Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: Moscow

Moscow stories: 54 news summaries

1 - 20 of 54 Stories | 1 2 3 Next >>

Switch to grid view »

 To Cut Snowplow Bill, 
 Moscow Monkeys 
 With Weather 

If we make snow fall elsewhere, mayor reasons, there will be less snow

Oct 16, 09 11:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Moscow's neighbors are steaming over a cost-cutting proposal by the mayor to make less snow fall in the city—which would mean more precipitation in the surrounding region. Liquid nitrogen, cement particles, and other substances kill clouds in the summer, and Yury Luzhkov wants to control the weather year-round, reports... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Russia • Moscow • clouds • winter • snow • precipitation • dispersal • seeding • Yury Luzhkov

 Putin Praises US 
 for Ditching 
 Missile Shield 

But Moscow may not support nuclear sanctions against Iran

Sep 18, 09 11:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a development sure to further tick off President Obama's critics on the right, Vladimir Putin says he's quite pleased with the decision to scrap an American missile-defense system in Eastern Europe, the New York Times reports. “I very much hope that this correct and brave decision will be... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Russia • Eastern Europe • missile shield • Poland • Moscow • Vladimir Putin • Czech Republic • Kremlin • missile defense system • Western Europe • Obama administration

ANALYSIS

 From Russia, 
 No Obama Love 




Jul 8, 09 7:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Capitals across Europe have swooned for Barack Obama, but over two days in Moscow, the president got a reception more suited to a traveling salesman than a rock star. News coverage was sparse, crowds were nowhere to be seen, and even the students he addressed at an economics university came... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Russia • Barack Obama • diplomacy • Michelle Obama • Moscow

(Newser) - Husbands of the world relax—Barack Obama isn’t perfect after all. The president made a fairly public marital goof today, when he seemingly forgot how he met the first lady. “I don’t know if anybody else will meet their future wife or husband in class like I... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Barack Obama • Michelle Obama • Moscow • marriage • Harvard • President Obama

(Newser) - Barack Obama began his second day in Russia by meeting with Vladimir Putin at the president-turned-prime minister's country home outside Moscow. The two leaders both expressed a desire for improved relations, and observers said they had a cordial discussion. The president then addressed a Moscow economics university, where he told... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Russia • Barack Obama • diplomacy • Moscow • Vladimir Putin • Mikhail Gorbachev • Dmitry Medvedev

 Tokyo Branded 
 World's Most 
 Expensive City 

Tumbling rouble knocks Moscow off top spot in expat rankings

Jul 7, 09 3:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tokyo and Osaka bumped Moscow into third place in Mercer's annual ranking of the costliest cities for expats, the Times of London reports. Geneva and Hong Kong rounded out the top five. Currency fluctuations pushed many European cities down in the influential rankings,which compare the cost of living in... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Moscow • Cost of Living • Tokyo • cities • expatriates

(Newser) - As Barack Obama arrives in Moscow for his toughest diplomatic challenge since taking office, the Guardian looks back on earlier US-Russia showdowns to gauge who had the upper hand.
  • Kennedy vs. Khrushchev, 1961: The ultimate cold war summit, shadowed by the space race and the Berlin Wall. A draw,
... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Russia • Barack Obama • diplomacy • Moscow • Vladimir Putin • John F. Kennedy • Richard Nixon • Mikhail Gorbachev • Ronald Reagan • Russian president • George W. Bush • Nikita Khrushchev • Leonid Brezhnev

analysis

Paranoid Russia Poses
Big Test for Obama

President's trip to Moscow will be hard work, no fun

Jul 3, 09 12:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - The last time Barack Obama went to Russia, he and another senator were detained by border guards for hours—and his upcoming trip won't be much fun either, say the editors of the Economist. Russia's economy is beholden to unstable oil and gas prices, the country's mortality rate is spiking,... More »

MORE ABOUT:
nuclear proliferation • Russia • Barack Obama • diplomacy • Moscow • Vladimir Putin • Dmitry Medvedev • arms control

Russia Orders Retrial in Journalist's Murder

Supreme Court throws out acquittals in Politkovskaya case

Jun 25, 09 5:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russia's Supreme Court has overturned the acquittals of three men in the murder of crusading journalist Anna Politkovskaya, and ordered a retrial, reports the BBC. Prosecutors claimed that judicial irregularities and misinformation led to an improper verdict, and Politkovskaya's newspaper colleagues have accused the police of shoddy work. Despite international... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Russia • Moscow • murder • Kremlin • Chechnya • journalists killed • journalist • Anna Politkovskaya • Novaya Gazeta

(Newser) - Moscow police broke up a gay rights demonstration today and arrested at least 20 protesters, the BBC reports. The activists, marching to draw attention to what they describe as deep prejudice, timed the protest to coincide with a European song contest popular in the gay community. "This shows the... More »

