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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The full force of the hostage tragedy that unfolded in southern Russia begins to hit home in the stunned town of Beslan.
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MOSCOW, May 24 -- For the second time since mid-March, a devastating explosion ripped through a Siberian coal mine Thursday killing dozens of workers and renewing questions about the safety of Russia's mining industry.
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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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MOSCOW -- 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. This time, however, the threat comes from her neighbors.
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MOSCOW -- The locked gates and barred windows that kept 45 women from escaping a fire early yesterday at a drug treatment center pointed to conditions now common in post-Soviet Russia's state-run institutions.
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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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A railroad deal will soon link the ex-Soviet outpost to European markets.
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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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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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Central Asia's poorest county is also one of the world's leading transit routes for heroin, opium and other drugs from Afghanistan. Sergei Makhkamov has been caught in the flood.
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James Rodgers explores Russia's relationship with its stormy history and larger-than-life leaders.
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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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Their watercolors have focused wide attention on a vulnerable population in the booming Russian capital.
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Â· Remains are believed to be those of tsar's children Â· Discovery in clearing is linked to 1918 shootings
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By Mark Landler and John Markoff John Markoff reported from San Francisco. Steven Lee Myers contributed reporting from Moscow.
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BESLAN, Russia Inside the charred, bullet-pocked wreckage of Middle School No. 1 lies evidence of the terror Russia faces: two parts of the library&#39;s wooden floor had been pried up, evidently by the heavily