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 […]

Russia Visa Free With America?

I am going to tell you that I will be staying on this story. What a dream for us here and those coming to Russia. There seems to be a huge push in the Russian government to get this done. No visa visits under 90 days with America and Russia… Russia and the United States […]