Russia Inaugurates Book Prize. ItÂs Big.
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A new Russian national book prize spurs debate about a literary academy and the state of modern Russian literature.
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A new literary prize was launched on   Thursday with a top award of $100,000 for one lucky unpublished   U.S. writer, but publishing insiders warned that the $85 entry   fee makes it akin to a lottery.
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Shifting alliances raise tension with Moscow.
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The shortlist for a prize aimed at awarding blogs that become books has been announced.
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At BookExpo America, the publishing industryâs annual convention, the battering ram of technology was back.
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Arts & entertainment: Ten 'ambitious, resonant' titles fight the first round of the Â£10,000 Guardian First Book Award.
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Violence, sexuality and gender politics dominate the controversial writing of Elfriede Jelinek, winner of this year&#39;s Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Tussle between Britain and Russia over London-based billionaire tycoon Boris Berezovsky takes a new twist.
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The English writer George Orwell once expressed doubts about the wisdom of sports contests as a way of bringing nations together. He was writing during the Cold War when the sports arena became a substitute battlefield between the West and East.
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MOSCOW -- One of the computers on reporter Vyacheslav Izmailov's desk is more than a decade old, an antique by high-tech standards. But he refuses to part with the machine: Mikhail S. Gorbachev paid for it with his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize money.
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Dismay with the kind of work that has often been honored by the Nobel prize in economics has led even a couple of its winners to suggest it be abolished.
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Russian president, who described Americans as 'snotty', receives unlikely accolade from magazine
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One can make a strong argument that Russia, with its combined strength in the menÂs and womenÂs game, is the leading tennis nation in the world.
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Once the Olympiad of classical music,  Russia&#39;s top international music prize the Tchaikovsky  competition opened this week hoping to restore its lost glory  after more than a decade in the doldrums.
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Year 2005 can be interesting for the world economies. While America is busy in Iraq, Vladimir Putin is positioned to take control of the world as another superpower.
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Gazprom is about to become the world's largest energy company but is controlled by the Russian government, and therein lies the potential and risks for investors.
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Once the Olympiad of classical music, Russia's top international music prize the Tchaikovsky competition opened this week hoping to restore its lost glory after more than a decade in the doldrums.