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I wrote features and articles collected on this web site for The Moscow Times newspaper. Some of them were re-published in The New York Times, St.Peterbourg Times and different web sites. I love Russia when I don’t hate it, says one of my foreign collegues who used to live in Moscow. As a journalist, I [...]
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Russian Women’s Day
Have you heard of so-called “women’s day” in Russia? Generally on March 8th Russian men give Russian women flowers and gifts. No man in the whole country would dare break the tradition: one can possibly be forgiven if forgot brining his wife flowers for her birthday but there is no forgiveness for the one who [...]
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Russian People
Throughout my life I have traveled to many places of the world and one thing that caught my attention was the outrageous and wide variety of stereotypes created about Russians. Some of them are quite extreme and others have a right to exist. Here are some opinions you could come across: 1) Russian people are [...]
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Russian Father’s Desperate Crime to Save His Son
Fayrusa Kostina, a nurse from Chelyabinsk, has not explained to her son why his father went to prison. She never told anyone before she brought her son Sasha, now 6, to the St. Luc University Clinic in Brussels, for a liver transplant. But on Friday, she was finally ready to tell how her husband had [...]
Easy to Get in Mess, Hard to Get Out While Traveling to Russia
He calls his conviction and pardon on espionage charges a nightmare. Edmond Pope considers himself lucky to have escaped 20 years in prison. But the U.S. businessman says he can do nothing about the nightmares that started with his arrest on espionage charges in 2000. “I enjoy life here, but my days in Lefortovo jail [...]
The Cost of Falling in Love With An American
Valentina Pavlenko first met U.S. seaman Bill Rowgraft at a large dance party in Arkhangelsk. Pavlenko, then 15, knew she would pay a heavy price for falling in love with the bright-eyed sailor depicted in a photo that she has kept for the past 65 years. Little did she know how much. “I hid his [...]
Misterious Death of 9 Cross Country Skiers Still Unresolved
EKATERINBOURG – Nine experienced cross-country skiers hurriedly left their tent on a Urals slope in the middle of the night, casting aside skis, food and their warm coats. Clad in their sleepwear, the young people dashed headlong down a snowy slope toward a thick forest, where they stood no chance of surviving bitter temperatures of [...]
The Dyatlov Pass Incident February 1959, Ural Mountains, Russia. Nine missing skiers found dead. Cause: Unknown
The story sounds like something out of a low-budget horror movie: nine young students go on a skiing holiday in Russia’s Ural Mountains but never return. Eventually, their bodies are discovered – five of them frozen to death near their tent, four more bearing mysterious injuries – a smashed head, a missing tongue – buried [...]
Paperwork Means Pain for Dying Patients
Anna never imagined that she might end up breaking the law when her mother, Nina, was diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer. But when bureaucracy snarled her efforts to get painkillers to relieve her 60-year-old mother’s suffering, she turned to a drug addict as a last resort. “I hated feeling helpless,” said Anna, who asked that [...]
Russian Health Care
When anesthesiologist Dmitry Sedykh was called to treat an 8-month-old suffering from heart failure this May, he found no equipment to resuscitate the baby boy. Sedykh, the only anesthesiologist in the village of Lesnoye in the Kirov region, was summoned to the children’s ward of the local hospital to help little Alexei Artemikhin, who was [...]
Stalin makes a comeback with Russian teachers
MOSCOW — Last year, a Russian teachers’ manual described Josef Stalin as an “effective manager.” Now, a new teachers’ manual says the Soviet dictator acted rationally in conducting a campaign of terror to ensure the country’s modernization. The new manual, “A History of Russia, 1900-1945,” is part of a series of educational material that the [...]
Lack of Rehabilitation Packs Out Prisons
MOSCOW — Alexander Rysyev, a penitentiary system official in Krasnodar, was shocked when a former prisoner released two months prior came to him and asked to be imprisoned again. Though his request was a rarity, ex-convicts returning to prison are not. Each year 230,000 are convicted of crimes after having served time, according to Federal [...]
Features
- AIDS Treatment Hard to Get Behind Bars
- Russian Rich and Russian Poor. A War.
- Russian Disabled Stuck in a Separate World
- Mystery Shrouds Shchekochikhin’s Death
- Gazprom’s Horses Got Lucky, Others Do Not
- Serial Killer’s Victim Tells of Her Escape
- A Foreigner’s Nightmare in Dubrovka.
- When a Life-Threatening Emergency Strikes
- A Drive For Votes Ends in Suicide
- Odds Stacked Against Breast-Feeding Moms
Moscow
- Taking Shower in Moscow
- A Mad Rush to Get Into Kindergarten in Moscow
- A Clinic for the Filthy Rich
- Catching On With the Swinging Upper Class
- Crossing the Street in Moscow
- Radioactive Dump Stirs Fears in City Suburb
- Delivery in Moscow
- Odds Stacked Against Breast-Feeding Moms
- Migrants Flee Moscow District After Sex Killing
News Archive
- Journalist In Trouble For Piece On Putin
- Legislation Jeopardizes Foster System in Russia
- Increase in Multiple Births in Russia
- 2 U.S.Adoption Agencies Barred from operating in Russia After Boy’s Death
- U.S. Spurs Hopes of An End to HIV Tests
- Golden Toilets and Outdated Laws at Air Show
- New Ways To See Moscow By Water
- 2 Fake Law Diplomas and a $37 000 Haul
- Editor Brutally Assaulted In Khimki
- Beaten Editor Threatened in Hospital
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