Leaders Head to G8 Summit
By Catherine Belton 14 July 2006
After a lavish dinner at Peterhof Palace, Putin and his guests will get to work on energy security and other thorny issues.
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A city worker touching up a G8 logo in central St. Petersburg. Behind him are the national flags of the G8 countries and the flag of the European Union.
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Paint, Cops and Combs in Petersburg
By Stephen Boykewich 14 July 2006
The ride from Pulkovo Airport to the center of town has never been smoother. Only hours from now, columns of armored black cars will sail along Moskovsky Prospekt past impeccably manicured parks and centuries-old facades still gleaming with fresh paint.
How Russia Got Into the Democratic Club
By Stephen Boykewich 14 July 2006
When an ailing, barely reelected Yeltsin was struggling to contain Russian fury in 1997 over NATO expansion into former Soviet states, Clinton had a solution: Let Russia into the Group of Seven.
A Hard Act to Follow
By John Freedman
14 July 2006
Singing doctors, power-crazed kings and oafish bureaucrats provided some of the most memorable moments of the 2005-06 theater season.
Lavrov Warns Israel of Surge in Violence
By Nabi Abdullaev 14 July 2006
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov condemned Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza on Thursday and called on Muslim militants to release Israeli hostages.
All S7 Airplanes to Be Inspected
By Anatoly Medetsky 14 July 2006
Sunday's accident in Irkutsk prompts Prime Minister Fradkov to insist the airport is either upgraded or moved.
Yukos Files Rosneft Injunction
By Catherine Belton 14 July 2006
Yukos filed for an injunction against Rosneft’s listing on the London stock exchange late Thursday in an effort to thwart the state-owned oil major’s $11 billion IPO.
Opposition Is Split After 'Other Russia'
By Francesca Mereu 14 July 2006
A large opposition conference this week is unlikely to influence the G7 leaders' opinions about Russia, but it threatens to end Yabloko and the Union of Right Forces', or SPS, run as the country's real opposition force.
Rosneft Faces Refinery Query
By Yuriy Humber 14 July 2006
Minority shareholders claim a valuation of a Rosneft refinery is too low.
Boozing Is Good for Russia, Lobby Says
By Conor Humphries 14 July 2006
Alcohol ads are good for democracy and alcoholism doesn't hurt the economy -- or at least that's what Russia's alcohol lobby would have you believe.
WTO Talks Go Down to the Wire
By Valeria Korchagina 14 July 2006
Kudrin says agreement has been reached, but U.S. officials say a number of issues are yet to be resolved.
A Useful and Limited Engagement
By Cynthia Roberts
14 July 2006
Only six months ago, Igor Shuvalov, Russia's Group of Eight envoy and a top aide to President Vladimir Putin, elatedly forecast that the annual G8 summit this weekend in St. Petersburg would be "like a first ball" and "the foreign policy highlight of 2006."
Putting Russia on the Map
By Michele A. Berdy
14 July 2006
One language-learning rite of passage is the Russian 101 textbook chapter in which Sasha chats about his town and country so students can learn about Russian geography and administrative divisions.
Menchov Sprints to First-Place Finish
The Associated Press
14 July 2006
Russian Denis Menchov won the Tour de France's hardest stage in the Pyrenees on Thursday, and American Floyd Landis took the race leader's yellow jersey.
The African Chameleon
By Olga Grushin
14 July 2006
It is mostly the lapses, blank spots and mysteries in Abram Gannibal's life that illuminate Hugh Barnes' biography of Pushkin's African great-grandfather.
The Bible of Booze
By Anna Malpas
14 July 2006
A new anthology explores how a circle of freewheeling Russian writers and artists found meaning in alcohol.
Voices From the Periphery
By Brian Droitcour
14 July 2006
An exhibition looks for common ground among four different artists from Central and Eastern Europe.
Dueling Theaters
By Anna Malpas
14 July 2006
Russia's top two opera and ballet theaters, the Bolshoi and the Mariinsky, are getting ready to face off in London.
Angry Young Men
By Kirill Galetski
14 July 2006
Nitzer Ebb, the aggression-filled band from Britain that paved the way for a variety of electronic music, plays in Russia for the first time in over 10 years.
Image
By Alexander Osipovich
14 July 2006
This run-down Horch 830 BL Pullman Cabriolet, built in Germany in 1938, is one of over 3,000 cars on display at "Autoexotica."
Global Eye
By Chris Floyd
14 July 2006
Hundreds, possibly thousands of neo-Nazis and "white power" extremists have infiltrated the U.S. military, the Pentagon's own investigators report.
