Russian and U.S officials are meeting Wednesday and Thursday in Moscow to discuss a replacement pact for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty I, which is expiring in December.
The domes of Moscow's fairytale churches aren't the only things in the city that glitter gold. In recent years the global commodities boom swelled the ranks of the nouveau-riche "New Russians," whose wealth, and eagerness to dispose of it, has helped build a "New Moscow."
Chris Helmbrecht is a 37-year-old German who lived in New York and Spain before moving to Moscow nearly six years ago. He runs an advertising agency and also writes Moscow Blog, a lifestyle blog about the city.
A Boeing 737 with 69 people aboard landed safely Saturday after making an emergency landing at Moscow's Vnukovo airport, an airport spokeswoman and Russia's Interfax news agency said.
A jury in Moscow on Thursday acquitted three men charged with involvement on the murder of independent journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Police detained 90 people Sunday at an unsanctioned political opposition rally organized by former chess champion Garry Kasparov, the Moscow police press service said.
Seven members of a skinhead gang convicted over 20 racially motivated killings and 12 other violent attacks, will hear their sentences in a Moscow court Thursday, according to Russian media.
Viewpoint: The attempt to poison a leading human-rights lawyer may be the latest on a dispiriting list of blatantly political assassination attempts
A Moscow court on Monday convicted 12 teenage boys and a man of committing a series of vicious ethnic attacks, including the murder of a chess champion who was a member of Russia's Yakut ethnic group
A Navy ship loaded with humanitarian aid was on its way to Georgia on Wednesday, as the Bush administration prepared to roll out a $1 billion economic aid package
Russian and U.S officials are meeting Wednesday and Thursday in Moscow to discuss a replacement pact for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty I, which is expiring in December.
The domes of Moscow's fairytale churches aren't the only things in the city that glitter gold. In recent years the global commodities boom swelled the ranks of the nouveau-riche "New Russians," whose wealth, and eagerness to dispose of it, has helped build a "New Moscow."
Chris Helmbrecht is a 37-year-old German who lived in New York and Spain before moving to Moscow nearly six years ago. He runs an advertising agency and also writes Moscow Blog, a lifestyle blog about the city.
A Boeing 737 with 69 people aboard landed safely Saturday after making an emergency landing at Moscow's Vnukovo airport, an airport spokeswoman and Russia's Interfax news agency said.
A jury in Moscow on Thursday acquitted three men charged with involvement on the murder of independent journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Police detained 90 people Sunday at an unsanctioned political opposition rally organized by former chess champion Garry Kasparov, the Moscow police press service said.
Seven members of a skinhead gang convicted over 20 racially motivated killings and 12 other violent attacks, will hear their sentences in a Moscow court Thursday, according to Russian media.
Viewpoint: The attempt to poison a leading human-rights lawyer may be the latest on a dispiriting list of blatantly political assassination attempts
A Moscow court on Monday convicted 12 teenage boys and a man of committing a series of vicious ethnic attacks, including the murder of a chess champion who was a member of Russia's Yakut ethnic group
A Navy ship loaded with humanitarian aid was on its way to Georgia on Wednesday, as the Bush administration prepared to roll out a $1 billion economic aid package
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Young women in bright miniskirts and high heels line up to sell themselves in the dingy back streets throughout the Russian capital. Moscow's illegal flesh markets are flourishing, with up to 30 women at each pickup point, or tochka, standing in order of price for the night.
A Defense Department report warns of the possibility that exotic drugs or implants could create a fearsome new enemy
Here's a news flash: Some of you may not be Manchester United or Chelsea fans.
English football fans hoping to travel to Moscow for this month's Champions League final between Manchester United and Chelsea face spiraling costs and an anxious wait for visas amid a simmering diplomatic row between the UK and Russia.
The Soviet Union may be in the dustbin of history, but there's one place the socialist utopia lives on: cyberspace.
Upcoming DNA test results on bone fragments found in Russia last year could prove that none of Czar Nicholas II's family escaped execution in the Bolshevik Revolution
Reputed arms dealer Viktor Bout was one of those names in Moscow -- we had heard of him off and on for a while, and had heard of his reputation in the shady underworld of illegal arms deals -- but it was a mystery as to where he was.
A row over a ban on an exhibition of art loaned from Russia has been resolved after Britain brought forward laws that will protect the paintings from seizure.
In the latest sign of tense relations between Moscow and London, Russian officials have pulled an art exhibition that was supposed to travel to Britain next month, a Russian museum director told CNN on Wednesday.
