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

A banker at state-run VTB was found dead in his apartment after apparently suffering a gunshot wound to the head from a pellet gun.

Uzbek President Islam Karimov has won another seven-year term with 88.1 percent of the votes, according to returns released by the Central Election Commission.

Drivers will soon use plastic cards instead of cash to pay for parking in central Moscow, a city official said.

Muslims concerned about receiving medical treatment with practices in line with sharia can now go to the first medical center in the country specializing in Muslim patients.

Russia has launched three satellites to complement its space navigation system, for which President Vladimir Putin said he had a very specific plan: to keep tabs on his black lab, Connie.

The State Duma, which contains at least five former magazine cover girls and 40 members of the siloviki, watched Nobel-winning scientist Zhores Alfyorov break a glass in a speech against poverty at its first session.

The decision to elect a lawyer as the head of the Culture Committee prompts a protest from two senior cultural figures.

Yury Nadezhdin, a rescue worker in the Far North, does not like winter. For him, it means people doing stupid things -- and killing themselves in the process.

Union of Right Forces leader Boris Nemtsov announced Wednesday that he would not run for president and called on other opposition candidates to follow suit or risk legitimizing a ""farcical"" election.