Gorky Park, which has been transformed under new management, is attracting thousands this winter with an ice rink years ahead of the rough and ready one of old. Gorky Park, which has been transformed under new management, is attracting...

A resourceful dog owner is making a business out of giving dog sled rides in Moscow parks. Alexander Voronin owns 11 dogs. He began raising Huskies five years ago, and for the last two years he has been making money on dog sled rides. A resourceful dog owner is making a business out of giving dog sled rides in Moscow...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has proposed creating a park near the Kremlin on the land formerly occupied by the Rossiya Hotel to improve the traffic situation in the city center and benefit Muscovites. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday proposed to create a park near the Kremlin on the land formerly...

... rallied in southern Moscow on Sunday in the latest confrontation in a struggle that echoes the battle over the Khimki Forest road. Local residents and environmental groups are challenging the construction of a new metro line beneath Bitsevsky Forest Park. The new line would connect orange-line station Novoyasyenevskaya with Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo, a stop on the gray line just south of the Moscow Ring Road. The extension would entail building a new line running diagonally northwest to southeast...

... The iconic sports venue controlled by state-owned banking giant VTB is undergoing a $1.5 billion redevelopment that will see it become one of the landmark sites for the 2018 Football World Cup. But activists said contractors employed by VTB-Arena Park, the company in charge of the project, began tearing down the exterior walls of Dynamo's stadium on Friday in violation of its listed status. "What is going on now is absolutely illegal," said Natalya Samover, an Arkhnadzor activist. Removing...

... fourth quarter of the year. Family entertainment will be added to the activities at Moskva-City with the opening of Masterslavl, or the City of Craftsmen, in the fourth quarter of the year, Espro Group announced. The children’s leisure park will occupy 6,000 square meters of space in Evolution Tower. “It combines entertainment that is attractive for children and an educational component that will be appreciated by parents,” said Maya Danilovskaya, commercial director at...

With winter having finally arrived, a new city has sprung up within Moscow, made entirely of ice and snow. Located in Sokolniki Park, Moroz City (Frost city) claims to be the first-ever snow city in Russia. The architectural feat required 500 blocks of ice, 1,000 blocks of snow and more than 100 architects, sculptors, artists and volunteers...

... water shortage. Q: What are your favorite places in the city? A: I recommend visiting Uspenskaya Church and Akatov Monastery, walking through the historic part of the city center and the embankments, and, of course, stopping by Scarlet Sails, the only park in Russia that meets European standards. — Alexander Bratersky In 1947, local poet Anatoly Zhigulin founded an anti-Stalinist underground youth movement in the city. Zhigulin, who was jailed and freed after the dictator's death, described...

... transport you back to the 18th century, with bells tolling and monks hustling about in traditional garb lending to an atmosphere of the tranquility of pre-revolutionary Russia. If you have the family along, you can also slow down and enjoy amusement park rides in the city park. The park is like a permanent fair, complete with cotton candy and pony rides, with no entrance fee. In the winter, this area is filled with ice statues and slides carved from enormous blocks of ice, with children racing on...

Today's Moscow is unlovable and unlivable, overdeveloped, underserved by public utilities and choked by traffic. You can't drive, you can't breathe, there is no place to park and walking is impossible thanks to giant SUVs lining the sidewalks. Even a short visit to Moscow is enough to convince anyone that Russia is not normal. Its capital is both a symbol of the country's problems and a focus of popular discontent...

... Chkalovskaya, Kurskaya. 1 to 8 p.m., closed Mon. 228-1158, www.aidangallery.ru/en Anna Golubkina Studio Museum: New Zaraisk Angels (Angely Zaraiska): paintings and graphics by Vladimir Pimenov, Wed. to July 8. Located at 12 Bolshoi Lyovshinsky Pereulok. M. Park Kultury, Smolenskaya. Wed., Thurs. and Fri. noon to 7 p.m., Sat. and Sun. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 637-2564/5682. Brothers Lumiere Center of Photography at Krasny Oktyabr: Photography and Neo Realism in Italy 1945-65, to Feb. 26. Located at 3 Bolotnaya...

