Moscow Deputy Mayor Alexander Gorbenko warned organizers of Saturday’s rally against election results that the number of protestors should not surpass the previously declared 300 people.
Tag: Moscow
December 8, 2011
December 4, 2011
Ballot box of traditional pryanik cakes made in Tula Region
An unusual ballot box of traditional pryanik cakes was made in the Tula Region, south of Moscow, Vladimir Churov, the head of the Russian Central Election Commission said on Sunday.
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November 29, 2011
Moscow Court reduces jail term to 5 from 13 years for Russian convicted of pedophilia
A Moscow City Court has reduced the jail term of a Russian Transport Ministry official, who was convicted of sexually abusing his daughter, from 13 to 5 years . Vladimir Makarov was found guilty of sexually abusing his eight-year old daughter in September. The case sparked widespread public concern as there was no reliable [...]
November 26, 2011
Two hospitalized after Moscow nightclub shooting
Two people were admitted to hospital after an overnight shooting at a nightclub in eastern Moscow, a police source said on Saturday. According to the source, three people were wounded in the shooting. One of those hospitalized was wounded in the head, and the other suffered head and back wounds, a Moscow doctor told RIA [...]
November 20, 2011
Belarusian Activists Protest At Russian Atomic Agency In Moscow
MOSCOW — Belarusian antinuclear activists have picketed the Moscow building of Russia’s state nuclear agency, Rosatom, protesting Moscow’s plans to build a new nuclear station in western Belarus, RFE/RL’s Belarus Service reports. One of the organizers of the picket, Andrey Azharouski, told RFE/RL that November 18 was chosen as the date for the picket because [...]
November 15, 2011
Islamic Leaders From CIS Countries Meet In Moscow
MOSCOW — Islamic leaders from across the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) have opened a two-day forum in Moscow on religious developments since the end of the Soviet Union 20 years ago, RFE/RL’s Tatar-Bashkir Service reports. The second day of the forum will be held in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod on November 15. [...]
November 5, 2011
Mars 500 mission to nowhere ends where it began
The six-strong crew of the European Space Agency’s Mars 500 mission emerge from their capsule after an 18-month voyage that went, literally, nowhere. The crew spent more than 500 days in windowless isolation in a simulated mission to the red planet at a research centre in Moscow
November 5, 2011
Life on ‘Mars’
Six men who spent 18 months locked in steel tubes in Moscow to simulate a mission to Mars have re-emerged
November 3, 2011
Russian Ultranationalist Leader ‘Warned’ By Police
MOSCOW — The leader of the ultranationalist “Russians” movement says Moscow police have “warned” him on the eve of the so-called “Russian March” on November 4, RFE/RL’s Russian Service reports. Dmitry Dyomushkin told RFE/RL he was detained early on November 2 by Moscow police, who took him to a police station and urged him to [...]
October 31, 2011
Spray and go: new word in clothes fabric
An unusual catwalk show by “chemist-tailor” Manel Torres has won the heart of Moscow fashion fans. The London-based Spanish designer showcased dresses made of a sprayable, non-woven fabric. The collection of nature-inspired outfits was created just a couple of hours before the show, with the designer spraying it on to the models, fusing science, fashion [...]
October 29, 2011
Two killed in Moscow house fire
Two people were killed in a house fire in south-eastern Moscow late on Saturday, a police source said. The fire broke out on the eighth floor of an apartment block in the Kuzminki district just before midnight. Police are working at the scene to identify the victims.
October 27, 2011
Newborn justice: Russian Constitutional Court celebrates anniversary
As Russia’s Constitutional Court marks its 20th anniversary, RT spoke to Gleb Bogush, a law professor at Moscow State University, about the judicial body’s modernization. To celebrate the occasion, President Dmitry Medvedev invited all of the court’s judges to the Kremlin, where he thanked them for their work and called the Constitutional Court a symbol [...]
October 20, 2011
Medvedev blasts anti-Caucasus sentiment
Russians who demand an end to subsidies to Russia’s North Caucasus regions are either not very smart or provocateurs, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday. “Our society has different opinions on the same things. One is ‘Stop feeding the Caucasus.’ What comes out of that? The consequences of these slogans are easy to predict,” [...]
October 12, 2011
Moscow to become haven for low-cost tourism
The face of hospitality is changing in Moscow, as the city has decided to give up its super-expensive hotels for cheaper hostels. City Hall has announced plans to open 180 hotels in the next five years. Around 40 are already under construction or renovation, and should be reopened soon. In addition, this year alone the [...]