A Russian passenger was fined $6,000 and sentenced to a week in jail for a drunken ruckus that disrupted a Moscow-New York flight, a news report said.

Satirist and radio host Viktor Shenderovich on Thursday accused Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's administration of trying to discredit him by posting online a video showing him cheating on his wife.

Gazprom raked in $24.33 billion according to this year's ranking, overtaking ExxonMobil, which reported profits of $19.28 billion.

Ukraine agreed to extend the lease of Russia's naval base in Sevastopol by 25 years, and President Dmitry Medvedev vowed to rescind the export duty on most of the gas that Ukraine imports.

A bill scheduled to be approved by the State Duma in a third and final reading Friday aims to overhaul the financing for medical, educational, cultural and scientific institutions by giving them for the first time a free hand in how they spend state subsidies.

A spate of similar decisions in recent months has raised concerns among extremism scholars and rights experts about the competence and independence of those who are invited by prosecutors to offer their testimony.

A former St. Petersburg pathologist was convicted Thursday of ordering several murders as the leader of a gang of morgue workers who went into business hiding the bodies of people killed in organized crime disputes.

Saakashvili gave few details of the seizure during an interview Wednesday, saying only that the uranium was intercepted last month coming into Georgia.

The Federal Consumer Protection Service has returned import application documents to Nestle, Lyubov Voropayeva, a spokeswoman for the agency, said Thursday.

Human rights activists are calling on authorities to investigate the November death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in pretrial detention.

Some 500 people stood blowing bubbles as part of a flash mob on the steps of St. Petersburg's Gorkovskaya metro station and in the surrounding Alexandrovsky Park when about 30 men ran up and started beating them and firing rubber bullets.

The ruling — initiated by transport prosecutors in the Siberian city of Surgut and Khanty-Mansiisk customs officers — is the latest use of the hotly debated law on extremism to target systems of belief that are not traditional in Russia.

A new homemade soup chain opened by four ambitious expats brings the concept of "comfort food to go" to an untapped market of hungry Muscovites.

With many weekend flights canceled over the eruption of an Icelandic volcano, foreign travelers stood in long lines at Belorussky Station on Sunday struggling to buy tickets for seats in sold-out trains headed to Europe.

Tired of officials' abuse of migalki, flashing blue lights that allow high-level officials to ignore traffic regulations, the Moscow branch of the public Committee to Protect Drivers' Rights has struck back — with a fleet of blue plastic buckets affixed to their cars.

Cancellations at a dozen airports across Russia have left 38,700 passengers in the lurch, primarily those headed east, according to data as of 6 p.m. Monday on the Federal Air Transportation Agency's web site.

Pharmacists in Murmansk received an unexpected visitor on Saturday when Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who was in the northern port city to discuss the fish industry, ordered his driver to stop so he could check on medicine prices.

At current rates of extraction, Russian oil and gas will run out in 21.9 years and 9.4 years, respectively, making the need for a diversified economy urgent, a UN report said Monday.

The cruelty of the Polish airplane crash lies at the heart of the centuries of mistrust between Poland and Russia.

Lenin may be irrelevant, and the 140th anniversary of his birth may pass almost unnoticed on April 22, but his embalmed body still occupies the mausoleum on Red Square.

At least 38 people were killed and 70 wounded on Monday when suicide bombers detonated explosives filled with bolts and iron rods on two packed Moscow metro trains during the morning rush hour; Prime Minister Vladimir Putin cut short a visit to Krasnoyarsk and has vowed that those responsible will be "destroyed."

Some 500 people stood blowing bubbles as part of a flash mob on the steps of St. Petersburg's Gorkovskaya metro station and in the surrounding Alexandrovsky Park when about 30 men ran up and started beating them and firing rubber bullets.

The female suicide bombers who killed dozens of people in the Moscow metro on Monday were likely avenging the death of their trainer and inspirational leader, a Muslim convert who was slain by FSB commandos earlier this month.

During Putin’s rule, Katyn has become the main obstacle in Russian-Polish relations.

Moscow Times reporters at the scenes of the Lubyanka and Park Kultury metro bombings describe the chain of events after this morning's two explosions.

Two female suicide attackers hit Moscow's metro in coordinated rush-hour attacks Monday morning that left at least 39 people dead and more than 70 injured.

Sim Eih Xing, a 23-year-old Malaysian medical student, was traveling by metro to his surgery class as usual on the dull, gray Monday morning when a suicide bomber detonated her charge a meter away from him. He recalls his close escape from the Park Kultury tragedy.

The former head of IKEA's Russian operations has packaged his love and hate for the country in a new book chronicling the firm's eastward expansion.

The Sapsan train between Moscow and St. Petersburg, which had its maiden trip in December, has provoked the outrage of those who live near the railway, many of whom are venting their anger by pelting the passing train with rocks and ice.

But the Kyrgyz Embassy in Moscow said President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who has fled the country, had not quit in the wake of violent protests that have resulted in at least 75 people killed and hundreds wounded.