It finally happened – CSKA Moscow have lost a basketball game, with Khimki ending the Armymen’s 17-game unbeaten streak in style in the Moscow Region. Former NBA star Andrey Kirilenko was ineffective in his brief return to the court, and scored no points in seven minutes of action. “The coach and I agreed that I’ll [...]
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December 11, 2011
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October 19, 2011
Human Rights Reset Yields No Progress
Human Rights Reset Yields No Progress “I don’t think there’s more than one way to push the Russian government harder,” said U.S. Secretary of State Michael Posner. By Jonathan Earle The St. Petersburg Times Published: October 19, 2011 (Issue # 1679) JONATHAN EARLE / SPT Michael Posner, left, speaking with Konstantin Fetisov in the village [...]
October 8, 2011
Spurs stars go head to head in Russian basketball league
Thanks to the NBA lockout, the Russian basketball fans get the benefit of seeing some top American stars in action. And two players from the San Antonio Spurs surprisingly met on court in the Moscow region, where Khimki faced Krasnye Krylya. Many NBA players have been flocking to Europe to play and keep in tip-top [...]
June 22, 2011
At ‘Anti-Seliger Camp,’ Opposition Seeks a Voice
At ‘Anti-Seliger Camp,’ Opposition Seeks a Voice By Alexander Bratersky The St. Petersburg Times Published: June 22, 2011 (Issue # 1662) SERGEY PONOMAREV / The Associated Press Alexei Navalny making a presentation on how to fight graft at the Anti-Seliger camp in the Khimki forest on Saturday. KHIMKI, Moscow Region — Not even the organizers could [...]
June 22, 2011
Yelena Bonner In Her Own Right
At the 90th anniversary of Andrei Sakharov’s birth in Moscow on May 21 this year, the ranks of Sakharov’s cohorts were already thinner. Figures like veteran rights campaigner Larissa Bogoraz and scientist Valentin Turchin had died in recent years, and people felt that if they didn’t get to the 90th, they might not see people [...]
June 22, 2011
Kashin Is Cleared in Defamation Lawsuit
From right, Kashin, Parfyonov and Chirikova at the Anti-Seliger camp. A Moscow court on Tuesday cleared Kommersant reporter Oleg Kashin in a much-watched defamation lawsuit, ruling that he was free to speculate about who might have ordered his beating last fall. Kashin wrote on his blog in March that the assault was masterminded by the Kremlin’s youth policy chief, Vasily Yakemenko. Yakemenko sued [...]
June 22, 2011
In Paris, Putin Says Sorry and Sells 12 SuperJets
Prime Minister Putin touring the Paris Air Show on a tourist train Tuesday. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin presided over the signing of several aviation deals in Paris on Tuesday and used a meeting with French investors to apologize to the contractor building the Moscow-St. Petersburg highway through the Khimki forest. Putin went out of his [...]
June 21, 2011
In Khimki Forest, Opposition Seeks a Voice
Alexei Navalny making a presentation on how to fight graft at the Anti-Seliger camp in the Khimki forest Saturday. 1 of 2 KHIMKI, Moscow Region — Not even the organizers could really explain what the four-day Anti-Seliger camp was all about. But something was in the air, with even Alexei Navalny, the anti-corruption blogger whose political star is rising, [...]
June 16, 2011
J.R. Holden throws in towel in basketball career
American J.R. Holden, who has played for Moscow’s TsSKA basketball team as a guard since 2002, said on Thursday he will retire at the end of the 2010/2011 season. Holden, who turns 35 in August, helped his Moscow team win Russian Champions eight times and the European League twice during his career in Russia after [...]
June 15, 2011
Sent from up above?
Sent from up above? Artyom Troitsky on the lawsuits stacking up against him. By Sergey Chernov The St. Petersburg Times Published: June 16, 2011 (Issue # 1660) ALEXANDER BRATERSKY / The St. Petersburg Times Music critic Artyom Troitsky pictured in his Moscow apartment with his daughter earlier this year. Friday’s concert in support of Artyom [...]
June 15, 2011
No Lack of Suspects in Assassination of Budanov
No Lack of Suspects in Assassination of Budanov By Natalya Krainova The St. Petersburg Times Published: June 16, 2011 (Issue # 1660) Sergey Ponomaryev / The Associated Press A casket with the body of army colonel Yury Budanov is carried during the funeral ceremony in Moscow on Monday. MOSCOW — It remains a mystery who brazenly [...]
June 13, 2011
Former Russian colonel, guilty of Chechen war crime, laid to rest
Yury Budanov, the former Russian army colonel who served nine years for the murder of a Chechen woman during the second war in Chechnya, was buried in a Moscow suburb on Monday, four days after he was shot dead in the Russian capital. The funeral service and burial in Khimki, just north of Moscow, were [...]
June 13, 2011
Convicted Murderer Slain In Moscow Buried With Military Honors
DownloadWATCH: Footage taken by RFE/RL’s Russian Service of the funeral of former Russian army colonel and convicted killer Yury Budanov, who was shot dead in Moscow on June 10 KHIMKI, Russia — A Russian military expert says the military honors performed at the funeral today of convicted murderer and former Russian Army Colonel Yury Budanov [...]