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Moscow Tops Expensive Cities Again
Moscow topped Mercer's cost of living index for the third year in a row in 2008, proving more pricey than even Tokyo and London (2nd and 3rd places) and absurdl... | City Focus |
Medvedev Says Niet
It was hoped that when Medvedev took over from pugilistic Putin, there might follow a thaw in the icy relations between Great Britain and Russia that have conti... | Current Affairs |
Russia Keep Euro Dream Alive
After kicking off their Euro 2008 campaign with a humbling 4-1 defeat to Spain, even the most patriotic of Russians must have felt that their national team woul... | Comment |
Manchester vs Chelsea In All England Final
English football received a boost last week when Manchester United saw off a talented Barcelona side to set up an all English final. It was Chelsea that came th... | City Focus |
Final Ball Revealed in Moscow
Adidas revealed their sparkling new match ball for the highly anticipated 2008 Champions League Final in Moscow, which will be played on the 21st May.
'The F... | City Focus |
The End Of An Era?
In the most predictable contest since Brazil last played Andorra in international football, at home, Dmitry Medvedev romped to victory in the Russian elections ... | Current Affairs |
Tusk On His Way To Moscow
Donald Tusk is visiting Moscow this week in the hope of thawing what have been icy relations between Poland and Russia in recent years. The ultra-nationalists K... | Current Affairs |
BBC Staff Attacked in Moscow
In three separate incidents, on November 24th, November 25th and November 30th, three members of BBC staff in Moscow were attacked by youths at least two of whi... | Current Affairs |
Kasparov Arrested As Putin Tightens Grip
Former chess champion turned political dissident, Gary Kasparov was arrested on Saturday after leading an unsanctioned march in Moscow.
The purpose of the ma... | Current Affairs |
Zookeeper Killed by Elephant
An unfortunate incident at Moscow zoo has resulted in the death of a forty year old zookeeper who was killed by an elephant with which she had worked for many y... | Comment |
Starbucks Opens With A Whimper
It's a sign of how much things have changed in Moscow since 1990 that when Starbucks opened its first branch here last week no one batted an eyelid.
The same... | Comment |
Spartak Moscow Travel To Glasgow
This Wednesday will see a much anticipated Champions League qualifier take place in Scotland, between hosts Glasgow Celtic and visitors Spartak Moscow.
The r... | Comment |
Nine Inch Nails Rock Moscow
Despite experiencing some problems with their visas (those forms aren't very rockstar friendly!), Trent and his band finally arrived in Moscow in time to kick o... | Art and Culture |
Purge Victims Remembered
Many more people died under Stalin's Communism than Hitler's Nazism, a fact that is sadly little remembered - even by Russians, 50 percent of whom view Stalin i... | Current Affairs |
Berezovsky On Trial in Moscow
Powerful oligarch Berezovsky has gone on trial in Moscow, despite living in exile in London.
The millionaire businessman is a well known critic of the Kremli... | Comment |
Rice and Putin Agree to Disagree
Condoleeza Rice, the U.S. Secretary of State arrived in Moscow ahead of the G8 Summit in Germany in June of this year to try and heal the increasing rift betwee... | Current Affairs |
Yeltsin Buried in Moscow
Boris Yeltsin, first President of the Russian Federation, died on 23rd April 2007 of heart failure and was buried today in Novodevichy Cemetery (and not in the ... | Comment |
Princess Diana in Bolshoi Ballet
The Bolshoi Ballet have recently announced that they will be premiering a ballet about the life and death of her Royal Highness Princess Diana of Great Britain.... | Art and Culture |
Fire Emergency at 911
There was panic at the disco early on Sunday morning when a fire show went tragically wrong at strip club 911. It's thought that a performer's clothes were set ... | Current Affairs |
Moscow Journalist Buried
Ivan Safronov, the Moscow journalist who recently died following a fall from his 5th storey apartment block, has been buried.
Safronov, aged 51, was the late... | Current Affairs |
Russian Exile Ready To Talk
In the latest development of the Litvinenko case, Boris Berezovsky has gone on record as saying that he is ready to co-operate with Russian investigators.
