Word: siberia
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...police station in the city of Nazran in the North Caucasus and detonated its payload, killing 25 policemen and injuring more than 150 others as they lined up for the morning head count. The group also took responsibility for a hydroelectric-dam accident that killed 75 people in Siberia on the same day. But the attack on the Neva Express, a luxury train from Moscow to St. Petersburg used by wealthy Russians and government officials, appears to be Umarov's first major operation in the Russian heartland...
...online grievances - a rarity in a country where law enforcers typically close ranks in the face of public criticism - come at an awkward time for Russia's police. In Siberia last month, two police officers allegedly committed separate murder-suicides, leaving a total of five people dead, including themselves. A third policeman in Tuva has been charged with using excessive force after shooting a 17-year-old boy dead in what he claims was self-defense. The slayings came just months after the arrest of a Moscow police officer accused of drunkenly shooting nine people in a supermarket, killing...
...idea came from Mayor Yury Luzhkov, who is no stranger to playing God. In 2002, he spearheaded a project to reverse the flow of the vast River Ob through Siberia to help irrigate the country's parched Central Asian neighbors. Although that idea hasn't exactly turned out as planned - scientists have said it's not feasible - this time, Luzhkov says, there's no way he can fail. (See TIME's photo-essay "Vladimir Putin: Action Figure...
...China and Russia have yet to come to terms on an agreement for Gazprom to sell natural gas from fields in western and eastern Siberia to the China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC). In 2006 the two companies signed a memorandum of understanding to develop two pipelines, one that would link Sakhalin Island with northeast China and a second that would join the Siberian Kovykta gas field with China's northwestern Xinjiang region. Completion of that deal stalled on disagreements over several issues, including price. (See pictures of China's electronic-waste village...
Gets exiled to Siberia or something, courtesy of Dorota and her sketchy connections...