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Four People Hospitalized After Moscow Metro Fire
(MOSCOW) Authorities say that parts of Moscow's metro are shut down after a fire at a station close to the Kremlin injured dozens of people. The Emergencies...
Russia to Sell at Least 10 MiG Fighters to Syria
(MOSCOW) — A Russian arms manufacturer says it is signing a contract to deliver at least 10 fighter jets to Syria. Sergei Korotkov, general director of the MiG...
Earthquake Hits Russia’s Far East
(MOSCOW) — A powerful earthquake has hit Russia's Far East with slight tremors spreading westwards as far as Moscow. Marina Kolomiyets, spokeswoman for...
Plane Catches Fire Landing in Moscow; No Injuries
(MOSCOW) — Part of an airliner carrying more than 130 people caught fire as it was landing in Moscow, and passengers evacuated the plane by jumping off one of...
Why Has Moscow Passed a Law to Ban U.S. Adoption of Russian Orphans?
The new law is meant to retaliate against a human-rights slap on the wrist by Washington. But it will deprive thousands of Russian orphans of better lives
From Mexico to Moscow, the World Turns on to U.S. Marijuana Legalization
The landmark passage of amendments in Colorado and Washington state legalizing marijuana is a turning point in the global conversation on drugs
Washington: Time To Dump Bashar, Moscow
The U.S. and Russia have been sparring all week over competing United Nations Security Council resolutions on Syria. The U.S. would like a mandate under Chapter...
Russia Sets Out Tough Terms for Resolving Syria’s Civil War
The notion that Russia might soon abandon Syria’s Assad regime may prove mistakenly optimistic: Moscow is now supplying attack helicopters to Damascus. Secretary...
As the U.S. and Others Toss Syria's Envoys, Is Moscow Changing Its Mind About Assad?
International envoy to Syria Kofi Annan met Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus on Tuesday, in a bid to salvage Anna's battered plan for peace. "He...
Rent Historic Moscow Building for One Ruble -- But You Gotta Fix It Up First
This post is in partnership with Worldcrunch, a new global-news site that translates stories of note in foreign languages into English. The article below was...
Is Moscow Developing Super Duper Secret Mega Weapons?
Here is what the Kremlin wants you to believe about its secret weapons program: In about eight years, it may be able to warp your chromosomes, brainwash you with...
When a Protest Fizzles: Putin's Opposition Is Routed in Moscow
If the past couple of months were the winter of Russia's "snowy evolution" -- when riot police stood yawning as the urban hipsters and intellectuals rallied en...
130,000
The estimated number of people who packed a Moscow stadium last week for a pro-Kremlin rally. The event featured a surprise visit by Vladimir Putin. See this...
The Abominable Snow Protests of Russia: Moscow's New Cold War
Unless you have a passion for ice fishing or catching pneumonia, Feb. 4 would have been about the worst day to spend outdoors in Moscow. The temperature fell to...
Why Are Burmese Scientists Studying Missile Technology in Moscow?
A few years ago, during a summer recess at Moscow's Bauman University, two foreign students from Burma were abruptly expelled for drinking vodka in their...
One (Rich) American vs. Moscow: The Quest of William Browder
In October, Harvard Business School began teaching a new case study about Russia, which, in the words of one of its authors, "reads like a potboiler." In 20...
“The bulk of Russians … still have negative memories of the last time a government went down. It's not the Arab Spring on the streets of Moscow.”
— MATTHEW ROJANSKY, deputy director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment, saying protests in Moscow may not represent the majority of the...
Raising the Barre: Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre Gets a $700 Million Makeover
Twenty years ago, in every small Russian town, you would find a Dom Kultury, or House of Culture, where at least once a week someone would be teaching ballet. My...
Will David Cameron's Visit to Moscow Spark a Political Thaw?
On Aug. 31, when Russian police raided the Moscow offices of BP, its staff were not particularly shocked. In Russia the British oil giant holds training...
