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The Moscow Times is a daily English-language newspaper featuring objective, reliable news on business, politics and culture in Russia and the former Soviet Union (CIS).
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Dreams in Isolation: Crimea 2 Years After Annexation

ven, 18/03/2016 - 14:00
The soldiers carry assault rifles and stand guard, some of them wearing black balaclavas to protect their faces. No more than 100 meters and a bridge separate them from the nearest Ukrainian positions.
Catégories: Russia & CIS

EU Calls Upon UN Countries to Impose Sanctions Against Russia

ven, 18/03/2016 - 13:07
On the second anniversary of Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, the EU has once again condemned Moscow's actions and called upon the countries of the UN to join in sanctions against Russia.
Catégories: Russia & CIS

Putin: Russian Can Redeploy to Syria 'Within Hours'

ven, 18/03/2016 - 10:11
Russia can beef up its military presence in Syria "within hours" to any scale the situation may demand, President Vladimir Putin told a Thursday gathering of military officials and soldiers at the Kremlin.
Catégories: Russia & CIS

Anti-Corruption Investigators Launch Election Campaign in Putin's Backyard

ven, 18/03/2016 - 09:09
Anti-corruption campaigners have come to Barvikha, where Russia's richest officials and oligarchs have their country estates, to launch an audacious election campaign.
Catégories: Russia & CIS

Cost of Russia's Syrian Campaign Revealed as $480 Million

jeu, 17/03/2016 - 18:44
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday the military operation in Syria has cost Russia approximately 33 billion rubles ($484 million).
Catégories: Russia & CIS

Critique of Chechnya Provokes Attack on Chief of Russian Anti-Torture NGO

jeu, 17/03/2016 - 18:00
Head of the Committee Against Torture NGO Igor Kalyapin could have avoided an attack in the Chechen capital of Grozny if he had come to the Russian republic with good intentions.
Catégories: Russia & CIS

Pharmacy in Russian Duma Sees Run on Sharapova's Drug of Choice

jeu, 17/03/2016 - 14:14
A pharmacy at the State Duma has registered a spike in demand for meldonium after Russian tennis champion Maria Sharapova failed a doping test for the recently banned drug, Interfax reported on Wednesday.
Catégories: Russia & CIS

Russia Approves Long-Awaited 10-Year Space Budget

jeu, 17/03/2016 - 12:14
The Russian government has approved a long-awaited federal program for space exploration, valued at 1.4 trillion rubles over the next decade, according to an announcement posted on the government's website.
Catégories: Russia & CIS

Black Sea Rising: Rebirth of a Russian Fleet

jeu, 17/03/2016 - 10:08
From a military point of view, Russia's operation to annex CrimeaВ was an exceptionally clean affair, and gave an opportunity to demonstrate the fruits of Moscow's military modernization efforts.
Catégories: Russia & CIS

Painting the Town Green: Ambassador McDaid on Irish-Russian Relations

jeu, 17/03/2016 - 10:04
After a career of exciting and far-flung postings - from Brezhnev's Soviet Union to Saddam Hussein's Iraq - Irish Ambassador Adrian McDaid never expected he would wind up back in Russia.
Catégories: Russia & CIS

Kadyrov to Get Another Term, Say Kremlin Sources (Exclusive)

mer, 16/03/2016 - 16:51
Barely a month has gone by without a controversy involving Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
Catégories: Russia & CIS

Atheism on Trial in Russia's Stavropol

mer, 16/03/2016 - 15:12
In a courtroom in Stavropol, Viktor Krasnov, a physician's assistant, is accused of the same crime as Giordano Bruno, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Salman Rushdie - atheism.
Catégories: Russia & CIS

6 Ways to Justify Online Gaming as 'Learning About Russia'

sam, 20/02/2016 - 12:47
Guilt-free gaming - now wouldn't that be the dream? Hours spent looking at the screen of your laptop, safe in the knowledge that, should somebody ask what you're doing, you can reply: "I'm working on knowing more about Russia."
Catégories: Russia & CIS

Center for Refugee Children Evicted from Moscow Premises

ven, 19/02/2016 - 15:27
Moscow authorities have evicted the Center for the Adaptation and Training of Refugee Children after its managing organization was declared a foreign agent, said the center's director Olga Nikolayenko.
Catégories: Russia & CIS

6 Times Patriarch Kirill Entertained the RuNet This Week

ven, 19/02/2016 - 14:40
This week saw an historic meeting between the heads of the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches. Then, Patriarch Kirill went to visit some penguins.
Catégories: Russia & CIS

Putin's Pre-emptive Strike: Kremlin Moves to Liquidate 'Foreign Agents'

ven, 19/02/2016 - 12:06
Kremlin officials insisted the "foreign agent" label did not mean an organization should automatically close its doors, but the moves this month would seem to suggest that position is changing.
Catégories: Russia & CIS

Obama Has Higher Opinion of Russian Army Than Russian Military Official

ven, 19/02/2016 - 11:16
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the Russian defense industry, ranks the Russian army lower than U.S. President Barack Obama does.
Catégories: Russia & CIS

EASA Allows International Air Carriers Into Crimean Airspace

ven, 19/02/2016 - 09:38
There has been a decrease in flight risks for international air carriers over the Crimean Peninsula, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said, the Interfax news agency reported Thursday.
Catégories: Russia & CIS

Owner of Moscow's Domodedovo Airport Arrested

jeu, 18/02/2016 - 17:46
Dmitry Kamenshik, the owner of Moscow's Domodedovo Airport, was arrested on Thursday as part of the investigation into the 2011 terrorist attack on the airport.
Catégories: Russia & CIS

Ukraine Seeks to Prove $3Bln Russian Debt Was Bribe

jeu, 18/02/2016 - 16:48
Ukraine is set to prove in court that the $3 billion Russian loan Kiev failed to repay was a bribe, the Ukrinform news agency reported Thursday, citing Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin.
Catégories: Russia & CIS

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