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Black box of Russian jet in Indonesia crash found
Investigators on Wednesday were analyzing the cockpit voice recorder from a Russian passenger jet that slammed into the side of an Indonesian volcano. They hope the final words of the two pilots will help explain what caused last week's crash, which killed all 45 people on board.
Russian jet crash puts Indonesian sales in limbo
The crash of a new, Russian-made jetliner into a jagged, Indonesian volcano during a flight to impress potential buyers threw doubt on dozens of plane sales Thursday just as Moscow seeks a comeback in foreign markets. All 45 people aboard were feared dead.
Russian plane with 50 aboard missing in Indonesia
A new Russian-made passenger plane went missing over mountains in western Indonesia while on a demonstration flight Wednesday arranged for potential buyers. Fifty people were on board, including diplomats, businesspeople and journalists.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama's economic train is out of coal
In the waning days of the crumbling Soviet Union, a Russian expatriate I met at a Washington reception told me a story of Soviet leaders Josef Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev on a rail journey across "mother" Russia.
Art behind the Iron Curtain
The parallels between Soviet-era repression and Vladimir Putin's authoritarian rule are at the heart of "Lest We Forget: Masters of Soviet Dissent," a new exhibition of paintings and drawings by Leonhard Lapin and the late Alexander Zhdanov at Charles Krause/Reporting Fine Art gallery in Washington.
Russian airliner goes missing on demonstration flight
A new Russian-made passenger plane went missing over mountains in western Indonesia Wednesday while on a demonstration flight arranged for potential buyers.
Putin chides lawmakers critical of slow progress, failures
Russian President Vladimir Putin had no trouble getting the Kremlin-controlled parliament to approve former President Dmitry Medvedev as his prime minister Tuesday, but he did not much like the startlingly critical questions Mr. Medvedev faced from lawmakers before the vote.
What killed Lenin? Poison called possibility
Stress, family medical history or possibly even poison led to the death of Vladimir Lenin, contradicting a popular theory that a sexually transmitted disease debilitated the Soviet Union's founder, a UCLA neurologist said.
What killed Lenin? Stress didn't help, poison eyed
Stress, family medical history or possibly even poison led to the death of Vladimir Lenin, contradicting a popular theory that a sexually transmitted disease debilitated the former Soviet Union leader, a UCLA neurologist said Friday.
Ex-CBS newsman, journalism prof. Ben Silver dies
Former CBS news correspondent and Arizona State University journalism professor Ben Silver has died. He was 85.
Extinguishing of 'eternal flame' pits patriots versus gas company
Residents of this Central Asian city are concerned about how long their "eternal flame" will burn since it was extinguished briefly last week because of an unpaid gas bill.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Russian espionage as prevalent as ever
Last week, presidential hopeful Mitt Romney called Russia America's No. 1 geopolitical foe, but Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. echoed the Obama administration's view that there is no threat to the United States from Russia. Mr. Biden is wrong. At present, there are as many or more Russian spies operating in America as there were in the Soviet Union's KGB days. Under the Obama administration, arrests and criminal proceedings have simply stopped.
TYRRELL: Taking the Secret Service scandal personally
When you have a young woman screaming in a hallway about some sort of grievance she has with you, you have a problem. Even a Secret Service agent, surrounded by his buddies, has a problem. I know about this sort of thing from my work in the archives pursuant to my researches as a presidential historian.
Soviet hockey great Valeri Vasilyev dies at 62
Valeri Vasilyev, a standout Soviet Union defenseman who won two Olympic gold medals, has died at 62.
FEULNER: Decade after the ABM Treaty's end
"Unnecessary, unwarranted and unwise." That's how Daryl G. Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, described it when President Bush announced that the United States would withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. The arms-control crowd seemed certain that our "go-it-alone" attitude would only antagonize Russia, China and all of Europe, leaving us without a friend in the world.