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

The media tycoon helped fund the opposition protests that led to the calling of the election.

President Vladimir Putin blamed the United States on Monday for the controversial refusal by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's human rights and democracy watchdog to send observers to monitor the Dec. 2 State Duma elections.

Election officials have been ordered to make sure that United Russia collects double the number of votes it is expected to win in State Duma elections on Sunday -- even if they have to falsify the results, a senior election official said.

PIK Group, a developer that this year held Europe's largest public offering in the industry, said it acquired a plot of land in Perm to ""transform"" the country's sixth-biggest city.

Africa Israel Investments, the Israeli property company controlled by diamond billionaire Lev Leviev, said in a statement Sunday that third-quarter profit surged 82 percent as the value of real estate investments rose.

Hilton Hotel Group plans to redevelop the Plaza Olympia hotel in Perm with Hotels of Ural, the hotel company said in a statement earlier this month.

Authorities on the far eastern island of Sakhalin have pledged to build 60,000 square meters of living space by the end of the year to accommodate victims of an earthquake that struck the island on Aug. 2.

Moscow has become one of the top four most expensive locations to rent offices in the world, real estate services company CB Richard Ellis said in a report released Wednesday.

The country's first IKEA store east of the Urals opened its doors 20 days late in Novosibirsk last Tuesday after being delayed by a holdup in the issue of an operating permit by local authorities.