Russia’s “Good ol’ Days” Past…

Everywhere I go in Russia. I see a Soviet past that is missed by more than just a few people.. That is what I was thinking this morning over coffee. That thought came from when Sveta and I the other night visited some friends. It was a typical visit to a Russian and that means […]

Mikhail Gorbachev’s 80th birthday – Held in London…

Gorby 80: Mikhail Gorbachev’s 80th birthday gala in London… (In London?) The star-studded charity concert at Royal Albert Hall for the last leader of the Soviet Union – Gorby! Given for his 80th birthday, where guests included Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lech Walesa, Kevin Spacey, Sharon Stone and many many more famous… Gorbachev, the so-called “architect of […]

Moscow police say Limonov rally out of question

Moscow police have said they will not allow radical opposition leader Eduard Limonov to stage a banned anti-Kremlin rally on Triumfalnaya Square on Thursday. Limonov, who has faced off with fellow activists over the Strategy 31 cause, was denied approval even as Lyudmila Alexeyeva, head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, was given the go-ahead for […]

Yury Gagarin, Hero of the Soviet Union: Biography

On April 12, 2011, Russia and the world will mark the 50th anniversary of the historic flight of Yury Gagarin, the first man in space. Yury Gagarin was born March 9, 1934 in Klushino, a village in the Gzhatsk (now Gagarin) District of Russia’s Smolensk Region. His parents, Alexei and Anna Gagarin, came from local […]

Russian boxing champ Valuyev may run for parliament

Russia’s heavyweight WBA champion Nikolai Valuyev may run in forthcoming elections to the State Duma, the Novgorod Vedomosti newspaper said on Wednesday. Valuyev, 37, has joined the United Russia party last year and received his party membership card from the head of the United Russia branch in his hometown of St. Petersburg, Russia’s second largest […]