#russia

Americans work to remove bugs planted by Soviet-era spies and turn chancery in Moscow into a usable site.

"The point that I do want to stress is that when this economy collapses, it is bound to be much worse. Another point I would like to stress is that collapse here is likely to be permanent. The factors that allowed Russia and the other former Soviet republics to recover are not present here."

"As Kasparov spoke a toy penis with wings buzzed across the hall and around him. It was not clear who was behind the stunt."

"Russian military pilots have described how they created rain clouds to protect Moscow from radioactive fallout after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986."