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Showing posts with label Moscow. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Lights out Luzhkov

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Driving past the Moscow mayor's office at night in the early 1990s, lights were always on in Mayor Popov's office. During the turbul...
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Friday, June 04, 2010

Stalin's summer snowstorms

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Some stories are too good - or bad - not to be retold. One of them is about Moscow's summer snowstorms that annually rage across the cit...
Monday, June 04, 2007

Pride & Prejudice

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Gay rights are human rights. It is a paradox that the same rights, that served as the moral basis of liberation from the communist yoke in E...
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Friday, May 25, 2007

TV-Tower Ostankino on Fire

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A fire has broken out in the Moscow Ostankino TV-tower, according to Moskovski Komsomolets . The famous tower, a scene of the 1993 shootout ...
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Sunday, May 28, 2006

Moscow Has Lost Its Pride

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Yesterday, thirteen years had passed since the law prohibiting homosexuality was abolished in Russia. Yesterday, Russia's first pride pa...
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Monday, December 12, 2005

A litmus test turned sour?

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On December 4, elections were held for the Moscow Duma. They were seen as a rehearsal for the 2007 parliamentary and the 2008 presidential e...
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