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The Red Square in the very centre of Moscow with on the right hand side the Russian National History Museum.

Whether President Obama's visit will improve U.S. relations with Russia will depend on the Soviet media, which tends to faithfully reflect government policy.

Revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin may be losing another round in the fight over Russia's history.

U.S. businessmen are expected to use a Russia-U.S. business summit on Tuesday to press Moscow to rein in corruption and improve conditions for western companies operating in the country.

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama has said Russia must understand that "old Cold War approaches" to relations with the US belong in the past.

It may not be the "reset button'' that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented her Russian counterpart earlier this year - a symbol of the need to start over again in relations between the United States and Russia - but it appears to be a start.

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _______________________________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 5, 2009 DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR MONDAY, JULY 6, 2009 The President and the First Lady will arrive in Moscow in the afternoon.

Kremlin chief Dmitry Medvedev has promised U.S. President Barack Obama "the warmest time" when he visits Moscow this week but cold grey skies, a low-key welcome and a skeptical public are more likely.

A A A' Thousands of casinos, slot-machine parlors and betting halls across Russia shut down Wednesday, complying with sweeping new restrictions that require all gambling business to relocate to four remote regions of the country.

The Russian government has agreed to let American troops and weapons bound for Afghanistan fly over Russian territory, providing an important new corridor for the United States military as it escalates efforts to win the eight-year-old war, officials on both sides said Friday.

A nationwide ban on gambling was just enacted! Russia has closed all casinos overnight, leaving approximately a third of a million people unemployed! "I feel terrible.

Michael Jackson's death may trigger another wave of Jackson Mania. The first vestiges of this phenomenon have already appeared in Russia and Ukraine.

Russia closed down its casinos overnight as gambling was banned nationwide, a move the industry says could throw a third of a million people out of work.

Most roulette wheels are grinding to a halt in Russia. The Kremlin is trying to rein in an industry seen as a breeding ground for corruption and organized crime.

Saigontourist hopes a program of hotel purchases in major destinations abroad will create a breakthrough in its business.

The Kyrgyz authorities' U-turn decision to leave the US airbase at Manas airport where it is, although in a different format, euphemistically termed Center of Transit Shipments, has proved an unpleasant surprise for Moscow, many analysts believe.

BEIRUT: Marwan Iskander, a Lebanese economist who has published 11 books on the economies of the Middle East and has advised three Lebanese prime ministers, ventured into Russian territories with his latest publication, an informative and well-researched book entitled "The Bear Turns Tiger- Resurgent Russia." Iskander officially launched his book ...

For a President facing political crisis, with Russian troops dug into Georgian soil and daily street protests calling for his head, Mikheil Saakashvili certainly put on a bombastic show for the visiting press.

CAIRO: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was in Egypt on Tuesday to discuss efforts to boost the grain trade and other economic ties with Russia's biggest trading partner in the Arab world.

Russia remembers on Monday the start of the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War, the term used in Russia and other ex-Soviet states to describe WWII.