Russians Aleksandrov and Yerofeyev sentenced in Kiev to 14 years of imprisonment for terrorism

The Kiev District Court sentenced Russian citizens Alexander Alexandrov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev, who were detained in Donbass in 2015, and accused of assisting in the activities of a terrorist organization and carrying out a terrorist act, to 14 years in prison. Immediately after the arrest of Aleksandrov and Erofeev, who can now ...

Washington Post: Russians do not associate Putin with economic crisis

The high level of public support for Russian President Vladimir Putin is due to the fact that after 17 years of presidency, Russians do not perceive him as a figure that can be changed or criticized, and all the problems of the state are blamed on lower-ranking officials. The correspondent came to this conclusion ...

Russians are less likely to receive foreign visas

The number of foreign visas received by Russians in 2015 decreased by 37% compared to 2014. This is reported in a study by VisaToHome. According to analysts, such a significant drop is associated with an increase in the exchange rate and the introduction of biometrics when receiving Schengen ...

Poll: Russians' attitude towards the US improves

Russians' attitude towards the US and the EU is improving, while the perception of Ukraine does not change. This is evidenced by the results of a survey conducted by the Levada Center. Thus, the negative perception of the United States by Russians continues to decline (65% in January 2016 against 81% in January 2015), while maintaining ...

Russian pensioners abroad have made pensions more difficult

Pensioners from Russia living outside the country, due to the change in the rules for receiving payments, encountered difficulties both in obtaining pensions under Russian law and foreign benefits. Since 2015, the payment to "new" pensioners (the pension has been assigned since January 1), as well as to those who retired earlier, but only issued it this year ...

Russians in Syria: what is known about the dead

On Tuesday, the first reports appeared about those killed on the Russian side in the military operation in Syria. Reuters reported, citing an unnamed source among the Syrian military, that as a result of the hostilities, three Russian citizens were killed and several others were injured. However, confirmation of this ...

Russians in a crisis switched to fast food

The number of visits to fast food establishments, the menu of which is based on burgers and chicken dishes, increased by 2015% in January-June 7 compared to the previous period, while the entire market decreased by 5%. According to the consulting company The ...

A record number of Russians have applied for a green card

The number of Russians wishing to emigrate to the United States reached a historic record in 2015, Bloomberg writes, citing State Department data. The American Foreign Ministry has accepted 265 applications from Russia in the current year for obtaining green cards, giving the right to permanent residence in the United States, despite the fact that a quota of four thousand such documents has been allocated to Russia. ...

Childbirth in Miami: how Russian-speaking people come to the United States for citizenship

“To get to Sunny Isles Beach, we will soon need a Russian visa,” a Hispanic taxi driver tells me. Sunny is the suburb of Miami with the largest Russian-speaking population in Florida (about ten percent according to the latest census). In local media, he is sometimes called "little ...

Survey: Russians consider the United States a country of moral decay

Most Russians are extremely negative about the American government. This is evidenced by the results of a survey conducted from 25 to 26 July. Only three percent of the study participants admitted to being friendly to the United States. In general, as sociologists note, the level of hostility towards the United States is sharp ...

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