Russia
Latest Stories
russia_5381
In this image made from television, emergency workers push a cart with the body of a victim after a suicide car attack in a square outside a market in Vladikavkaz, North Caucasus, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. A suicide car bomber hit the central market of Vladikavkaz on Thursday, killing more than a dozen and wounding more than 130 people in one of the worst terror attacks in the volatile region in years, officials said. (AP Photo/AP Television News)
Russia Caucasus Viole_Thir.jpg
In this image made from television, the wreckage of a car destroyed in a suicide car attack is seen near the entrance to a market in Vladikavkaz, North Caucasus, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. A suicide car bomber hit the central market of Vladikavkaz on Thursday, killing dozens and wounding more than 100 people in one of the worst terror attacks in the volatile region in years, officials said.
Turkey_New_Zealand_Russia_Basketball_Worlds.sff.jpg
Russia's head coach David Blatt gestures to his players during their World Basketball Championship round of 16 match against New Zealand in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)
US Open Tennis_Star(2).jpg
ASSOCIATED PRESS Maria Sharapova of Russia returns the ball to Jarmila Groth of Australia during the first round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010.
Russia Putin_Thir.jpg
In this photo taken Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks with road makers, not seen, while traveling on a newly opened highway Chita- Khabarovsk, in Russia's Far Eastern region of Amur, some 3,800 miles southeast of Moscow. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Pool)
New_Haven_Tennis.sff.jpg
Caroline Wozniacki, of Denmark, lifts her trophy after defeating Nadia Petrova, of Russia, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, in the women's final of the Pilot Pen tennis tournament in New Haven, Conn., on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Fred Beckham)
Russia_Putin_Launch_Center.sff.jpg
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands while visiting the construction site of a new launch facility, the Cosmodrome Vostochny, outside Uglegorsk, some 3,600 miles (5800 kilometers) east of Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. Russia will launch its manned space missions from a new center in the Far East in 2018, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Saturday, as the country seeks greater independence for its space program. (AP Photo/Alexei Druzhinin, Pool)
Melanie_Oudin_Tennis.sff.jpg
FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2009, file photo, Melanie Oudin, of the United States, serves to Maria Sharapova, of Russia, during the third round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York. (AP Photo/Paul J. Bereswill, File)
Russia Putin_Thir.jpg
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds a crossbow as he sits on a rubber boat at the Olga Harbor of Kamchatka Peninsula during a scientific expedition, to study grey whales on Wednesday, Aug.25, 2010. (AP Photo/ RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, pool)
APTOPIX Russia Putin_Thir.jpg
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin aims a crossbow as he is on a rubber boat at the Olga Harbor of Kamchatka Peninsula during a scientific expedition, to study grey whales on Wednesday, Aug.25, 2010. (AP Photo/ RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, pool)
Mideast Israel Palest_Lea.jpg
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (left), envoy of the Middle East Quartet, which comprises the United Nations, European Union, United States and Russia, meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. Mr. Blair on Tuesday called on Israelis and Palestinians to bring serious proposals to a new round of peace talks set to start Sept. 2. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
Montreal_Tennis.sff.jpg
Caroline Wozniacki from Denmark holds up the trophy after beating Vera Zvonareva from Russia in the final at the Rogers Cup tennis tournament Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 in Montreal. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press,Paul Chiasson)
Russia Pakistan_Thir.jpg
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, listens to his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari during their meeting in the Bocharov Ruchei residence near Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press Service)
kursk_4663
A1999 photo shows the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea near Severomorsk,Russia. The Kursk, one of the biggest and newest submarines in the Russian navy, is trapped at a depth of 354 feet, above the Arctic Circle in the Barents Sea, and rescue attempts continue Tuesday August 15, 2000. (AP Photo)
kursk_4656
This1999 photo shows the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea near Severomorsk, Russia. The Kursk, one of the biggest and newest submarines in the Russian navy, is trapped at a depth of 354 feet, above the Arctic Circle in the Barents Sea and rescue attempts continue Tuesday August 15, 2000. (AP Photo)
kursk_4655
Crew members of the nuclear submarine Kursk, one of Russia's largest and most advanced submarines, stand on the ship deck during the naval parade in Severomorsk in this July 30, 2000 photo. Kursk Captain Gennady Lyachin stands at right. The Kursk submarine tragedy that killed 118 crew members was caused by fuel exploding in one of its torpedoes, the governmental commission investigating the accident has found, according to a news report Monday, July 1, 2002.(AP Photo/ Str)
kursk_4652
Russia rescue personnel return from a dive in a mini submarine to the Kursk on the sea bed in the Barents Sea, Friday, Aug. 18, 2000. The mini submarine was forced for unexplained reasons to surface in emergency mode after this dive. Exhausted Russian rescue workers in mini-submarines finally reached a badly mangled escape hatch on the sunken Russian nuclear submarine Friday, but failed to get into the shattered vessel or find any sign of life. (AP Photo/RTR-Russian Television Channel)
Russia Putin Forest F_Lea.jpg
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sits in the cockpit of an Emergency Ministry Beriev Be-200 amphibian multirole jet flying a water drop over forest fires in Russia's Ryazan region, some 111 miles southeast of Moscow, on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Pool)
20100808-204951-pic-460315534.jpg
REMNANTS OF WAR: A South Ossetian honor guard pays his respects at a war memorial in the village of Khetagurovo on Sunday amid the wreckage of cars burned during the brief Russia-Georgia war in August 2008. Russian troops have stayed in South Ossetia to this day. (Associated Press)
Carlsbad_Tennis.sff.jpg
Svetlana Kuznetsova, of Russia, serves to Flavia Pennetta, of Italy, during the Mercury Insurance Open tennis tournament in Carlsbad, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
