JUST one in four Russians thinks the body of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin should remain ensconced in its dark mausoleum on Red Square, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
Published 17 Jan, 2013 07:40pm
MOSCOW: Russia is threatening to ban Americans from adopting Russian children in retaliation for a new US law that forbids Russian officials accused of human rights abuses from travelling to the US.
Published 20 Dec, 2012 02:50am
MOSCOW: Russia has accused the United States of engaging in cold war tactics and threatened tit-for-tat retaliation after the US Senate passed a bill banning Russian officials accused of human rights abuses
Published 09 Dec, 2012 03:32am
RUSSIAN prosecutors are investigating whether the Hermitage museum in St Petersburg is guilty of extremism after hosting an exhibit by the British artists Jake and Dinos Chapman.
Published 08 Dec, 2012 10:01pm
MOSCOW: To hear Vladimir Putin tell it, he works like a ‘galley slave’, pouring blood, sweat and tears into toiling for the Russian people with little personal gain in return.
Published 30 Aug, 2012 03:27am
BEHIND majestic columns adorned with hammers and sickles, Moscow’s Gorky Park once stood as a testament to Russia’s post-Soviet decay: dirty and forgotten, tinny techno pumping from its loudspeakers as
Published 28 Aug, 2012 03:01am
MOSCOW: By the end of the first week of Pussy Riot's trial, everyone in the shabby Moscow courthouse was tired. Guards, armed with submachine guns, grabbed journalists and threw them out of the room at will. The
Published 05 Aug, 2012 03:17am
MOSCOW: Three special forces troops, Kalashnikov rifles draped across their chests, stood guard outside the courtroom. Inside, an equally ominous pitbull kept watch from in front of the judge's desk as journalists piled into a shabby wooden room inside Mo
Published 01 Aug, 2012 01:14am
MOSCOW They have become the ultimate symbol of power in Russia and the brazen disregard for the law that comes with...
Published 30 May, 2010 12:00am
GROZNY: The smell of gas spreads through the air once darkness falls on the Chechen capital, as fires burn to offer...
Published 30 Jan, 2003 12:00am
