Another Shore - Russia

I caught up with the recent edition of BBC's Panorama called " Putin's Secret Riches" (available on i-player until Jan 20...

Where did you get your tree from this year? Perhaps an artificial one from shop or from the attic, like us. Maybe you decorated a rea...

Russia Today reports that an organisation called For Security is calling for special cyber police to crack down on internet trolls. As a...

As widely reported , a fire in a shopping centre in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russian has killed 14 people, with more bodies likely to be found. ...

The good news is that the Moscow Times reports that the suicide rate is the Russian capital is falling.  The bad news is that...

I wrote about some Russians' reactions to the Rouble's fall a few weeks back. Had some more feedback...

It has been widely reported that the Russian government has decided to ban transgender people from driving ( BBC , Guardian ). They have add...

My in-laws, in Siberia, sent several messages because they were worried about us after seeing Sheffield on the Russian news and how it had b...

President Putin's major end of year press conference glossed over the current situation in Russia, almost echoing Jim Сallaghan's di...

When the Rouble started falling last Tuesday (16/12/14), I saw that the Apple shop was down. 16/12/14 offline So...

... well, not quite. The Guardian reports that the tumbling Rouble saw the owners of two English football clubs take big hits. Alisher Us...

It's been in the news that, in honour of the final Hobbit film having its Russian premier, an art group, Svechenie , had wanted to pla...

The Siberian Times reports that passengers had to push their plane as it had frozen to the runway at -52°C. There's nothing wrong with ...

News reports suggest that Fabio Capello, manager of the Russian football team, isn't receiving his salary . Hmm, working in Russia and y...

AFP report that Russian customs officials have seized EU meat disguised as chewing gum...

It's fair to say that Russia has something of an image problem. Despite the opportunity offered by this year's Winter Olympics to wi...

With the end of October fast approaching and the accompanying annual festival, it is only appropriate that Russian politicians come up with ...