Dying Russian villages in crisis
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There are growing fears that Russia is facing a population crisis that could see the country lose up to 50 million people in the next 50 years.
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Hundreds of Ukrainian villagers are at risk from a giant toxic cloud formed when a freight train caught fire.
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The political crisis unfolding in Ukraine has brought both hope and despair to Ukrainian immigrants in Maine. But mostly worry. At a time when their native country
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An industrial city northwest of Moscow struggles as AIDS hits a broader population.
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Text of report by Russian Ekho Moskvy radio on 6 September  The Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network [RTRS] is on the verge of bankruptcy. Culture Minister Aleksandr Sokolov made this worrying statement in the State Duma today.
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Some kibbutzes are on the verge of collapse as they cope with debt and attrition.
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MARKHAYANOVA, Russia  - The Kolyma used to be a river of death for prisoners in some of the harshest camps of Josef Stalin's Gulag empire. Now the camps are long gone, but so too is the activity of a once-bustling Soviet Arctic outpost.
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As the people of Beslan struggle with their grief, the schoolhouse where their children died has become a place of echoes and memories.
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Bodies, dirty water spreading disease. Medical supplies have started to run out and panicked residents are fighting for provisions.
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The bloody end to the hostage crisis in Russia leaves unfathomable human suffering. More than three hundred children, parents and teachers died in the gruesome 52-hour siege that began
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A bankrupt Japanese coal town may provide a glimpse  of a grim future to a country riddled with debt and an aging, shrinking population
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PEREDELKINO, Russia -- The unpaved, unlit roads are clogged with traffic. Getting to and from work in the center of Moscow is a 90-minute crawl each way. The schools are lousy. There are no stores within walking distance. Local healthcare facilities are primitive.
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It is the war Moscow pretends no longer exists. Hundreds of miles south of the shredded wrecks of two airliners, blown out of the sky by suicide bombers on Tuesday night, human life is at its cheapest in the Russian republic of Chechnya.
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Campaigners for village schools say hundreds face closure because of government pressure.
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COTTENHAM, England -- A brutal killing, cigarette smuggling, a tax revolt, and a human rights dispute -- the last things one would expect to find in an English village.
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Chechen attacks highlight Russia's failure to crush a rebellion
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Letter from Moscow: Nobody knows for sure, but the backdrop for the deadly turn Russian politics has taken in recent months is the slow onset of a succession struggle