Feb 21, 2013 | Russia Beyond the Headlines
Chelyabinsk: From industrial workhorse to cosmic wonder
The Urals city will now forever be known as the home of the exploding meteorite, but a bigger story - that of the upheaval of the 20th century in Russia - is told in its architecture.
Shafikov Dropping Down To 135, Eyes Feb/March Return
After a lazy 2011 and struggles with multiple injuries, inferior opposition and promotional problems in 2010, the highly talented switch-hitter from Miass, Russia, re-activated himself with zeal and almost regained his 2009 level of activity albeit versus much better opposition.
Russian Detained for Preparing Explosion in Urals
Police detained a young man when he was making a makeshift explosive device he planned to detonate under a kiosk in the city of Miass in the Urals, the Interior Ministry reported on Friday.
North Korea Does its Bombs-for-Food Routine
North Korea has agreed to suspend its missile and nuclear programs in exchange for food aid from the United States.
The phrase "the wild '90s" was coined by then-President Vladimir Putin in 2007, on the eve of parliamentary and presidential elections.