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Land dispute in Moscow sets dangerous precedent
MOSCOW, June 21 (RIA Novosti) - A dispute between city authorities and homeowners over land on the southern outskirts of Moscow could set a dangerous precedent ...

Current Affairs

Moscow-St. Petersburg toll highway to start in 2007
ST. PETERSBURG, June 12 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's economics minister Monday expressed hope that the construction of a toll highway between two largest cities in ...

Business

Moscow Gay Pride Parade ends in violence
MOSCOW ó 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

Moscow's building boom leaves little room for history
MOSCOW -- Built in the late 1920s, the Narkomfin apartment building was designed as the perfect environment for new Soviet Man. A monument to the utopian commun...

City Focus

Moscow contributes 1 million dollars to human rights
MOSCOW, April 28 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has contributed $1 million to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Russian Foreign Ministry said...

Current Affairs

Moscow Patriarchateís disagreement over Cuba blockade
Moscow, April 27, Interfax - The Russian Orthodox church thinks the U.S. economic sanctions against Cuba are unfair. ëCertainly, we disagree with the economi...

Current Affairs

Anti-fascist youth teams patrol Moscow streets
MOSCOW (Itar-Tass) -- The youth organization "Nashiî sent anti-fascist patrols to Moscow streets on Thursday in a bid to prevent Neo-Nazi supporters from riotin...

Current Affairs

Piglets seek Moscow Olympic glory
The pigs attempted running, swimming and football The third annual "Pig Olympics" have been held in Russia where the pigs might not have flown but they did sho...

Comment

1,000 rally in Moscow against government control of media
MOSCOW (AP) - More than 1,000 demonstrators rallied in Moscow Sunday to protest against the authorities' efforts to tighten controls over national media. The...

Current Affairs

Eric Clapton to perform at Moscow's Red Square
Eric Clapton (music) announced Tuesday (4/4) that he will wrap up his upcoming European tour with a concert at Red Square in Moscow. Including the new s...

Art and Culture

Movie-maker injured in road accident near Moscow
MOSCOW, April 4 (Itar-Tass) ñ Famous Russian movie-maker Pyotr Todorovsky received heavy injuries in a road accident on a highway 34 kilometers southeast off Mo...

Comment

Hundreds protest against military conscription
Hundreds protested in central Moscow on Saturday, calling for an end to mandatory military service and criticizing plans to cut draft deferments as the Russian ...

Current Affairs

Second British airline to fly London-Moscow route
MOSCOW, March 31 (RIA Novosti) - Bmi, formerly known as British Midland, is to begin regular flights between London and Moscow, becoming the second UK airline t...

Business

Astrologer attempts to sue NASA
MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti) - The Moscow City Court rejected an appeal Thursday lodged by an astrologist against a lower court's ruling to dismiss a huge law...

Current Affairs

Moscow denies Saddam claims
Moscow - Russian defence minister Sergei Ivanov on Tuesday called reports that Moscow had provided information to Saddam Hussein's regime on US troop movements ...

Current Affairs

Moscow neo-Nazi gets 13 years
The Moscow City Court on Monday sentenced a man who attacked worshippers in a synagogue with a hunting knife to 13 years in prison and mandatory psychiatric tre...

Current Affairs

Moscow bids to host Champions League final
MOSCOW, March 17 (Reuters) - Moscow has submitted a bid to host the Champions League final in 2008 or 2009, Russia's soccer chief Vitaly Mutko said on Friday. ...

City Focus

Patriarch thanks mayor for ban on gay parade
MOSCOW, March 16 (Itar-Tass) -- Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II thanked Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov for his decision to ban a parade of the sexual min...

Comment

G8 energy ministers gather in Moscow
Moscow: Exploration of fossil fuels and increasing global use of nuclear power will dominate talks in Moscow Thursday between the energy ministers of the G8...

Current Affairs

Moscow Calls in Swedish Ambassador
Russia called in the Swedish ambassador Wednesday to express serious concern about the detention of a Russian researcher on spying charges. According to a st...

Current Affairs

Smertin leaves Chelsea for Moscow
Chelsea have sold midfielder Alexei Smertin to Dynamo Moscow. Smertin, who has spent this season on loan at Charlton will cost the Russian club £1m. The...

Comment

Moscow won't expel British diplomats accused of spying
The head of Russiaís main KGB successor agency said Moscow will not expel four British diplomats accused of spying, a Russian news agency reported today. N...

Current Affairs

Moscow government won't allow gay parade
MOSCOW. Feb 16 (Interfax) - The Moscow city government will not allow a gay parade in the city on any circumstances and in any form, Moscow mayor's press secret...

