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

Sweden's TV8 interviewed Moscow Times editor Andrew McChesney about the Russian economy and the upcoming president election during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The interview was broadcast on TV8's news program late last week.

While the first deputy prime minister has an affinity for exercise and books, rock music is still big on his list of interests.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Monday linked the recent arrest of suspected crime boss Semyon Mogilevich to the need to rid the gas trade between the two countries of murky middlemen.

Investigative journalist Oleg Lurye, famous for losing high-profile libel cases and incurring heavy fines from courts, has been arrested, a court official said Monday.

Suspected crime boss Semyon Mogilevich will be charged Wednesday with large-scale tax evasion, his lawyer said Monday.

The death toll from alcohol poisoning dropped for the second consecutive year as more and more Russians eschew homemade spirits and industrial alcohol in favor of cheap, legal alcohol, the National Alcohol Association said.

An unidentified assailant Monday shot and wounded the deputy governor of the Far Eastern Primorye region who oversaw the region's murky fishing industry.

The Foreign Intelligence Service blasted allegations by a former double agent that Russian spies helped the government siphon $500 million from the UN's oil-for-food program, in a statement released Monday.

The Central Elections Commission opted for a theatrical approach to inviting some 400 international observers to monitor the presidential vote on March 2, with chairman Vladimir Churov personally signing the invitations for some organizations at a press conference Monday.