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Lyudmila Vasilyeva, 83, has been protesting for decades. She is now challenging pro-Kremlin incumbent Alexander Beglov with the slogan “St. Petersburg — the city of peace.”
She spoke to MT about her political ambitions and hopes for the country.
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With street protests effectively banned, tattoos and other silent acts of resistance have allowed anti-war Russians to find solace.
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U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich's trial for espionage in Russia begins behind closed doors Wednesday in what his employer, The Wall Street Journal, has already slammed as a “sham” process.
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Hamster Kombat, which involves tapping on the image of a hamster to earn in-game rewards, claims to have amassed 200 million players in just a few weeks. The game's popularity has sparked concerns from both Russian and Ukrainian authorities.
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#BREAKING The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov for alleged war crimes committed during the invasion of Ukraine.
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MT has collected everything that is known about the attack, its perpetrators, their possible motives and how officials are responding.
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#OpEd Pursuing economic cooperation with North Korea potentially signals the next step in the full-scale unraveling of punitive economic measures designed to curb North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs, writes Anthony V. Rinna.
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Are there any other options left for Gazprom to boost its foreign sales after its main export direction — to Europe — has nearly been severed? www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/06/20/a...
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Parts of Moscow were flooded due to heavy rainfall on Thursday, disrupting public transport and submerging cars and homes across the Russian capital.
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NEW: Russian officials privately admit that their chances of preventing an Armenian exit from the Moscow-led CSTO alliance are slim, two Russian officials, one current and one retired Russian diplomat, and a former CSTO official told MT.
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#OpEd Maria Kartasheva's Canadian citizenship application was nearly rejected because she is wanted by Russia.
"I want Canada to finally start putting its money where its mouth is and truly protect activists from authoritarian regimes," she writes.
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The former mayor of Kupyansk, Ukraine, who surrendered his city to Russian forces in February 2022, died Tuesday night after being shot in western Russia over the weekend. Gennady Matsegora is the latest of over a dozen collaborationist or Kremlin-installed officials to have been attacked.
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Russia’s Supreme Court last week ruled to ban the so-called “Anti-Russian Separatist Movement” and “its structural divisions” as an extremist organization. To make sense of what this means, The Moscow Times spoke to leading experts and activists.
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#OpEd: It is time for Western politicians to see Russian emigres as an important human resource capable of both contributing to Europe's economic development and depriving Putin of significant opportunities, argue Vladislav Inozemtsev, Dmitry Gudkov and Dmitry Nekrasov.
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Experts told The Moscow Times that the arrival of three Russian ships and a nuclear-powered submarine is aimed at projecting an image of Moscow as a global power with influence far beyond its waters.
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Home to a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the former imperial estate is now being encroached upon by heavy construction machinery.
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The 10th annual Red Square Book Fair took place this weekend, featuring tens of thousands of books and hundreds of events. Books by anti-war writers or featuring LGBTQ+ themes were among those absent from shelves. Photos: Sergei Vedyashkin, Sergei Kiselev / Moskva News Agency
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While officials boast that Russia's vast forests can help it achieve its climate goals, experts say this won't be possible without major change.
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Despite SPIEF’s diminished global status, it remains an important platform for business today — just mainly at the domestic level, experts say.
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On what would have been Navalny's 48th birthday, supporters of the late Kremlin opponent said they aim to keep his memory alive no matter what.
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NEW: While the Kremlin states that it has a standard level of security, the special services control practically every aspect of Putin’s life — down to testing all of his meals for poison using a portable lab, a source close to the Kremlin told MT.
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“If I didn’t risk five years in prison for desertion, I would get off the train now and go home, even by foot,” one soldier confessed. “This war is pointless.”
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Russia’s Finance Ministry has submitted a major tax reform plan that would introduce a progressive tax system and increase corporations’ contributions to the state budget. Here’s an overview of the proposed changes and why they are happening now:
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Hundreds of videos posted to social media include everything from clips of foreigners partying in Moscow during the 2018 FIFA World Cup and late opposition figures Alexei Navalny and Boris Nemtsov to scenes of everyday life.
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A small Indigenous community in Russia’s Far East republic of Sakha (Yakutia) is challenging a gold-mining giant owned by Russian magnate Alexei Mordashov in what they deem a last-ditch attempt to preserve their traditional livelihoods.
