
The city is dominated by gray Soviet-era apartment blocks.

The city is dominated by gray Soviet-era apartment blocks.


Yevgenia Berkovich, left, and Svetlana Petriychuk inside a courthouse in Moscow in May. The two are being tried on charges of terrorism relating to the production of their play, βFinist the Brave Falcon.β

A hedonistic party at a Moscow nightclub last month drew the ire of President Vladimir V. Putin and other Russians as the countryβs troops fought in Ukraine.

Soldiers with the 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade firing a self-propelled artillery gun at a Russian target in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on Saturday.