Russian and American Spies Square Off

Rosbank Bribery Scandal Highlights Need for Ethics Enforcement

Putin's Patriotism: Duma May Make Criticism of WWII Illegal

What the Papers Say, May 17, 2013

U.S., Russia and Iran Tangle to Save Olympic Wrestling

New Yandex Feature Could Give Some Websites an Advantage

Q&A: Baltika Boss Isaac Sheps Likes to Be Challenged

Moscow's Insomniacs Cluster For Museum Night

Why Putin Wants U.S. Bases in Afghanistan

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Theater Plus: 'Interesting, Intense' Moscow Theater a 'Real Treat'

Kolomna: A City on Three Rivers

Lipetsk: A City Feeling Mighty

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The embarrassing arrest of a suspected CIA officer in Moscow is the latest reminder that the U.S. and Russia are engaged in an espionage battle with secret tactics, spying devices and training that sometimes isn't enough to avoid being caught.

A bribery scandal at French lender Societe Generale's Russian entity Rosbank shows that stricter measures should be implemented by both Western and Russian companies to enforce compliance with their codes of conduct, experts said.

The State Duma has ordered an evaluation of a comment made by opposition politician Leonid Gozman in which he compared a Soviet intelligence agency to Adolf Hitler's SS on the grounds that the comment may hurt the image of Russia's military history.

A roundup of today's Russian-language newspapers

Russia, Iran and the United States — rivals on the world stage — joined together in an unlikely alliance Wednesday inside New York's Grand Central Terminal train station for a wrestling exhibition to try to save their sport from being dropped in the Olympics.

Internet search results will become interactive, enabling users to buy movie tickets or book doctor's appointments directly from the search result page, Yandex co-co founder Ilya Segalovich said Thursday.

Isaac Sheps, CEO of Russia's largest brewer Baltika, says that his job is "selling fun." The fun materializes when a waiter brings several pints of an amber-colored liquid.

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Arts & Ideas

By Simone Peek

This Saturday, Moscow will celebrate a "Day of Historical and Cultural Heritage." The name of the large-scale event correctly reflects the numerous activities during the day, starting from 10 a.m.

Calendar Listings: May 16 - May 22, 2013

A dancer twisting and contorting in a series of five dance pieces showing at Moscow's School of Dramatic Art. based on both Roland Barthes'A Liver's Discourse: Fragments' and Ovid's 'The Heroides,' which depicts aggrieved heroines of mythology admonishing their neglectful lovers.

Nabucco: This production of Verdi's opera, based on the biblical story of the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar and his invasion of Jerusalem, is one of the Bolshoi's best in years. Bolshoi Theater New Stage. Tuesday the 21st, Wednesday the 22nd at 7 p.m. and May 24 and 25 at 7 p.m., May 26 at 6 p.m.

Lindsey Stirling: violin. P!PL Club. Wednesday, May the 22nd. 8 p.m.

Antonio Banderas playing plastic surgeon Robert Ledgard in 'The Skin I Live In' - a psychological thriller in which he illegally performs experimental operations on captors, hoping to discover the procedure that could have saved his wife. The film plays at Rolan on Wednesday.

Opinion

By Michael Bohm

Only when Putin senses a direct security threat from the Taliban is he able to refrain from his trademark anti-U.S. rhetoric.

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With multinational hotel companies gearing up for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games and 2018 FIFA World Cup, as well as trying to cash in on rising domestic business and leisure travel, they face the Olympian task of beating both the clock and the competition to deliver new properties.

Former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker once recalled that Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev gave him a horse when he visited the newly independent nation in Central Asia in the early 1990s.

A pair of modern-day Cossacks begins their patrol at 8 p.m. on a cool September evening. They're on the lookout for lawbreakers: drunks, drug addicts, youths out after curfew - anybody disturbing the peace in Lyublino, a quiet residential district in southeast Moscow.

Maria Yeliseyeva has always been surrounded by children. In addition to the five she gave birth to, she has fostered another five from Russian orphanages.

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Photo Gallery: A Day to Remember Their Sacrifice

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Marc Robinson has the distinction of being the most popular guest I have ever hosted on this page with a video blog.

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A traveler to Kolomna shouldn't rush to put a checkmark next to this city's name on his list of places visited, since this ancient town has so much charm he'll want to return.

It's not often that something positive is born out of the destruction of war, but Lipetsk is one such example. In the beginning of the 18th century, after Peter the Great started the Great Northern War with Sweden, his main supplier of iron, he needed to find domestic sources to compensate.

When Anton Chekhov decided to visit this remote island in Russia's Far East in 1890, his close friend, journalist Alexei Suvorin, argued, "There is nothing interesting on Sakhalin!"

Standing at the top of Gediminas Hill and looking out over the city of Vilnius, it is easy to see why this Baltic capital is considered one of the greenest cities in Europe. With an estimated three-fifths of the city untouched by development, Vilnius is a veritable kaleidoscope of vegetation.

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