Kevin O'Flynn

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• February 08, 2011

  Russia Launches Initiative To Police Internet

  One day there will be thousands of volunteers out there patrolling the Russian Internet. That at least is the dream of a new organization launched this week, the League of Internet Safety.

• January 25, 2011

  Fear And Familiarity In Moscow After New Attack

  Nervous Muscovites see police on the streets once again, in the shadow of yet another deadly terror attack.

• January 21, 2011

  Karzai Meets Medvedev In Moscow

  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has accepted an invitation to visit Afghanistan extended by Hamid Karzai, who is in Moscow on the first state visit by an Afghan president since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

• January 20, 2011

  Russian Literary Stars Launch Khodorkovsky Book In Moscow

  Best-selling Russian authors Boris Akunin and Lyudmila Ulitskaya were among those who attended a book launch in Moscow for a work written by and about jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, whose imprisonment has become a focal point for opposition politics.

• December 29, 2010

  Moscow Mayor's Kiosk Purge Draws Fire

  In a move that has defined the start of his tenure, Moscow's new mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, has purged the Russian capital's streets one of the legacies of 1990s capitalism -- kiosks.

• December 16, 2010

  Racist Rampage Casts Shadow On Russia's 2018 World Cup Dream

  The racially motivated rioting by ultranationalists and football hooligans this past weekend has shocked Russians. The violence, in which more than 30 people were injured, also cast a long shadow on Russia's victorious bid to host the football World Cup in 2018.

• November 02, 2010

  Khodorkovsky Calls Russia 'Sick Country'

  Imprisoned former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky used his closing statement in his fraud trial today to make a passionate and provocative political statement on Russia's future.

• October 14, 2010

  25 Questions For Everyone In Russia: The 2010 Census Begins

  More than 600,000 people, carrying blue bags and clad in blue scarves, began knocking on doors all over Russia as the country’s nationwide census, its first since 2002, began.

• October 08, 2010

  In Wake Of Luzhkov's Ouster, Moscow Monument's Future In Doubt

  Zurab Tsereteli has been called the court sculptor to former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov. But his controversial works have irritated Muscovites for nearly two decades. Now, with Luzhkov gone, city officials are considering removing some of Tsereteli's works from the Russian capital -- starting with a gigantic, and much derided, monument to Peter the Great.

• October 01, 2010

  Russia Kills Off 1990s Icon -- The Currency Exchange Booth

  Scruffy foreign money exchanges kiosks, a symbol of the 1990s when Russians put their faith in the dollar rather than the faltering ruble, are officially no more.

• September 26, 2010

  New Mosque Project Highlights Moscow's Ethnic Tensions

  Moscow has just four mosques to meet the spiritual needs of the city's 2 million Muslims. But nevertheless, a plan to build a new mosque in the Russian capital is sparking fierce resistance.

• September 01, 2010

  Erotic Filmmaker Chooses Belarus's Beleaguered Lukashenka As Next Target

  Director Aleksandr Valov has made a career out of mocking foreign leaders who have fallen out of favor with the Kremlin. Now he is turning his lens on Belarusian strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenko.

• August 04, 2010

  Activists Say Demolition of Moscow Mansion Foreshadows Fate Of Other Historic Buildings

  Following the controversial demolition of a 19th-century mansion in Moscow, preservation activists warn that the city is planning to knock down more historic buildings as part of a controversial development plan for the Russian capital.

• July 28, 2010

  For Russia's Future Priests, An Education In Church-State Ties

  This is Sergiyev Posad, home to the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, the most important monastery in Russia and the spiritual home of the Russian Orthodox Church.

• July 17, 2010

  Russian Activists Camp Out As Battle For Khimki Forest Heats Up

  Environmental protesters have set up a round-the-clock watch in a forest close to Moscow's biggest airport after they expelled workers felling hundreds of trees as part of the planned construction of a highway linking Moscow to St. Petersburg.

• July 08, 2010

  Russian Entrepreneurs On Edge Over Spiraling Police 'Repression'

  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed new legislation in April prohibiting the pretrial detention of suspects accused of economic crimes. But the move provides little relief to the country's entrepreneurs, who say racketeering and bribery by law enforcement are out of control.

• June 26, 2010

  Passions High As Foreigners, Locals Debate 'Muscovite's Code'

  What does it mean to be a Muscovite? Moscow authorities are coming up with an etiquette guide for the city's residents that looks suspiciously exclusionary toward ethnic non-Russians.

• June 20, 2010

  That Old Car Smell: Soviet Motor Nostalgia Grows Among Russian Elite

  When Russian bureaucrats, lawmakers, and politicians recently declared their earnings and properties, most of the attention was on the luxury cars, yachts, and foreign residences they had amassed. What took many by surprise, however, was how many vintage Soviet automobiles could be found among the Porsche Cayennes and French villas.

• June 17, 2010

  Moscow Film Festival Kicks Off With French Accent

  The 32nd Moscow Film Festival began with a screening of veteran French film director Claude Lelouch's "What Love May Bring" ("Ces amours la"), the first of more than 200 films in the festival's competition, documentary, and retrospective programs.

• May 08, 2010

  Russia's Victory Day This Year Aimed At Youth As Well As Veterans

  As Russia celebrates the generation that delivered victory to the country in World War II, it is also reaching out to a new generation, to educate younger citizens about a significant chapter in their nation's history.

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