MORE ABOUT:
gay rights • police • Moscow • arrest • political demonstrations

Moscow Police Chief Kills 3 in Gun Rampage

Officer opens fire in supermarket after
wife leaves him

Apr 27, 09 5:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Moscow police chief went on a gun rampage in a supermarket last night, killing three people and wounding seven others. The chief, whose wife had recently left him, had finished a late shift and hitched a ride to the supermarket. He then shot the driver dead before entering the... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Russia • police • Moscow • supermarket • shooting rampage • gun violence

 Mock Mars Mission Blasts Off 

Experimenters will spend 105 days locked in fake spaceship

Mar 31, 09 12:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Europe launched its first shot at a manned mission to the Red Planet today—by locking six scientists in a tiny capsule in Moscow for 105 days to simulate the voyage, the BBC reports. The volunteers, who can leave the experiment but score $20000 if they make it, will perform... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Russia • Mars • Moscow • astronauts • experiments • spaceflight • simulation

(Newser) - London has tumbled off its perch atop the list of priciest places to buy residential property, the Financial Times reports, allowing Monaco to swoop in and take the crown. Monaco’s top properties now fetch $68,000 per square meter, compared to $38,000 for London and $22,500... More »

MORE ABOUT:
London • Manhattan • Moscow • Hong Kong • Rome • Paris • Tokyo • Singapore • Monaco • home prices • Sydney

(Newser) - It’s 1988. President Ronald Reagan is making a visit to the Soviet Union, where he tours Moscow’s Red Square alongside Mikhail Gorbachev. He stops and takes questions from a group of tourists about human rights in the United States. Except they’re not tourists, Radio Free Europe reports.... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Moscow • Vladimir Putin • KGB • Mikhail Gorbachev • Ronald Reagan • photograph • President • 1988 • Red Square

 Putin Denies 
 Digging ABBA 
 Cover Show 

But spokesman
admits that ex-KGB agent is a fan

Feb 7, 09 3:38 PM CST
(Newser) - Vladimir Putin is no dancing queen, the Kremlin insists, denying reports that Russia’s prime minister attended a hush-hush ABBA cover concert, AFP reports. “Officially and for sure Vladimir Putin never took part in any concert of the kind,” Putin’s spokesman said. “He wasn’t there.... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Russia • Moscow • Vladimir Putin • ABBA • Alina Kabaeva • Alexander Lebedev

 Mamma Mia! 
 Putin's a Dancing Queen 

Putin's secret Abba tribute band concert

Feb 6, 09 9:56 AM CST
(Newser) - Russia's Vladimir Putin may appear to have ice flowing through his veins, but beneath that arctic exterior is the pulsating heart of an ABBA fan. The Russian PM paid $30,000 to have Abba tribute group Bjorn Again secretly flown to Moscow for a private concert for himself and a... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Russia • Moscow • Vladimir Putin • ABBA • Alina Kabaeva • Alexander Lebedev • Bjorn Again • Lake Valdai


 Russian Passengers 
 Reject Drunk Pilot 


Slurred speech sparked fear; airline blames 'mass psychosis'

Feb 3, 09 2:01 PM CST
(Newser) - Passengers on a Russian jet mutinied right before takeoff when they heard the slurred speech of their obviously inebriated pilot, the Times of London reports. They insisted on a replacement, despite flight attendants' initial efforts to brush them off, with one noting that drunkenness was no “big deal”... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Russia • Moscow • airline • pilot • airline passengers • crew members • drunk

 Bill and Vlad Pal Around Davos 

Sec. of State's hubby wastes no time slipping into global role

Jan 30, 09 7:55 AM CST
(Newser) - With the ink barely dry on Hillary Clinton’s confirmation as secretary of state, her husband is already glad-handing on the world stage, holding meetings with foreign leaders at Davos that culminated with a 90-minute sit-down with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. At a private party, Putin toasted Clinton as... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Moscow • Vladimir Putin • Bill Clinton • international relations • World Economic Forum • Davos

Top Human Rights Lawyer Slain in Moscow

He opposed release
of colonel who killed Chechen teen

Jan 19, 09 4:41 PM CST
(Newser) - A Russian lawyer fighting the early release of a colonel convicted of war crimes was shot dead yesterday in Moscow, Deutsche Welle reports. Stanislav Markelov, 34, was planning to challenge the parole of Yuri Budanov, who was freed last week after being imprisoned 6 years ago for murdering a Chechen... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Russia • human rights • Moscow • Chechnya • lawyer • Human Rights Watch

Stalin Planned
to Destroy Moscow Ahead of Nazis

Bombs, booby traps
set in 1,200 buildings

Dec 5, 08 4:40 PM CST
(Newser) - Stalin would have all but destroyed Moscow if the Nazis had taken the city, the Telegraph reports. Secret 1941 documents now on display detail the rigging of 1,200 buildings with explosives so that the Germans—only 19 miles from the city at the time—would conquer little more than... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Russia • Moscow • explosives • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • World War II • Josef Stalin

1 - 20 of 54 Stories | 1 2 3 Next >>


from our news partners