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. 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...

A woman convicted of planning to carry out a suicide bomb attack during 2010 New Year's Eve celebrations on Red Square has been sentenced to 10 years in jail, investigators said Friday. The plot was foiled after another suicide bomber was killed by explosives that accidentally detonated in her hotel room only hours before the planned attack. Investigators said...

The usual sunny weather was absent and fewer soldiers than last year took part Wednesday in the annual Victory Day parade on Red Square, where President Vladimir Putin spoke about Russia's role in the world. The usual sunny weather was absent and fewer soldiers than last year took part Wednesday in the annual Victory Day parade on Red Square, where President Vladimir...

... Embassy were involved in automobile accidents in Moscow over the weekend, Interfax reported. No one was injured in either accident. On Saturday evening, a Moscow resident his late 40s and driving a Nissan Maxima collided with a Volkswagen Jetta with red diplomatic license plates on the intersection of Uralskaya Ulitsa and Shchelkovskoye Shosse in northwestern Moscow, the report said, citing the police. The Jetta was driven by a political and ecological analyst at the embassy, it said. In the other...

... dressed in full formal dress, except for soldiers in mechanized divisions, who will wear field uniforms. Last year, all soldiers wore field forms. Heavy machinery fitted with special rubber "boots" to prevent damage to the ground surfaces on Red Square will also take center stage in the parade, with the line of equipment stretching 1.5 kilometers. This year's parade will also see the new armored Lynx vehicle on Red Square for the first time, which will accompany the Topol-M strategic missile...

... details on what he said shortly. After his speech, a 30-gun salute sounded from the Kremlin Naberezhnaya and Putin kissed his wife Lyudmila, who was in fact in attendance, and Svetlana Medvedeva, the former first lady. He then began his long walk down the red carpet to Cathedral Square, where he is currently inspecting the Presidential Regiment. During his walk, guests began reaching out to shake Putin’s hand, and it took him a few minutes to accept the congratulations of 50 or so people. 12:10 p...

... the game in normal time and of the penalty that won it after extra time ended with a 1-1 draw, running across the pitch with the Champions League trophy in his arms and delight on his face. Tens of thousands of Bayern Munich fans, forming a wall of red and white, silenced and shellshocked in their own magnificent stadium. Chelsea now has the bragging rights of being the first club from London to claw its way to the top of Europe. Tottenham, Arsenal — are you watching? There were times in...

... used to be more of us. I remember that 10 years ago there were at least 70 veterans in the city; now there are only 17," he said, holding out a list of names and phone numbers, many of which had been crossed out. A retired colonel in the Soviet Red Army, Kolotushkin volunteered to serve on the western front with his father and two brothers and went on to take part in the Battle of Kursk and the race to Berlin. He was later awarded the Order of the Red Star and several medals for bravery in...

... plays the few scenes that describe the arc of this journey from cowering cowardice to vile insensitivity. Designer Nikolai Simonov created a clean, contemporary set that provides the contrast of a white background and colored details such as bright red chairs or red neckties. Video projections including a speech by the king and backstage shenanigans as the story comes to an end remind us easily of modern-day television broadcasts or Internet podcasts. A clothes rack holding the characters' costumes...

... for both "Emeralds" and "Rubies" consist of columns, reaching from bottom to top of the stage and constructed out of what look to be translucent glass blocks, lighted in green for "Emeralds" and, at twice the width, in red for "Rubies." Separating the columns are grayish panels, decorated with thin, vertical reflective strips. It may be something of an overstatement to describe Pikalova's decor as reminiscent of a public lavatory, as did two eminent Moscow...

... — clean air, blue skies, empty spaces as far as the eye could see. As long as you stayed clear of the rattlesnakes and Black Widow spiders, you didn't have a care in the world. My best friends were ants (I preferred the little black ones to the big red ones because they struck me as being more, well, refined, than the brute reds), horny toads, lizards, tarantulas and butterflies. These fascinating creatures were among the only living things within a couple miles of our house. Now, we had a neighbor...

... elderly Russians regret the Classic's passing and see bad omens for the future. "It was the best-designed car in the world. You won't see a more beautiful car," Alexander Fyodorov, a 65-year-old architect, said as he strolled across Moscow's Red Square. "Russia has gone off course since then. The Russian auto industry has been destroyed. I blame it on 12 years of Putin," he said, gesturing toward the red walls and golden domes of the Kremlin where Russia's long-term ruler, Vladimir...

Image management is a phenomenon practiced worldwide, but it has been polished to perfection in Russia. Projecting the appropriate image is de rigueur from the enormous, impressive displays of military might parading across Red Square on Victory Day to the spectacularly beautiful Seven Sister Moscow skyscrapers to the unbelievably high spike heels that are part of the standard uniform for so many young, modern Russian women. Image management is...

... background allowed me to understand it." A plaque installed at Arlington by the Russian government and some U.S. supporters reads, "In tribute to the partnership in the battle against tyranny." On Wednesday morning, it was quickly covered in red carnations deposited by children from the local Russian Embassy school and other participants during the ceremony, while a bugler played taps in the shadow of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Belousovitch laid a wreath. Igor Belousovitch Education...

... already the fourth day in a row," he wrote, referencing the recent ongoing demonstrations in which opposition protesters have been arrested in large numbers. The blogger said his friends had been detained by police just for walking with white and red ribbons. "If I had a white ribbon, I would be arrested after 10 meters. But take a man fooling around with an AK, and nobody cares. Police officers just looked at him and then shifted their gaze to the side," he wrote. The blogger said...

... back that the U.K. had work to do on this front as well, giving the example of what he said was a 10-page application required for Russians to receive a British visa. "By all means, the Russian government understands there is work to do in cutting red tape: it is a high priority and we have seen substantial progress in recent years, as foreign businessmen operating here testify," Peskov wrote. "Moreover, other countries, the UK included, have room for improvement on this front too."...

... singers from the A. Alexander Russian Army Academic Ensemble of Song and Dance. The choir will also perform the song “Glory” from an opera by Glinka. A 30-gun salute from the Kremlin Naberezhnaya will meet Putin’s exit to the Red Porch. During a parade of the presidential regiment, an elite military unit formed in 1936, around Cathedral Square, the presidential orchestra will play a “standard array” of military marches. The parade will conclude...

... by a Kremlin leader, also unveiled a Holocaust monument by sculptor Zurab Tsereteli in Jerusalem at the time. Next month, Putin is expected to unveil another monument, this one in the Israeli city of Netanya to honor Jewish soldiers who fought in the Red Army during World War II. He and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the plans for the monument during a visit by Netanyahu to Moscow in January 2010. Netanyahu invited Putin to visit Israel during a phone call that he made to congratulate...

... would take part in the procession, as usual.   Dzugayev was outraged with the comparison to the Hitler Youth, saying the 60 torches in the procession would symbolize the university students who died in the war and would be lit from the Eternal Flame on Red Square. The procession of 1,000 students in white robes will start at 9 p.m. Thursday in front of the university on Delegatskaya Ulitsa and proceed along the Garden Ring to a clinic on Dolgorukovskaya Ulitsa, from which students left for the front...

... Kovpachik strode up to the silver, 60-centimeter-high trophy, which was on display as a tourist attraction in an open-air exhibition in central Kiev, ostensibly to be photographed alongside it like hundreds of other sightseers. But she then pulled down her red T-shirt to reveal the words "[expletive] Euro 2012" scrawled on her torso. As she grabbed hold of the cup with both hands, she was seized by security guards, who appeared to have had advanced warning of the protest. They covered her with...