... attended the event said they were “surprised” not to have been formally invited. The proposed redevelopment plans envisage the creation of five zones and the construction of an innovation campus, a large leisure complex, an underground parking lot and four-star hotels. “The exhibition will remain an exhibition,” Mikushko said last year. “But after the reconstruction, it will be clearly adapted for modern use.” A key point of contention between preservationists...

... Chkalovskaya, Kurskaya. 1 to 8 p.m., closed Mon. 228-1158, www.aidangallery.ru/en Anna Golubkina Studio Museum: Zaraisk Angels (Angely Zaraiska): paintings and graphics by Vladimir Pimenov, to July 8. Located at 12 Bolshoi Lyovshinsky Pereulok. M. Park Kultury, Smolenskaya. Wed., Thurs. and Fri. noon to 7 p.m., Sat. and Sun. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 637-2564/5682. Brothers Lumiere Center of Photography at Krasny Oktyabr: Photography and Neo Realism in Italy 1945-65, to Feb. 26. New Silver City. Petersburg...

... facilities of Krasny Oktyabr — one of Russia's oldest confectionary factories — were removed from the city center to the outskirts, to give way to a big development project with cafes and restaurants, apartment complexes, museums and underground parking, which analysts said could be worth more than $120 million. The project will be implemented on the 50,000 square meters of land on Bersenevskaya embankment, acquired by Guta Development along with the factory's buildings in 2002. The company is...

... rally was held at the same time as the opposition event and also drew a diverse crowd of demonstrators, including pensioners, Cossacks dressed in fatigues, and members of pro-Putin youth movement Nashi. A crush of demonstrators arrived at metro station Park Pobedy to attend the event, causing the station to close temporarily while they exited. A long line of buses also ferried people to the event, parking along nearby Kutuzovsky Prospekt. There was little unity among demonstrators regarding why they...

... captured images of a woman placing the child on the ground at 6:15 a.m. on Tuesday. Only an hour later did a passing kindergarten teacher discover the crying baby girl, whom the teacher picked up and took to her school. The camera footage shows people parking nearby and walking past the child during the hour she lay on the ground, Life News reported. The teacher who discovered the child called the police and an ambulance. Doctors who examined the girl said she was in good health and had been born less...

... announced in December the beginning of the new Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya line to link the central areas of the city and Moskva-City with the Dorogomilovsky and Ramenki districts. In the first stage, a line will be built from the Delovoi Tsentr station to the Park Pobedy station, and the Delovoi Tsentr station at Moskva-City will be opened. Work on the first phase of construction is scheduled for completion in 2013. It is estimated that the operational length of the line will be 2.4 kilometers. 179756

... the construction companies that built the facility. The mall, located at the intersection of Logovsky Prospekt and Nevsky Prospekt near the city's Moskovsky Station, features a multiscreen movie theater and a 27-lane bowling alley, plus underground parking for 1,200 vehicles. Morgan Stanley spokesman Tom Walton declined to comment. Meridian Capital didn't return a call seeking comment and its broker, Jones Lang LaSalle, also declined to comment. The purchase takes the Morgan Stanley fund a step...

... Sorokin told reporter Arkady Mamontov in a documentary aired on Rossia state television. Mamontov in January 2006 broke the story about British diplomats receiving information on pocket computers from an electronic device hidden in a fake rock in a Moscow park. The information was apparently left by the two Russians. The spy scandal returned to the spotlight last week when the BBC aired a documentary in which Jonathan Powell, former Prime Minister Tony Blair's chief of staff, admitted that the fake rock...

... prestigious dacha communities in the area are generally only accessible by car from the station, and Rublyovo-Uspenskoye Shosse is regularly closed to make way for presidential and prime ministerial motorcades — making the station impractical for park-and-ride commuters. "I just don't understand who is going to use it — especially since they would have to switch to the metro or a bus once they get into Moscow," said Dmitry Rozhkov, a transport analyst at Metropole. 417712 179742