A FIFA delegation expressed concern about Moscow's congested traffic during a Wednesday visit to assess the city as a venue for the FIFA World Cup in 2018. A FIFA delegation expressed concern about Moscow's congested traffic during a Wednesday visit to assess the city as a venue...

Major road closures to accommodate May Day rallies and processions will affect traffic in the capitol Tuesday, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said. Major road closures to accommodate May Day rallies and processions will affect traffic in the capitol Tuesday, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said. Beginning at 6 a.m...

A BMW sedan used by the country's police official responsible for road safety struck a boxy Zhiguli car in central Moscow on Thursday — and traffic police tried to cover up the accident. A BMW sedan used by the country's police official responsible for road safety struck a boxy Zhiguli car in central Moscow on Thursday — and traffic police tried to cover up the accident...

... “without compromising on quality” after a tour of the site Friday. Workers began building two new two-lane overpasses to replace the current cloverleaf junction in December. The project, which also includes upgrades to existing roads and a traffic control system, is estimated to cost 5 billion rubles ($166 million). The access ramps on the southwest side of the MKAD, in the direction of Rublyovskoye Shosse, should be complete by the end of 2012, while those on the northeast side (toward...

Following the president's order to cut the number of officials entitled to use flashing lights to skirt through traffic, several incidents of alleged abuse involving high-profile figures have come to light. A video posted online earlier this week of a Maybach and a BMW belonging to LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky cutting through oncoming traffic on Tverskaya...

... Russia access to the world by founding St. Petersburg as a "window onto Europe" at the head of the Gulf of Finland, area ports handle more than one-third of all oil exports and more than half of the country's container cargo turnover. Sea traffic is growing at about 5 percent per year — leading to a boom in onshore infrastructure development, corresponding stress to the environment and risk of ecological disaster. "The main contamination of the world's oceans is not happening...

... 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 lower than in the United States, which...

... and beating the Zorin brothers to a pulp. What was the reason they were beaten? While crossing the street along a pedestrian crosswalk, the Zorin brothers refused to yield to Aranson's oncoming car. Two weeks ago, the son of the Adygeya republic's traffic police chief killed two people in a car crash. And that was not the first time that the 18-year-old had been involved in a fatal car accident. On Friday, Gazprombank demanded that criminal charges be filed against blogger Svetlana Robenkova,...

..., has the potential to temper some of the irritation that has been causing the recent protests. The decree released by the Kremlin slashes the number of the privileged cars to 569 from 968, or almost in half, effective as of July 1, listing greater traffic safety as one of its goals. That number is in addition to emergency vehicles. The widespread use of the flashing lights, sometimes installed fraudulently on cars not eligible to use them, gave rise to the Blue Buckets movement in Moscow, where...

On every Victory Day for the last decade, the Kremlin has tried to convince Russians and the world as a whole that Russia is a major military power. Moscow drivers are repeatedly trapped for hours in traffic jams caused by the military parade rehearsals. On every Victory Day for the last decade, the Kremlin has tried to convince Russians and the world as a whole that Russia is a major military power. Moscow drivers are repeatedly trapped for...

... fell down as a result of carelessness, Interfax reported. A quick-thinking witness of the accident was able to help the man, who received a concussion and fractured his tibia, without having the electric third rail de-activated or stopping metro train traffic. The man's name and occupation were not released by police, but they did say he owns an apartment in Moscow. 179742

... have energy, water supplies and transportation infrastructure. The city is a big transportation hub. The Trans-Siberian Railroad goes through Krasnoyarsk, we have an international airport, which is second after the Frankfurt airport in terms of cargo traffic volumes for Lufthansa. We believe that a number of other companies could use the Krasnoyarsk airport for their freight operations.  Q: Which industries could be potentially attractive for investors? A: We have good potential to attract investors...

... that this stretch of road is one of the most dangerous in the area and said motorists frequently accelerate to unsafe speeds on the downward slope and there is virtually no room for pedestrians. A criminal case has been opened on charges of violating traffic safety rules resulting in the death of more than two people, a charge punishable by up to seven years in prison and revocation of driving privileges for a period of up to three years. 179742

... recording how people jumped on the money, pressing on each other and beating each other," Yekaterina Abramova wrote on Vkontakte. "This is disgusting. They threw out about 10 bills. People came out of the crowd with broken noses, were climbing on traffic lights, and behaving like monkeys. Durov had a good laugh. Shame on you, Pavel," she said. Other bloggers posted pictures showing paper airplanes sailing out of an ornately decorated window flanked by statues. Durov, whose fortune is estimated...

... struck a Volga in December, killing driver, Yury Druzhinin. Misharin and Cherkasov sustained severe injuries, and Misharin was hospitalized in Germany, only returning to work after two months of treatment. On Monday, regional investigators announced that traffic violation charges had been filed against Cherkasov. The Kremlin said Yevgeny Kuivashev, a former presidential envoy to the Urals Federal District, would serve as acting governor. Kuivashev, 41, will likely be appointed for a five-year term before...

... and Bolotnaya Ploshchad. The march is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. and the rally is set to conclude at 7:30 p.m. From midnight Sunday until Wednesday, the Lefortovsky tunnel, on the Third Ring Road under the Yauza River, will be closed for repairs. Traffic police have no information regarding road closings Monday in connection with the presidential inauguration, said an officer reached on the GIBDD information line. He said the information is most likely secret. The presumed route of Putin's motorcade...

... public servant," he said in a Vedomosti interview. The reporter pressed on, only to receive another rejection of the idea that he could become a minister. "My friends know that the one thing I could do in public service is become chief of the traffic police — to abolish it," he joked. Yet six months later he accepted from Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev the portfolio of the minister in charge of relations with the expert community, a job that had never existed before. His supersonic...

... — was in Indonesia as part of a six-nation tour of Asia aimed at getting new customers. Soon after takeoff from a Jakarta airport, the pilot was granted permission to drop from 3,000 meters to 1,800 meters, said Mulya Abdi, general manager of Air Traffic Control in Jakarta. The plane was 11 kilometers north of Mount Salak at the time, an area considered outside the danger zone around the notoriously perilous volcano, he said. But it dropped off the radar immediately after, Abdi said, and then...

... The police spokesman identified Raskalov's friends as residents of Moscow and Vladivostok. None of the three had insurance, Interfax said. The two bridges, aimed at improving the Far East city's transportation infrastructure, are expected to open to traffic this summer, weeks before Russia hosts the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit on Sept. 8 and 9. This week's incident is not the first time that thrill-seekers have targeted the bridges. Last May, two basejumpers from Moscow illegally entered...

... the second-most-numerous tourists after the Germans. At current growth rates, they are likely to soon occupy first place. About 80 percent of Chinese visitors come to Moscow and St. Petersburg, while 15 percent are arriving as a result of cross-border traffic where the two countries meet on the Amur River. The representatives of the Chinese companies said they were well aware of the problems associated with Russia's investment climate, having heard lots of "rumors" about the issue. They...