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Up to 10,000 protesters flocked to a central Moscow avenue Saturday to demand Vladimir Putin's resignation and protest electoral fraud. More...

KOROLYOV, Russia – After 257 days in a locked, windowless steel capsule, researchers on a mock trip to Mars ventured from their cramped quarters in heavy space suits Monday, trudging into a sand-covered room to plant flags on a simulated Red Planet. The all-male crew of three Russians, a...

People hold posters reading 'We like kebab!' and 'We like khachapuri!' (Georgian cheese pastry) during a rally in Moscow. Hundreds of Russians hit the streets of Moscow on Sunday, rallying to promote peace and equality in response to a rash of ethnic violence and unrest, state-run media...

Russia says Scientology is 'extremism' MOSCOW, A Scientology center near Moscow is the target of a criminal case and charges of inciting hatred, punishable by up to five years in prison, authorities said. Russian investigators say documents and literature confiscated at the center in...

Record temperatures in Russian heat wave MOSCOW, Temperatures in Moscow reached 91 degrees in a heat wave that broke a 70-year-old weather record, meteorologists said. Forecasters say the heat wave in the entire central region of Russia area will last until July 22, RIA Novosti reported...

Bribery suspect threw $320,000 from car MOSCOW, (UPI) -- Authorities in Russia said an official under investigation on bribery allegations threw $320,000 from the window of his car on a busy Moscow street. Police said Boris Simonov, a deputy department head with the agency's Moscow and Oka...

Three guards killed in $4.2M Moscow heist MOSCOW, (UPI) -- Three armed security guards were killed and more than $4.2 million was stolen in the robbery of an armored vehicle in Moscow, police said Monday. The bodies of the three guards were discovered Sunday in western Moscow not far from the...

MOSCOW – The Kremlin got exactly what it wanted when the United States scrapped plans for missile defenses on Russia's borders. And Moscow wasted no time in trying to show, at least publicly, that it has ceded nothing in return and, in fact, intends to press for more from Washington. Iran and...

Obama heads to Moscow for "reset" summit By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama heads to Moscow on Sunday promising a far-reaching effort to "reset" U.S.-Russia relations that hit a post-Cold War low under the Bush administration. Obama is expected to clinch summit deals on the...