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The Mystery Metro
By Daria Chernyshova
The Moscow Metro has always been regarded as the most beautiful underground system in the world. Its magnificent marble surfaces, decoration and art fit for a museum truly makes it one of the most incredible things about the city
Local
Nurturing Russia’s business elite
By Daria Chernyshova
In Soviet times, with an army of youth organizations to choose from, it was not difficult for adolescents to find ways to occupy their free time.
Local
Photo exhibition to show the face of war in Georgia and South Ossetia
MOSCOW (RIA Novosti)
- Photos taken by RIA Novosti photojournalists during the five-day conflict between Georgia and the breakaway republic of South Ossetia will go on display at a photo exhibition in Moscow.
Local
Murder and Mayhem
By Phoebe Taplin
On the weekends around Halloween, why not explore the spookier side of Moscow? This week's walk starts off pumpkin-hunting in the Dorogomilovsly Market and ends in the beautiful Vagankovskoe Cemetery, full of golden maple trees.
Columnists
How to Survive in Moscow during a crisis
By Robert Bridge
Amidst the smoldering ruins of financial fallout, I decided to drown my sorrow and smoking Visa card in that modern lake of hedonism known somewhat hyperbolically as The Mega Mall in the southeast of the metropolis.
National
This week in Russian history...24-30 October
National
Russia to overhaul military, cut troops
By Anna Arutunyan
In one of the most radical moves yet to reform Russia's Armed Forces, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov announced plans to drastically cut the proportion of officers to servicemen and restructure the military into a brigade system in order to raise efficiency and create an army that is more responsive to today's threats.
National
US, Russia hold fence-mending military talks
HELSINKI, Finland (AP)
- The top U.S. military officer held "businesslike" talks on Georgia, Afghanistan and missile defense with his Russian counterpart Tuesday, a signal of thawing relations between the two powers.
National
Disabled woman wins lawsuit against airline
By Kirill Bessonov
A disabled Russian woman has won a lawsuit against an airline company that forbade her taking her wheelchair inside of the aircraft cabin.
National
Europe’s largest mosque opens in Chechnya
GROZNY (RIA Novosti)
- One of the largest mosques in the world, named after Chechnya's first president, was inaugurated on Friday in the North Caucasus republic in a lavish ceremony attended by dignitaries from 28 countries.
National
Government forces airport to lower parking fare
By Andy Potts
Picking up your friends from the airport just got cheaper thanks to an agreement between car park operators at Domodedovo and the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service.
National
No need to hoard
By Andy Potts
It's been a long time since Moscow's streets were lined with queues of hungry shoppers waiting to buy whatever food they could find - and it will be a long time before it happens again, according to deputy chief of the city's service department Vladimir Malyshkov.
National
Deripaska involved in UK political row
By Anna Arutunyan
A political scandal brewing on the pages of the British press has pitted Conservative official George Osborne against hedge fund manager Nathaniel Rothschild over allegations of soliciting money from Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska.
National
Billionaire Abramovich elected to head Chukotka legislature
VLADIVOSTOK (RIA Novosti)
- Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich was approved unanimously on Wednesday to chair the legislature of Chukotka in Russia's Far East, the local government said on its website.
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Financial crisis divides EU on greenhouse gas cuts
By George Jahn
What price clean air, sparkling streams, stately chestnut trees along busy avenues? In some ways it depends on whether you are a citizen of Old or New Europe.
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