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• Happy Cosmonauts Day!

  

  It was fifty-two years ago today, on April 12, 1961, when the Soviet Union announced that Юрия... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Possible Prison Sentences for Girls Who “flashed” Putin and Merkel

  (The Moscow Times)Police in Germany have filed criminal charges against five members of the radical Femen group who staged a topless protest against President... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• FEMEN Gives President Putin an Eyeful

  

  It was supposed to have been a routine stroll through a German Trade Show. What German Chancellor V Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin got however was... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Margaret Thatcher Dies at 87

  

  Margaret Thatcher, a powerful force in British politics, died on Monday of a stroke, her family said. British authorities say that the grand lady, who along wit... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Russia Bans Smoking in Public

  

  The new law against smoking in public places goes into effect June 1st and we’re watching this story with great interest. Some polls say that 40% of Russians... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Moscow Metro Stations to Get Glass Enclosed Platforms

  

  For years we’ve marveled at the open platforms of the Moscow Metro underground subway system. These are fast moving trains, arriving every 90 seconds on some... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How Russians Use Social Media

  

  Thanks to our good friends at Moscow Municipal Programs for the latest on how Russians use social media.Of course Russia has them all: Twitter, Facebook,... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• US Embassy Rejects Record Number of Summer Visas

  

  (From the Moscow Times)Without warning or explanation, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow has rejected an unprecedented percentage of Russian university students... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• April Fools Day in Russia

  

  Первое апреля! = April fools! in Russian language. It is a fun day in the FSU just like... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Power Plant Fire Kills at Least One in Ukraine’s Donetsk Region

  At least one person was killed and five injured Friday in a major fire at the Vuhlehirska Thermal Power Plant in the town of Svitlodarsk. The town is in... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• In Russia, Never Equate Bread with a Taxi as Such is Banned.

  

  From the Moscow Times:The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service in Kostroma fined a taxi company for an “unethical” advertisement that a local organization said was... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Moscow Airport (SVO) to Offer Free Skype Calls

  

  Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO) has installed Skype-kiosks at the airport. They’re free to use, at least for now, and the airport and Skype is conducting... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Changes to the Moscow Metro

  

  This Spring you are going to see some interesting changes coming to the Moscow Metro system.Just yesterday the Metro announced that in order to drive sales of... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Has the Propiska System Returned to Putin’s Russia?

  

  The Russian Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and the right to assemble (as did the Soviet constitution) but the government feels that there are... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Russian Easter: Great Lent Has Begun

  

  On Monday, Orthodox Christians began to observe the Lenten Fast, sometimes called “Great Lent” and the period that will last approximately seven weeks leading u... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• US Scraps European Missile Defense Shield

  The Moscow Times: Newly appointed U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the U.S. would scrap part of its European missile defense shield, which has faced the... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Lenin’s Mausoleum — is It Time for Russia to Move On?

  

  According to a January poll from the respected Levada Centre, only a quarter of Russians think the body of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin should remain in the dark and... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Russian FSB Listens to Skype Calls

  

  The Moscow Times is reporting that the FSB (formerly KGB) not only listens to Skype calls, but has the technology to pinpoint locations of Skype calls. Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Stalin’s Favourite Piano Player Was a Devout Orthodox Christian Believer

  

  Photo: Anton KlyushevAn extract from The Ladder of the Beatitudes by Jim Forest: One of the people of modern times whose heart was radiantly pure was the Russia... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Real Cause of Stalin’s Death

  

  It is official–the cause of death of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, history’s most prolific mass murderer, was from a stroke.  One of the most brutal dictators t... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, POLITICS, SOCIETY