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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President Vladimir Putin accused the  West of indulging terrorists on Friday, just hours after a  Chechen warlord claimed responsibility for a wave of deadly  attacks in Russia and threatened more.
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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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A wave of poaching has alarmed state and federal wildlife officials in several Western states.
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It is an unfortunate fact but enemies of the Kremlin do have a bit of a habit of 'getting whacked', writes Sky's Moscow Correspondent Alex Rossi .Comment
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MOSCOW -- When a hostage-taking at a school in southern Russia erupted in explosions last month, viewers who rushed to turn on state-run Channel 1 were treated to a film, ''Lady with a Parrot.&quot; They wouldn't have fared much better on Channel 2, which stuck to a travelogue.
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The Russian company wins a legal skirmish.
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MOSCOW -- Russia's top general threatened yesterday to strike terrorists ''in any region of the world,&quot; and the Kremlin offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the killing or capture of Chechnya's top rebel leaders.
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Russia is trouncing the West in the race to gain access to its neighbors enormous oil and gas reserves.
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The horrific school hostage seizure has caused a rift among Chechen rebels, Russian officials claimed Saturday and, in an apparent attempt to exploit division, said insurgents can get the $10 million reward offered for information about
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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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Russia's state arms exporter has filed a lawsuit against a businessman who said it was seeking to grab private assets, the latest salvo in what analysts have said is a turf war raging behind the scenes between Kremlin clans.
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By Kevin Klott, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun. 16--RUSSIAN RIVER -- This Kenai Peninsula fishery is the honey hole for red salmon this weekend -- and by Monday it should be even sweeter.
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Russia's state arms exporter has filed a  lawsuit against a businessman who said it was seeking to grab  private assets, the latest salvo in what analysts have said is  a turf war raging behind the scenes between Kremlin clans.
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By Sarah Wachter  Aplastic bottle bobbing on the surface of Amurskiy Bay, concealed under a plastic bag, is a tell-tale sign that poachers are working this salmon spawning route in the coastal waters of the Russian Far East.
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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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MOSCOW - Russia offered more than $10 million for information that helps "neutralize" two well-known rebel leaders from breakaway Chechnya accused of planning the school hostage standoff that killed at least 326 people last week, news agencies reported Wednesday.    The reports of the reward came a day after Russians got a horrific glimpse of the drama from video footage filmed by the militants who captured the school in southern Russia...