Mayor denies Moscow needs more mosques

October 13, 2012 Nathan Toohey, The Moscow News

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced that Moscow probably does not need to build any more mosques and demand for their services comes mainly from out-of-towners, especially at the city's largest mosque near the Olympiisky Sport Complex.

Levada Center releases report on the protest movement ‘without a plan’

October 4, 2012 Nathan Toohey, The Moscow News

The independent Levada Center polling agency has released an analytical research paper on potential future scenarios for the protest movement in Russia. The research was carried out based on interviews with the leaders of the opposition and rally par

Giant Buddha planned for Tuva

Giant Buddha planned for Tuva

May 15, 2012 Nathan Toohey, The Moscow News

A Tibet enterprise has been given the go ahead to build a 15-meter-high Buddha statue, to be placed atop a mountain outside the Tuvan capital of Kyzyl

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