Moscow Mayor Fired
In this 2006 file photo, then President Vladimir Putin, right, and then Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov with his wife Yelena Baturina, are seen at celebrations marking Luzhkov's 70th birthday in Moscow. Russia's president Dmitry Medvedev fired Luzhkov on Tuesday, ending the 18-year reign of a man who gave the crumbling capital a glamorous facelift but was maligned for his bellicose posturing and staying on vacation while forest fires choked his city. (AP Photo)
