The white van was rattling past the new rich and the still poor of Moscow and the world heavyweight champion, Oleg Maskaev, was hunched forward, his strong chin resting on the back of the seat in front of him and with a wool cap bearing the word Russia in red letters pulled low.

A charity match pitting former Soviet greats against former NHL players took center stage at Red Square on Sunday to mark the birth of Russian hockey.

When they're not partying, two New York brothers shoot campaigns for MegaFon and MasterCard.

I grew up in Surin, Thailand. I fashioned decorative plastic flowers and never dreamed that I'd come to Moscow

The international law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld would like to announce that Vladimir Kouznetsov has joined its Moscow office as partner.

It wasn't so long ago that finding an arty bar with a bohemian public was no mean feat.

However outsiders view the United States -- as the home of jazz, basketball, modern democracy and the American Dream, or less flatteringly as the ""Great Satan,"" for example -- everyone seems convinced that learning more about the U.S. colossus and its peculiar people is either good, advantageous or both.

I met Ashot in a village just outside the Armenian capital, Yerevan, at the house of his father, Vladimir, a writer who fled the Azeri capital, Baku, with his family in the early 1990s, amid the upsurge of violence between Azeris and Armenians.

The race for economic supremacy between Russia and China is over. China is the only country capable of undermining the U.S. economy.

The NATO meeting held in Riga, Latvia, in late November attracted very little attention.