(VIDEO) Two Russians and an American blasted off in a Soyuz spaceship headed for the International Space Station Tuesday, overcoming more than a month's delay caused by problems with the Russian spacecraft. Two Russians and an American blasted off in a Soyuz spaceship headed for the International Space Station Tuesday, overcoming more than a month's...

A Russian Soyuz craft carrying three astronauts has docked with the International Space Station, putting the crew in place for the imminent arrival of the first-ever privately owned cargo ship to the orbiting lab. ALMATY, Kazakhstan — A Russian Soyuz craft carrying three astronauts has docked with the...

A Soyuz space capsule carrying two Russians and an American touched down safely Friday on the sweeping steppes of central Kazakhstan, ending the men's 163-day stay on the International Space Station. ALMATY, Kazakhstan — A Soyuz space capsule carrying...

A stunning 121-megapixel snapshot of the Earth was taken by a Russian weather satellite in what is thought to be the highest resolution picture of the planet ever taken from space. A stunning 121-megapixel snapshot of the Earth was taken by a Russian weather satellite in what is thought to be the highest resolution picture of the planet ever taken from space. The picture was taken by a camera aboard the Elektro-L, a geostationary...

It was one of the more tempting offers that came in to my inbox this Friday to experience teleportation through time and space. Something about the letter seemed familiar, and perhaps I had already been on it, had been sent back to the moment the e-mail arrived and was experiencing some kind of time-travel indigestion. It was one of...

City Hall is seeking a developer for the redevelopment and the reconstruction of Pushkin Square, one of the capital's most famous public spaces and a gathering point for protesters. City Hall is seeking a developer for the redevelopment and the reconstruction of Pushkin Square, one of the capital's most famous public spaces and a gathering point for protesters. The budget for...

Rem Koolhaas, a Pritzker Prize-winning architect, presented his plans to convert an abandoned Moscow restaurant into a new art space for the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, founded by Dasha Zhukova. LONDON — Rem Koolhaas, a Pritzker Prize-winning architect, presented his plans to convert an abandoned Moscow restaurant into a new art space for the...

... judge presiding over it (Sergei Nilov). In short, we watch an individual stand up to the state as the state attempts to crush him with the weight of its power, in this case, using the catchy formula of "intellectual terrorism." The actual space at Polytheater is a crucial player in this. This is a lecture hall, not a theater. Over the decades it has seen historical performances by Vladimir Mayakovsky in the 1920s and Vladimir Vysotsky in the 1960s. This imparts an unusual atmosphere to...

... FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, earned 4.6 million rubles ($158,000) in 2011 — about the same as he earned the previous year. According to his public declaration, his personal property consists of a 99-square-meter apartment, a garage and two parking spaces. His wife earned 150,157 rubles. Neither he nor his family members own any means of transportation. His highest-earning deputy is Sergei Buravlyov, who earned 5.6 million rubles in 2011. Though his wife owns a parking space, the family also does...

... court has halted construction of a kindergarten on a centuries-old estate in eastern Moscow, a new law makes it possible for the city to build such schools in parks and eliminates public hearings on certain types of development projects in urban green spaces. "They think, 'Aha! We will build a kindergarten — who will oppose a kindergarten?'" conservation activist Alexandrà Andreyeva said, talking about the contractor that built a kindergarten in her local park, the Stroganov Estate...

If you occasionally come to this blog space you may recall how a couple of weeks ago a twist of fate made me a player in a production created by Donatas Grudovich. If you occasionally come to this blog space you may recall how a couple of weeks ago a twist of fate made me a player in a...

....5 billion, while another in 2011 was made in tandem with Goldman Sachs in a $500 million placement. "[Usmanov] trusted people like Yury Milner, [MegaFon CEO] Ivan Tavrin and a few other less well-known people, … young people who get this space," a third Moscow-based analyst said. "One thing that is key to this space is good people." Usmanov said in a recent interview with The New York Times that he plans to use money raised from the Facebook IPO to invest in his other Russian...

... warehouse complex under construction in the Istra district, Moscow region, to Santens Service, which provides customs clearance and logistics services for pharmaceuticals in Russia, under a 10-year contract. The total area, including office and mezzanine space, is 27,000 square meters. Investment in the project totaled $30 million. The delivery date for the warehouse is the second quarter of 2013. Leshkova meets all international standards for the storage of pharmaceutical products. "It's a real...

... prison and a 1 million ruble fine. Investigators are trying to determine whether anyone else at the company was involved in the extortion scheme. Aeroexpress has a monopoly on train service to Moscow’s three airports and owns a building with retail space adjacent to Sheremetyevo Airport. In February, the company also started running trains from the Adler airport to downtown Sochi. 179742

... transportation and logistics capacity of the world's countries and ranked Russia 95th out of 155. The World Bank published the rating in the survey Connected to Compete. Russia ranked between Guinea-Bissau and Lebanon, while its partners in the Common Economic Space were higher, with Kazakhstan in 86th place and Belarus in 91st. The top spots in the rankings were held by Singapore, Hong Kong and Finland. The logistics rating is based on responses by representatives from the logistics industry who assessed...

... Court in the city of Yekaterinburg handed an eight-year prison sentence to Alexander Gniteyev, a worker at NPO Automation, a leading defense company in the Urals that develops and manufactures control systems and electronic equipment for rocket and space technology. Court spokesman Yelena Maryina said Gniteyev also has been ordered to pay a 100,000 ruble ($3,200) fine. Anna Lastovitskaya, a spokeswoman for the regional branch of the Federal Security Service, said Gniteyev had divulged missile secrets...

... by Medvedev. A long time confidant of Putin, Sechin is widely considered to be the architect of the breakup of Yukos. In his order signed on May 6, Putin removed Federal Property Management Agency head Gleb Nikitin from a list of candidates to make space for Sechin’s return to Rosneftegaz. “There is a leader who makes decisions about where he sees specific people,” Sechin said earlier this month in response to a question about whether he would serve in the next government, RIA-Novosti...

... the boot earlier. "The firing of Zelin was so expected that it's even surprising that he remained in his post so long. The pilots didn't like him, and he completely delegated reforming the Air Force to Ostapenko [the commander in charge of the Space Forces]," the source said. In January 2011, a source within the Russian military told Interfax that Zelin "will be discharged to the reserves because he has served out his time in the military." Again, in the beginning of October...

... hosted by Russia will primarily take place in four "hospitality houses," including a Russia Sochi Park house across from Royal Albert Hall near Hyde Park that will house the Olympic committee and Sochi 2014. Bosco, which could operate event space in the Russia Sochi Park house, has said it has not yet decided whether or not it will make alcohol available at their events. The measures to eliminate alcohol are being taken after Russia's disappointing haul of only 15 medals in the 2010 Vancouver...

... one of the most likely locations for rehousing officials. Only the main buildings occupied by federal authorities in Moscow take up about 400,000 square meters, Penny Lane Realty analysts estimate, and if they relocate, they will need much greater space. "It will cost huge money that the federal budget does not have," a Kremlin staff member said. "The whole story with the new territories is strange and spontaneous," said Vera Kosareva, president of the city government's institute...