Moscow, Russia News

Many of us remember the Soviet Union and the cold war associated with it. Now that the iron curtain has fallen, American visitors have been flocking to the Russian city of Moscow for years.

L'AQUILA, Italy -- President Barack Obama joined fellow world leaders in Italy Wednesday for talks on threats to global security and stability at a summit where climate change, a continuing global economic crisis, nuclear proliferation and world hunger took top billing.

It is a start. The honesty, dignity and respect shown by the President of the United States of America was a refreshing change to the arrogance, boorishness and callousness of the Bush regime and provides a scenario for a reset in relations and a genuine spirit of partnership for the future.

U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama take part in a wreath laying ceremony at the Russian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, Russia, July 6, 2009.

Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev have signed a joint statement reaffirming their commitment to fighting terrorists and drug traffickers in Afghanistan, one of eight agreements to come out of extended meetings on the first day of the Moscow summit.

He leaves tonight. His schedule for Monday: The President and the First Lady will arrive in Moscow in the afternoon.

The supreme priest of Russian neo-pagans prays to his gods celebrating the summer solstice in Maloyaroslavets, some 200 kilometers north-west from Moscow, Russia, early Saturday, June 27, 2009.

It's springtime in Ottawa, and Barack Obama's nuclear weapons adviser invites a luncheon gathering to join him on an imaginary journey that is more Dr.

MOSCOW - Russia is using its energy wealth to shore up influence abroad, pouring billions of dollars in loans and grants into former Soviet states and long-standing allies - even as it faces its own severe economic downturn.

Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev seen during his visit to the Sevmash factory in the northern city of Arkhangelsk on Thursday, July 2, 2009.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Monday threw his support behind a local politician who said he was fired from his job at a state-run company because of his oppositional views and political activities.

On 19 June 2009 a bi-lingual, colour supplement to The Moscow Times will be published.

Currently under extensive renovation, the new Radisson Royal Hotel featuring 507 guest rooms and 38 serviced apartments is scheduled to open its doors on December 1st 2009.

U.S. President Barack Obama will make a commencement speech to 1,000 guests at the New Economic School and hold talks with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, officials said, as details emerged of Obama's much-anticipated visit to Moscow on July 6 to 8. Obama will discuss the economic crisis and security issues during the graduation ceremony at the ...

A love cheat broke both his legs when he jumped out of a fourth floor window in the nude as he heard his lover's husband arriving home.

President of the North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov leaving the Grand Kremlin palace after the State award ceremony in Moscow, Russia in this June 12, 2009, file picture.

Reporting from Moscow -- Russia's Supreme Court today overturned the acquittal of three men charged as accomplices in the assassination of crusading investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev attends in the laying wreaths ceremony at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier marking the Day of Memory and Sorrow, the first day of the Great Patriotic War when in 1941 Nazi Germany attacked Soviet Union, Moscow, Russia, 22 June The people of Russia and other former Soviet Republics are remembering Monday the 68th year ...

Russian internet community learnt about poisonous jellyfish in Moscow ponds yesterday when one of Live Journal bloggers posted the information about it in his blog.

Three of the four national republics the Russian Constitutional Court earlier this month ordered to drop references in their constitutions to republic sovereignty and citizenship are dragging their feet.