Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held a series of meetings in Moscow and Kyiv, trying to move forward negotiations on ending the Russian-Ukrainian war. By the end of the trip, no agreement had emerged: the sides remain far from a deal, and the war, judging by the statements and leaks, will continue at least through this winter.

#VladimirZelensky #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #JaredKushner #DonaldTrump #Kiev #Moscow #SteveWitkoff

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On September 5, the first section of the Rublyovo-Arkhangelskaya metro line was opened in Moscow. The line became the 17th in the city metro, and at the «General Karbyshev Boulevard» station, direct references to Russia’s war against Ukraine were used.

#VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #lifeinRussia #Krasnogorsk #Moscow #Moscowsubway #RublevoArkhangelskayaline #SergeiSobyanin

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin the title of Hero of Labor of the Russian Federation. The decree was published on September 5.

#HeroofLabor #MoscowCityDuma #MoscowCityElectionCommission #Moscow #Putin #Sobyanin

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The plane carrying the American delegation led by U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner landed at Vnukovo in Moscow. The delegation was met by Russian presidential special envoy Kirill Dmitriev.

#VladimirZelensky #VladimirPutin #JaredKushner #DonaldTrump #Moscow #SteveWitkoff

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At the MMCC «Kommunarka» in Moscow, a 60-year-old patient with a fibroid in a difficult location in the uterus was helped to give birth to a healthy baby. After the cesarean section, doctors removed the tumor, and the mother and son have already been discharged home in good condition.

#Csection #communal #myoma #Moscow #tass #ECO

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U.S. presidential envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner plan to visit Moscow and Kyiv on September 5 and 6. The dates of the American delegation’s trip have not yet been officially confirmed.

#VladimirZelensky #VladimirPutin #JaredKushner #Kiev #Moscow #SteveWitkoff

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В Москве задержали двух кандидатов в Госдуму от «Яблока» — Анну Шатуновскую-Бюрно и Григория Гришина. Шатуновскую-Бюрно доставляют в ОВД «Якиманка», а к Гришину домой пришли трое мужчин в штатском и попросили пройти в ОВД «Академический» для составления административного протокола.

#SupremeCourt #TheStateDuma #Moscow #homeland #cyc #Apple

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that representatives of U.S. President Donald Trump plan to travel to Kyiv and Moscow. According to him, the preliminary dates of the visit are already known, and the meeting is expected in the coming days.

#Zelensky #Kiev #Moscow #Russia #USA #Trump

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The founder of the children’s hospice «House with a Lighthouse», Lide Moniava, was charged in a case involving the spread of «fakes» about the Russian army; she was detained. Under this article, she faces up to 10 years in prison.

#HousewithaLighthouse #LidaMoniava #Moscow #repressions #Russianarmy #InvestigativeCommittee #CriminalCodeoftheRussianFederation

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The Turkish low-cost airline Pegasus cancelled at least one flight from Bodrum to Moscow, which was scheduled to depart at 00:05 on the night of September 2. The board at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport also showed cancellations of several Pegasus flights from Moscow to Istanbul, Bodrum, and Dalaman.

#Pegasus #Bodrum #Moscow #On #Turkish

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In Moscow, around 10:30, a man with a shovel attacked people leaving a church on Belorechenskaya Street and injured a 32-year-old female paramedic. The victim was taken to the Sklifosovsky Research Institute in extremely serious condition; the number of victims is being уточняется.

#Moscow #violence #crime #Russia

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The head of the Vatican’s diplomatic department, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, met in Moscow with Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov. The Holy See’s Secretariat of State said that the talks covered current topics on the international agenda.

#Vatican #gallagher #chapter #Moscow #PaulRichardGallagher #YuriUshakov

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SVR chief Sergey Naryshkin confirmed that he met with CIA Director John Ratcliffe in Moscow on August 25. According to him, they discussed issues within the competence of intelligence services.

