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Russian President Fires Troublesome Moscow Mayor

(Sept. 28) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev today sacked Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who has ruled the capital for almost two decades, putting an end to a long-simmering conflict with one of his most vocal and powerful political opponents. An official statement posted on the Kremlin's website announced that Luzhkov had...

Mesmerized, Moscow Awaits Fall of Its Mighty Mayor

(Sept. 24) -- Yuri Luzhkov, Moscow's once all-powerful mayor, appears to be in the final days of his nearly two-decade reign thanks to a media campaign that most observers believe is coming straight from the Kremlin. Since he was first appointed mayor in 1992 by Boris Yeltsin, Luzhkov has been re-elected four times with...

Opinion: The NASA-Iran Nukes Connection

(Sept. 20) -- As the Iranians grow ever closer to having nuclear weapons and delivery systems, the U.S. House of Representatives seems determined to undermine efforts to prevent them from doing so, as an unintended consequence of its flawed civil space policy. The International Space Station, by its nature, has always...

Lost Treasures Return to Russia's Red Square

(Aug. 28) -- A ceremony on Moscow's Red Square today celebrated the restoration of two huge icons that graced two of the Kremlin's gateways for half a millennium before vanishing during the first decades of the atheist Soviet state. The icons of Christ and St. Nicholas, key symbols of Russia's national and spiritual...

Officials: Credit Card Data Thief 'BadB' Arrested in France

(Aug. 11) -- A resident of Moscow, "BadB" lived the glamorous life, hopping jets to Europe, freely spending money -- even as U.S. authorities marked him as one of the world's "most prolific sellers" of stolen credit card data. French authorities arrested Vladislav Anatolievich Horohorin, 27, at the airport in Nice this...