Fifteen migrant workers from former Soviet republics working at a Moscow market were killed Tuesday night when a fire raged through a two-storey warehouse where they were camping out, local emergencies services said.
There are set to be more protests in Russia against early December's parliamentary elections, which many Russians say were fraudulent. Vladimir Putin's United Russia Party may have come out on top but part of Russia's educated, internet-savvy youth are planning to rise up in protest. Our correspondents Ksenia Bolchakova and Xavier Luiset report from the heart of a movement which is gathering speed.
Russia's Bolshoi Theatre, originally erected in the 1820s, re-opened Friday after a six-year, $700 million overhaul. The new building was presented at an invitation-only gala featuring some of Russia's top opera and ballet performers.
INTERNATIONAL PAPERS, Tues., 25/1/2011: We take a look at the front pages of the Russian papers, all on yesterday’s suicide bombing in a Moscow Airport that has left at least 35 dead. Also, the Pope blesses Facebook; what ever became of US overnight star Ted Williams and a supervolcano under Yellowstone National Park…
After a blast tore through Moscow's busiest airport, suspicion quickly fell on terrorists operating out of the North Caucasus. What are the roots of terrorism in the region and what links these movements to and distinguishes them from other Islamist movements?
Hundreds of people detained in Moscow in what authorities say is a move to prevent new outbreaks of ethnic violence. Since the 5.000 demonstrators gathered outside the Kremlin on 11 December to protest the death of a football supporter killed in the 6 December riots by a gang from the Caucasus, the situation has worsened, with daily gangs roaming the streets shouting slogans such as “Russian for Russians”.
This week, our fashion critic Jessica Michault brings us the latest gossip from the fashion world with LVMH eyeing world prestigious house Hermès. We also talk literature with Maurizio Galante's book: a special edition of 111 copies including his infamous Maurizio Drago bolero...
Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev has appointed Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Sobyanin, a close aide of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, as the new mayor of Moscow, handing him a mission to fix the city's runaway corruption.
The worrying trend of the so-called "loverboys" in the Netherlands: the pimp in his younger, more dangerous form...France 24 investigates. In Switzerland, women take power back through the first government with a female majority. And on the southern French Coast, with its final stop as Nice, a new luxury train arrives from Moscow.
At least 54 people dead, thousands more homeless, and vast swathes of countryside on fire: Russia’s heatwave left the country suffocating. France 24’s Chris Moore and Sylvain Rousseau travelled to the Moscow region to meet overwhelmed fire crews and stricken villagers – and discovered there was much more than record temperatures behind the blazes.
