The Moscow Times

A South African pilot who testified against a former associate, jailed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, was sentenced Wednesday to five years in a federal prison.

Continued protests in Russia will likely lead to violence or chaotic change, according to a new study ordered by the former finance minister.

Prime Minister Medvedev on Thursday allocated responsibilities between his deputies, saying he couldn't solve all the issues on his own.

Following the president's order to cut the number of officials entitled to use flashing lights to skirt through traffic, several incidents of alleged abuse involving high-profile figures have come to light.

When Mathias Rust landed his white Cessna on Red Square on May 28, 1987, he had placed all his hopes for world peace in Mikhail Gorbachev.

The mysterious cloak-and-dagger world of international espionage and its real-life heroes and villains are exposed in a new exhibition, the first to be sanctioned by U.S. intelligence agencies.

A headmaster from a Chelyabinsk school caused a storm Wednesday when it became known that he refused a police request to draw up a list of his students' ethnicity — arguing that the only ethnicity at his school was math.

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday defended a bill introducing fines of $30,000 or more for people who organize or participate in unauthorized rallies.

Jean Anouilh's “The Lark” famously looks at the burning of Joan of Arc at the stake through the prism of the 20th century. Check out Zhenya Berkovich’s new production on Thursday at the New Stage at the Moscow Art Theater. At 7 p.m.

The best photographs from the World Press Photo Competition are being shown at the Vetoshny Gallery, reflecting the most important world events of 2011 such as the Arab Spring and the Japanese earthquake.

President Vladimir Putin's regime is clearly going through hard times. Russia hasn't seen anything close to the massive anti-Putin rallies of the past six months since he came to power in 2000. Nor has it seen round-the-clock opposition camps that, like the monster in "Terminator 2," have the frightening ability to reassemble themselves no matter how many pieces they are broken into.

The former head of the Federal Youth Agency said Tuesday that the government has financed a liberal-leaning news outlet founded by Ilya Varlamov, one of the country's most popular bloggers.

We live in the most transformative era the world has ever seen. The familiar economic systems and structures that have evolved over time, and that our models and business strategies so deeply rely on, are changing as a result of powerful macro-economic forces conspiring to reshape our world.

Moscow plans to dismantle the round advertising billboards often used to publicize theater events, a city official said.