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“Our aim is to show the variety of [President Vladimir] Putin's repressions and crimes against the people,” Elena Filina, one of the project’s organizers, told The Moscow Times at the opening.
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Vladimir Pozner and Ivan Urgant's live show in Amsterdam took place amid a vocal protest against the platforming of Russian "propagandists."
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At the Mayak apartment complex, no amount of plush amenities can cover up the smell of sewage.
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Idite Lesom (Get Lost), an NGO founded after Russia launched its "partial" mobilization in fall 2022, helps Russians flee mobilization or from the front lines.
Its founder Grigory Sverdlin spoke to The Moscow Times about the organization's work.
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In the Kemerovo region, officials and major aluminum firms are seeking to complete a hydropower plant abandoned in 1989. Locals and activists have voiced concern over the project's environmental impact — but their concerns appear to be going unheard.
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EXCLUSIVE: The arrests of five top Russian military officers are likely just the first of dozens who will be jailed in a purge carried out by the FSB, government officials and sources close to the Kremlin and the Defense Ministry told MT.
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While much remains unknown about the draft resolution proposing the changes — which has since been taken down from the Russian government’s website — experts told The Moscow Times it could be used to put pressure on Russia’s Baltic Sea neighbors.
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Activists say the army is luring new recruits with promises of high salaries and social benefits as well as intimidation tactics and even violence.
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Weakened by poison and fearing for his life, the jailed Kremlin critic’s fate is tied to the fraught diplomacy between Russia, the U.K. and the U.S.
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"You realize that the state has been given power over the bodies and feelings of other people." In an interview with MT, a former member of Moscow’s drag collectives describes life and drag under Russia’s intensifying anti-LGBTQ+ restrictions.
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VIP hunters including senior Russian officials and wealthy businessmen appear increasingly keen to target protected animals and areas across the country. These efforts, when combined with poor government oversight, could threaten the survival of the country’s rare species, experts told MT.
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"The main thing to come out of the reshuffle in the government and the Kremlin is the removal of those who failed in the military invasion [of Ukraine]," former Russian government staffer Alexei Levchenko told MT.
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Despite being blacklisted in Russia over their anti-war stance, AIGEL topped several global streaming charts with the Tatar-language song "Piyala." The Moscow Times spoke with the duo shortly after their recent concert in Warsaw.
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The legislation has plunged the South Caucasus country into a political crisis, with tens of thousands rallying against what they say mirrors Russia’s repressive “foreign agent” law and risks jeopardizing Georgia’s ambitions to join the European Union.
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Armenia, unhappy with Russia's waning role as a security guarantor, is seeking to strengthen its partnerships with the EU and the U.S.
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Thirty-eight years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, careless urban development risks unleashing another radioactive hazard beneath Muscovites’ feet.
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As Congress held up vital aid for half a year, Russia exploited Ukraine’s dwindling supplies to bombard the country from the air to deadly effect.
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To make sense of the bombshell investigation spotlighting one of Russia’s most volatile regions, The Moscow Times asked leading experts and activists for their first impressions and predictions for Chechnya’s future after Kadyrov.
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EXCLUSIVE: The arrest of a senior defense official for bribery signals Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu’s diminishing status and the rising influence of the security services, two sources in the Russian government and a person close to the Kremlin told MT.
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The West’s lack of a clear strategy and sense of what they want to achieve is seen by the rest of the world as evidence of Kyiv’s allies' weakness and indecisiveness, argues Boris Bondarev.
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Beneath headline figures of 20% pay rises and a facade of normality, even well-paid workers in privileged industries are feeling the pinch, writes Jeremy Morris.
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The Moscow Times interviewed men who fought as volunteer fighters in the Donbas and recruiters about the events of spring 2014 that would become a precursor to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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As villages suffer blackouts from bomb and drone attacks, people are forced to wait in agony for even longer to hear if their loved ones are okay, writes Ada Wordsworth from Ukraine’s Kharkiv region.
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A persistent problem for over a decade, the effects of coal dust pollution in Murmansk have become especially visible in recent months, said Daria, who was born and raised in the Arctic city.
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#OpEd "I now feel that I am much more Belgorodian than Russian. Part of me is terribly angry at people's indifference to the fact that life in my city resembles a nightmare while everyone else enjoys the first buds of spring,” writes Valeria Bezrukova.
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