Complete coverage of the U.S.-Russia summit, being held July 6-8 in Moscow.

When a national football team qualifies for a major tournament, they are typically greeted as heroes back home. But when Russia last week qualified for the European Championships, it was Moscow's small Croatian community -- not Russian footballers -- who were overwhelmed by gratitude from relieved fans.

Once a lively venue for arguments, fistfights and hurled objects, the State Duma -- a place Duma Speaker and United Russia head Boris Gryzlov once fittingly described as ""not a place for discussion"" -- has become increasingly sedate over the past four years.

Opposition leader Garry Kasparov was among dozens of activists detained Saturday, as riot police eventually quashed a thousands-strong rally against President Vladimir Putin that spilled into the central streets.

Riot police detained dozens of opposition activists rallying Sunday in St. Petersburg against President Vladimir Putin's government, a day after the crackdown on an opposition demonstration in Moscow.

British lawmakers in a report Sunday urged the government to meet with their Russian counterparts to thrash out thorny judicial issues that have chilled ties between the two nations.

Alexander Litvinenko's widow is seeking a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights that Russia was complicit in poisoning the former Federal Security Service officer with radioactive polonium, her lawyer said Friday.

Vladimir Kryuchkov, the former KGB chief who spearheaded a failed coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, has died, officials said Sunday. He was 83.

More than 100,000 people -- roughly one of every 100 citizens -- will be barred from leaving Belarus after Jan. 1, the interior minister told journalists Saturday.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili stepped down Sunday to be registered as a candidate in the Jan. 5 presidential election, his chief spokesman said.