M ajor potash exporter BPC has raised spot prices for Brazil and Asia by over 6 per cent, reflecting growing world demand for the soil nutrient, and plans to strike its next deals at the end of March or in April. Oleg Petrov, director of sales for ...
Moscow: Nearly one in 10 US households runs on power from Soviet nuclear bombs. Now Russia hopes its Cold War arsenal, twinned with fast-growing uranium mines and enrichment capacity, will also be powering China, India and other booming economies when ...
Vladislav Rintytegin is an alcoholic, but he hasn't had a drink in three years. He is leaving on a one-month voyage around Chukotka to help people like him. In Russia's extreme northeast, no village has escaped the scourge of alcohol abuse, he ...
Every winter, an ice road is laid across 400 km of tundra to carry supplies to one of the world's most isolated gold mines. There is no other way for heavy machinery to reach Kupol, the $700 million Arctic mine behind a resurgence in Russian gold ...
MAGADAN, Russia (Reuters) - Yelena Zyuzka still doesn't understand why she was exiled to Magadan, but 62 years later she would happily share the enormous cake baked to celebrate the city's birthday. The cream-filled slices were served up for the crowds ...
ANADYR, Russia (Reuters) - While Russia's population declines, there's a baby boom happening on its outer edge. Lilia Omrytagina has just given birth to her second child, Ruslan, in the hospital that serves Chukotka's biggest town. "We have belief in ...
ANADYR, Russia (Reuters) - Vladislav Rintytegin is an alcoholic, but he hasn't had a drink in three years. He is leaving on a one-month voyage around Chukotka to help people like him. In Russia's extreme northeast, no village has escaped the scourge of ...
KUPOL MINE, Russia (Reuters) - Every winter, an ice road is laid across 400 km (250 miles) of tundra to carry supplies to one of the world's most isolated gold mines. There is no other way for heavy machinery to reach Kupol, the $700 million Arctic ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Three people died and at least 20 were missing after fire gutted a remote, wooden care home in the northwestern Russian republic of Komi Saturday, a spokeswoman for the local branch of the Emergencies Ministry said. President Dmitry ...
When Olga Tannagasheva starts to sing, her gentle voice transforms into a bass-line growl designed to invoke other-worldly spirits. A national Shors ensemble rehearses in Novokuznetsk, Russia on Dec. 19, 2008. A national Shors ensemble ...
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