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The famous mid-17th century Patriarch Nikon chose a picturesque loop in the Istra River, 60 km west of Moscow, to build his "New Jerusalem," renaming the park beyond the walls "Gethsemane" and the river "Jordan." Today, the town of Istra itself is mostly unappealing and industrial, but the monastery has been slowly restored following a destructive ...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday instructed the board of trustees of the Charity Fund for the Reconstruction of the Voskresensky New Jerusalem Monastery to exert strict control over the fund's spending.

Thirteen municipalities in the Moscow region will have a planned power outage on Wednesday, the Moscow unified power grid MOESK said on Tuesday.

The number of villages without power in the Moscow Region increased from 34 to 88 over a heavy snowfall, Itar-Tass learnt from representative of the Moscow Joint Power Grid Company Vitaly Strugovets.