The Cold War lives on in this wooded corner of New Jersey under golden onion-shaped domes of a Russian Orthodox church.
The posh Neva Express train, favored by senior officials and business people, was blown up by a homemade bomb in the Novgorod area en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg
An explosion derailed several cars on a Russian passenger train traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg late Monday, injuring at least 27 people, officials said
London expels four diplomats to protest lack of cooperation in the Litvenenko case. But things aren't as simple as they were during the Cold War
Putin looks to deliver on his promise of an "energy empire" by claiming vast swaths of hydrocarbon-rich polar territory
Unlike almost everyone else in the CNN "Eye on Russia" team, I had never been to Russia before.
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Police in Moscow, Idaho, raided a church early Sunday where a gunman had holed up after shooting and killing two people.
Two American women who were hospitalized in Moscow earlier this week with possible thallium poisoning were in fair but stable condition Thursday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, the hospital said.
Two American women have been released from a Moscow clinic after they were hospitalized with possible thallium poisoning, a hospital official said.
A fire at a mental health hospital in Siberia killed eight people a day after a fire at a Moscow drug treatment facility killed 45 women, Russian media reported.
There's a new breed of women in the land of caviar and oligarchs - rich, entrepreneurial, and in charge. Here are six supernovas.
Moscow's status-conscious upper crust deserves a MySpace of its own -- and you could be the one to build it.
A Sibir Airlines passenger jet with 200 people on board veered off the runway early Sunday while landing at Irkutsk Airport in eastern Siberia, crashed into a concrete barrier and burst into flames, killing at least 124 people, according to the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations.
The vodka may be cheap, but according to the latest cost-of-living survey from Mercer Consulting, Moscow now ranks as the world's most expensive city, edging out Tokyo, which held the No. 1 spot for four straight years.
A passenger train bound for Moscow from Chechnya derailed after an explosive device detonated on the tracks 90 miles south of the Russian capital Sunday morning, according to the ITAR-Tass news agency.
Moscow's weather has been catching people off guard recently: snow in spring, a flood in summer, a hurricane closer to fall, sun in winter.
A veiled shadow in a doorway of Beslan School Number One; delicate, slumped bodies in Moscow theater seats; the soft, youthful face in a suicide bomber's farewell video -- These images are gripping and contradictory.
Russia's foreign minister has accused Western countries of displaying double standards by granting asylum to Chechen separatist figures.
Russian investigators said Monday that explosions led to the near-simultaneous crashes of two Russian jetliners last week.
Alkhanov, almost certain to become president of Chechnya in this weekend's election, is a career policeman who unlike many officials who will form his government never fought against Moscow's rule.
Explosives have been found in the wreckage of the second of two jets which crashed almost simultaneously this week, Russia's FSB security service told CNN.
Russia is observing an official day of mourning for the 89 people who died in the near-simultaneous crashes of two passenger jets.
Russian emergency workers are continuing to sift through twisted metal for clues about why two airliners crashed within minutes of each other, killing all 89 people aboard.
Russian police are investigating an explosion at a Moscow dormitory that wounded 19 people, police sources told Russia's Interfax news agency.
MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- Eight people were injured early Sunday when an apparent gas leak caused a powerful explosion at an apartment building on the south side of Moscow, the Interfax news agency reported.
Russian authorities have blamed architects and builders for the collapse of a Moscow water park that killed at least 25 people and injured more than 100.
Rescue workers have sifted through about half of the site where the glass roof of a Moscow-area water park collapsed, killing at least 26 people and injuring 110.
A Russian presidential candidate who disappeared for five days has hinted that he was hiding in Ukraine from shadowy operatives.
Flags across Moscow flew at half-staff and TV stations canceled entertainment programs Monday as Russians held an official day of mourning for the victims of last week's subway bombing that killed 39 people.
Russia has opened a terror investigation into a suspected suicide bombing on a Moscow subway train that killed at least 39 people and wounded another 129.
Police questioned survivors and combed the wreckage of a Moscow subway car as a terrorism investigation opened into a suspected suicide bombing that killed at least 39 people.
A blast tore apart a train car in the Moscow metro Friday, killing at least 39 and wounding at least 129 others, the Russian deputy interior minister said.
If Russian presidential elections were held today, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov would be a serious contender. A short, squat pug of a man, the 62-year-old Luzhkov has lately been selling himself as th...
Watching the national drama unfold in Russia, one question burns in TV viewers' minds: Why do Moscow correspondents say Mos-coe (as in "Roscoe") and not Mos-cow, as most Americans pronounce it? Nei...
