The summer heat set a new all-time temperature record in Moscow on Thursday, a forecasting center said. It also said the unprecedentedly long heat wave may be interrupted Friday.

The worst smog to hit Moscow in almost a decade has sent pollution soaring 10 times above safe levels, an air monitoring service said Wednesday.

A Far East court has banned YouTube and four other web sites for “extremist” content in a ruling that promises to raise new worries about free speech, as the Internet is widely recognized as the last uncensored form of media in Russia.

President Dmitry Medvedev has issued a handwritten order to Prosecutor General Yury Chaika to investigate possible Kremlin corruption linked to the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

Officials in the United States have released the booking photographs of the 10 people arrested and booked as unregistered foreign agents of Russia in this summer's spy ring scandal.

Moscow City Hall has allocated $190 per month for every stray dog housed in its animal shelters in 2010. But a review of documents obtained by The Moscow Times found that stray dogs are part of a lucrative — and extremely murky — business that has helped enrich a relative of at least one senior city official.

An Ingush-born businessman kept 104 people waiting aboard an airplane at Domodedovo Airport on Thursday during a 2 1/2-hour standoff. He was eventually detained by police officers disguised as medics.

The government is counting on foreign investors to help it privatize an estimated $29 billion in assets to reduce the state's "excessive" presence in the economy, Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina said.

The government just approved the sell-off of an estimated $29 billion in state assets. But investors beware, a major investment company warns. Russia’s legal system has made little progress, as illustrated by a case unfolding at Prosperity Capital Management.

Men from Estonia and Uzbekistan were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for participating in a fraud ring that charged a $17,000 fee to arrange sham marriages for Russian and other East European nationals.

The government is hoping to launch the first version of a "national operating system" for its computers as early as next year, a senior Communications and Press Ministry official said Thursday.

The 10 “illegals” have returned home to official fanfare. But at least one important question remains: Who ratted them out?

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he has sung Soviet-era patriotic songs with the 10 spies deported from the United States and knows the identities of those who betrayed them.

Muscovites sweltered Monday as the temperature soared to 37.4 degrees Celsius, the hottest day on record, all while being forced to endure the capital's worst smog cloud since 2002.

Vladimir Filonov took a stroll on Moscow's Strogino beach last Sunday, July 18, as high temperatures continued to stifle the city.

Anna Chapman, the redheaded Russian spy whose photographs made her a tabloid favorite, is upset that Britain has revoked her citizenship, her lawyer said.

The summer heat set a new all-time temperature record in Moscow on Thursday, a forecasting center said. It also said the unprecedentedly long heat wave may be interrupted Friday.

People in this town used to stare at Jean Gregoire Sagbo because they had never seen a black man, but now they see in him something equally rare — an honest politician.

Moscow weather broke the record for July temperatures by reaching 36.6 degrees Celsius, just two decimal points short of the all-time record, forecasters said.

A new type of youth group envisioned by Orthodox Patriarch Kirill will be responsible for promoting a blend of religion, anti-Western philosophy, politics and patriotism, values that will be passed on by youth leaders.

A 4-year-old boy sickened with pneumonia died in the Primorye region after an exorcism by a Korean shaman, news reports said Wednesday. Investigators didn't immediately know what killed the child, with police saying pneumonia may have been to blame.

Investigators have failed to find the donkey that parasailed over the Sea of Azov for 30 terrifying minutes last week, RIA-Novosti reported Wednesday.

Sports today are highly competitive, with huge amounts of money at stake, and honesty seems to be a second-class consideration. Manuel Neuer's fraud during the World Cup elimination match between England and Germany is just one example of “win at all costs.”

One of the 11 people accused of working as Russian agents in the United States is a successful businesswoman who founded a prosperous real estate agency while still a student at the People's Friendship University in Moscow.

The government is hoping to launch the first version of a "national operating system" for its computers as early as next year, a senior Communications and Press Ministry official said Thursday.

The U.S. arrest of 10 suspected Russian spies right after President Barack Obama welcomed President Dmitry Medvedev to the White House deals a stinging blow to resurgent ties and might discredit Obama, Russian officials said.

The 10 “illegals” have returned home to official fanfare. But at least one important question remains: Who ratted them out?

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he has sung Soviet-era patriotic songs with the 10 spies deported from the United States and knows the identities of those who betrayed them.

Contractors must now prove that any Russian pornography used in fulfilling U.S. government orders was made without children. That's the bizarre message that the U.S. administration sent out this week when its Labor Department put Russian pornography on a product blacklist.

At the “Khodorkovsky Reading” last week, economists discussed the Yukos affair's effect over the past seven years on public institutions. It has not been a good one.