Faith No More Honors Pussy Riot at Moscow Show
04 July 2012 | Issue 4919
The Moscow Times
Five women dressed like members of female punk group took the stage shouting anti-Putin slogans and calling on the audience to support suspected band members jailed on hooliganism charges.
Subscribing to The Moscow Times online
To receive access to this service, you will have to register and subscribe.
If you have any difficulties making payment, please contact us at payment@themoscowtimes.com
If you are already our paid subscriber please login
Paid access
Use your login and password to access to our paper in PDF format or make order.
|
Special forces officers killed two men and detained one more outside Moscow on suspicion that they were plotting a terror attack in the city, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said.
|
Russia is facing a renewed barrage of international criticism, led by the European Union, over its human rights record in connection with an ongoing clampdown on non-governmental organizations and a State Duma proposal to ban so-called "homosexual propaganda."
|
|
Investigators searched for clues Tuesday into why two car bombs were detonated in Makhachkala, killing four and injuring 52 others, as the authorities defused a third car bomb.
|
A roundup of today's Russian-language newspapers
<br />
|
|
Russia, predicting instability once NATO-led troops withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of next year, is considering deploying border guards on the Tajik-Afghan border, Moscow's envoy to Kabul said.
|
The mighty underground cement bunker, ordered by the Soviet leadership under Nikita Khrushchev, is one of three such places in the former Czechoslovakia, and a dozen across Soviet Warsaw Pact allies, but the only one believed still to be intact.
|