The Moscow Times

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The Moscow Times is an English-language daily newspaper published in Moscow, Russia since 1992. The circulation in April 2006 stood at 35,000 copies ^[1] and the newspaper is typically given out for free at places English-language "expats" attend, including hotels, cafés and restaurants, as well as by subscription.

Until 2005, the paper was owned by Independent Media, a Moscow-registered publishing house that also prints a Russian-language daily newspaper, Vedomosti, and Russian-language versions of popular glossy magazines such as FHM, Men's Health and Cosmopolitan. That year, Independent Media was acquired by the Dutch-Finnish publishing group Sanoma.

The Editor-in-Chief is Andrew McChesney, who was promoted to the position in June 2006 after serving in a number of capacities in the newspaper.

The newspaper regularly publishes articles by prominent Russian journalists, many of whom take critical positions towards the current Russian government in general. It is frequently cited by foreign media as a source for Russian political and economic news.^{[citation needed]}