Two employees of the U.S. Embassy were involved in automobile accidents in Moscow over the weekend, Interfax reported. No one was injured in either accident. Two employees of the U.S. Embassy were involved in automobile accidents in Moscow over the weekend, Interfax reported. No one was injured in either...

Russia is ending its long love affair with a car that was once prized by the nation but has come to symbolize the decline of its automobile industry and, for some, the country itself. Russia is ending its long love affair with a car that was once prized by the nation but has come to symbolize the decline of its automobile industry and, for some, the country itself....

... rubles in 2011. Though his wife owns a parking space, the family also does not own any vehicles. Yevgeny Murov, chief of the Federal Guard Service, reported a salary of 5.7 million rubles in 2011. His collection of vehicles includes an antique Moskvich automobile, a Harley Davidson motorcycle, and Honda and Suzuki scooters. But a Porsche Cayenne and a 4,500-square-meter plot of land that were in his 2010 statement are not listed in this declaration. The head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Mikhail...

... accelerators, oxygen sensors and electronic brake systems over 2013 and 2014 in Saratov. Diesel technologies will also be produced in Russia after 2014, but the location of the assembly is still not determined. Walter Schopf, regional director for automobile component sales, could not say how much the expansion would cost or how many jobs would be created, but he estimated that sales will more than double after the final stage of expansion is complete. Localization will help Bosch accommodate...

... also owns a 186-square-meter home and a 31.6-square-meter home and he owns a 128-square-meter apartment together with his wife, according to police income declarations published Wednesday on the Interior Ministry's website. He also owns an Audi A6 automobile. He said his wife earned 6 million rubles and owns a 100-square-meter apartment. According to the income declarations of Cabinet officials published last month, Nurgaliyev made 3.1 million rubles last year, while his wife made just over 1 million...

... organizers have a map on their site, which will show which museums have the most visitors so that people can avoid the lines. They also have a hotline for information on the night. This year, 10 museums, including the Mayakovsky Museum, the Museum of Retro Automobiles and the Museum of Gulag History, are allowing event-goers to register early online or via a telephone hotline, to ensure a quick entrance into the respective museum. The project this year is funded by the city government in partnership with...

... 2 billion rubles for providing coverage on federal roads. This relates to the fact that by 2015 all new locally manufactured cars are supposed to have the Era Glonass system installed, which will use the mobile network to transmit the location of an automobile accident to the emergency services. Europe currently has a similar system called eCall. VimpelCom is aware of the government's plans concerning coverage of highways, said Anna Aibasheva, a spokeswoman for the operator. Now VimpelCom and the...

... rating, Russia gets 130th place for road quality, below Angola, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Expenditures on road construction are growing — from 255 billion rubles ($8.5 billion) in 2005 to 545 billion rubles in 2011. But the rate of growth of automobiles is outpacing road building. Traffic intensity rose 1.8 times over 10 years. Road density in Russia is at six kilometers per 1,000 inhabitants — higher than in India and China (at two kilometers per 1,000 inhabitants), but significantly...

... model cars with engines of 350 horsepower or more to the rate of 300 rubles ($10) per horsepower and also allowing regional governments and municipalities to add to that rate. The Finance Ministry proposes to up the threshold for any luxury tax on automobiles with engines of 410 horsepower or greater. One source said this is necessary in order to support the local manufacturing of BMWs in Kaliningrad — the BMW 750Li, popular among state officials, has a 408-horsepower engine. Correction:...

... world, the Oceanarium. It’s the only aquarium on the European continent where trained Arctic seals perform. Of equal interest for tourists is the Kolsky Bridge. As a four-lane, 2.5-kilometer bridge crossing the Kola Bay, it is one of the longest automobile bridges north of the Arctic Circle. — Nataliya Nedzhvetskaya From there, take a ride to see Alyosha, a 35-meter-high statue of a soldier that is Murmansk's most recognizable landmark. Dedicated to those who defended the Soviet...