Opposition protesters announced plans to gather on the Garden Ring Road in central Moscow later this month, in the latest in a series of events calling for political change. Deputy mayor Alexander Gorbenko said Friday that opposition demonstrators do not need City Hall approval to hold their “Big White Circle” event on the Garden Ring Road, as long as attendees do not block...

More than 154,000 Siege of Leningrad survivors living in St. Petersburg will celebrate the 68th anniversary of the full liberation of the city on Friday, Jan. 27. Events dedicated to the anniversary will, as usual, be held around the city. ST. PETERSBURG — More than 154,000 Siege of Leningrad survivors living in St. Petersburg will celebrate the 68th anniversary of the full liberation of the city...

Over 100,000 demonstrators took to the bitterly cold streets of Moscow on Saturday to rally at competing events both for and against longtime leader Vladimir Putin. Archived Live Blog: Rallies in Moscow Over 100,000 demonstrators took to the bitterly cold streets of Moscow on Saturday to rally at competing events both for and against longtime leader...

The Moscow Times is covering Saturday's rallies in Moscow. The first event of the day, an opposition march, is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. local time. Four demonstrations are planned in Moscow on Saturday: an opposition march and rally ending at Bolotnaya Ploshchad; a pro-Putin rally at Poklonnaya Gora; a rally organized...

Expat group Auski is planning a charity event that will see expats and Russians jumping into an icy lake at Serebryany Bor to raise money for Moscow's homeless. Originally from Tasmania, Australia, Jessie Cumming moved to Moscow to work as a teacher in 2009. Knowing no Russian, she looked...

... by pro-Putin groups to the series of demonstrations held in recent months by the political opposition, drew 140,000 attendees, according to police estimates. Some independent observers put attendance as low as 25,000. But the application to hold the event specified that only up to 15,000 people would attend. A police officer testified at a hearing Friday that it became obvious to him only an hour after the event began that it would draw more than 15,000 participants. Rally organizer and Patriots...

... march and rally in the city center. Plans for teachers to take part in the pro-Putin rally were also announced by blogger taki_net, who wrote Saturday on his LiveJournal page that the head of a teachers' trade union promised to send educators to the event. "Today, speaking on a conference call of the Moscow Education Department, the chairwoman of a teachers' trade union announced that the union will bring out 30,000 of its members Feb. 4 to Poklonnaya in support of Putin," the blogger wrote...

... inaccurate articles and commentaries in the media. Many questioned the role Powers played in the intrigue between the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. The U-2 incident, which occurred on May 1, 1960, was one of the most pivotal events in the history of the Cold War. It was perhaps the first time in U.S. history that a president had been caught lying to the American people and to the world. The event caused such a strain on U.S.-Soviet relations that Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev...

... appear to have diminished. But for the first time the Kremlin fought back with a counter-rally, mustering tens of thousands of its own supporters to rally behind Putin — although many were government workers who said they had been bused in for the event. The counterprotests quickly became a battle of numbers, with city officials claiming as many as 140,000 people had come out in support of Putin, while just 38,000 had marched against him. Opposition organizers, meanwhile, insisted that they had...

... these new developments, it is also important to note the amendments to the taxation regime for R&D activity. The relevant amendments were made to Chapter 25 of the Tax Code (Profit Tax) by Federal Law No. 132-FZ dated June 7, 2011. The most striking tax event of last year was the adoption of amendments to the Tax Code associated with transfer pricing and a consolidated group of taxpayers (Federal Laws No. 227-FZ and 321-FZ dated, respectively, July 18, 2011, and Nov. 16, 2011). These came into force...

... Gaidar, and dozens of others protested outside the Russian consulate in New York, where they held white balloons and neatly printed signs with slogans such as "Russians demand fair elections." Protesters said it was difficult to influence events in Russia from abroad, but they maintained the importance of taking to the streets, even in small numbers. The organizers of a dozen-person rally in Kansas City, Kansas, wrote on their Facebook page that by demonstrating in Middle America, they...

... angered the opposition by comparing rally participants to chattering monkeys. Political satirist and poet Dmitry Bykov, journalist Sergei Parkhomenko and author Boris Akunin were among the prominent opposition activists who declined invitations to the event Friday. "I just didn't want to go. I was invited, but I didn't want to take part in all of this," said Leonid Parfyonov, a television journalist who was voted the most trustworthy of the protest movement's leaders by Russians polled during...

... planned for Sunday that will attempt to create a complete circle of cars on the Garden Ring Road, organizers said. Participants' cars are supposed to be adorned with a white ribbon, sticker, or piece of paper, organizers said in an announcement of the event on Facebook. White has become a symbol of the protest movement after demonstrators wore white ribbons to the Dec. 10 protest on Bolotnaya Ploshchad. So far, 1,283 people have indicated on Facebook that they will attend the event Sunday. Organizers...

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... editorial staff of The Zhukovsky News newspaper. The political edition. Zhukovsky<br>• Writing of articles on some automotive subjects • Reviewing of author's materials • Organizing photosessions and presentations • Event-management • Creation of digital illustrations (banners, collages). Achievements: launched automotive heading in the newspaper. Managed a series of test driving modern cars with attraction representatives of some automotive...

... leaders to open a dialogue over the turbulence unsettling the country's political establishment. But as the seats reserved for leading protest figures at the round-table discussion remained empty, United Russia's State Duma leaders carried on with the event and expressed their worry over the possible outcome of recent events. "There are people who don't want bloodshed in Moscow, and we are expecting them to take a seat at this table," said Duma Deputy Speaker Oleg Morozov, a senior United...

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... simply couldn't avoid this fate. The leader's "heroic image" and "glorious deeds" are now blasphemed daily. And these verbal assaults are no longer limited to marginal opposition voices. They are now entering the mainstream media. Two events have sharply accelerated the collapse of confidence in Putin's regime, both among the elite and ordinary Russians. First, in September, at the congress of Putin's political party, United Russia, Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev formalized what...

... which explored the death of attorney Sergei Magnitsky while he was in prison in 2009. In "Two in Your House," Gremina again seized on a controversial topic pulled from the headlines to draw conclusions exceeding the boundaries of the original event. Here she focuses on the house arrest of Belarussian poet and novelist Vladimir Neklyayev, which followed his unsuccessful attempt to challenge sitting President Alexander Lukashenko just over a year ago. The December 2010 election was widely perceived...

... in 2009. Moscow's first large demonstration of the year is planned for Thursday in commemoration of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, who were shot dead in 2009. Hundreds of people are expected to attend the event, which will start with a march on Nikitsky Bulvar at about 7 p.m. and continue with a rally on Pushkin Square in downtown Moscow. The demonstration, organized by anti-fascism activists, was sanctioned by the city authorities. Other rallies are...