Retired secret service agents attempt raid on VFS Global. Raid attempt is foiled.

This country has a knack for luxury. Several corrections officers were discharged in the Russian city if Volgograd for allegedly setting up 'VIP prison cells' — a five-star accommodation for wealthy mugs and senior mafia bosses.

Most of those who drove in Russia know that the quality of roads in this country is so terrible that it’s not even funny. But you, the reader, should review the following images — and next time you hear your cab driver speaking Russian — just sit back and relax: the driver knows what he is doing.

Unable to find support at home, well-known Russian human rights and ecological activist Yevgenia Chirikova, who led the revolt in Moscow against the clear-cutting of the Khimki forest, is trying to get help in the U.S.

Two days — that’s how long it took to sell out the 10,000-unit supply of the newest Apple tablets in Russia after the iPad 2 went on sale here, several months after it became available in the US.

We have discovered a video on Youtube today which features Russian President Dmitry A. Medvedev showing of his dance moves. Mr. Medvedev obviously has not danced much since the 1980s. We won’t even try to make satirical comments -- just add that the song in the video is called “American boy”.

As Russia struggles to improve its investment climate and attract more foreign direct investment, the country’s largest corporations are starting to resemble the nearly-forgotten Soviet economic plants, with incompetent management, lack of supervision, and very creative accounting, according to the report published in Moscow this week.

Over the last 10 years, the market for Russian art has grown by a factor of 30 and now accounts for $400 million in sales a year, and the role of Russians on the international art market is ever more noticeable. In turn, art scandals involving Russians are also increasing in number. Russia! magazine has published a Top 10 rating of the biggest scandals on the Russian art market at the beginning of 21st century.

The Suleiman Kerimov Foundation has disbursed around $60 million to social projects in Dagestan and Russia.

At least 10 people were killed and 70 injured in a blast in Moscow’s international airport, Domodedovo. According to the airport officials, the blast was a suicide bombing that took place in the arrivals section, near the baggage claim section.

Vladimir Potanin’s Interros, which owns a 25-percent stake in Russian miner Norilsk Nickel, will not take part in the major Norilsk’s shares buyback effort, announced by the company earlier this week, according to a source in Interros.