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Stranded in Moscow...by choice
The coffee safari ( 1 comment )
Stranded in Moscow...by choice
Smoke gets in your eyes ( 2 comments )
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Surprised by Russia
It's Just Some Holiday
The winter holidays are barely over and already there’s another slew in the offing: Men’s Day (Feb. 23), Women’s Day (March 8), Valentine’s Day and, of course, Maslenitsa — a week of merrymaking and pancake eating ahead of Lent.
It’s a wonderful, wonderful life ( 1 comment )
Seventy-two percent of Russians report that they are happy
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Business Calendar
Russian Business Week 2010:
“Modernisation of the Economy in a post crisis environment”
20th March 2010
London School of Economics and Political Science
MATTEX (MOSCOW AQUA TECHNOLOGY THERM EXPO) 2010. International “World Climate” Exhibition of Heating and Water-Supply Systems, Sewage Disposal and Gas Supply
March 9-12. Expocenter, Moscow
EXPOFOREST 2010. International Specialized Exhibition
March 9-12. Moscow Crocus Expo international exhibition center
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Culture Calendar
Russian Fashion Week: Fall/Winter 2010/2011
April 1-6, 2010, Congress Hall of World Trade Centre, Moscow
“Holy Russia: Art from Kievan Rus to the Russia of Peter the Great”
2 March – 24 May, Louvre Museum, Paris
Enamels of the world, 1700–2000. From the Khalili Collections
Until 14 March 2010 in the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg
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National Cuisine
New rituals for the New Year ( 7 comments )
The best New Year's recipes from Russia Now
Pancake pleasure... a la Russe ( 1 comment )
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Found in translation
Rejecting the ‘isms’ of ideology
Russians have a traditional dislike of any sort of ‘isms’ - especially if they are political. Perhaps left over from Soviet times, anything that suggests collectivism is sure to draw sincere ire.


Latest Stories
Tourism:
A land of lakes, forests and varied post-glacial landscapes, Karelia was one of the top destinations for Soviet tourists. It’s the perfect place for what Americans call “camping” and Russians, just “taking a trip” – complete with tents, canned food and, that sacred ritual for any Russian tourist, playing a guitar in front of the fire
Politics:
Assesments of Mikhail Gorbachev's legacy have been mixed, but no one denies that his ascension resulted in a changed world.
Business & Finance:
Is it a Russian cash for clunkers? Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promises to pay for trade-ins if the buyer purchases a Russian-made car as part of an attempt to rescue the country's ailing automotive sector.
Russia & World:
Georgian opposition leader Nino Burdjanadze came to Moscow for talks with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Will the meeting have negative effects on her career? She doesn't think so.
Tourism:
Tucked away in the Vologda Region is one of Russia’s most revered cultural and spiritual treasures – the Monastery of the Nativity of the Virgin in Ferapontovo
Feature:
Russia may be suffering in the global economic crisis, but the beauty industry has again proved to be recession-proof.
Business & Finance
Innovation & Technology:
A plan for Russia's first hybrid car has been approved, with the backing of the Kremlin and financing from Mikhail Prokorov.
Natural Resources:
Gas and oil: New links could take the politics out of transportation
Corrosion becomes problem of the past
Victor Kuzmin, Russia Now
Living with the big three
Artem Zagorodnov, Russia Now
Many happy returns
Guy Norton, Special to Russia Now
This tricky Maastricht
Nick Watson, Business New Europe
Politics
Not since he threw a pen at Oleg Deripaska has Vladimir Putin so publicly berated the country's richest billionaires.
Crisis management: Strongman is named as a powerful Kremlin envoy to a troubled and fractured region
Liberals push radical agenda
Roland Oliphant
Russia Profile.org
Government switches to e-workflow
Alexandra Prokopenko
ITAR TASS correspondent
Arms control: more alive than dead
Vyacheslav Nikonov, Izvestia
Ambassador Alexander Kadakin: Karma Bhoomi: It’s like coming back home
"New Theme" On Russian-Indian Affairs September-November 2009
Tourism
Kolomna, an easy day trip from Moscow, features monasteries, estates and tasty treats.
