Windows to Russia

A Moscow court sentenced ultranationalist Nikita Tikhonov to life in jail on Friday for the murder of human-rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova in 2009. The court also sentenced Tikhonov’s accomplice and civil partner Yevgeniya Khasis to 18 years in prison. Markelov and Baburova, who worked for the liberal Novaya Gazeta newspaper, were […]

I am sitting at a place called McFoxy! The name should give you a hint. It is owned by McDonalds here in Ukraine… The coffee is exactly the same as McDs and the menu is centered around chicken and more chicken. I have become a McFoxy fan because McDonalds is always so busy that you […]

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev moved to beef up his image as an anti-corruption crusader on Wednesday as he signed off a bill to raise fines for bribery. The bill, approved by Russia’s parliament earlier this month, raises fines for giving or taking bribes up to 100 times the amount of the bribe. The maximum fine […]

Russian military will carry out on Thursday the third night rehearsal of the May 9 parade on Moscow’s Red Square, the Defense Ministry said. “The first rehearsal was carried out on Red Square on April 26, the second took place on May 3, and we still have the third on May 5 and the final […]

I found this article interesting because I can tell you that being from America that this is a worthless report that should be abolished. It is American based and American backed… Russian media experts disputed on Tuesday the accuracy of the 2011 Freedom of the Press report which ranks Russia 173rd out of 196 countries. […]

A former Russian intelligence officer who helped the U.S. authorities uncover a Russian spy ring last summer has been charged with high treason and desertion, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday. Ten Russians, including media star Anna Chapman, were arrested in the United States in June 2010 on suspicion of espionage. They plead […]

The daughter of an executive at Russia’s second largest oil producer has been found dead in the Moscow region, a police source said on Tuesday. He said the body of Viktoria Teslyuk, daughter of Robert Teslyuk, was found by the roadside near the town of Taldom, about 100 km north of Moscow “when the snow […]

I sat in my room this morning sipping that cup of coffee and realized that in the last week TV here in Kiev, Ukraine has really sucked. I mean really… First literally every station that I can get in the hotel room had nothing but 24 hours a day “Royal Wedding”, then when the wedding […]

A criminal case has been opened into the beating of a Russian journalist in Moscow, police reported. Dmitry Andryushchenko, a journalist working for  Russian business radio station Kommersant FM, was attacked and beaten in northern Moscow late on Saturday following an argument with one of the attackers. Andryushchenko said the attacker, who was drunk, first […]

Russia celebrates a national holiday, Spring and Labor Day, on May 1, with trade unions and political parties set to hold rallies across the country. In Soviet times May 1 was celebrated in Russia as International Workers’ Day and saw massive Communist Party rallies. In 1992, the name was changed to Spring and Labor Day […]