Heavily armed men and women took hostage the audience and cast of a Moscow musical last night, threatening to shoot captives and blow up the theatre unless Russia ends its military campaign in ...

Unidentified children who were let out of a Moscow theater, ... 7,720 square miles, or about size of New Jersey. Moscow considers area vital to maintaining influence in Caucasus region.

Moscow's Red Square is among the most famous and iconic public squares in the world. ... (home to the famous Bolshoi Theatre) and the Lubyanka Square. The area also holds many small churches.

Seven hostages were released early Friday from a Moscow theater where Chechen gunmen have been holding 700 hostages for more than 24 hours. Home Page : ... 7,720 square miles, ...

The Moscow production of THE LITTLE MERMAID will open tonight, on the 175th anniversary of the first publication of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. This marks the first musical production ...

MOSCOW, April 21 -- The Third World Theater Olympiad started Saturday in Moscow as the city mayor hosted a lavish opening ceremony in a central square right across the celebrated Bolshoi Theater ...

MOSCOW — In the early 2000s, Mikhail Ugarov and Elena Gremina, playwrights who were husband and wife, were lamenting that Russian theater had grown ossified and distant from society’s problems ...

On October 23, 2002 -- as the second Chechen war was raging in southern Russia -- armed militants burst into Moscow's Dubrovka theatre during a sold-out performance of the musical "Nord-Ost." ...

To U. S. theatre folk who go to Russia to profit artistically rather than financially, the U. S. S. R. seems to be indeed the millennium of the show business. Audiences seem to like everything ...

Since becoming the Bolshoi chief in 2000, Iksanov led the restoration of the Bolshoi historic building in Moscow, which doubled the theater’s size to 340,000 square feet. The six-year renovation ...

Moscow (AFP) – Twenty years after Chechen separatists seized a crowded theatre in Moscow, spurring a hostage standoff that ended with more than one hundred dead, the survivors are haunted by the ...