After a heated debate, the Omsk regional parliament on Thursday elected former Spartak Moscow captain Dmitry Alenichev to the Federation Council by a 29-7 vote, Izvestia reported.

Success doesn't have to follow a conventional path, Tate Ulsaker found.

Roman Khoshruplin, 48, river cruise captain for Stolichnaya Sudokhodnaya Co.

Melanzana is a grill and pizza place that recently opened in the bottom of Berlin House.

Indian-fusion restaurant Indus has introduced a new series of dishes all based on mango.

The pace of modern life is constantly increasing, and people are finding themselves with less and less free time. But this is happening at different rates in different countries. Russians, for example, are more concerned about lacking money than making free time.

Exchanges are, by definition, two-way streets: You give something, they give something, a deal is done and everybody's happy, or at least temporarily satisfied. Russians and Americans have been two-way streeting on the educational, cultural and scholarly-scientific routes for a good half-century now -- and good for us. In 30 years' involvement in the process, I don't regret a day as exchanger or exchangee.

The legacy of Josef Stalin's predilection for uprooting ethnic groups and brutally shifting them around the Communist empire still has the power to spark conflict in the Caucasus.