#Moscow #MoscowHeadoftheSVRSergei #Naryshkin #CIAJohnRatcliffe

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On August 27, 2026, the Tikhvin Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, which is permanently kept in the Tikhvin Dormition Monastery for Men of the Mother of God, will be brought to Moscow for a month. The reception of the shrine is scheduled for 19:00 at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

#Moscow #Moscowregion27 #HolyMotherofGod #TikhvinDormitionoftheMotherofGod #Tikhvin

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Khovanskoye Cemetery, January 27, two o'clock in the afternoon. A group of four people stands by a black minivan. They are dressed in identical black jackets and hats. Next to them, on metal trestles, is a four-sided coffin with no handles. People in work uniforms are nailing the base of the coffin. About 5 meters from the coffin—just one grave away—stand several gravediggers, ready to take the coffin in their hands and lower it into the grave. We only need to cover those 5 meters. But three out of the four people in black take turns falling, bumping the bottoms of the coffin into the grave fences. Only the fourth one managed to stay on his feet. That was me.

#WarinUkraine #lifeinRussia #everydayculture #personalexperience #Moscow #society #precariat #reportage #deathinRussia #LaborandCapital

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One of the most high-profile political assassinations in modern Russian history took place on January 19, 2009. On that day, Stanislav Markelov, a lawyer from the Moscow Human Rights Center, and Anastasia Baburova, a freelance correspondent for Novaya Gazeta, were shot dead by an activist from the far-right group BORN (Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists). They were killed because they supported the anti-fascist movement. And a recent accomplice in this crime was recently released from prison.

#2000s #antifascists #EvgeniyaKhasis #lifeinRussia #historicalmemory #leftandright #Moscow #Shuyne #NikitaTikhonov #society #reportage #ultraright

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In December 2025, Moscow began to be actively decorated for the New Year as part of the «Journey to Christmas» festival. Its prototype was the Strasbourg Christmas Market on Manezhnaya Square, which in December 2012 made a splash among Muscovites and visitors to the capital. After that, city hall decided to include the city’s Christmas celebration in the ongoing mega-festival «Moscow Seasons.» By 2026, however, little remained of Strasbourg and its Christmas traditions. But an imaginary Europe, now almost out of reach, still peeks through the New Year’s tinsel—just like other realities of recent years.

#state #Moscow #newYear #society #reportage #SergeiSobyanin #escapism

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In Paris, they said farewell to Erik Bulatov (1933-2025) — a brilliant artist whose works became the most recognizable symbol of Moscow conceptualism of the 1960s-1970s. He himself remained one of the leading figures of contemporary Russian art until his last days, even gaining the status of a classic and living abroad for more than 30 of his 92 years.

#VictorKabakov #war #state #childhood #dictatorship #bookillustrations #conceptualism #Moscow #thaw #Paris #aftertheUSSR #RobertFalk #freedom #art #artists #Emigration #EricBulatov

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The law establishing the national messenger was signed by Putin at the end of June 2025. Since yesterday, it has been fully operational in Moscow and three other regions: schoolchildren and first-year university students are required to switch to Max.

#state #dictatorship #theInternet #China #instantmessengers #Moscow #society #Orwell #Putin #Russia #freedom #Stalin #censorship #digitalsurveillance

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From a rational point of view, China should be interested in preserving Europe as that part of the Western world that does not claim a global role but remains one of its economic centers. For Beijing, it would be preferable to deal not with one, represented by the USA, but with two versions of the West. If these considerations are valid, Chairman Xi is unlikely to advise President Putin to attack Estonia and promise him his support—in fact, it can be assumed that the China factor will contribute to containing the Russian threat to Europe rather than strengthening it.

#Analytics #Brussels #Washington #war #weapons #diplomacy #europe #China #odd #Macron #Moscow #Beijing #Putin #Russia #USA #Taiwan #Trump #Ukraine #espionage

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