Despite support from MPs, and the British embassy in Moscow, officials demanded extra payments and paperwork.
In 1943, young Rostropovich entered the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied with Dmitri Shostakovich.
In an apartment on the edge of Moscow, 18-year-old Maxim sits watching the news on TV.
The next morning, we alighted at Tynda, the unofficial BAM capital, nearly 7, 000km east of Moscow.
Moscow is the only member of the quartet that doesn't consider Hamas a terrorist organization.
He says Moscow's actions reflect a historical inability to find a place in the international community.
Ginzburg was the former head of the theory group at the PN Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow.
In later years Moscow became their secondary base, after Peter the Great founded his new capital St Petersburg.
Russia has strong economic and military ties to Syria, and is Moscow's last Middle East ally.
The Russians are angry and the Cypriot finance minister is heading to Moscow to explain.
ChevronTexaco, though it has an excellent position in neighboring Kazakhstan, has come up dry in Moscow.
The report criticizes, for instance, Moscow's decision to host the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
In Moscow he ran Mr Putin's presidential campaign and chaired Gazprom, the gas giant.
Russia's fifth largest bank, Bank of Moscow, has been given the biggest bail-out in Russian history.
Critics fear it will dilute Ukraine's sovereignty and help return Ukraine to Moscow's sphere of influence.
Mr Fogle is said to have been a third secretary at the US embassy in Moscow.
After the sale his mother phoned to complain about Moscow's abuse of the Chechens.
On Monday Ivanov said the new anti-terror partnership between Moscow and Washington had strengthened the OSCE.
At no stage will Moscow be setting the price or volumes of global gas supplies.
Eclipsed by the economic powerhouse of Moscow, St Petersburg feels a bit like a large museum.
Elsewhere in the region Russia's RTS index was down 0.9% in Moscow during the afternoon.
In short, tampering with a skeptical, scared jury in Moscow may not even be necessary.
"The press here is so cowed, it's disgusting, " says a top U.S. official in Moscow.
Moscow is a top 10 derivatives market and a top 20 equities trading market.
Russian officials say they need more time to consult Moscow, BBC UN correspondent Barbara Plett reports.
Russians are lured by its four-hour proximity to Moscow, strong capital markets and favorable tax laws.
Nor does Moscow have a judicial system like Britain's that protects them from unwelcome inquisitors.
Like many other authoritarians, Vladimir Putin's regime in Moscow derives its legitimacy in part from anti-Americanism.
Here, some 65 metres below the sundrenched streets of Moscow, lies a disused communications bunker.
For Moscow, that price comes in the form of complete political loyalty from Turkmenistan.
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