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

Photo essay highlighting the year's events.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of a booming RTS, it was the age of a global credit crunch, it was the epoch of President Vladimir Putin, it was the epoch of Dmitry Medvedev, it was the season of comfort and joy — and it was the season of the BlackBerry.

The outgoing year began with plans by Zenit, the St. Petersburg football club funded by gas giant Gazprom, to build a beer pipeline at its stadium to fuel fans and ended with cult followers holed up in a cave awaiting the end of the world.

Perhaps no Western diplomat has had a rougher year in Russia than British Ambassador Anthony Brenton.

Hundreds of people were evacuated Thursday evening from the Okhotny Ryad underground shopping center near Red Square after a pack of firecrackers was set off on the steps of the mall, city authorities said.

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The country's former power monopoly, Unified Energy System, on Thursday reported a 13 percent rise in core consolidated revenues in the first six months of 2007 as it sold and transmitted more electricity.

Gazprom this year held talks to join ExxonMobil’s Sakhalin-1 oil-and-gas project, an unidentified person close to the gas giant said.

French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citro--n said Thursday that it had selected Kaluga, 180 kilometers southwest of Moscow, as the site for its Russian plant to spearhead its drive into one of the world's fastest growing car markets.