The Federal Tourism Agency is hoping to bring foreign tourists to regions outside of Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Discoveries on the eastern railroad (Part 1)
Aanchal Anand, special to RIR
Discoveries on the eastern railroad: Nizhniy Novgorod and Perm (Part 2) ( 1 comment )
Aanchal Anand, special to RIR
Discoveries on the eastern railroad: Yekaterinburg, Omsk and Krasnoyarsk (Part 3) ( 1 comment )
Aanchal Anand, special to RIR
Discoveries on the Eastern Railroad: Irkutsk, Baikal and Vladivostok (Part 4) ( 4 comments )
Aanchal Anand, special to RIR
Russia & World
His Excellency Alexander Kadakin, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of India, chalks out the future roadmap for India and Russia to effectively realize the full potential of their ties
The death of yet another adopted Russian child at the hands of his American parents has further complicated US-Russian relations.
Happy New Year?
Stephen Dalziel, special to Russia Now
Russia considers Nato request for helicopters
Tom Balmforth, Russia Profile
Copenhagen didn’t change the climate
Ilya Zinenko, Gazeta
Medvedev’s slow burn
Graham Stack, special to Russia Now
Culture
Literature:
Here’s a confession about last year’s publication of Vladimir Nabokov’s The Original of Laura (Dying is Fun), that unexpected literary event
The classic choreography by Yuri Grigorovich shows off the company's precision and artistry.
Culture Calendar (Washington DC)
Nora FitzGerald
An open exchange of books
Nora FitzGerald, Russia Now
If there is something to desire ( 2 comments )
Nora FitzGerald, Russia Now
The Paradjanov Season in London ( 1 comment )
Nadia Kidd, Ksenia Galouchko, Russia Now
Feature
Life Style:
Nowhere does the battle of the sexes play out more vividly than during Russia’s dual celebrations for men and women
Many a foreign visitor to Moscow will enjoy a trip to Café Pushkin, an ornate restaurant that serves up delicious Russian food in a stylized atmosphere from the age of Russia’s most famous poet
Living in Moscow’s endangered utopia
Phoebe Taplin, special to Russia Now
Paper architects and the razing of Moscow ( 1 comment )
Nora FitzGerald, Russia Now
Schwarzenegger promises to preserve Russian fortress Fort Ross
Russia Now
Making an impression — Russian style
Karen Schafer, The Gazette
Society
March 8 is the perfect day to explore Moscow through the eyes of its famous women.
Can government initiatives encourage Russians to play video games featuring Russian heroes? Duma deputies think so, but analysts and gamers are doubtful.
Looking for a local after Hiddink goes
Combined reports
Russia readies Haiti disaster relief
RIA Novosti
Duma passes bill allowing house arrest
The Moscow Times
War on illegal alcohol
Tatyana Shadrina, Rossiyskaya Gazeta
Opinion
The spectre of Stalin has been raised again, mainly as a tactic to keep attention off real problems.
The past decade has been a roller-coaster ride for the Russian economy
Russian studies revival on campus ( 2 comments )
Mark H. Teeter, The Moscow News
Majority rule
Richard Lourie, The Moscow Times
Nuclear diplomacy
Wayne Merry, special To Russia Now
NATO challenge
Fyodor Lukyanov, political analyst
The way it was
Superpower rivalries aside, the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow heralded the beginning of cultural exchange between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. As Sergei Khrushchev recalls, it got off to a rocky start.
"It is Monday morning, the nineteenth of August, 1991, and I am standing in front of the mirror in my room in Moscowґs newly renovated Metropole Hotel, knotting my tie in preparation to go down to breakfast"
Deadly deja-vu ( 2 comments )
Vladimir Snegiryov, special For Russia Now
Five years after Beslan
Nora Fitzgerald, Russia Now
A hot summer in the Cold War
Jack Masey
Chernobyl memories
John Glad
History
World War II:
Sixty-five years on, was World War II motivated by ideology or just self-preservation?
Afghanistan: What was it that made the Soviets decide that they should intervene?
Archives reveal strategy switch on Afghanistan
Russia Now
Afghan invasions ( 1 comment )
Vladimir Snegirev, special to Russia Now
Stalinґs grandson loses libel action ( 1 comment )
Newsru.com
The ennobling truth ( 2 comments )
Alexander Melikhov
Blogs
Stranded in Moscow...by choice:
Although unlike the coffeehouses of her native Austria, our blogger finds much to like in Moscow's local coffee shops.
Russia Lite:
Why do Russian men have such a terrible life expectancy? Our blogger explains.
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