Image by Mos.ru A Weekend In Moscow (ooh la la) Moscow’s parks are famous for their over-the-top bling. Zaryadye, the first public park built in Moscow in over 50 years, was inaugurated a month ago. The park is divided into four climatic zones: forest, steppe, tundra, and floodplains. The 130,000…
Screenshot RFERL Kremlin opposition leader and anti-corruption activist, Alexei Navalny, was sentenced to a 20 day prison stay this week. The move was widely seen as a warning to the possible presidential candidate to back off his attempts to discredit the Putin government and run for president in 2018. The…
Image by Aleksandr Zykov Today Russia summoned representatives from CNN in Moscow to accuse them of violating Russia’s international media law. The move seems to be a response to the US pressure on the Russian media channel RT, and Sputnik who operate globally, but Washington sees as a ‘foreign agent’…
Image by Evgeny Feldman Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption crusader, Alexei Navalny, was detained outside his home in Russia prior to attending a rally in central Russia. He posted a video on Instagram of police arriving to arrest him, shown below. LIVE Video: Anti-Corruption Rally In Moscow, Navalny Arrested Beforehand…
Image by Bogomolov.PL One quarter of Russians belief there will be mass protests ahead of the 2018 presidential election which has been formally set for March 18, according to a new poll by the independent Levada Center. Russian President Vladimir Putin has not formally declared himself to be a candidate…
Screenshot Vesti, Yulia Latynina attacked with feces In July, someone released some sort of gas into our family home. For about a week, Russian police held watch near our house. When they left I felt at ease, thinking the attackers had considered it a signal. But apparently they didn’t. In…
What do you get when the son of a Russian billionaire marries a social media star? Not a quaint little ceremony — that’s for sure. The Lost City Of Mariupol, Time Stands Still On The Sea Of Azov The son of real estate mogul Samvel Karapetyan and Instagram maven Karen…
American Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said this week he does not want tensions with Russia to escalate further and would like to work towards better relations. The two nations have been locked in a tit-for-tat cycle of escalation since the Russian invasion of the Crimean peninsula in 2014. “I…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today in a press conference that Moscow would close an American consulate in Russia for ‘diplomatic parity.’ “We are now studying the conditions in which American foreign missions in Russia and Russian foreign missions in the US are operating and we will make these…
Moscow Turns 870…How It Changed Over The Centuries…Images.