Poaching feeds and bleeds Russian Kamchatka
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For a rare visitor to  the volcanic Kamchatka peninsula in Russia&#39;s Far East, no other  custom reveals more about the local economy, lifestyle and  environment than salmon poaching.
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A wave of poaching has alarmed state and federal wildlife officials in several Western states.
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Images from Russia of the aftermath of the school siege bloodbath in Beslan.
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By Craig Medred, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Sep. 24--SANDPOINT, Idaho -- The war on predators is being waged on a distinctly different front here.
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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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KONDOPOGA, Russia  - Dozens of wrecked market   stalls rot in the rain and a restaurant stands burned and   looted, its windows boarded up.
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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 and...
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A fight is brewing over hunting of the famous McNeil River bears, known for offering humans the world's best glimpse of life in the wild as they feast on salmon and fatten up for the long Alaska winter.
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A wounded Russia threatened Wednesday to strike against terrorists &quot;in any region of the world,&quot; offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the killing or capture
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Just the word "Chechnya" can conjure images of guerrilla warfare, mine explosions, rampant kidnappings and, for many Russians, wily merchants out to fleece law-abiding citizens.
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SALMON, Idaho  - For the first time in nearly a decade, hunters on Saturday begin tracking and killing buffalo on the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where federal wildlife managers plan to cut the herd from 1,200 to 500 over the next five years.
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It is one of the oldest conflicts between man and beast: farmers killing marauders such as wolves, lynxes, lions and leopards to defend their livestock from the predators.
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When Vladimir Putin used illegal tactics to engineer the election of his hand-picked subordinate Ahmad Kadyrov as president of Chechnya last October, Western pundits were quick to condemn the election as a farce.
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Shifting alliances raise tension with Moscow.
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Two people were killed and another was injured today when a vehicle carrying dolphins collided with a heavy truck in north western Russia today, officials said.
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The abuse of conscripts in the Russian military -- known as hazing or &quot;rule of the grandfathers&quot; (&quot;dedovshchina&quot;) in Russian -- is a widespread problem that independent monitors say claims several thousand lives each year.
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Russia is trouncing the West in the race to gain access to the enormous oil and gas reserves of its neighbors.