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

Sunday's vote brought no surprises, but March remains a mystery.

International observers criticized the State Duma elections as unfair and undemocratic and accused the Kremlin of abusing its position to buttress a crushing victory for United Russia.

President Vladimir Putin thanked voters Monday for supporting the United Russia party in Sunday's State Duma election, while stressing his own central role in the victory.

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Turkmenistan's leader inaugurated the construction of a $5 billion tourism complex on the Caspian coast on Monday, his latest gesture to open up the reclusive country to the world.

Implenia, Switzerland's largest builder, said Monday that billionaire Shalva Chigirinsky bought a 2.7 percent stake and that a joint venture with the Russian investor's building company was founded to develop Russian property and infrastructure projects.

Orco Property Group, a real estate developer that operates in Central and Eastern Europe, said Monday that nine-month profit tripled, bolstered by the earnings of a German unit and new projects in the Czech Republic and Poland.

Estimating the value of assets is a worry for owners of practically every company. But the price valuation of land -- an important and fundamental resource -- is often the very foundation or platform for building a business.

Kazakhstan's central bank on Monday raised the key interest rate by 2 percentage points in an effort to curb inflation, which accelerated to its highest in almost eight years last month.