Comment

Moscow court selects new jury in Klebnikov murder trial
MOSCOW, February 15 (RIA Novosti) - The Moscow City Court selected a new jury Wednesday in the closed trial of two men accused of killing the editor of Forbes R...

Current Affairs

Drunken elephant causes chaos in Moscow
MOSCOW: The coldest spell in Moscow in 26 years has brought out the quirkiest in the Russian character with one animal trainer feeding an elephant a bucket of v...

Comment

Moscow State Circus travels to Liverpool
FROM Russia with love, the Moscow State Circus returns to the UK with a brand new show, bringing thrills, spills and fabulous feasts for the eyes. Coming to ...

Art and Culture

Russia-Ukraine gas deal too murky for comfort
MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Europe may have breathed a collective sigh of relief after Russia and Ukraine signed a long-term gas supply deal, averting a possible re...

Current Affairs

Russia failing to win drink battle
(THE GUARDIAN, LONDON) Perfume, brake fluid, de-icer, meths, toilet cleaner, nail varnish remover ... "I drank them all," Boris Kuznetsov said. "Everything that...

Comment

Chelsea sign Maniche from Moscow
Chelsea signed Portugal midfielder Maniche on loan from Dynamo Moscow on Wednesday, the English champions said. The 28-year-old former Porto player has join...

Comment

Moscow Buried in Heavy Snowfall
Heavy snowfall paralyzed traffic in Moscow and other cities in central Russia on Wednesday, as weather forecasters predicted that snowfall would continue at lea...

City Focus

Icon smuggler caught at Sheremetyevo Airport
MOSCOW. Dec 21 (Interfax) - Customs officers have found four icons in the luggage of an Italian citizen at Sheremetyevo Airport, the press service of the Federa...

Current Affairs

Moscow fines woman in surrogate mother scandal
MOSCOW, (RIA Novosti) - A Moscow court has imposed a substantial fine on a woman at the center of an illegal scheme to sell newborn children to childless couple...

Current Affairs

Anti-Fascists march in Moscow
One month after far-right nationalists marched through Moscow's city center shouting "Sieg Heil," at least 1,500 people marched from the same square in an anti-...

Current Affairs

Moscow out of UEFA Cup
LONDON — Roma, Bolton, Basel and Heerenveen advanced to the next phase of the UEFA Cup yesterday, while defending champion CSKA Moscow was eliminated with...

Comment

Moscow tightens control of migrating birds
MOSCOW(RIA Novosti) - Moscow has stepped up control over birds migrating from "unfavorable" regions, a senior veterinary official said Thursday. "No infecti...

Current Affairs

Brazil to play Russia in World Cup warm up
(Reuters) - Defending champions Brazil will play Russia in March as part of their preparations for next year's World Cup in Germany. "The match has been alr...

Comment

War and Peace survives scandal in Moscow
MOSCOW (Reuters) - When Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre postponed its new production of "War and Peace" after the conductor walked out, critics sharpened their pencils...

Art and Culture

Caviar vending machine installed in Moscow
A caviar vending machine selling tinned salmon caviar, or roe, has been installed on Moscow’s main avenue Novy Arbat, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported...

Comment

Moscow gas leak explosion kills four
MOSCOW, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- An explosion on the top floor of a Moscow , apparently caused by a leak, has killed four people and sheared off a section of the buildin...

City Focus

Indian PM reaches Moscow
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh landed in Moscow to a red carpet welcome on Sunday. During his three-day official visit he will hold wide-ranging talks with Russi...

Current Affairs

Moscow to sell missiles to Iran
MOSCOW, RUSSIA -- Russia has agreed to sell anti-aircraft missiles to Iran as part of a $1 billion arms deal that would significantly increase Moscow's military...

Current Affairs

Moscow manager sentenced to 14 years in jail
MOSCOW (RIA Novosti) - A Moscow court has sentenced Alexei Kurtsyn, a deputy property manager of the Moscow branch of the embattled Yukos oil company, to 14 yea...

Current Affairs

Beauty Contest for HIV-Positive Girls
On 1st December Russia is to hold a beauty contest for HIV-positive girls, announced Russia’s chief sanitary official Gennady Onishchennko on Monday. T...

Comment

Moscow police launch counterfeit clampdown
Police have launched citywide sting operations aimed at shutting down producers and sellers of counterfeit music, movies and software, in the latest clampdown o...

City Focus

Sky-high price for Moscow hotel
A landmark 34-storey hotel in the Russian capital has fetched $274m (£159m) at auction. The 1,000-room Ukraina Hotel was one of seven "Stalinist Gothic...

City Focus

Ballerina's birthday honoured
Russian ballet legend, Maya Plisetskaya, had her 80th birthday marked with a grand gala at the Kremlin Place in Moscow on sunday. Stars from the Bolshoi, Be...

Art and Culture

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