Moscow

Navalny aims to run for Moscow mayor

4 days ago

Alexei Navalny, the anti-corruption crusader who has spearheaded opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin, plans to run for mayor of Moscow.

Moscow mayor forces snap elections

14 days ago

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on Wednesday handed in his resignation to President Vladimir Putin, forcing an election in the fall in which he likely will be returned to the job.

4 people hospitalized after Moscow metro fire

15 days ago

The Emergencies Situations Ministry said in a statement that the fire started after a power cable at the Okhotny Ryad station in central Moscow caught fire during the morning rush hour on Wednesday.

Moscow set for early mayoral elections in the fall

15 days ago

Some 54 percent of Muscovites would vote for Sobyanin, according to a poll Monday by a Kremlin-linked institute at Moscow State University.

Review: 'Metro: Last Light' digs deep under Moscow

34 days ago

Like its predecessor, "Last Light" throws you into a gloomy, claustrophobic world teeming with tension and very little else beneath a nuclear-ravaged Moscow.

Higher Moscow court to hear Pussy Riot appeal

106 days ago

Moscow's highest court panel is examining an appeal by three members of the punk band Pussy Riot against their conviction for an anti-Putin protest.

Fans from as far as Moscow pay respects to Cliburn during visitation at his Fort...

109 days ago

Hundreds of people came from as far away as Moscow to pay their respects to Cliburn, 78, a cultural icon since his 1958 stunning triumph in the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

Moscow skeptical about US autopsy of Russian boy

110 days ago

Max Shatto's death, ruled accidental, came a month after Moscow passed a ban on international adoptions in retaliation for a new U.S. law targeting alleged Russian human rights violators.

Son of Nikita Khrushchev recalls Van Cliburn's triumph in Moscow

110 days ago

In the early 1960s, when Cliburn made a goodwill tour of Russia, Nikita Khrushchev invited him to his dacha about 20 miles outside of Moscow, showing the young pianist his prized vegetable garden.