republic,” he was implying that the U.S. is certainly behaving like one with its “hysteria over Russian ...

Moscow — 2 days ago

Bringing Baryshnikov Back to Russia

On June 29, 1974 Mikhail Baryshnikov, the star dancer of the Kirov ballet, exited the Toronto stage to rapturous applause. Shortly afterward he skipped a glitzy party held in honor of the touring ballet company, hid out at a friend’s house and filed a request for political asylum in Canada. Baryshnikov, who was born in Latvia — then part of the Soviet Union — never returned to Russia.

Russia — 2 days ago

Russia's Ongoing War on Halloween

Every October, religious groups and conservative politicians in Russia attempt to ban Halloween. They say the holiday is ...

Russia — 2 days ago

Russian Lawmakers Get to Work on a Child Organ Donor Law

Russia's State Duma is working on draft legislation to allow the use of organs from deceased children for ...

A Museum With a Mission: Chronicling the History of the Gulag

Russia — 7 hours ago

The Gulag Museum, which began as the passionate vocation of historian and camp survivor Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko in 2001, has just moved from its small, cramped ...

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Russia's Rosneft May Want 100% of Bashneft Oil Company

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Moscow Seeks Extradition of Hacker Back to Russia

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Henry Kissinger Elected Member of Russian Academy of Sciences

‘Anna Karenina’ the Musical Arrives on the Moscow Stage

Moscow — 2 days ago

Wrapped up warm against the autumn chill, a line of expectant Muscovites stretches along Bolshaya Dmitrovka toward the entrance of the Moscow Operetta Theater. There’s a new adaptation of Anna Karenina in town — and this time it’s all singing, all dancing.

Russia — 2 days ago

Returning the Names: Moscow to Mourn Victims of Stalin's Terror

On Oct. 29, the eve of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression, hundreds of people will gather on Lubyanskaya Ploshchad near the Solovetsky Stone. They will patiently wait in line for hours, and then, one by one, read out the names of people executed in Moscow during the darkest days of the Soviet Union.

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Prominent Russian Activist Jailed for Anti-Putin Bolotnaya Protest Walks Free

An active opposition activist jailed in 2012 after participating in anti-Kremlin protests has been released.

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Russia Shows Off Naval Power; A Memorial to Stalin's Victims; Online Activism and Censorship

By Ilya Yashin

After the Duma Elections, Russian Opposition Must 

Clean House

Opinion — 2 days ago

The State Duma’s new convocation has begun, but something is different. Although the Kremlin has always maintained strict control over the parliament, ...

Prominent Russian Artists Start Culture War, Accuse Government of Censorship

Moscow — 3 days ago

On Monday Oct. 24 Konstantin Raikin, director of the Satirikon ...