The Moscow Times

Last month, President Dmitry Medvedev ordered Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev to develop stricter regulations for the sale of air guns and other defensive firearms, which can fire shells or rubber bullets and often inflict considerable bodily harm.

The Defense Ministry will help AvtoVAZ increase its sales by compensating military officers for their down payment on a Lada 4x4.

Citigroup on Wednesday raised its forecast for the pace of Russian economic growth to 6.2 percent this year as consumer spending accelerates.

Russia will extend funding to Bulgaria to build the stalled Belene nuclear power plant project until Sofia finds a strategic investor, Bulgaria’s economy and energy minister said Friday.

Shares in United Company RusAl tumbled nearly 7 percent on Thursday, meaning that the world's largest aluminum producer has shed more than a third of its IPO price in a month.

While law enforcement, mobile providers and phone makers have all pledged to tackle the problem, illegal mobile phones continue to be openly sold in most electronics markets with impunity.

Russian or Soviet skaters had dominated the pairs event by winning gold at 12 successive Olympics stretching back to the 1964 Innsbruck Games but on Monday they were completely knocked off the podium after Yuko Kavaguti and Alexander Smirnov both crashed to the ice in their free program.

France has agreed to sell a Mistral-class warship to Russia, a French official said Monday, despite concerns expressed by Georgia, the United States and other countries.

Located in the center of Moscow, just off Tverskaya Ulitsa, the Kosma and Damian church is a beacon of hospitality and warmth, especially during a winter that experts say has been the city’s coldest in 60 years. Every Wednesday, the church offers a free lunch and warm clothing to the homeless, the poor and the hungry. Staff photographer Igor Tabakov went to the church this week.

This week: People swimming in ice holes in minus 28 degree Celsius weather, ice skaters in awkward positions and mansions getting razed to the ground.

Despite making a drastic and ultimately unconvincing revision of the plot, director Dmitry Chernyakov worked Alban Berg's "Wozzeck" into a staging masterpiece.

In our first installment of two retrospective staff photo galleries, Vladimir Filonov's images of Moscow are on display. 

The Energy Ministry said Monday that it had agreed on terms for a new oil deal with Ukraine, just a few hours after spooking Europe with a warning the continent could face oil supply cuts because of a dispute between Moscow and Kiev.

Medvedev has made it clear that his request for increased powers was motivated by last year’s five-day war in the breakaway republic of South Ossetia.