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MOSCOW - A bomb exploded Thursday in Moscow's city center, killing an FSB sapper trying to defuse it, in an attack the Interior Ministry linked to the recent double suicide bombings and said was organized by a terrorist ring training female suicide bombers. |
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MOSCOW - Pressure mounted on President Vladimir Putin to take a stand on the escalating investigations into Yukos as a worn out looking Mikhail Khodorkovsky went on TV on Thursday night to issue a very public warning to the Kremlin that he might cut off oil supplies to some regions if it did not back down. |
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MOSCOW - Seeking to calm investors and restore stability to the market, Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref said Thursday that the government has no plans to challenge the shady privatization deals of the 1990s. "The government's position has not changed: The results of privatization will not be revisited," Gref said. |
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MOSCOW - The Cabinet on Thursday approved a program to switch more than 30 military units with almost 150,000 personnel into all-volunteer forces by 2007, even as liberal Union of Right Forces activists rallied against the plan outside the White House. |
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 Sergei Pryanishnikov, who filed documents on Tuesday to run in the city's Sept. 21 gubernatorial elections, says that his main goal as governor would be to rationalize the business situation in the city so that economic activity in all sectors will be more robust. |
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MOSCOW - Flags flew at half-mast across Moscow on a rainy Tuesday as officials defended their handling of the suicide bombings at a rock concert that killed 14 people over the weekend. |
 MOSCOW - Stealing a page from the United States in its fight against terrorism, Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov said on Wednesday that the law should be changed to allow law-enforcement officials to detain terror suspects for up to 30 days without charges being filed. |
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BRUSSELS, Belgium - Europe's top human rights watchdog Thursday accused Russian forces of using beatings, electric shocks and other torture methods against prisoners in Chechnya. |
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MOSCOW - Russians are nearly three times more likely to commit suicide than the world average, according to a new report by the Health Ministry's Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry. The suicide rate has jumped from 26.5 per 100,000 people in 1991 to 39.7 in 2001, according to the report released Monday. |
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday opened a hydroelectric station in the country's Far East that is the largest built in the post-Soviet era, pushing the start button on the central control panel of the plant that will fill some of the gaps in the region's power supply. |
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MOSCOW - LUKoil has sold a 38-percent stake in the Izvestia newspaper publishing house to the Mediainvest mutual fund for 24.8 million rubles ($826,000), parties to the deal said Wednesday. |
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MOSCOW - From real estate to railroad cars and points in between, a newly formed holding company said Wednesday that it will invest between $400 million and $500 million in Russia over the next five years. "We are here to do business through joint ventures," Christopher Mackenzie, Brunswick Capital's chairperson and chief executive, said in an interview. |
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The United States currently finds itself in the midst of a confused search for a central principle around which to organize its foreign and defense policies. For almost a half-century, until the collapse of the Soviet system in the early 1990s, containing communism was the core doctrine guiding U. |
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This Monday I saw a glimmer of hope that St. Petersburg's residents might not yet have been reduced to a silent mass to be moved around by state-controlled television stations. |
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 Next week's seventh annual "KlezFest" - a celebration of Jewish music - will bring many international Klezmer musicians, as well as their counterparts from various corners of the former Soviet Union, to St. Petersburg. Among those expected to appear are Amsterdam-based Yiddish singer Shura Lipovski and Berlin-based clarinetist Christian Dawid. |
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1986 was a banner year for Iceland - not only was it the year of the historic Ronald Reagan-Mikhail Gorbachev summit in Reykjavik, but the Icelandic music scene was booming, and on the brink of garnering international attention. |
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Due to the terrorist attacks at Moscow's Krylya rock festival last week, Nashestviye, an even bigger two-day event scheduled for August 2 and August 3 has been canceled, bringing the future of massive open-air events in Russia into doubt. |
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WILMINGTON, Delaware - Before going on vacation, I agreed to write this week's edition of The Dish, partly to make the lives of my long-suffering colleagues a little easier, and partly in penance for last week's excesses at Sedmoi Gost. |
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It has long since become common practice for Russian students to go abroad on exchange programs or take language courses at local language centers. The New York Institute of Cognitive and Cultural Studies, a summer school taking place at the St. Petersburg State University from July 4 through July 25, however, offers a different concept. |
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S menya magarych: I'll pay up afterward The past week's press was full of reports about a magical being: oboroten, a changeling, or more commonly, a werewolf. |
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Lilia Shevtsova tells readers of her new book, "Putin's Russia," that she has written a political diary and, even if that were all she has done - it is not - the book would be an interesting read. Like a diary, the book moves chronologically, beginning with the transition of power from Boris Yeltsin to Vladimir Putin and continuing through Putin's first three years in the Kremlin. The events are still familiar to those of us living in Russia, but they take on new life through Shevtsova's eyes. She puts the pieces together, and the puzzle that is Vladimir Putin begins to take shape. Shevtsova, who splits her time between the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington and the Carnegie Moscow Center, benefits not only from hindsight but exceptional insight. |
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 A story about a nice guy who turns as big, bad and green as King Kong on a bender, "Hulk" is based on the character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, who launched their monster around the time that Kennedy and Khrushchev were set to launch their missiles. |
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Talk or Fight? SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A North Korean envoy said on Thursday that his country was ready for "both war and dialogue" and insisted on direct talks with the United States to resolve a nine-month-old nuclear standoff. South Korean said on Wednesday that the communist North has taken a key step toward building nuclear bombs by reprocessing a small number of spent nuclear-fuel rods. |
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Shopping Around MILAN (Reuters) - Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich met with Inter Milan president Massimo Moratti on Thursday after Italian champions Juventus turned down his offer for their Dutch midfielder, Edgar Davids. |
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