It's midnight in Moscow. At the entrance to the Up & Down Club, a black-bereted ex-paratrooper is exercising "face control," the two-way radio in his fist as firm a deterrent to trespass as any Kal...
Until last year, Inkombank did business out of a crumbling former science institute on the outskirts of Moscow. Now its offices, in a lavishly renovated pre-Revolutionary mansion a stone's throw fr...
If Russia were a stock, most Westerners would be shorting it viciously now. Judging from the barrage of bad-news headlines, the country is spiraling into chaos--its businesses plagued by mobsters w...
Foreigners working in the Soviet Union once feared the mighty KGB. Now they dread the tax man. Russia has created an independent tax police force that uses fines, confiscation of property, and jail...
THE HUMAN SPIRIT knows few bounds, and no place proves that right now more than Russia. Western investment keeps rising, almost in step with the growing chaos. Foreign managers and advisers have ha...
-- ALEXANDER IVANOV, 38, who loads trucks for a living in Moscow, on Madonna's movie Truth or Dare, a flop among Russians, who don't like women to swear: ''Frankly, I was bored.'' -- NOREEN CONNELL...
Looking dapper in his tailored gray wool suit, Oleg Chekhlenko, 35, strides into his tiny Moscow office at nine o'clock on a chilly February morning and gets down to business. Fielding calls on two...
After three months of free-market shock therapy, the Russian government estimates that 90% of its 145 million people now live below the official poverty line. The average wage of 875 rubles per mon...
Once again, the Soviet Union is threatening Europe, not with arms this time but with the specter of a potentially devastating economic implosion. In the nightmare scenario, Europeans could spend hu...
MOSCOW -- A Soviet widow asked for a death certificate after her husband's funeral, but authorities demanded his tobacco ration coupons back first. ''Tobacco is for the living,'' officials in the L...
Looking for an exotic place to spend your next vacation? You can rent the country home of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, who died in 1982. The 14-room, four-story house is in Kislovodsk, a s...
It's not your ordinary job for an MBA student at Wharton. Danielle Downing, 26, is doing her bit for capitalism by helping launch the year-old Moscow Commodities Exchange. Downing, a New Yorker who...
Despite his threefold increase in the price of essential food, Mikhail Gorbachev may have more staying power than anybody thought possible -- and the same may be said of the entrepreneurial creativ...
IT'S MORNING and a light snow is falling on Malaya Kalitnikovskaya Street in Moscow's working-class Taganskaya neighborhood. Outside the local shoe store, in an all too familiar ritual, a line of s...
IT'S THRILLING to have a front-row seat on history-in-the-making -- even if just for an inning or two. For me, that opportunity came last month when I was invited by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Robe...
MEET the Soviet Lee Iacocca. Fifteen months ago Artem Tarasov, a self- proclaimed ''ruble millionaire,'' seemed headed for bankruptcy -- or worse. The Ministry of Finance had confiscated the assets...
The people shown here are homeless Soviets -- or bomzhi, as they are called -- begging on a Moscow street and sleeping at a railroad station. Two years ago Radio Moscow, freed by glasnost to discus...
CALL IT CRAZY. Call it courageous. An American entrepreneur arrived in Moscow not long ago hoping to sell popcorn for microwave ovens, a dicey undertaking in a nation where such devices are all but...
The historic events in East Berlin and Moscow, Warsaw, and Budapest provide the most dramatic evidence yet that the Cold War is over and we have won. Socialism is on the run, and democratic capital...
Vodka, sex, and ammunition . . . The ingredients of the lecture on cost accounting made 20 Soviet managers sit up and pay attention. They were attending a three-week course at Wake Forest Universit...
MOSCOW -- Warmer superpower relations have not stopped a Soviet agency from spreading . . . charges that the FBI murdered the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and that the CIA massacred Jim Jones and 90...
TO MANY WESTERN businessmen, the dazzling changes Mikhail Gorbachev has wrought in the Soviet Union have meant just one thing -- a shot at the largest untapped consumer market after the People's Re...
The Moscow summit is getting heavy play as a diplomatic event, but it is largely about economics. Missile reductions would benefit both countries' economies, the hard-pressed Soviet Union's most. A...
The old, boxy apartment buildings lining Gorky Street in Moscow bear little resemblance to the elegant mansions on Fifth Avenue in New York. They might even seem shabby to a tourist passing by. But...
WESTERN correspondents in Moscow call them yukkies -- for young urban Komsomol types (Komsomol is the Young Communist League). They are managers and engineers born during or since World War II, and...
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