A brief look at the stories making headlines in the Russian-language press

With a little more vision, the EU may yet turn out to be the strategic partner that Russia has been looking for.

""Congratulate me, Vladislav,"" my beautiful young neighbor, Natalya, exclaimed when we ran into each other by the lift. ""I'm now a pensioner! Yesterday I turned 50 and I'm off to register for my pension.""

On Wednesday, the State Duma is scheduled to consider a motion of no confidence in the government of Mikhail Kasyanov. Raising such a question is entirely natural, and moreover, is a necessary step to preserve the political face of our parliamentary system.

You would not want to take it to the beach this summer. The convention on the future of Europe on Friday rounded off the main part of its work with Beethoven's ""Ode to Joy,"" but that hardly made its draft constitution -- 200-plus pages of legal text -- uplifting. Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the convention president, scarcely leavened it by throwing Thucydides into the preamble.

America's most coveted journalism award is the Pulitzer Prize, and The New York Times has collected 89 of them. But now one of those Pulitzers is being challenged because the honored reporter was a fraud.

Japanese Shinobu Asagoe defeated Russian Maria Sharapova on Saturday to reach the finals of the DFS grass-court classic.

Not so long ago Anna Kournikova was probably the only Russian woman tennis player most international fans had heard of.

U.S. soldiers backed by helicopters and tanks raided homes, rounded up suspects and confiscated weapons in the restive town of Fallujah on Sunday as part of a huge nationwide campaign to root out anti-American insurgents who have been stepping up their attacks.