Kirovskaya Oblast', Russia News

KIROV, Russia -- The embezzlement trial of opposition leader and anticorruption blogger Aleksei Navalny has resumed in the central Russian city of Kirov.

They sit on a rough bench in the late-afternoon sun, three women looking as ancient as the city itself, residents of a place similar to so many others in Russia, where the forces that rule their lives are distant and poorly understood.

More than half of Russians believe that the government will put pressure on the court in the ongoing embezzlement trial of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and nearly half think he will be found guilty, according to a poll released Monday.

The announcement by Secretary of Defense Hagel that the United States will "rethink all options" including arming Syrian rebel groups, was carefully hedged.

It has been variously described as a sleek piece of modernism or an ugly shopping centre, but whatever Russians think of the exterior of St Petersburg's new Mariinsky Theatre, they will finally get to see inside the much-debated building at its grand opening on Thursday.

Watching the Toronto architect Jack Diamond deal with the final details of his remarkable new opera house- the Mariinsky II , as it is dubbed-in the beautiful but historically complicated Russian city of St.

Participants of the 2013 American Cancer Society Relay for Life walked to raise money to find a cure for cancer that was held at Desert Sun Stadium from Saturday night to Sunday morning.