As one of Russia's most influential writers, Alexander Pushkin is revered for his creative use of language and his large body of work. His statue on Moscow's Tverskaya Ulitsa was built in 1880 and was moved to Pushkin Square in 1950, and throughout the past century it has overlooked a multitude of changes in the city. Igor Tabakov has accumulated a series of different views of the monument to the writer, and here he shares his favorites.

The reluctance of regional officials to impose the new higher licensing fees and the subsequent decision of the Kremlin to call on the Duma to rescind them altogether, as Kasparov.ru observer says, suggests that the powers that be in Russia “have finally understood how dangerous it is to play with fire.”

Despite presidential decrees and a much ballyhooed resettlement program, Rosatom has done everything it can to prevent some 4,000 people in Muslyumovo exposed to radiation — either because of nuclear accidents at the Mayak plutonium plant in the 1950s or because of a general release of radioactive materials into the environment — from moving.