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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TULUS, Sudan - Three years after it was burned to the ground, the village of Tulus in Darfur is springing back to life.
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Soviet-era security services are still sending shudders through the region nearly two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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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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By Brandon Loomis, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  May 27--Aiming to get the most precise sockeye picture yet, a joint state-private effort is taking on the job of accurately gauging the seemingly anemic returns to the Susitna River drainage.
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The charges opened a new line of legal attack against a Kremlin foe who was once regarded as Russiaâs richest man.
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BESLAN, Russia -- The sound of weeping floated out of open windows and doors across this town Sunday as relatives began to bury more than 330 victims of a three-day hostage ordeal that ended in chaos and bloodshed.
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From a mud hut under the world&#39;s  longest high-tension power line, Tshisumpa Nvita can see the  rusting remains of a power station that, for a few months 30  years ago, brought electricity to this corner of Congo.
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MOSCOW, Oct. 21 -- She survived three days as a hostage and the destruction of the school where she has passed nearly all of her 72-year life. Now Lydia Tsaliyeva is heading home, and her life may be in danger all over again. Only this time the threat comes from her neighbors.
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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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ELISTA, Russia -- Life is not all smooth sailing for Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the flamboyant leader of the remote Russian republic of Kalmykia.
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BIROBIDZHAN, Russia  - The tractor plant in this curious Russian outpost once made machinery to work the land settled by Jewish immigrants under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
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The bloody end to the hostage crisis in Russia leaves unfathomable human suffering. More than three hundred children, parents and teachers died in the gruesome 52-hour siege that began
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TASTUPEK, Kazakhstan -- In the cool of one recent evening, after tending to his herd of 19 camels, Puzblay Seytpembetov and four companions pushed his small single-engine boat out onto the placid waters of the Aral Sea to lay fishnets. In the morning, he predicted, he would haul in flapping carp ...
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The decaying Ottoman bridge on  Bosnia&#39;s River Drina at Visegrad is soon to be restored, but  the community whose life around it was chronicled in an epic  novel is unlikely to be the same again.
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KANANGA, Congo  - From a mud hut under the world's longest high-tension power line, Tshisumpa Nvita can see the rusting remains of a power station that, for a few months 30 years ago, brought electricity to this corner of Congo.
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A railroad deal will soon link the ex-Soviet outpost to European markets.