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

Moscow's Simonovsky District Court on Wednesday adjourned the trial of former Yukos executive Vasily Aleksanyan so that he could be treated for an AIDS-related terminal illness, but did not order his release from detention.

A Harvard-trained lawyer, Vasily Aleksanyan was once a high roller who drove around Moscow in a Mercedes-Benz luxury SUV.

A U.S. pastor is being held in a detention cell in Sheremetyevo Airport after trying to bring a box of ammunition into the country.

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Deep Purple is heading to Moscow as a farewell gift to First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the chairman of state-controlled gas giant Gazprom and a virtual lock to become the country's next president.

Russia warned the European Union and NATO on Wednesday that their presence in Kosovo would be illegal if in support of a self-proclaimed independent state.

The gun used to kill Novaya Gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya contained fur from a dog owned by three Chechen suspects now in custody, the Tvoi Den newspaper reported Wednesday.

Russia said Wednesday that Iran's test launch of a rocket raised suspicions about the real nature of the country's atomic program, in what could signal a hardening of its stance toward Tehran. Iran launched a rocket Monday designed to carry its first locally made research satellite next year, showing the country's advances in ballistics at a time when Western powers are already wary that it may be developing a nuclear weapon.

A Chechen human rights researcher is warning that militant Islamic ideology is gaining currency in Chechnya and broadening its appeal elsewhere in the tense North Caucasus.