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

This Saturday, the Moscow International Women's Club is holding its annual Winter Bazaar, where representatives from 86 embassies will sell national specialties and Christmas treats for charity.

The interactive shows are designed as therapy for children suffering from serious burns.

The Russian men's national basketball team will not compete in next year's world championships in Japan after it failed to receive a wild-card spot from the International Basketball Federation, or FIBA.

Once, back in the 1950s when I was a child, I remember riding down North Capitol Street in Washington with my dad when he burst forth with some unexpected patriotism.

When it comes to the entertainment industry, it seems that no revolutionary deed goes unpunished.

The International Atomic Energy Agency reported last week that Iran possessed detailed drawings showing ways to ""cast and machine enriched natural and depleted uranium into hemispherical forms,"" which is another way of saying the inner core of a nuclear bomb.

In 1937, the Soviet Union celebrated test pilot Valery Chkalov's record-setting, nonstop flight from Moscow to Vancouver, Washington, via the North Pole. A few months ago, Russia discovered a new hero in Major Valery Troyanov, the Air Force pilot who got lost on a flight from a base in the Leningrad region to a second base in the Kaliningrad region. Disoriented, Troyanov flew around over Lithuania until his Su-27 fighter jet ran out of fuel, at which point he ejected safely before the jet crashed in a field.

The president tries to appeal both to hard-liners who call for tougher steps against migrants and to those who encourage compassion.