Business as usual

Yandex will promote Skype in Russia

03.02.2012 16:47   News dept

Skype messenger will be promoted on Yandex

Russia'a biggest search engine, Yandex, will promote the internet-messenger and VOIP service Skype, Kommersant newspaper reports. The messenger will be...

Seven billion

Anomalous colds came to Russia, zoo monkeys drink wine to keep warm

03.02.2012 16:47   News dept

Unusual frosty weather has come to most parts of Europe. The anomalous cold is not normal even for Russia. Some 64 people have died since the start of the...

Occupy!

Nuriel Roubini talks about Russian elections and protests - video

03.02.2012 16:07  

Nuriel Roubini, the american economist who predicted the american housing market collapse, talks to Gazeta.ru reporter about the reasons and consequences...

Crime

Masked robbers rob post office in Moscow, $250,000 stolen

03.02.2012 15:49   News dept

Armed robbers stole $250,000 and drove away on a Lada

Two masked people broke into and a post office building in the north-east of Moscow on Friday morning. Threatening the postmen with guns, they stole 7.5...

Russia 2012 forum highlights the need to separate government and economy

02.02.2012 17:45   Olga Tanas, edited by Karina Ayvazova

Mass privatization, power body reforms, creation of a competitive political system and the pardon of Mikhail Khodorkovsky – these are the steps that...

Accidents

Snowfall causes heavy traffic and more car accidents in Moscow

02.02.2012 12:23   News dept

Severe weather conditions have also increased the number of car accidents

Heavy snowfall which which covered Moscow on Thursday night and continued into the morning has led to record-breaking traffic jams since the start of 2012...

Election 2011/2012

Putin met with his observers and called them gladiators

01.02.2012 19:42   News dept., edited by Semyon Kvasha

Putin admitted he never wanted to take part in the election, "this disgusting procedure"

On Wednesday, Putin met with lawyers from the Lawyers Association of Russia. He took one day leave from his ministerial duties and met with them as a...

Occupy!

Anti-Putin banner put up opposite Kremlin

01.02.2012 15:22   News dept

Opposition activists prepare for a mass protest march due on February,4

On Wednesday, Opposition activists from the "Solidarity" movement hung a huge banner on a building opposite the Kremlin urging Prime-Minister Vladimir...

New nobility

Putin orders private tour company be saved

01.02.2012 13:56   News dept., edited by Semyon Kvasha

Oldest Russian tour company suspends operation with 3,000 clients abroad

VTB bank will credit the near-bankrupt Lanta Tour company as ordered by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Election 2011/2012

Investbankers meet Navalny, assess risks

31.01.2012 22:52   Gleb Klimentiev, Petr Kanayev, edited by Semyon Kvasha

"No risk and no blood,"- Navalny told investment bankers

Russian investment banks analysts met lawyer-blogger Alexei Navalny to discuss his political plans (or, to be honest, the banks' political risks) and...