During his 26 years with the CIA, Mark Polymeropoulos has spent a lot of time in harsh conditions, such as the war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. But he never received any injury until December 2017, when he ended up at the Marriott ...

While most countries in the world are preparing to exit quarantine and are reporting an ever-decreasing number of cases of coronavirus, Russia is in fifth place in terms of the number of cases and the dynamics of the situation is not encouraging, writes the BBC. According to the Russian government, on May 6 in the country ...

Molecular biologist, professor at the GMU School of Systems Biology Ancha Baranova in an interview with the Voice of America spoke about important precautions in a big city, why Russia is following the American pandemic scenario, as well as about coronavirus strokes and the protocol for recovering from illness. Biologist…

Voice of America correspondent Charles Maines flew from the United States to Russia in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and was forced to spend two weeks in his home confinement - according to the rules of self-isolation for people who arrived in the country from abroad. Features of quarantine life in Russia, he ...

Six relatives and five acquaintances of a Russian who returned from Italy, who was found to have coronavirus, were taken to hospitals. 13 passengers on his flight were also hospitalized. The patient himself has a mild form of the disease, writes RBC. After coronavirus was detected, a Muscovite who arrived from Italy was hospitalized...

In Lubyanka, near the FSB building, an unknown person opened fire with a Kalashnikov assault rifle. There is information about the dead and injured. The FSB reported on the neutralization of the offender, his identity is established by investigators. Writes about this RBC. In the area of ​​Lubyanka on Vorovsky Square, an unknown person opened fire ...

With a very limited number of Russians speaking English, living in Russia without knowing Russian can be a problem. However, there are some expats who don't care about language learning. “I was returning home from work, and suddenly a metro worker stopped me. He asked…

Participants of the action in the center of the capital are seeking admission to the elections to the Moscow City Duma of opposition candidates. The head office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported about the arrest of 1074 people, OVD-Info calls the figure 1067. Several hundred people were detained at a rally in the center of Moscow, RBC reports with reference to ...

I visited Russia's most iconic department store, located in a 126-year-old building in the center of Moscow. And this experience was completely different from the experience of visiting most American shopping centers. New York has Barneys and Bergdorf Goodman, Paris has Le Bon Marché, and...

The fire in the "star" house on Nikitsky Boulevard in Moscow, according to the latest data, claimed 7 lives. The fire started in an apartment that had undergone major redevelopment, and this could have caused so many casualties. The daughter of the violist Yuri Bashmet lives in this apartment, she ...