(AFP/File) - Acclaimed Russian conductor Mikhail Pletnev on Saturday again protested his innocence after being charged with raping a teenage boy in Thailand, saying the affair was a "set up."(AFP/File)... [Full Article]
(AFP/File) - Grammy award-winning Russian conductor Mikhail Pletnev (pictured) has been charged in Thailand with raping a 14-year-old boy, a crime that carries a penalty of up to 20 years in jail.(AFP/File/AFP)... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Jailed Russian former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky reads documents behind a glass wall during a court session in Moscow June 21, 2010. Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev face a second round of trials on charges of the... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet leader, speaks during his interview with Reuters in Moscow, June 11, 2010. Gorbachev has appealed to the Kremlin to make Russia more democratic, saying President Dmitry Medvedev's push to modernise th... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili (L) is welcomed by Romanian President Traian Basescu at Cotroceni presidential palace in Bucharest June 2, 2010. REUTERS/Sorin Lupsa/Presidential Press Service/Handout (ROMANIA - Tags: POLITICS PROFI... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (C) and Mikhail Kalashnikov (R), the Russian inventor of the globally popular AK-47 assault rifle, listen to explanations during the visit to the IZHMASH Izhevsk Mechanical Works, a weapons manufactur... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky stands before the start of a court session in Moscow April 6, 2010. Khodorkovsky is on hunger strike to protest against what he says is an illegal decision to extend his detention in a Moscow prison... [Full Article]
(AP) - Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, looks on during a press statement at the Baneasa airport in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, April 14, 2010. Gorbachev said, referring to the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky sits before a court session starts in a Moscow court April 5, 2010. Khodorkovsky is serving eight years in a Siberian jail for fraud and tax evasion and could face a further 22 years behind bars if ... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Gerd Grochowski performs as Gunther, Mikhail Petrenko as Hagen and Stefan Vinke as Siegfried (L-R) during a dress rehearsal of Richard Wagner's opera Goetterdaemmerung (The Twilight of the Gods) in Salzburg March 23, 2010. REUTERS/And... [Full Article]