Four Russian bikers who refused to obtain Iraqi visas looked set to be freed after five days in custody late Thursday following frantic diplomatic talks. Four Russian bikers who refused to obtain Iraqi visas looked set to be freed after five days in custody late Thursday following frantic diplomatic talks and growing anger among the biker community in Russia. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani promised Russia's ambassador to Iraq during a meeting that the bikers would be freed soon, Foreign Ministry...

An employee of a "closed" enterprise in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg has been accused of leaking secrets about the intercontinental Bulava missile, Kommersant reported Monday. An employee of a "closed" enterprise in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg has been accused of leaking secrets about the intercontinental Bulava missile, Kommersant reported Monday. A Sverdlovsk regional court held proceedings against the employee, who is accused of transferring classified information...

A Russian defense company worker was convicted Friday of passing missile secrets to foreign intelligence in the latest espionage case amid a cold spell in Moscow's relations with Washington. A Russian defense company worker was convicted Friday of passing missile secrets to foreign intelligence in the latest espionage case amid a cold spell in Moscow's relations with Washington. The Sverdlovsk Regional Court in the city of Yekaterinburg handed an eight-year prison...

... Services, after Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, through the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War, the downing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 and the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. It also includes the expulsion by the United States of 10 Russian spies in 2010, including Anna Chapman, who had been dubbed a modern-day Mata Hari by the popular press. Although Melton said Chapman was a "darling of the media," he added that she was not a trained intelligence officer. The best spies, he...

A court in Sevastopol, Ukraine has acquitted a Russian defense contractor on espionage charges after he spent two-and-a-half years in prison for buying a piece of outdated Soviet equipment from Ukrainian partners. A court in Sevastopol, Ukraine has acquitted a Russian defense contractor on espionage charges after he spent two-and-a-half years in prison for buying a piece of outdated Soviet equipment from Ukrainian partners. The court ruling was announced late Thursday, according to the defense...

... took them to an Iraqi military base, news reports said. Alexander Orlov, a member of the Moscow-based motorcycle club RAMCC, said the bikers were severely beaten while in Iraqi custody. NTV television said the men were accused by the Iraqis of being spies. (Related article: 4 Russian Bikers Held as Spies in Iraq ) Human rights ombudsman Mikhail Fedotov wrote Friday on Twitter that the bikers had obtained Iraqi visas through a tour agency and the visas turned out to be fake. Foreign Ministry spokesman...

Four Russian bikers have been detained in Iraq, possibly on suspicion of spying, prompting a surge of concern at home. Four Russian bikers have been detained in Iraq, possibly on suspicion of spying, prompting a surge of concern at home. The Russians — who were riding their motorcycles through Iraq on a Central Asia-Middle East road trip — were stopped as they approached Baghdad on Sunday and apparently taken into custody at an Iraqi military base, news reports said Thursday. The bikers...

Daniel Nettheim’s adventure film “The Hunter” features a mercenary (Willem Dafoe) who is hired by an unnamed military-biotech company to stalk and kill a creature believed
extinct for nearly a century: the Tasmanian tiger. On in English at Oktyabr. <br /> Bel Ami (Mily Drug, 2011): Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod’s adaptation of Guy de Maupassant’s novel stars Robert Pattinson, Christina Ricci and Uma Thurman. Pyat Zvyozd-Novokuznetskaya Thurs. to...

Sacha Baron Cohen plays a bizarre North African despot in "The Dictator." On at Gorky Park's outdoor cinema and in English at Pioner. Festival Beat Film: Anton Corbijn Inside Out (2012): An intimate portrait of music video director Anton Corbijn as he travels the world. Formula Kino Gorizont Thurs. at 7:30 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles. Festival Beat Film: Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest (2011): Michael Rapaport documents the inner workings and behind-the-scenes...

A Facebook page dedicated to Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill was launched Tuesday to feed growing interest in the divisive religious figure who has embodied the church's thickening ties with newly inaugurated President Vladimir Putin. A Facebook page dedicated to Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill was launched Tuesday to feed growing interest in the divisive religious figure who has embodied the church's thickening ties with newly inaugurated President Vladimir Putin....

This week, crooner Iosif Kobzon had to cancel his tour of the United States after yet another refusal of a visa, based on his alleged links to organized crime and drug trafficking. That did not stop Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin from dropping into his son's beer joint on Novy Arbat. This week, crooner Iosif Kobzon had to cancel his tour of the United States after yet another refusal of a visa, based on his alleged links to organized crime and...

After the end of World War II, Paul Sadler returned home to Chicago with three German books and a photo album from the Dachau concentration camp. After the end of World War II, Paul Sadler returned home to Chicago with three German books and a photo album from the Dachau concentration camp. It was the photo album that caught his son's attention about 60 years later. And he began to piece together the story behind the war-time pictures, many of which were taken in the Soviet...

... a research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. Multibillion-dollar privatizations of Rosneft and other energy sector companies are likely to be the key flashpoint between liberals in the White House and the siloviki — the former spies and military officers who rose to power with Putin in the early 2000s of whom Sechin is a leading figure. “That battle could be quite severe and push disunity within the Russian elite,” Yenikeyeff said. Putin signed a decree on Monday...

The muscular firefighters in sharp uniforms chatted lightheartedly near a row of well-equipped Iveco firetrucks, ready at a moment's notice to drop the banter and race out to extinguish a blaze. The muscular firefighters in sharp uniforms chatted lightheartedly near a row of well-equipped Iveco firetrucks, ready at a moment's notice to drop the banter and race out to extinguish a blaze. The equipment inside the fire station in the Moskva City business...