Moscow

Human Rights Activists Urge Moscow Mayor to Allow Gay Parade

The Moscow authorities should give the go-ahead to gay pride parades, Alison Gil the head the Moscow office of the Human Rights Watch group, was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying on Tuesday.

Popularity: 4% [?]

March 21, 2007

Japan’s Mizuho Bank Sets up Moscow Office

Mizuho Corporate Bank said Monday it has established a representative office in Moscow in a bid to strengthen its business in emerging markets, MarketWatch reported.

Popularity: 2% [?]

March 5, 2007

Tickets for The Scorpions Moscow Live Concert Nearly Sold Out

Almost all the tickets for The Scorpions concert that will take place on March 2 in the Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia have been sold.

Popularity: 5% [?]

February 28, 2007

Police Detain Hundreds of Opposition Activists in Moscow

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Russian authorities pulled hundreds of opposition activists off buses and trains and detained them along with scores of others on Saturday ahead of a rare anti-government rally in Moscow, organizers are quoted by the Associated Press news agency.

Popularity: 4% [?]

December 17, 2006

Russian Radical Youth Group Protests Changes to Electoral Law in Central Moscow

Protesters from a radical youth organization rallied outside Russia’s lower house of parliament Tuesday, slamming lawmakers for a series of electoral changes that have markedly strengthened the Kremlin’s hold over the country’s political life, The Associated Press reports.

Popularity: 3% [?]

December 12, 2006

Toll Rises to 46 in Moscow Drug Rehab Hospital Fire

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A woman died Monday from burns suffered in a weekend blaze at a Moscow hospital, a city health official said, bringing to 46 the death toll from the Russian capital’s deadliest fire in decades, The Associated Press reported.

Popularity: 4% [?]

Alfa Laval Wins $9 million Fat Refinery Order in Russia

Swedish heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling systems provider Alfa Laval said on December 7 that it has received a SEK 60 million ($8.8 million) contract from Russian company JSC Rumaco.

Popularity: 2% [?]

December 7, 2006

Skating Rink Opens in Moscow’s Red Square

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The skating rink was unveiled in Moscow’s Red Square, Sunday, December 3, 2006.

Popularity: 4% [?]

December 5, 2006

Forbes Russia Says Baturina Incident Settled, Issue Printed Unchanged

Forbes Russia editor-in-chief said Monday he had withdrawn his resignation after the parties to the last week’s conflict came to term over the December issue. The issue will be printed ’in its original form,’ the magazine’s publisher said Friday, a day after lawsuit threats prompted the destruction of thousands of copies of the magazine and its editor’s resignation.

Popularity: 4% [?]

December 4, 2006

Scotland Yard Experts to Fly to Moscow to Seek Clues in Litvinenko Case

The Russian embassy in London has issued visas to Scotland Yard experts investigating the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, Reuters news agency reported on Monday.

Popularity: 2% [?]