An unknown attacker has thrown amolotov cocktail at a car in central Moscow. A man threw the homemade bomb at ahigh-end Mercedes Maybach which was waiting to pull into a secure area off Tretaya Frunzenskaya Ulitsa. The bottle reportedly hit the trunk ofthe car as the driver pulled away, the Moskva news agency reported. No casualties have been announced. Moscow police are investigating theincident.

MOSS “Moscow—as you’ve never seen itbefore”—these are the first wordsto greet visitors on the website ofMOSS, a new hotel on Krivokolenny Pereulok.The promise holds true: MOSS takes the localhotel scene into uncharted waters, boldly blurringthe lines between traditional luxury establishment,art gallery, and friendly guesthouse. “MOSS might be the first real boutique hotelin Moscow,” explains Anna Endrikhovskaya, thehead of MOSS’ concierge service.

Russian federal agents in Bashkortostan say they've arrested a man suspected of fighting with a Russian-speaking group tied to the terrorist organization al-Qaeda since at least 2014, the newspaper Kommersant reports . The Federal Security Service (FSB) has not named the individual, but a spokesperson says the suspect was detained earlier this month by guards while crossing the Turkish-Syrian border, before being returned to Russia.

Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), announced on Wednesday that terrorists groups are using secret chats on the instant messenger Telegram to coordinate their efforts. While speaking at a security conference for intelligence agencies in the Commonwealth of Independent States, Bortnikov said FSB agents have obtained evidence that terrorists communicate through closed groups on Telegram, according to the news agency RIA Novosti.

Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov Alisher Usmanov / YouTube For Russia’s powerful elite, opposition leader Alexei Navalny inhabits a remote parallel universe too far off to even notice. His investigative reports on the prime minister’s alleged corruption may get millions of views on Youtube. His protests may gather huge crowds. But for Russia’s leadership, these are issues to manage, not to worry about.

Vyacheslav Prokofyev / TASS One of the most iconic images ofStalin’s terror is a photograph of Vsevolod Meyerkhold, one ofRussia’s 20th century most famous theater directors, moments afterhe was arrested in 1939. Many assumed it would be the last time aMoscow theater director was led into a car by masked men and drivenaway for interrogation. On Tuesday, May 23, however, ithappened again. This time, the man being led away was KirillSerebrennikov, Russia’s award-winning theater and film director.

Francisco Seco / AP Moscow’s probe into an anti-gay purge in Chechnya might be preliminary, but its effects are anything but. Russia’s Investigative Committee has not opened a single criminal case, and local authorities are already panicking, reported Novaya Gazeta, the newspaper that broke the original story. One by one, high-rank officials have lined up to make statements about their newfound tolerance of the LGBT community.

Rodrigo Abd /AP A good crisis should never go to waste. It’s a political cliche, but even so, Moscow’s eager appropriation of the Manchester bomb attack to restart calls for counter-terrorism cooperation stands out for its tastelessness. The irony is that while the Kremlin is wrong on almost every one of its talking points, it may be in the West’s advantage at least to see what Moscow is offering. For a country that – rightly – felt its own terrorist tragedy in St.

Russian theater director AlexanderBurdonsky, the grandson of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, has died inMoscow. Burdonsky passed away on Tuesdayevening at the age of 76, Russia's Interfax news agency reported. A spokesperson for Moscow's Red ArmyTheater confirmed that Burdonsky had recently been hospitalized with heart problems. Burdonsky, one of Stalin's 12 official grandchildren, had worked at the theater for morethan 40 years.

Vladimir Putin (R) meets with FIFA President Gianni Infantino at the FC Krasnodar Stadium, May 23, 2017. Alexei Druzhinin / Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP The Kremlin has denied reports that Russia could soon clampdown on foreign football players joining the country's top teams. Officials discussed the possibility of barring foreign players from Russia's Premier League during a meeting of the Presidential Sports Council on Tuesday, the Interfax news agency reported.

A new bill banning anonymous users from using online messengerapps has been submitted to the Russian parliament. The plans would require users of appssuch as WhatsApp and Telegram to identify themselves with their cellphone number. The companies behind the apps wouldalso be forced to pass on information to government bodies andagencies, Russia's gazeta.ru reported. If the bill is passed, messenger apps which fail to comply could be charged up to 1 million rubles ($17,800) or blocked in Russia.

A subsidiary of Russian oil giantRosneft has canceled an order for luxury tableware amid a public row withRussian anti-corruption campaigner and politician Alexei Navalny. RN-Aerokraft, a private company which operates aircraftfor Rosneft, had planned to buy dishes, cutlery and tablecloths worth $88,867 to furnish an executive jet.