Be... | Current Affairs |
"Last Christmas I gave you my cash...
...And the very next day you took it away," or so one Russian billionaire might well be singing during this festive season.
Just twenty miles outside Moscow... | Comment |
British Detectives fly to Moscow
British detectives have been granted visas by the Russian Embassy in London to visit Moscow in order to investigate the murder of journalist and ex-spy Alexande... | Current Affairs |
Moscow Property Prices on the Rise
An unprecedented growth in construction and demand has turned the Moscow retail market into one of the most expensive in the world. The bubble doesn't look like... | City Focus |
CSKA Moscow travel to London
CSKA Moscow travel to London to face an Arsenal side hungry for revenge, when the two sides clash in their UEFA Champions League encounter, Wednesday night.
... | City Focus |
Bill Gates to vist Moscow
The Microsoft corporation has announced that Bill Gates will be visiting Moscow on November 7.
The itinerary outlines planned meetings with the company's cli... | Business |
Russian Champ in Toilet Tantrum
Who says chess is dull? Certainly not us at Moscow Life who have been most amused by the latest saga in the chess world, dubbed by the media as 'toiletgate'.
... | Comment |
Moscow is World's Most Expensive City
Moscow has overtaken Tokyo to become the most expensive city in the world in 2006, according to a survey conducted recently.
Seoul, Tokyo and Hong Kong were ... | City Focus |
Moscow road accidents explained
Bizarre and uncaused accidents reported at times on the roads of Moscow are actually the result of abnormal energetic activity, experts say.
This geopathogen... | Comment |
Madonna switches to Moscow Olympic stadium
Moscow - Organisers on Monday switched the venue for US pop star Madonna's Moscow concert from a hilltop site overlooking the city to a Soviet-era stadium used ... | Art and Culture |
Madonna to switch Moscow venue
American pop icon Madonna is all set to switch the venue of her concert in Moscow, after Police have raised security issues.
The Material Girl was due to pl... | Art and Culture |
Three charged for Moscow bombing
A third person has been charged with racially motivated murder over a bomb blast at a Moscow market that left 10 people dead on Monday.
A Moscow court also i... | City Focus |
Lonely Planet gives Moscow a bad name
Moscow officials have launched an attack on the Lonely Planet series for giving the city a bad name, claiming that guidebook is having an adverse effect on tour... | Comment |
Police hold two Hermitage suspects
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Police have detained the husband and son of a museum curator on suspicion of stealing hundreds of artworks from Russia's world... | Current Affairs |
Clapton cancels concert on Red Square
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Rock guitar legend Eric Clapton has cancelled a concert in Moscow after officials withdrew his permit to perform on the city's landmark Red S... | Art and Culture |
Moscow Film Festival honours Depardieu
French actor Gerard Depardieu has won a lifetime achievement award at the 28th Moscow International Film Festival.
Picking up the award, the Cyrano De Berger... | Art and Culture |
Moscow tops expensive cities list
Moscow is this year's most expensive city in the world for expatriate staff, a study released Monday by British human resources firm Mercer HR suggests.
Seou... | Comment |
Moscow Gay Pride Parade ends in violence
MOSCOW — Police and nationalist protesters forcefully prevented Russian and foreign gay activists from rallying in Moscow on May 27, where they had hoped to put... | Current Affairs |
Russian Orthodox Church slams Da Vinci Code
MOSCOW, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - The controversy around the Da Vince Code continued Thursday, as a senior member of the Russian Orthodox Church said it was insult... | Current Affairs |
Rare tiger cub arrives at Moscow Zoo
VLADIVOSTOK, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - An Amur tiger cub will be transferred to a Moscow zoo Thursday from Russia's Far East in what could become a permanent move,... | Comment |
Russia celebrates Victory Day
May 9th represents one of Russia's most celebrated holidays, the Victory of Soviet Russia over Nazi Germany in World War II. 25 million Russians died in the str... | History |
Moscow's anti-gay protesters held
Riot police were brought in to control a mixture of right-wing and religious activists, who picketed the club and shouted insults at people leaving it.
For... | Current Affairs |
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