Num-TŪrem
NUM-TŪREM. The Khanty (Ostiaks) and the Mansi (Voguls) live in an area in northwestern Siberia bordered on the west by the Ural Mountains. For the most part, they are settled o...
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As Alexander Litvinenko lay dying of radioactive polonium in a London hospital, a fellow former KGB agent wrote angry letters from a Ural Mountain prison colony saying he had warned that a governme...
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As Alexander Litvinenko lay dying at a London hospital, a fellow former KGB agent wrote angry letters from a Ural Mountains prison colony saying his warnings that a government hit squad had been hu...
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Four men have died and 150 people hospitalized in the central Sverdlovsk region in an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease spread by tap water, television reported.An elderly man died early Wednesday ...
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A revolt at a Russian prison for minors swelled into a mass uprising that left two people dead and buildings gutted before guards and riot police restored order, officials said Wednesday.The unrest...
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Microsoft Corp., responding to a plea from former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, said Tuesday it had no role in Russia's investigation of a school principal on charges of buying pirated Windows s...
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