(Video) The Moscow metro celebrated its birthday with a nighttime concert featuring choral music, contemporary hits and beat boxing at the Kropotkinskaya metro station. The Moscow metro celebrated its birthday with a nighttime concert featuring choral music, contemporary hits...

As Moscow gears up to celebrate its victory in World War II, 67 years ago Wednesday, the shadow of political conflict shrouds the capital as hundreds of arrests cloud Victory Day festivities. 

 As Moscow gears up to celebrate its victory in World War II, 67 years...

.... A cloudy morning greeted the beginning of the Victory Day Parade in Moscow Wednesday, with more than 14,000 soldiers and officers parading alongside more than 100 units of heavy equipment, including tanks, rocket launchers and armored vehicles to celebrate the 67th anniversary of victory in World War II. In contrast with last year's Victory Day parade, all participants are dressed in full formal dress, except for soldiers in mechanized divisions, who will wear field uniforms. Last year, all soldiers...

... his hairy chest and gold chain with a cross. Although the dress code was a dark suit. Analysts might suggest Putin's musical tastes are changing, or that he has cannily noted that Mikhailov is now Russia's most popular singer. Timati was one of the celebrities who did a promotional video ad explaining that "I am voting for Putin because …" In his case, it was because of the Middle East. He said he wanted peace in Russia and didn't want "people hanging from the lampposts."...

The stunt by founder of the social network Vkontakte Pavel Durov caused chaos among revelers celebrating St. Petersburg's 309th birthday Sunday. Founder of social media site Vkontakte Pavel Durov and colleagues threw paper airplanes with 5,000-ruble notes ($155) out the window of their St. Petersburg office, causing chaos among revelers celebrating...

Breaking with recent tradition, President-elect Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev joined in a mass rally of trade-union supporters for the annual May Day celebration of labor in an effort to boost working-class support. Breaking with recent tradition, President-elect Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev joined in a mass rally of trade-union supporters for the annual May Day celebration of labor...

... undefeated performance in the championship, with Russia beating out defending champion and home team Finland to become the new world champion in hockey. In line with tradition, the team transformed the victory cup into a vessel for champagne in locker-room celebrations. "Today's game is a victory that makes me very happy," head trainer Zinetulla Bilyaletdinov said, Channel One reported. "I am very happy not only for myself and the guys, but for our country, that we won, and our country is...

... mean to party, as in ìû ãóëÿëè äî óòðà (we partied until dawn). Or it can even mean marital infidelity, as in ìóæ ãóëÿë íàëåâî (her husband cheated on her). Íàðîäíîå ãóëÿíèå usually means a street party, open-air festivities, a carnival or an outdoor celebration. Today the phrase also plays on the notion of moving around the city and having a good time. It doesn't include marital infidelity, but does include sleeping with strangers. More important, when anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny called...

... Ksenia could hold talks with the riot police. Sobchak is 30 now and has had a long career in show business. She became really well known as the host of TNT's "Dom-2" reality show, where contestants pair off and bitch about each other. Like most celebrities, she has a lucrative sideline as an emcee at parties and awards ceremonies. But lately she has branched out, writing articles and doing interviews and hosting a political talk show, "Gosdep-2," which airs on Mikhail Prokhorov's Snob...

... years!” said 20-year-old Tanja Tuuliainen, wearing a Swedish flag and drinking from a bottle of champagne with her girlfriends on the edge of a fountain in downtown Stockholm. Sweden’s entry last won the Eurovision competition in 1999. Celebrants bathed in their underwear in the fountain, where Swedes traditionally celebrate major sporting event wins. Hundreds sang “We’re going up up up up up!!!” repeating a line from Loreen’s song. The Eurovision Song Contest...

... to inculcate in Russians the notion that those who criticize the United States are "patriots," while those who praise the United States are "agents of Western influence" in the best case, and traitors in the worst. As the country celebrated its 67th anniversary of Victory Day on Wednesday, many Russian intellectuals criticized the country's patriotism as being too closely linked to the images of war and enemies — both real and imagined. Victory Day is an important holiday, they...

Sometimes the clearest and broadest view can only be gained from afar. For the last month, in Houston, Texas, FotoFest, one of the world's largest and most important photography biennials, has celebrated the rich history and diversity of Russian photography. HOUSTON, Texas — Sometimes the clearest and broadest view can only be gained from afar. For the last month, in Houston, Texas, FotoFest, one of the world's largest...

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...

Giving with one hand and taking with the other, Moscow authorities have given historic preservationists both a court decision and a new restoration program to celebrate — but battles are appearing on the horizon over the building of kindergartens. Giving with one hand and taking with the other, Moscow authorities have given historic preservationists both a court decision and a new restoration...

... invitation of the Russian Embassy in Washington. There he joins a dwindling group of World War II veterans and U.S. and Russian officials in commemorating a 10-minute meeting between Soviet and American troops at the Elbe River on April 25, 1945, to celebrate their successful effort to destroy fascism in Europe. "No one intended for me to be there, despite my Russian background," Belousovitch, one of the United States' most experienced Kremlinologists during the Cold War, told The Moscow...

... enforcement officer told the news agency that the village was unequally divided into two ethnic groups, and the fight occurred between them. "But you can't call the conflict an ethnic one," he said. "It was a domestic fight. The village was celebrating a holiday, and then there was a conflict between young people." The fight was stopped by the head of the local police division. No further clarification to the cause of the fight was made. 179742

... six people were cleared of rioting during the two days of violence that left at least 15 dead in December, court officials said. Violence broke out when a seven-month strike by oil workers in the western town of Zhanaozen spun out of control during celebrations of the 20th anniversary of Kazakhstan's independence from the Soviet Union. At least 14 people were killed in Zhanaozen when the oilmen demanding higher wages clashed with police who used live rounds. The next day fighting spread to the nearby...

... agency that even though the event was just announced, the group had spent the last month planning an event to mark the occasion of its founding a year ago. "I can't say that our event is spontaneous, because we had talked and thought about how to celebrate this anniversary," she said. On May 6 of last year, Vladimir Putin proposed creating the People's Front at a United Russia conference in Volgograd. The group fielded candidates in December's Duma elections running with United Russia. Putin...

... human rights standards, he does not plan on supporting a boycott of the June 8-July 1 Euro 2012 tournament, which is being co-hosted by Poland. "I have appealed multiple times to the authorities in Ukraine not to let politics ruin this national celebration, and nothing will affect our determination to fight for human rights and alleviate the situation of Yulia Tymoshenko," he told reporters. Tymoshenko, 51, is on a hunger strike to protest alleged mistreatment in a Ukrainian prison where...

... while this is the first trip to space for Revin. In remarks to reporters before the launch, Acaba said he would take a toy bear, Padalka an iPad and iPod, while Revin said he would have with him a toy kangaroo and small gifts for crew members who would celebrate birthdays at the station, RIA-Novosti reported. The crew will carry out experiments in ecology and medicine during the trip, which will be shortened because of launch delays, and will also hold a lesson on ecology from space for school students...