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Articles by Houssam Alissa
Deciphering Moscow's Digital Dating Scene
I'm out to lunch with James when he notices the pretty girl sitting at the table next to us using Tinder. "She's going to see my profile!" he whispers...
A Moscow School That Turns Frogs into Princes
Shy young lads frightened of the fairer sex, brash businessmen with little free time for traditional courtship, married men in their 40s looking to snap...
Uglich: A Weekend Time-Travel Getaway
You're tired of Moscow. You want to get away from it all for the weekend, but you've done St. Petersburg a dozen times. Enter Uglich, a charming...
Forms in Pairs: Nothing Stays the Same
A fluorescent light filament on a stand. Beside it — an identical filament, shattered. A photo of an inkpot. Beside it — the same inkpot, now...
Relatives of Russian Hockey Team Crash Get Fraction of Compensation Sought
Families of 11 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team players killed in a 2011 plane crash are to be paid a fraction of what their attorneys had asked for in...
Medvedev Promises No Blacklist for Foreign Journalists Working in Russia
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev condemned foreign countries who blacklist Russian journalists Thursday and said Russia has no intention of setting up...
Constitutional Court: Expelling HIV-Positive Foreigners With Russian Families Is Unlawful
The deportation of HIV-positive foreign nationals who have families in Russia is unlawful, the Constitutional Court ruled on Monday.
Putin Honors Kadyrov After He Called Nemtsov Murder Suspect 'True Patriot'
President Vladimir Putin gave one of the country's highest awards to Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov on the same weekend that Kadyrov described a suspect...