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“Accordingly, the temperature will be seven to eight degrees higher than the climatic norm, which gives reason to say that the current winter will turn out to be the warmest over the last 140 years of instrumental observations in Moscow.”

- Chief Specialist of the Moscow Weather Bureau Tatyana Pozdnyakova

Muscovites are no longer in the dark about the amount of sunlight they got in December: just eight hours.

A panda in the Moscow zoo destroyed a pine tree. It was anything but an accident.

Moscow authorities want you to stop throwing your trees in the trash: they have a plan to re-gift them to the city and the environment. 

Desperate times, and the need to create a festive atmosphere, call for desperate measures. 

Artist Aleksandr Tsypkov and a handful of other artists feel everyone, not just church-goers, should be able to see religious art. So naturally they are tagging bridges and underpasses with "iconic" images.

Pie not in the sky, vampires against anti-vaxxers, cooks for cats… not to mention self-improvement in advance of the New Year

Activists in Moscow are crowdfunding to restore century-old signs, and uncovering traces of a buzzing and eclectic merchant city.

News on travel, protests, Balashikha, a crooner, and the growing loan bubble.

Sorry, Bulgakov – the devil didn’t come to Moscow this time, but prizes and panties did.

One hundred and twenty years ago, the first electric tram went into operation in Moscow.