Immediately after Yury Luzhkov was dismissed from office, his friend and predecessor Gavriil Popov asked him to be dean of the International University in Moscow. Immediately after Yury Luzhkov was dismissed from office, his friend and predecessor...

Nama, the Irish state assets agency, is poised to sell the Morrison Hotel in Dublin to Yelena Baturina, wife of former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov. Nama, the Irish state assets agency, is poised to sell the Morrison Hotel in Dublin to Yelena Baturina, wife of former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov and one of Russia's richest women, The Irish Times reported over the weekend. Nama is in the final...

... to sell his stake in the company for below its real value. He is now wanted by Russian prosecutors on an international arrest warrant in connection with loans totaling $415 million that the bank extended to Yelena Baturina, wife of former Mayor Yury Luzhkov. In an e-mail interview, Borodin accused unspecified people in the Kremlin of manipulating VTB to orchestrate the Bank of Moscow takeover for their own gain. "Behind this deal was a political decision to gain control over Bank of Moscow as...

... construction for nearly 10 years, with the original hotel razed in 2003-2004. At a news conference in the mall's gleaming black, white and gray interior, State Duma Deputy Vladimir Resin, the capital's urban development head under former Mayor Yury Luzhkov and Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, said the city had preserved "a symbol of an epoch" by replacing the first building with a lookalike. Built in the 1930s, the Moskva sits on Okhotny Ryad and is flanked by the Bolshoi Theater, the Teatralnaya...

... meetings and orators, among them Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. It occupies a plot of land where in the 19th century demonstrators gathered in support of the rights of working-class citizens, including the right to free assembly. Former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov proposed a similar idea in 2009. The opposition has in the past fought to hold demonstrations in highly visible areas of the city, such as Triumfalnaya Ploshchad, located at the intersection of major thoroughfares Tverskaya Ulitsa and the Garden...

... newspaper, has been publicly critical of the current government. Writing on his blog Monday, he appealed to Navalny to investigate the involvement of Switzerland's Wegelin bank in a murky deal involving Yelena Baturina, wife of former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov. 417712 179742

... an international arrest warrant, accused of stealing 12.76 billion rubles ($403 million) from the city budget and funneling it through loans to companies linked to Yelena Baturina, Russia’s richest woman and the wife of former Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov. The Investigative Committee said that in 2006 Bank of Moscow gave away Investlesprom shares to Lesonavigator, a company controlled by Borodin and Akulinin, for the symbolic sum of 10,000 rubles. According to the committee. After being resold...

... deal of tax — they should not face increased charges for using roads they are already paying for," Shumsky told The Moscow Times. A London-style congestion charge has been periodically considered by the Moscow city government since Yury Luzhkov's time in office, but rejected because of widespread opposition to any move that hints at restricting road access. A proposal floated by the United Russia faction in the Moscow City Duma to ban cars using petrol lower than Euro Grade 3 from the...

... a joke. Udaltsov looked a bit thuggish on the show despite his fluency at rallies. He got into a minor scuffle with Andrei Karaulov, a long-term host of a politics show on the Moscow city channel TV Center, who was fired shortly after ex-Mayor Yury Luzhkov. There was minor pushing and shoving, and Udaltsov called Karaulov a liar and suggested that he might be drunk. The idea to do a politics show on MTV seems a perfect fit for Sobchak, who has been trying to move beyond her roles of professional...

... activist. Removing the outer walls of the stadium, which was built in 1928, would also contravene the official architectural design by star Dutch architect Erik van Egeraat and Russian heavyweight Mikhail Posokhin. A jury picked by former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov chose their proposal as the winner of a competition to renovate the site in 2010. "I am not able to verify what is going on," van Egeraat said by phone from the Netherlands on Monday. "It is not necessary to demolish the walls...

... the individual — including his property, faith and sexual preferences — would be respected. "I'm not planning to participate in [gay parades]," he said, when asked if he would support the events, which former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov famously denounced as "satanic." For many, Prokhorov sounded too good to believe. They speculated that the government was trotting out a pseudo-opposition candidate to soak up opposition votes and lend legitimacy to a presidential election...