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

Facing embezzlement and tax evasion charges, former Yukos executive Vasily Aleksanyan claims that he was deliberately denied medical treatment for AIDS while in detention as punishment for not testifying against his bosses, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday that the country would not soften its stance in major international disputes, slamming the Western position on Kosovo, NATO activities and the behavior of the British Council as outside international law.

Border guards in Belarus said Wednesday that they had foiled an attempt to smuggle 277 parrots into the former Soviet state -- aboard a bicycle.

Amid the financial blizzard that swept through global markets this week, Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain brought a sobering message to Moscow on Wednesday, warning that the Russian economy was not immune to the crisis.

With no heating and three hours of electricity per day, Malokhat Atayeva is struggling to survive the coldest winter in three decades in her small town in Tajikistan.

Works by Matisse, Van Gogh, Cezanne and other masterpieces from Russian museums are finally hanging in a London gallery after high-level reassurances and a last-minute legal change eased Moscow's fears that the paintings could be seized in legal action if they traveled to Britain.

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Some of the country's largest fuel exporters are redirecting volumes to the domestic market in a rush to cash in on high prices at home while recession fears drive a downturn on international oil markets.

Norilsk Nickel, the mining company that may be acquired by United Company RusAl, called an extraordinary shareholders' meeting to elect a new board.