“It’s very hard, you know. Sometimes I feel I’m under arrest myself,” says Irina’s mother, Lucina, with whom we talk on the phone. We hear cars honking and bus stops being called out: Lucina is on the way to see her husband. She spends the...

Andrei YUROV: Human rights activist deported Last Friday, Andrei Yurov, a Russian human rights activist, head of the international supervisory mission, and Moscow Helsinki Group Director for Development, was deported from Minsk. He was...

18 September the Intergovernmental Aviation Committee made an official statement that the engines of the crashed plane were in good working condition till the very moment of collision with the surface, and there was no fire onboard and no...

Surface, Air: chronicle of plane crash 14 September, 02:12 a.m. Boeing 737-500, the flight 821, making the route Moscow-Perm, left Sheremetevo at 1:12 a.m. Moscow time. There were 82 passengers and 6 crew members on board; captain, second...

“When I said to my mum we are going to fly to the space she only asked a question ‘when?’” says Igor Kutsenko, the president of an advertising agency Orange. He with his parents and other 9 Russians have booked seats on the nearest flights...

Sukhoi SuperJet-100 (SSJ), the first plane designed in Russia after collapse of Soviet Union, took off in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur last Monday, six months after the planned date. Next day Sergei Ivanov, the deputy prime minister,...