Once-cursed Gulag river now Siberian lifeline
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MARKHAYANOVA, Russia  - The Kolyma used to be a river of death for prisoners in some of the harshest camps of Josef Stalin's Gulag empire. Now the camps are long gone, but so too is the activity of a once-bustling Soviet Arctic outpost.
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Video image of hostages sitting below explosives strung from basketball hoops in the gymnasium of a school in Beslan, Russia. Photograph: NTV/AP.
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Hostage-takings and kidnappings have been a feared part of life in Chechnya and other parts of Russia's disorderly North Caucasus region for centuries.
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ALI-YURT, Russia  - Petimat Tatriyeva was woken up one morning late last month by shouts and banging coming from the courtyard of her home.
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A railroad deal will soon link the ex-Soviet outpost to European markets.
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A court has opened the way for the possible exoneration of a commander who fought against the Red Army in Russia's civil war and was executed by the Bolsheviks, a human rights activist said Tuesday.
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SHCHUCHYE, Russia, Aug. 30 -- Out of the flatlands and swamps about 100 miles from Russia's southern border, a huge gray box of concrete, brick, pipes and wires is rising, a factory that next year may begin to neutralize one of the most threatening legacies of the Cold War.
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By Tom Kizzia, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 15--A plan to create a Bristol Bay game refuge in honor of former Gov.
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A Russian province goes for a youth infusion the old-fashioned way.
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The Kremlin reorganized its local security services on Thursday in the region where hundreds of people were killed last week in a school hostage-taking, the first public step
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James Rodgers explores Russia's relationship with its stormy history and larger-than-life leaders.
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Emperor Nicholas and his family were executed in 1918. But with newly discovered remains, they're making headlines again in Russia
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With the case of five imprisoned Bulgarian nurses about to be settled, the West's old enemy is refurbishing his image
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The Soviet Union collapsed 16 years ago, but you wouldn't know that in a Belarus dacha hamlet
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born out of a former gulag north of the Arctic Circle - come to be a key player in South Africa&#39;s gold industry? There used to be a lot of talk about foreign companies running off with Russian resources.
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After the horrendous hostage-taking in Beslan and the killing of more than 300 people, an end to the bloody cycle of retaliation tied to the Chechnya conflict seems farther away than ever.
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It was an iconic image of hope in the death and chaos that ended the three-day Beslan school siege &#151; a girl's bloodied hand clutching a golden cross.