| 02/15/2018 04:15 | YouTube and Instagram face Russian bans ( BBC News )
By Sarah Rainsford, BBC Moscow Correspondent. Compared to Russian television, which is under tight central control, the internet is still a relatively free space. Alexei Navalny uses YouTube to post his anti-corruption videos and to livestream protests. During the 2011-12 elections, videos of ... |
| 02/10/2018 22:35 | Russia moves to block Navalny's latest investigation ( The Republic )
MOSCOW â Russia's communications oversight agency is moving to block access to an investigation published online by opposition leader Alexei Navalny alleging that Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko received lavish hospitality from billionaire Oleg Deripaska. The tycoon has been linked to ... |
| 02/09/2018 19:15 | Russia war threat: What is the Topol intercontinental ballistic missile? How strong is it? ( Express.co.uk )
The development of the solid-propellant missile started at Moscow's Institute of Thermal Technology in 1975, which also developed Russia's RT-2S Temp-2S and RSD-10 Pioneer (SS-20) missile systems. The Soviet military believed it would be tough to spot mobile missile systems, reducing the Topol's ... |
| 02/09/2018 08:25 | Russian appeal hearings end with no immediate decision ( KRQE News 13 )
With 168 IOC-approved athletes, it's already one of the biggest teams in Pyeongchang. The IOC won't comment on individual cases, but says its invitation process was based on evidence from a newly obtained Moscow laboratory database detailing doping in previous years. Other athletes whose cases ... |
| 02/07/2018 19:20 | Some Russians Are Loving This Blizzard of the Century ( Bloomberg )
Expectations for Russian wheat are already high. The weather has been warm and wet in autumn and a moderate winter also helped growing conditions. The country may reap between 73 million and 82 million metric tons of wheat next season, according to a pre-snowstorm estimate from the Institute ... |
| 02/07/2018 16:35 | Hero or hired gun? How a British former spy became a flash point in the Russia investigation. ( Washington Post )
He was steeped in Russia early on after being recruited to Britain's elite spy service from the University of Cambridge. He spent two decades working for the MI6 spy agency, including a stint in his mid-20s in Moscow, where he served undercover in the British Embassy. When he returned to work for the ... |
| 02/07/2018 15:25 | Hero or hired gun? How former spy Christopher Steele became a flash point in the Russia ... ( Chicago Tribune )
He was steeped in Russia early on after being recruited to Britain's elite spy service from Cambridge University. He spent two decades working for the famed MI6 spy agency, including a stint in his mid-20s in Moscow, where he served undercover in the British Embassy. When he returned to work for the ... |
| 02/06/2018 09:10 | Record-breaking snowstorm blankets Moscow ( ABC News )
Snow covered Red Square with the Spasskaya Tower, left, and St. Basil's Cathedral, right, after a snowstorm in Moscow, Russia, Feb. 5, 2018. Moscow authorities battled to clear streets and told children they could skip school, as the city was blanketed by its heaviest snowfall in 100 years. 1 of 11. |
| 02/06/2018 07:20 | Russian army drafted in as Moscow is hit with the 'snowfall of the century' felling over 2000 trees ( The Independent )
The Russian military said in a statement it had sent 100 soldiers, two snowploughs and a truck to help clear the snow in one Moscow district and at a location in the Moscow region. Children in Moscow were given the day off school on Monday when the temperature stood at minus 12 degrees Celsius. |
| 02/06/2018 04:40 | Moscow Battles 'Snowfall Of The Century' ( RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty )
Moscow authorities have struggled to clear the streets and told children they could skip school after the Russian capital was hit by massive snowfall. The national meteorological service said on February 5 that more than the monthly average of snow fell on Moscow over the weekend, with the height of ... |
| 02/06/2018 00:20 | Internet Censorship Skyrockets in Russia in 2017, Study Says ( The Moscow Times )
Internet freedom in Russia has continued its downward spiral over the past year with over 115,000 recorded cases of censorship, according to an internet and media freedom report published Monday. The report by the Agora international human rights group was published half a year before new ... |
| 02/05/2018 16:30 | Massive snowstorm delays flights, cancels school in Moscow (Times Now)
In Pics: Record snowfall in Moscow paints the city dazzling white, slows-down life - Times Now |
| 02/05/2018 15:30 | Massive snowstorm delays flights, cancels school in Moscow ( New York Daily News )
MOSCOW (AP) â A weekend-long snowstorm in Moscow has delayed flights, cut power supplies to nearby villages and even prompted authorities to call a snow day â a highly unusual occurrence in the frost-resistant Russian capital. The Meteorological Office said on Monday that more than a month's ... |
| 02/04/2018 17:30 | Ryan tweets about a $1.50 paycheck boost, then deletes it ( WTHR )
WASHINGTON (AP) â House Speaker Paul Ryan has highlighted on Twitter a school secretary benefiting from the Republican tax overhaul, then deleted the tweet after online criticism that he is cheering an increase of $1.50 a week. The Associated Press reported on Thursday that changes in tax ... |
| 02/04/2018 05:25 | Anti-Azerbaijan provocation prevented during scientific seminar in Moscow ( APA )
In his report, Mukhanov noted that during the Shamkir events Azerbaijanis killed Russian soldiers who had returned from the First World War. According to the author, these acts of Azerbaijanis at that time triggered a civil war in the Caucasus. The pro-Armenian author also insulted the Azerbaijani people ... |
| 02/04/2018 04:35 | Antenna gets stuck, then overextended during spacewalk ( Washington Post )
The antenna is used for communications with Russia's Mission Control outside Moscow. The trouble arose toward the end of the longer than expected spacewalk, after Commander Alexander Misurkin and Anton Shkaplerov successfully replaced an electronics box as part of the antenna's upgrade. |
| 01/30/2018 16:45 | Moscow: Inclusion of Top Russian Officials in 'Kremlin Report' Unprecedented ( Sputnik International )
Peskov noted that Rodchenkov was under investigation in Russia, describing the informant as "morally unstable person," who has problems with law. He stressed that ex-head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory can not be perceived as a source that can deserve at least some kind of confidence. |
| 01/28/2018 00:40 | Dutch Intel Agency Reportedly Helped US Attribute DNC Hack to Russia ( Dark Reading )
According to the paper, agents from AIVD managed to infiltrate the network of a university building in Moscow's Red Square in summer 2014 that Russian threat group APT29, aka Cozy Bear, was using. The intrusion provided Dutch intelligence agents with unprecedented visibility into the activities of the ... |
| 01/27/2018 08:35 | Candid camera: Dutch hacked Russians hacking DNC, including security cameras ( Ars Technica )
According to a report in the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant, the General Intelligence and Security Service of the Netherlands (AIVD)âthe Netherlands' domestic intelligence serviceâhad hacked into the network of a building at a Russian university in Moscow some time in the summer of 2014. |
| 01/25/2018 19:30 | Olympic Athlete from Russia (OAR) Invitation Review Panel releases list of information used as part ... ( Olympics )
On 30 October 2017, WADA's I&I secured the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) database for the Moscow anti-doping centre (Moscow Laboratory) containing data from between 2012 and August 2015. The LIMS was reconstructed by a WADA forensic expert and then subjected to a ... |
