Russia reports battle for Grozny
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Chechen rebels launched a major assault on Grozny just before President Putin's visit, Russia says.
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Russia is trouncing the West in the race to gain access to the enormous oil and gas reserves of its neighbors.
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Tension between Russia and Georgia has escalated dramatically following recent clashes between Georgia and two pro-Russia breakaway regions of Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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Last week's attack on a Russian school has driven new wedges between Russia and the West in the fight against terrorism, as Moscow continues to accuse the United States and European countries of coddling Chechen separatists.
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BBC Moscow correspondent Richard Galpin profiles the four candidates vying to succeed President Vladimir Putin.
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The absorption of Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft by the gas giant Gazprom appeared to run into trouble amid press reports of furious infighting among top Kremlin officials over the deal.
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MOSCOW  - Russia&#39;s economy minister German Gref is trying to halt plans for the Gazprom monopoly to bid for the main production unit of embattled Yukos, but is unlikely to succeed, analysts said.
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RUSSIAâS stricken oil industry is facing what some have branded a return to Soviet Union days after gas monopoly Gazprom said it might bid for the production arm of energy giant Yukos.
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GROZNY, Russia  - The Kremlin candidate won  Chechnya's presidential election but faces a struggle  controlling the warring region and subduing a resurgent  separatist rebellion that has frustrated Russia for a decade.
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Chess champion Garry Kasparov and allies in Russia's most vocal opposition movement held their latest showdown Monday with President Vladimir Putin's government, keeping up their frequent protests with a demonstration in central Moscow.
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MOSCOW - A wounded Russia threatened Wednesday to strike against terrorists "in any region of the world," offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the killing or capture of Chechnya's top rebel leaders, and criticized the United States for its willingness to hold talks with Chechen separatists.    The announcements marked a show of resolve aimed at Russia's stunned citizens, as well as Western countries President Vladimir Putin accuses of hindering its fight against terror, in the wake of three attacks that killed more than 400 people in the past two weeks...
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Russia outlined on Thursday a series of  steps it had taken to fight kidnapping in Chechnya, a day after  Amnesty International said authorities were letting murder and  kidnap go unpunished in the turbulent republic.
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took place on May 9 in (regional capital) Grozny,&quot; Kadyrov was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency on Monday. Officials did not disclose the man&#39;s full name.
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RUSSIAN ON-LINE NEWSPAPER - Questions are mounting about whether Putin&#39;s policies - not only in Chechnya but also the power consolidation drive to stamp out opposition and public debate - are exacerbating the terrorist threat.
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The fight against terror was supposed to unite Russia and the West, pounding the last nail into the coffin of the Cold War. But three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, a series of stunning assaults on Russia has pried the lid open, prompting angry accusations that the West is hindering Moscow's battle against terrorists &#151; and dark suggestions that it may even be aiding them.
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President Vladimir V. Putin flew to Chechnya for a rare visit today after a night of fierce rebel attacks in the republic that, according to official Russian accounts
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MOSCOW Sept. 8, 2004 - Russia&#39;s Federal Security has promised up to $10.3 million for information that helps &quot;neutralize&quot; Chechen rebel leaders Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov, Russian news agencies reported Wednesday.