The journalist, Oleg Kashin, 30, is in a medically induced coma in a Moscow hospital with a concussion, a broken jaw, fractures in both legs and broken fingers, the newspaper reported Saturday. At least one finger was severed at the joint. The newspaper’s editor...

Enlarge This Image Misha Japaridze/Associated Press In buying The Independent, Alexander Lebedev has widened his influence. via nytimes.com Lebedev, a billionaire in the new Russia and a KGB agent in the old USSR, is the owner...

Panic in Georgia After a Mock News Broadcast via nytimes.com Shades of Orson Welles! Any similarities between people's reactions here and to the 1939 Martian invasion radio program? Check out Hadley Cantril's book about the effects of Welles' radio show...