Francesca Schiavone of Italy and Olga Govortsova of Belarus advanced to the final the Kremlin Cup with straight-sets victories on Saturday.
Moscow's mercurial mayor, famous for seeding clouds to prevent rain during parades, is escalating his war on weather with plans to slash this year's snowfall by one-fifth in the Russian capital.
A natural gas pipeline exploded in southwestern Moscow early Sunday, the Emergency Services Ministry said, sending flames soaring more than 100 meters (yards) into the sky.
Russia's footprint is everywhere in this breakaway Georgian province, from billboards featuring its president, Dmitry Medvedev, to its joint military exercises with the Abkhaz navy.
President Bush will send Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates to Moscow later this month for talks with their Russian counterparts.
Serena Williams was undone by a slew of errors Sunday and lost the Kremlin Cup final 5-7, 6-1, 6-1 to Elena Dementieva, who won her hometown tournament on the third attempt.
Serena Williams and Svetlana Kuznetsova won Friday, and the two will face each other in the Kremlin Cup semifinals.
Maria Sharapova, playing in Moscow for only the third time, lost to teenager Victoria Azarenka 7-6 (9), 6-2 Wednesday in the second round of the Kremlin Cup.
Tests confirmed Friday that two American women hospitalized after they became ill on a trip to Russia were poisoned by thallium, but the women believe it was accidental, their lawyer and the hospital said.
U.S. Open champion Maria Sharapova pulled out of the Kremlin Cup on Friday because of a strained right foot.
The mystery surrounding why exactly a Swedish diplomat was selling smuggled pantyhose in a Moscow kiosk grew on Tuesday as the Swedish foreign ministry alleged the Russian media portrayal of the incident was a deliberate smear attempt.
MOSCOW—Russia on Tuesday penned a deal to build Vietnam's first nuclear power plant, and the countries' respective oil and gas giants forged a joint venture, increasing Moscow's outreach into southeast Asia, Russian news agencies reported.
A Russian man was turned down for a loan from his bank in Moscow after he used a smiley face symbol for his signature on the paperwork
Just in case you are wondering, this was not a terrorist attack according to authorities. Last weeks bombing of a passenger train was though. Hope they might want to chip in some more resources to the Afghanistan campaign as a result of the recent attack. War is spendy.
MOSCOW - Russian police have arrested three homeless people suspected of eating a 25-year-old man they had butchered and selling other bits of the corpse to a local kebab house.
Israeli and US threats against Iran are growing louder. Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon has accused Tehran of conducting insincere negotiations and says his country's the threatened military option is no bluff.
His foreign policy brings to mind Jimmy Carter, or perhaps Ethelred the Unready.
"About the only thing more comical than Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize was the reaction of those who deemed the award "premature," as if the brilliance of Obama's foreign policy is so self-evident and its success so assured that if only the Norway Five had waited a few years, h …
Moscow will blast clouds from the sky this winter to save money on snow removal, a city official said Wednesday, but the plan threatens to anger the surrounding region, which would have to cope with the extra powder.
Geopolitics: America's new clout from the Nobel Peace Prize somehow didn't persuade Russia to help pressure soon-to-be-nuclear-armed Tehran. But then, for nearly 20 years Moscow has been helping Iran go nuclear.
Weird cloud formation or something other worldly... you decide! This cloud was seen over Moscow and widely reported . Do you think it is an optical illusion?
Bizarre 'Independence Day' cloud spotted over Moscow In scenes reminiscent of Independence Day, a ring-shaped luminous cloud was seen above Moscow city's Western District on Wednesday, last week.
Some Moscow officials believe that Russia lost more than it gained from its recognition of the independence of South Ossetia and, especially given the urging of Western officials now, would like to see it returned to Georgian control, according to a former South Ossetian official …
KABUL: The United States risks losing the war in Afghanistan if it continues to repeat the mistakes that once helped the Taliban's forerunners defeat the Soviet Union, Russia's outgoing ambassador in Kabul said.
An international report to be released Wednesday on last year's war between Russia and Georgia will place responsibility for the conflict on both countries, according to a person close to the Geneva-based fact-finding mission.
His move on missile defense raises troubling questions.
Obama's foreign policy embodies a line from "Animal House": "You [screwed] up -- you trusted us!"
Scrapping of U.S. missile defense plans hands big victory to Russia's new czar.
BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen called on Wednesday for an "open-minded and unprecedented dialogue" with Russia to reduce security tensions in Europe and confront common threats...
Venezuela\\\\\\\'s leftist President Hugo Chavez said Friday that his country is buying Russian missiles with a range of 186 miles as part of a series of arms deals with Moscow.
Russia is comparatively quite hostile for many racial minorities. There was an earlier very grim report by the Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy that concluded that at least 60% of African immigrants in Russia, had been physically assaulted.
Vladimir Putin is due in Poland on Tuesday to stand with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and Polish leaders to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the start of the second world war. But this show of unity belies deep divisions about the war, its causes and its consequences.
Russia and the US are planning creation of a missile monitoring centre, possibly in Moscow, to avoid accidents or misunderstandings on missile launches, Russia's top general said on Wednesday.
With the signing of military agreement between the United States and Uzbekistan at Tashkent last Thursday by the US Central Command chief General David Petraeus and Uzbek Defense Minister Kabul Berdiyev, Uzbekistan's geopolitical positioning has phenomenally shifted.
The Moscow-based son of a former guerrilla leader who traded peace for jobs with the Pakistani occupation forces has said India was only providing moral support to the Baluch resistance.