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Last week, it emerged that the version of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” to be released in Ukrainian cinemas would be three seconds shorter than the...
It has become commonplace to compare the war in Ukraine to World War I, with its desolate blasted landscapes and grinding trench warfare. Beyond the...
Exactly one year ago, Derk Sauer, the founder of The Moscow Times, passed away. His death was untimely and unexpected, the result of an accident. Derk...
This article was originally published by Real Clear Defense. In the late 1990s, I would take the Moscow metro to Lubyanka Square and walk into the...
The Central Bank again cut its key interest rate by a symbolic quarter of a percentage point, to 14%, but warned that high rates will continue longer...
In the first months of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia took pride in the high quality of its propaganda. Even its enemies and various...
On July 13, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the Trump administration would seek to “dismantle” the International...
In 2024, the most recent year I could find data for, only 43% of Russian schoolchildren moved from ninth grade into 10th. For modern Russia, this is a...
Every "redpilled” man who comes of age seems to experience an identical fantasy: to leave his liberal, feminist country for somewhere much...
A recent application I made for an administrative job in Britain asked whether I had any unspent criminal convictions. I ticked “yes.” In...
This summer, none of our friends or relatives still in Russia will holiday in Crimea. Many continued doing so after Russia's full-scale invasion,...
Before 2022, Gazprom’s gas pipelines were an instrument of political influence over Europe, as well as one of the pillars of the federal budget. ...
Among the eight billionaires who taken off the Russian Forbes list in 2026, only four were removed because their businesses became less valuable....
A specter is haunting the West: the specter of a cartoon bear and no-less-cartoon hyperactive little girl. You might be tempted to click away from a...
A specter is haunting the West: the specter of a cartoon bear and no-less-cartoon hyperactive little girl. You might be tempted to click away from a...
As Russian influence across the South Caucasus continues to erode, one of the Kremlin’s most senior officials, Sergei Kiriyenko, has been tasked...
Recently, while scrolling through Central Asian circles on Facebook, I came across a slogan posted on someone’s profile: “The fact that you do not...
I love the stock market. I love it in a thoroughly mercenary way because it provides the most honest snapshot of public sentiment that no mass poll or...
Mindaugas Sinkevičius, the incoming prime minister of Lithuania, said on June 30 that he supports removing from the country’s Constitution the ban...
The BBC’s Steve Rosenberg does a superb job. If the reader doesn’t follow his work, they really should. He doesn’t just get Russia; he likes it,...
Western coverage mocked the foreign guest list at the 2026 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, laughing at how low Russia had sunk, and moved...
Russian rock has always been a rather insular space where a narrow circle of artists who rose to fame a good 40 years ago still rule the roost. During...
When Ukrainian drones struck targets in Moscow on June 16, 18 and 22, the attacks were notable not only because of the dramatic footage that they...
At the G7 summit in Évian, France, the possibility of organizing a trilateral meeting between the presidents of the United States and Ukraine, Donald...
Europe is facing growing political and social pressure to move beyond sanctions and asset freezes toward something far more consequential in its...
In July 2020, Keir Starmer stepped before the cameras for the first time as leader of the opposition Labour Party, standing beside his wife outside...
Reports showing fuel shortages in Crimea and rationing measures implemented in some regions are reminiscent of excitable reporting from last year that...
Earlier this month, a familiar name re-entered the ongoing push for a negotiated settlement to Russia’s war in Ukraine: sanctioned Russian oligarch...
For most outside observers, Russian Islam looks like a single official structure that speaks in a loyal voice when the Kremlin needs it to. In...
A key feature of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) is that it once genuinely worked. It wasn’t set up to be yet another one of...
As Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds on, a quieter power grab in the South Caucasus has gone largely unnoticed beyond the region. Since the breakup of...
The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) began with an epic backdrop as clouds of black smoke from a Ukrainian drone strike on a local...
The history of Russia, and of humanity, was set on its current course 30 years ago, when then-St. Petersburg Mayor Anatoly Sobchak’s unexpected...
The Russian Orthodox Church has handed down yet another initiative to its dioceses. Called the “Patriarchal Humanitarian Mission: Together We Help...
On May 11, Mikhail Shvydkoy, President Vladimir Putin’s special representative for international cultural cooperation, took to the stage at...
Armenians go to the polls in a crucial election this Sunday, which Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has positioned as a plebiscite on his agenda of...
In recent months, some leading figures in the Belarusian opposition in exile have suggested that the West re-engage with the dictatorial regime of...
Russia is waging a war against its neighbor. Its economy is overheated and dependent on the continuing conflict, while the country is rapidly growing...
On May 19, Russian law enforcement arrived at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and interrogated several...
A number of recent polls from Russia provided good headlines and academic discussion about public mood inside the country. Some show President...
At a meeting of the Kyrgyz-Russian Expert Council on History in Moscow, Russian scholars reviewing Kyrgyz secondary school textbooks reprimanded their...
Recent revelations surrounding political commentator Fyodor Krasheninnikov have sparked outrage across the Russian-speaking internet and reminded me...
From now on, no Russian businessman is safe from the beggar’s plate or prison. That is the conclusion one can draw from the news that came in last...
Years of slowly growing tensions between Yerevan and Moscow have crescendoed in recent weeks as Armenia prepares for national elections on June 7. The...
In December 2024, a Russian-flagged ship called the Ursa Major, whose itinerary claimed it would be sailing from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok,...
Repression in today’s Russia is not on par with the mass repression of the country’s past. Nevertheless, it fulfills the same function by...
Hello and welcome to Regions Calling, your guide to developments beyond the Russian capital from The Moscow Times. This week, we invited Zarema...
The war against Ukraine initially came as a shock to Russia’s elites. No one anticipated the impact on their businesses and personal wealth, let...
The bankruptcy of Le Sallеy, a small school for fewer than 100 pupils based out of a French chateau but managed from Massachusetts, went viral on the...
Since the start of the war in Iran, conventional wisdom says that Russia has enjoyed a windfall from soaring oil prices so great that it has...
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