Once-cursed Gulag river now Siberian lifeline
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The Kolyma used to be a  river of death for prisoners in some of the harshest camps of  Josef Stalin&#39;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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DUVANNY YAR, Russia  - Sergei Zimov bends down, picks up a handful of treacly mud and holds it up to his nose. It smells like a cow pat, but he knows better.
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Severe contamination of Vileyka-Minsk water system's water surface has been detected near the village of Krivoye Selo, Minsk district, late on Monday night.
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The BBC's Steve Rosenberg speaks to two Moscow women whose lives have been changed by the Beslan siege.
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SHCHUCHYE, Russia - 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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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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MOSCOW, October 17 (Itar-Tass) -- Terrorists who took hostages in the secondary school of Beslan, North Ossetia, were addicted to drugs, which might have caused the Beslan tragedy, Deputy Prosecutor General for the southern federal district Nikolai Shepel
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Societa' comune si trova a Tyumen, in Siberia
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KULSHICHI, Belarus -- No one lives here anymore. Only radiation-danger signs stick up from the ground in this village contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl accident, and abandoned buildings gape silently, their windows broken.
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CHERSKY, Russia  - One day, climate change could cost the earth. For now, it is a nice little earner for Russian hunter Alexander Vatagin.
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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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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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ST PETERSBURG, Russia  - Russia reburied the   mother of its last tsar on Thursday nearly 90 years after the   Bolshevik revolution forced her into exile, in a homecoming the   country hopes will help reconcile it with its bloody past.
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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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Two Russian intelligence agents convicted by a Qatar court of assassinating a Chechen rebel leader on Thursday arrived back in Russia, where the Kremlin had requested they be allowed to serve out their life sentences.
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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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Documents detail millions of victims of repression, including those who perished in Soviet gulags.