Red Square

Red Square's 1987 Invader Back on Radar
Mathias Rust, who stunned the world as a teenager when he landed his Cessna plane in Moscow's Red Square, has re-emerged 20 years later to reveal his regrets about his peace mission.

Russia Stirs Up the Neighbourhood
Today's military parade in Red Square marking Russia's 1945 victory in the Great Patriotic War may carry more than a whiff of Soviet-era domineering. General Vladimir Bakin says missiles, tanks and other symbols of Russian power could go on display again.

Historians Shocked As Kremlin Razes Red Square Buildings
Demolition crew came in middle of night, say critics - Luxury hotel to replace Trotsky's meeting rooms

Burying Lenin won't lay to rest Russia's woes
Who's he?" asked my editor. He had a point, and I had no answer. Of course, I should have immediately known that Georgy Poltavchenko is President Putin's envoy to central Russia, and that he was calling for Lenin to be taken from his waxy stasis in a mausoleum on Red Square and buried once and for all.

Russia is United in Shock and Grief - But for How Long?
Putin's neoliberal reforms continue to enrage his people. They came to Red Square in their tens of thousands "in spite of it being a working day", in the words of state-controlled television's reporter.

At Least Five Killed in Moscow Blast
A Mercedes sedan blew up near Moscow's Red Square today, killing at least five people and injuring three, Moscow police said. Russia's Itar-Tass news agency initially reported that the explosion, in Moscow's main shopping street, had been caused by a female suicide bomber. Police later...

Gamblers and pop music rock Russian landmark
It is one of Moscow's most enduring landmarks. St Basil's Cathedral on Red Square survived Napoleon, the Nazis, and the rise and fall of the Soviet empire.

Macca's back in the USSR - a few years late
Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed Paul McCartney to Russia for the first time yesterday, as the silvering legend finally got to play 'Back in the USSR' in Red Square, metres away from a Kremlin that once considered him and his music a threat to Brezhnev's stoic Soviet state.

Russians see red over Macca concert
A large group of Russian MPs is trying to ban a concert by Paul McCartney in Red Square next week, describing it as "absolutely senseless and blasphemous".

Cynical Russians Turn on Putin
A wave of popular disgust and disillusion was enveloping President Vladimir Putin yesterday over his handling of the Moscow hostage emergency. Relatives of some of the estimated 600 hostages defied an official ban on protests to demonstrate next to Red Square and outside the suburban...