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 on the banks of the rivers there, with the Ob River flowing through...

Coordinates: 60°00′N, 60°00′E The Ural Mountains (Russian: Ура́льские го́ры, Uralskiye gory) (also known as the Urals, the Riphean Mountains in Greco-Roman antiquity, and known as the Stone Belt) are a mountain range that...

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 government hit squad was hunting Litvinenko.After a series of sensational accusations by prisoner...

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 hunting Litvinenko were ignored.After a series of sensational accusations by Mikhail Trepashkin,...

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 in the town of Upper Pyshma, becoming the fourth victim of pneumonia caused by the...

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 started late Tuesday when a group of inmates tried to break through a...