The answer for many, sadly, is this one: slums. According to the United Nations, a slum is an area of a city mostly characterized by substandard housing and squalor. Right now, more than a billion ...

Successful judo fighters must anticipate their opponents' actions, make a decisive, preemptive move and try to disable them," he wrote in the Moscow Times. Putin reportedly loved the popular 1960s ...

THE general pattern of the development of slums is almost always the same. They begin with the overcrowding of existing buildings and the addition of tenants built by conscienceless speculators to ...

One of the most chilling scenes in the anti-communist 1965 film “Dr. Zhivago” shows the doctor returning to his Moscow home ...

But beneath the posters was evidence of a shift with gloomy implications for Moscow’s international heft: More and more cars with Chinese brand names such as BYD and Geely are zooming around the ...

He turns to Vladimir Gilyarovsky, a recognized expert on the Moscow slums, for help. Together they go to the legendary bandit Khitrovka and find themselves embroiled in the investigation of the ...

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On a cloudy morning in early May, Charles Gamys sends his drone skyward. Once it’s about 120 meters (390 feet) in the air, he starts to take photos of the landscape below: rows upon rows of ...

The order highlights that unauthorised slums have been constructed on some ... teenagers charged for sabotage in Moscow, incidents on Baikal-Amur mainline. India denies Maldives' accusation ...

Its Cold War history and massive size might give it an intimidating image, but at its core Moscow is every bit the European city offering wealth of history and culture coupled with modernity and ...

Tucker Carlson wrapped up the seventh in a series of speeches to right-wing Australian audiences. To attend the event, I had ...

in search of inspiration for staging a new play, decides to get acquainted with the life of the city "bottom". He turns to Vladimir Gilyarovsky, a recognized expert on the Moscow slums, for help.