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

Gulsine Fatakhudinova, a 56-year-old Tatar Muslim, came lugging suitcases to pray at the lime-green mosque in central Moscow -- one of dozens of people who arrived one recent day bundled in the weighty coats, fur hats and other winter garb they would soon cast off, at least temporarily.

A dog plays with a kitten, scattering their meal of meat and macaroni over the entrance. An armed security guard looks on and laughs. The walls are covered with dark mold, and the plaster is peeling off. Patients walk carefully, trying to avoid gaping cracks in the well-worn, wooden floor.

President Vladimir Putin was named Time magazine's person of the year on Wednesday, becoming the first Russian to win the title since Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev did it twice in the late 1980s.

Andrei Grechishnikov spends about two to three hours every day driving his two preschool-aged children from their home in the Moscow region town of Nakhabino to their kindergarten in the city's Tushino district. He considers himself lucky.

Taking a symbolic swipe at Russia, U.S. lawmakers are threatening to withhold aid unless Moscow improves conditions for journalists, political activists and religious groups.

Six of the 32 committee chairmanships in the newly elected State Duma will go to parties other than United Russia, which chaired every single committee in the previous Duma, a senior United Russia official said Wednesday.

A group of Russian Orthodox believers have accused Coca-Cola of blasphemy over a marketing campaign showing the cross and onion-shaped church domes on outdoor refrigerators, Nizhny Novgorod prosecutors said Wednesday.

Nine independent candidates, including former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and Soviet-era dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, have been registered as potential contestants in the March 2 presidential election, the Central Elections Commission said Wednesday.

Ilya Yashin, the 24-year-old leader of Yabloko's youth group, announced Wednesday that he would seek to unseat Grigory Yavlinsky as the party's leader and unite liberal politicians in a new political movement.