Topic: Ekho Moskvy
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's teenage son, who is now shielded from the public and never photographed, starred just four years ago in a children's televison show before his father became Kremlin chief, the programme's makers said.Ilya Medvedev, now ...
A deliberately shocking ad campaign for the upcoming anniversary of Victory Day in World War II sparked anger on Friday as it urged Russians to survive on wartime rations and sleep on bare ground.The public service ads commissioned by Moscow city ...
Former Soviet leader Gennady Yanayev, who led the abortive 1991 coup against then president Mikhail Gorbachev, died Friday aged 73 following an illness, a former Soviet politician said."I offer all my condolences to his loved ones," Ruslan Khasbulatov, one-time speaker of ...
<div><p>A young Russian rapper has caused controversy with a song about last week's Moscow metro attacks that accuses the country's leadership of lying to the public about the risk of terrorism.</p><p>In the song, simply titled ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The grandson of Josef Stalin is suing the radio station Ekho Moskvy, it said on Saturday, in a second attempt to stem media criticism of the leader whom many Russians still revere for victory in World War Two.Yevgeny Dzhugashvili ...
A sudden flood at Russia's largest hydroelectric plant Monday killed at least eight people and left scores missing after pipes ruptured in a water pressure surge, officials said.The accident caused serious power disruption in Siberia, cutting off electricity to smelters ...
A senior European lawmaker on Monday criticised Russia's parliamentary election, saying the Kremlin had 'practically' decided the outcome itself.. 'The executive branch acted as though it practically elected the parliament' itself, Kimmo Kiljunen, deputy head of the parliamentary assembly of the ...
