Friday marks the 50th anniversary of the famous spy exchange between U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers and Soviet spy Rudolph Able on the Glienicker Bridge in Potsdam, Germany. Friday marks the 50th anniversary of the famous spy exchange between U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers and Soviet spy Rudolph Abel on the Glienicker Bridge in...

If Putin gave up power at any age, he and dozens of his friends and colleagues who have become millionaires and billionaires over the past 10 years through their Kremlin-connected businesses could face serious corruption charges. This is...

... very well-connected folk realized that there was going to be some serious political uncertainty and that they're better off putting their money into London property." Prime Minister Putin faces the biggest challenge to his rule since coming to power 12 years ago after allegations of fraud in the Dec. 4 legislative elections sparked mass protests. Buyers from Britain accounted for 42 percent of all transactions included in the survey, 2 percentage points less than in the third quarter. The...

The Prosecutor General's Office has gotten a boost from President Dmitry Medvedev with a bill proposing to increase its power amid an ongoing turf war with the Investigative Committee. The Prosecutor General's Office has gotten a boost from President Dmitry Medvedev with a bill proposing to increase its power amid an ongoing turf war with the Investigative...

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has dismissed opposition claims that he wants to stay in power as prime minister when his term expires next year, saying his country "can have no Putin." WASHINGTON — Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has dismissed opposition claims that he wants to stay in power as prime minister...

Police are investigating whether the deaths of eight newborn babies in a North Caucasus hospital during the first 10 days of January were caused by frequent power outages. Police are investigating whether the deaths of eight newborn babies in a North Caucasus hospital during the first 10 days of January were caused by frequent power outages, news reports said Saturday. The eight infants were linked up...

... heated divisions at the United Nations Security Council. As the violent standoff between Syria's security forces and armed opposition groups roils the country, the crisis has opened heated divisions at the United Nations Security Council. Western powers, backed by the Arab League, pressed last week for the adoption of a Security Council resolution that demanded Syrian President Bashar Assad step down. A watered-down version of this resolution was vetoed by Russia and China— both contending...

... forces of human will and, in this case, by the West's extraordinary capacity for renewal, even after cataclysmic defeats. True, the West is no longer alone in dictating the global agenda, and its values are bound to be increasingly challenged by emerging powers. But its decline is not a linear, irreversible process. There can be no doubt that the West's military mastery and economic edge have been severely diminished recently. In 2000, the United States' gross domestic product was eight times larger than...

Kazakh opposition leaders set fire to copies of voting results on Tuesday in a public repudiation of weekend elections that reinforced President Nursultan Nazarbayev's grip on power only a month after deadly clashes in a mutinous oil town. ALMATY — Kazakh opposition leaders set fire to copies of voting results on Tuesday in a public repudiation of weekend elections that reinforced President Nursultan Nazarbayev's grip...

... Billion. <p><b>Project Manager /Project Engineer</b><br>Harnish Group INC., N C Machinery CO.<br>Extensive on site engineering support during construction, commissioning and integration of Emergency Diesel Power systems at various industrial facilities in the US and Russia, including the Caterpillar 8 MW 10kV Power Plant at Schuchye Chemical Weapons Destruction Project in Russia, Caterpillar 11 MW Power house at the Kubaka...

... tackle corruption, modernize the economy, open up the political system, streamline the country's bloated bureaucracy and even get Russians to live healthier lives. Liberals hoped that the relatively unknown technocrat could even rollback Putin's "power vertical" — the centralized system built over two presidential terms in the name of stability. Hopes faded with time and were finally dashed on Sept. 24, when the so-called "tandem" announced their plans to switch places, with...

... impression that he had been elected through election fraud — would be far worse. A leader who does not enjoy the support of the majority of the people can rule by force, but this is ineffective in the long term. Josef Stalin's iron-clad hold on power in the early 1930s may have helped give the country an initial boost in terms of rapid industrialization, but it ultimately deprived the country of the long-term growth it normally would have experienced as a result of making the transition from...

... by a serious repercussion. Considering that the current &quot;White Revolution&quot; is bound to fail, turmoil awaits this country after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president in May. And it will be a powerful repercussion, like the one that followed the failed revolution of 1905. Every failed revolution is followed by a serious repercussion. Considering that the current "White Revolution" is bound to fail, turmoil awaits...

... coal division mined 16.8 million tons last year and plans to dig 25 million tons in 2020 by expanding current mines and through acquisitions, managing director Andrei Churin said. While about 90 percent of the company's coal is now used to generate power for Deripaska's United Company RusAl, En+ plans to sell half of its output to other customers in Russia and Asia by 2020, Churin said. En+ is interested in bringing all its coal assets under one company and may then study an initial public offering...

Ukraine, struggling to pay rising bills for Russian gas and with some areas suffering power rationing due to the severe cold, could halve its gas use by using it more efficiently. KIEV — Ukraine, struggling to pay rising bills for Russian gas and with some areas suffering power rationing due to the severe cold, could...

Gazprom said its power utilities' net income under Russian accounting standards fell 13 percent to 14.9 billion rubles ($496 million) because of higher fuel prices and financing expenses. Electricity output declined 1.1 percent to 173 billion kilowatt-hours in 2011 after...

... recovered during the Putin years may not be enough to compensate for the contempt with which the Russian state treats its citizens. . Russia is not Egypt. And Moscow is not on the eve of revolution as Cairo was less than a year ago. Indeed, Russia's powerful have at their disposal assets that former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's regime lacked. As an energy superpower, Russia can open its coffers to appease — at least in part — the humiliation that it has inflicted on its citizens...

More than 1,000 prisoners in Kyrgyzstan have sewn their lips together, a grotesque act inmates describe as a protest over their dismal conditions, but which authorities blame on organized criminal gangs who resent attempts to break the power they wield in prisons. BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — More than 1,000 prisoners in Kyrgyzstan have sewn their lips together, a grotesque act inmates describe as a protest over their dismal conditions, but which authorities blame on organized criminal...

Western and Arab countries responded with outrage on Sunday after Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have urged Syrian President Bashar Assad to give up power. UNITED NATIONS — Western and Arab countries responded with outrage Sunday after Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have urged Syrian President Bashar Assad to give up power. The U.S. ambassador to the United...

... Putin wins the presidency in the March 4 election, he should announce that he won't seek a second term, VTB head Andrei Kostin suggested in an article published Monday in Kommersant. Kostin argues that one of Putin's problems is that he has been in power too long. "For an open society in the 21st century, [12 years] is a huge amount of time. No leaders of democratic countries have been in power for so long," he wrote, noting that the middle class that is now demanding reform was created...