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Georgia’s Stalin Museum reassesses its hometown hero

May 24, 2012 Joy Neumeyer
Plans to turn the shrine-like spot into a memorial to repression marks the end of an era in Gori, Stalin’s birthplace

Russia to fight smoking with price increase

May 18, 2012 Anastasia Dulenkova
Cigarette prices might increase fivefold by 2018

Opposition and Nashi unite over forest

May 14, 2012 Tatyana Kasimova, Russky Reporter
The standoff over the Tsagovsky Forest brings together protestors from across the political spectrum

Russian and British veterans celebrate together on Victory Day

May 10, 2012 Eve Harris
Last week London’s Russian and British communities came together to salute the bravery of the sailors involved in the Arctic Convoys of World War II

Jet crash caused by human error?

May 10, 2012 Kommersant
Sukhoi SuperJet 100 crash in Indonesia has experts debating over the human factor in the accident

We were soldiers once, and young

May 10, 2012 Elena Klimova, reporting from Novosibirsk
As Russia celebrated the 67th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany, RBTH spoke to veterans about their memories of that time

Russia celebrates Victory Day

May 9, 2012 RIA Novosti, The Moscow Times
Russia held a parade in Red Square to mark the 67th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in the 1941-45 Great Patriotic War

The honor of wearing the crimson beret

May 9, 2012 Daria Gonzales
The Russian special forces must survive one of the world’s most difficult competitions to earn the right to wear the crimson beret, the symbol of their status

Russia’s innovative future becoming the present

May 8, 2012 Alexander Kilyakov
Innovative Russia Week 2012 displayed technological novelties that hope to change people’s everyday lives

Retired soldier builds life-size models of World War II tanks

May 7, 2012 Andrei Shapran
A retired military man in the Siberian village of Bolshoi Oyesh has set up a workshop that builds life-size moving models of World War II-era tanks and armored vehicles

Boris Drozdov: “There is no one to tell the young generation”

May 4, 2012 Vladimir Ruvinsky
Moscow resident Boris Drozdov, 78, whose father and grandfather were repressed under Stalin, talked to Russia Now about his family’s survival

What Russians think about Stalin

May 4, 2012 Vladimir Ruvinsky
In the West, Stalin is remembered for the terror he inflicted on his own people, while at home the collective memory is more complex

May Day celebrants take part in monstrations

May 2, 2012 Daria Gonzales
The satirical "Monstration" May Day rallies continues to attract more participants across the country

Russia celebrates Labor Day

May 1, 2012 RIA Novosti
Russia celebrates a national holiday, the Day of Spring and Labor, on May 1, with trade unions and political parties set to hold rallies across the country

Moscow changes plans for the metro

April 30, 2012 Irina Reznik, Gazeta.ru
With the relocation of government offices to the southwest of Moscow, the plan to expand the metro system has been revised

Is Russia's Far East overcrowded by Chinese immigrants?

April 28, 2012 Artem Zagorodnov
One of the myths in Moscow is that Russia’s Far East is overrun with Chinese immigrants. Sergei Pushkarev, the former head of the Vladivostok regional branch of the Federal Migration Service talked to RBTH why this myth persists in the Far East

Russians around the world take dictation

April 27, 2012 Alexandra Guzeva
A program aimed at promoting literacy among Russian speakers, brought together 15,000 people in 85 cities across the world for a writing exercise

Television for the elite

April 26, 2012 Alexander Vostrov
Is there any hope for Medvedev’s plan to create public television?

Making Russians laugh

April 26, 2012 Konstantin Milchin, Russky Reporter
In Russia, humor is a form of social therapy; it helps to expose social absurdity, unite people or reveal their identities

Mum’s the word for tip-top tuition

April 25, 2012 Maria Agranovich, Rossiyskaya Gazeta
More and more parents are opting to educate their children at home believing it will be better for them than going to school
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