Clifford J Levy New York Times

An explosion tore through a subway station near the office of the authoritarian president of Belarus during evening rush hour on Monday, killing at least two people and wounding numerous others, according to news agencies.The cause of the blast at the station in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, was not immediately clear.Several witnesses told The Ass...

The Mayor of Moscow, Yuri M. Luzhkov, a dominant figure in Russia in the two decades since the Soviet collapse, was dismissed on Tuesday by President Dmitri A. Medvedev after questioning the President's fitness and thus rattling the tightly controlled government in Moscow. Officially, the Kremlin attributed Medvedev's decision to his "loss of trust...

Anna Chapman, the young Russian who garnered more attention for her looks than her skullduggery in the espionage scandal this summer, resurfaced here this week with the publication of provocative photographs of her posing in a hotel room overlooking the Kremlin.Since she was returned in the spy exchange between the United States and Russia, Ms. Cha...

An explosion tore through a subway station near the office of the authoritarian president of Belarus during evening rush hour on Monday, killing at least two people and wounding numerous others, according to news agencies.The cause of the blast at the station in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, was not immediately clear.Several witnesses told The Ass...

The Mayor of Moscow, Yuri M. Luzhkov, a dominant figure in Russia in the two decades since the Soviet collapse, was dismissed on Tuesday by President Dmitri A. Medvedev after questioning the President's fitness and thus rattling the tightly controlled government in Moscow. Officially, the Kremlin attributed Medvedev's decision to his "loss of trust...

Anna Chapman, the young Russian who garnered more attention for her looks than her skullduggery in the espionage scandal this summer, resurfaced here this week with the publication of provocative photographs of her posing in a hotel room overlooking the Kremlin.Since she was returned in the spy exchange between the United States and Russia, Ms. Cha...