Basayev Killed in Ingushetia Explosion
By Nabi Abdullaev
Shamil Basayev, the country's No. 1 terrorist, was killed by security forces on Monday in Ingushetia as he prepared an attack to coincide with this weekend's G8 summit.
Ruslan Musayev / AP
Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev speaking in Grozny on Oct. 28, 1999. He was killed when a KamAZ truck blew up.
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Warlord Leaves a Trail of Blood
By Carl Schreck and Nabi Abdullaev
Shamil Basayev claimed that he joined thousands of people alongside Boris Yeltsin in August 1991 to defend the Russian parliament from a hard-line Communist coup.
Death Toll Rises to 127 in Irkutsk Crash
By Anatoly Medetsky
The death toll in Sunday's plane crash in Irkutsk rose to 127 on Monday as rescue workers continued to search through the wreckage of S7 Airlines Flight 778 from Moscow.
Kids With HIV to Be Treated, Minister Says
By Anastasiya Lebedev
Health and Social Development Minister Mikhail Zurabov said Monday that all 2,500 Russian children with HIV would receive treatment to combat the disease.
Teens on Trial for Possible Tatar Plot
The Associated Press
Five Muslim teenagers appeared Monday in the highest court in Tatarstan, where their trial for allegedly planning to commit terrorist attacks and create an Islamic state in the traditionally Muslim province has been under way for a week.
Kasparov Says Summit Under Attack
By Sebastian Alison
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Bloomberg
A Different Russia, an opposition movement led by former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, said that about 20 of its members have been detained, beaten, or mysteriously fallen ill on their way to a conference in Moscow.
Gref Urges Diversity to Preserve Growth
By Anna Smolchenko
The country needs to urgently diversify its economy if it wants to maintain current rates of growth, Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref told top lawmakers Monday.
Big 3 Fixing Phone Fees, Paper Says
By Maria Levitov
New agreements on mobile interconnection fees are set to squeeze smaller mobile operators out of the market and may land the country's three largest mobile operators in trouble with the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service.
State Eyes Airports Holding, Paper Says
By Conor Humphries
The government is considering consolidating the state’s airport holdings into one company, Kommersant reported Monday, citing a source in the Transportation Ministry.
Firms Jump on the SMS Bandwagon
By Conor Humphries
With digital pictures, competitions, MP3s and ring tones, the market is now worth $80 million per year, a consultancy says.
The State of the Soaps
By Alexei Pankin
As the St. Petersburg G8 Summit approaches, arguments in the West over the state of today's Russia are heating up.
Inflation Numbers Remain a Taxing Problem
By Alexei Bayer
It is a well-known tendency that, if in the rest of the world something occurs one way, in Russia it takes place completely differently, if not the other way around.
Court Rules Against Office Demolition
By Conor Humphries
Europa House, a major Western-financed office building near Chistiye Prudy, in central Moscow, may finally open its doors after five years of legal wrangling following a decision by the Moscow Arbitration Court.
Location, Location ... Inflation
The Moscow Times
In the third part of a four-part series on Moscow neighborhoods, seven realtors answer the question: Which are Moscow's most overrated suburbs and why?
Wheelchairs Let Disabled Dance, Fence
By Alex Bratersky
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Special to MT
A man disabled in a motorbike accident is manufacturing cheap wheelchairs for sports.
A Fine-Tuned Legacy
By David Schiff
7 July 2006
In the second volume of his biography of Igor Stravinsky, Stephen Walsh looks for the man the public did not see.
Romance on the Runway
By Tom Birchenough
7 July 2006
In the new film "Transit," Soviet and American pilots have some close encounters at a remote Chukotka airbase during World War II.
Anarchist Pilgrimage
By Alexander Osipovich
7 July 2006
Playwright Tom Stoppard and the cast of his play "The Coast of Utopia" explore the birthplace of 19th-century revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin.
A Dutch Master, Remastered
By Brian Droitcour
7 July 2006
A husband-and-wife team of Moscow artists pays tribute to Rembrandt in honor of his 400th birthday.
The Inside Scoop
By Anna Malpas
7 July 2006
A longtime journalist for Komsomolskaya Pravda pens a novel about changing times at a Russian newspaper.
Wanted
By Kevin O'Flynn
7 July 2006
The one-armed man was not just an England fan - he was also one of the many ticket scalpers who gather around the World Cup.
Global Eye
By Chris Floyd
7 July 2006
The Supreme Court ruling has been hailed as the "light at the end of the tunnel"- but we have seen these lights before, and watched them fade.
