| Matt Romney Goes to Russia for Business |
Matt Romney, a son of the Republican presidential nominee, went to Moscow seeking investors for his real estate firm.
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| World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Court Reduces Sentence for Tycoon’s Partner |
A court on Thursday confirmed an earlier ruling to reduce the prison sentence of Platon A. Lebedev, a former business partner of the oil tycoon Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky.
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| Russians See Orthodox Church and State Come Closer |
 The rising prominence of Archimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov, a monk said to be President Vladimir V. Putin’s spiritual adviser, raises questions about the Orthodox Church’s growing power.
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| Jack O'Lantern's glow is a working game of Tetris |
 What happens when you combine Russian design, Japanese entertainment and American holiday tradition? A Jack O'Lantern with a fully functional game of Tetris inside, topped off by a prickly pumpkin stem serving as a joystick.
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| Should next president treat Russia as friend or foe? |
 LONDON -- One thing is clear: whether it's President Barack Obama or President Mitt Romney, dealing with Russia will be on his "must do" list.
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| Russian craft makes Halloween delivery to orbit |
 A robotic Russian cargo spacecraft made a Halloween delivery to the International Space Station on Wednesday.
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| Stravinsky feted in top London dance house season |
LONDON (Reuters) - London dance house Sadler's Wells will mark the centenary of the riotous premiere of Russian composer Igor Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" with a commission that uses neither the original music or scandalous choreography, opting instead for a piece inspired by it. Olympics opening ceremony choreographer Akram Khan's "ITMOi (in the mind of Igor)", with music by three composers that will in part draw on Stravinsky's groundbreaking work of musical brutalism, will have its first public performance on May 29, 2013, Sadler's Wells said on Tuesday. ...
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| Polish Newspaper Report on 2010 Crash Causes Furor |
The report, later partly retracted, said traces of explosives were found on the airplane that crashed in Russia, killing President Lech Kaczynski, reviving suspicions that the crash was not an accident.
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| Russia's Mail.Ru to launch global expansion with online games |
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian email-to-social networking group Mail.Ru is targeting online gamers as it prepares to launch services in foreign markets under the 'my.com' name. "Games is what we can begin to enter new markets with," Dmitry Grishin, the chief executive officer of Mail.Ru Group, told reporters on Tuesday. The company, part-owned by metals tycoon Alisher Usmanov, did not elaborate on its international plans, saying only that it has been testing various products in foreign markets for more than six months. It has previously focused on the domestic, Russian-language market. ...
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| Boeing to sell 35 new 737 airplanes to Russia |
NEW YORK (AP) -- Boeing is selling 35 of its redesigned 737 aircraft to a Russian state-run leasing company in a deal that would be worth $3 billion, if sold at current list prices....
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