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# moscow - Friday 3 May, 2013
TDs and senators back down from sanctions on Russia over lawyer death
Warnings from the Russian ambassador to Ireland over possible blacklisting of Russian officials in response to the treatment and death of Sergei Magnitsky appear to have been heeded.
# moscow - Friday 26 April, 2013
Fire at psychiatric hospital near Moscow kills 38
Many patients died in their sleep from inhaling fumes after taking medication before going to bed, according to local reports.
# moscow - Friday 5 April, 2013
Dublin now the 11th most congested city in Europe, down from sixth
Moscow in Russia is the most congested city in the world.
# moscow - Tuesday 19 March, 2013
Russia concerned by US move not to charge dead boy’s parents
The US has decided not to prosecute the adoptive parents of a Russian boy who died in January – despite Russian claims that the toddler was tortured and murdered.
# moscow - Thursday 7 March, 2013
Bolshoi dancer admits ordering attack on ballet chief
Pavel Dmitrichenko says, however, that he didn’t specifically ask for hot acid to be thrown in the ballet chief’s face.
# moscow - Tuesday 5 March, 2013
Russia to charge boss of lawyer in posthumous trial
The US employer of a Russian whistleblowing attorney who died in jail is to face charges, along with the deceased lawyer.
Suspect detained in Bolshoi ballet director acid attack
Sergei Filin of the Bolshoi Ballet had sulphuric acid thrown in his face in mid-January and has been receiving treatment that may last for months.
# moscow - Thursday 28 February, 2013
Hollande believes there could be a ‘political solution’ on Syria in weeks
Hollande reaffirmed that France, like other Western powers, was calling for Assad to step down.
# moscow - Wednesday 20 February, 2013
Children’s Minister meeting with Russian officials over adoption agreement
Frances Fitzgerald said the discussions will allow her to explore the feasibility of an agreement on intercountry adoption.
# moscow - Friday 15 February, 2013
G20 finance ministers meet to avert ‘currency wars’
Ministers from the world’s most developed countries are meeting in Russia hoping to agree not to devalue their currencies.
Videos: Around 950 injured after meteor strikes central Russia
There was panic in the Russian Urals as a meteor or meteors fell IN the Chelyabinsk region, some 930 miles east of Moscow.
# moscow - Monday 4 February, 2013
Tourism Ireland aims to get more Russians to visit here
Trade mission lands in Moscow and St Petersburg to raise awareness of island’s attractions to the 24 million Russians who travel abroad annually.
# moscow - Saturday 15 December, 2012
Russian authorities break up anti-Putin rally, detain leaders
Protesters gathered in central Moscow for an unauthorised rally to mark a year of a wave of massive protests against Vladimir Putin and the country’s government.
# moscow - Monday 15 October, 2012
Putin loyalists set to win Russian local elections
Observers from the independent monitoring organisation Golos recorded more than 1,000 violations nationwide, including voter roll irregularities and multiple voting.
# moscow - Friday 12 October, 2012
German foreign minister to visit Turkey for Syria talks: embassy
Germany will enter discussions on the steady deterioration of relations between Syria and Turkey, following deadly airstrikes.
# moscow - Wednesday 10 October, 2012
Russia frees one Pussy Riot member, keeps two in jail
Yekaterina Samutsevich was judged not to have had an actual involvement in the “punk prayer” performance at a Moscow cathedral in March.
# moscow - Monday 1 October, 2012
Pussy Riot appeal delayed by court
One of the band members has fired her lawyers in what prosecutors criticised as a “delaying tactic”.
# moscow - Sunday 30 September, 2012
Mission to Moscow: FIFA announce 2018 World Cup venues
Next job is finding Ekaterinburg on the map.
# moscow - Wednesday 19 September, 2012
NHL lock-out: Ovechkin heads back home to Moscow
The talented Russian is not resting on his hockey laurels, according to reports in his homeland.
Russia expels US aid agency for ‘meddling in politics’
Russia’s foreign ministry has claimed that USAid had attempted to “influence political processes through its grants”.
# moscow - Sunday 26 August, 2012
Pussy Riot members flee from Russia
Two bandmates of the three women convicted by a Moscow court of hooliganism charges over anti-Putin protest at a church have fled the country, according to the group.
# moscow - Tuesday 21 August, 2012
Hackers target website of Russian court that sentenced Pussy Riot
Hackers associating themselves with the loose-knit ‘hacktivist’ group Anonymous posted anti-Putin messages and demanded the band members’ release.
Pussy Riot protest held outside Russian Embassy in Dublin
Amnesty International is holding a “demonstration in solidarity” with the three women jailed in Moscow last week.
# moscow - Monday 20 August, 2012
Pussy Riot will not ask Putin for pardon: lawyer
The three women told their lawyer: “Let them go to hell with their pardon”.
# moscow - Saturday 18 August, 2012
Pussy Riot trial reaction: band members’ conviction criticised by EU, US
Two-year sentence for hooliganism conviction criticised as ‘disproportionate’ and impacting on freedom of expression.
# moscow - Friday 17 August, 2012
The 5 at 5: Friday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
Moscow bans gay pride parades for 100 years
No gay pride parades will be allowed in the Russian capital for the next century to avoid “public disorder”.
Pussy Riot members sentenced to two years in prison
Three band members of the feminist punk group have been found guilty of “hoolganism motivated by religious hatred”.
# moscow - Thursday 16 August, 2012
Plane bound for Moscow lands in Iceland after bomb threat
The flight from New York made an emergency landing after an anonymous phone call said there were explosives on board.
# moscow - Sunday 12 August, 2012
Astronomical figures and Dáil drinks: The week in quotes
“Either take off the cross or put on pants.”
# moscow - Thursday 9 August, 2012
Russia: Deputy PM slams Madonna on Twitter for Pussy Riot support
Dmitry Rogozin accused the singer of moral lecturing, adding: “Either take off the cross or put on pants”.
# moscow - Wednesday 8 August, 2012
Pussy Riot trial: singer compares prosecution to Stalin-era repression
Band’s final statement before verdict delivered amid high-profile calls for leniency.
# moscow - Saturday 4 August, 2012
Pussy Riot trial: Putin calls for lenience
Meanwhile, protests took place opposite the Moscow courthouse in support of the three women on trial in Russia.
# moscow - Monday 16 July, 2012
Russia says foreign partners in ‘blackmail’ over Syria
Moscow has rejected attempts by the West to pressure it into supporting a UN resolution on Syria.
# moscow - Tuesday 26 June, 2012
Russian woman accused of throwing sons to their deaths
Investigation underway into deaths of boys aged four and seven.
# moscow - Monday 18 June, 2012
Moscow calling: Government leads trade mission to Russia
After two record years, the five-day trip hopes to boost trade ties with Russia even further.
# moscow - Wednesday 13 June, 2012
Russia denies sending attack helicopters to Syria
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has claimed that Russia is providing Syria with weapons that will “escalate the conflict quite dramatically”.
# moscow - Sunday 27 May, 2012
Moscow police detain 40 during push for gay pride parade
Activists tried to hold two demonstrations in Moscow to demand the right to hold a gay pride parade, but they were blocked first by Orthodox Christian opponents and then by police.
# moscow - Saturday 19 May, 2012
Will Smith slaps journalist who tried to kiss him
Smith slapped the male television reporter who tried to kiss him before the Moscow premiere of “Men in Black III.”
Lampard tells Munich to ‘bring it on’
The Chelsea midfielder says his side are looking to make up for the disappointment of their last Champions League final appearance.
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