A federal anti-extremism police division asked popular blogger and photographer Ilya Varlamov for information regarding photographers suspected of infiltrating military facilities. A federal anti-extremism police division asked popular blogger and photographer Ilya...

Investigators in the Urals Federal District said Thursday that they had filed extremism charges against the editor of an independent local newspaper after he published articles critical of the police. Investigators in the Urals Federal District said Thursday that they had filed extremism charges against the editor...

Linda Bortoletto spent two months with eight reindeer herders, two cooks, and 2,000 reindeer in a stunning landscape ringed by rivers and mountains. There are a fair number of people who have traveled to Kamchatka or Alaska. There are few who have reached the Aleutian Islands, and fewer still who have passed months with nomadic reindeer herders or biked 1,200 kilometers from Anchorage to Haines, but in one season last year, Linda Bortoletto did all of that — and more. By foot, plane, boat...

Up to 50 percent of Russia's grape crop could be lost due to the extreme cold. Up to 50 percent of Russia's grape crop could be lost due to the extreme cold, spokesmen for several wineries told Vedomosti. First tests on grapevines in Krasnodar's Taman region are showing a 30 percent loss, said Fanagoria chief agronomist...

Someone once likened the political positions of the extreme left with a broken clock that never shows the right time. But as everyone knows, a broken clock shows the correct time with astronomical precision twice every 24 hours, something a functioning clock can never do because...

... used in exploring other icy worlds. "Conditions in subglacial lakes in Antarctica are the closest we can get to those where scientists expect to find extraterrestrial life," Lukin said. Still, what makes Lake Vostok more important than other extreme environments is its incredible isolation. Drilling through the ice crust in the world's coldest place brought major technological challenges. The effort has drawn fears that the more than 60 tons of lubricants and antifreeze used in the drilling...

Europe's fragmented gas market is unable to respond to sudden shocks like this month's extreme cold that caused demand to surge, the export chief of Gazprom said, adding that the EU should give it better access to pipeline infrastructure. LONDON — Europe's fragmented gas market is unable to respond to sudden...

... utilities' net income under Russian accounting standards fell 13 percent to 14.9 billion rubles ($496 million) because of higher fuel prices and financing expenses. Electricity output declined 1.1 percent to 173 billion kilowatt-hours in 2011 after extreme cold the previous year, Gazprom Energoholding, the producer's power division, said Thursday in an e-mailed statement. Revenue rose 8.4 percent to 323.5 billion rubles ($10.8 billion) as prices for electricity and heat increased, it said. Gazprom...

... economist Yevgeny Gavrilenkov said in a research note Monday. January expenditures accounted for 8.5 percent of the full-year target, while revenue was 9 percent of the planned amount, the Finance Ministry said on its website Feb. 10. Spending was "extremely high" given that Russia usually makes about 6 percent of planned outlays in the first month, Troika said. The pattern of "radical decline in the first quarter and growth in the fourth quarter contributes to seasonality on the money...

... Airport. TNK-BP vice president and UK native Alexander Dodds was hospitalized with a skull fracture after falling from stairs when exiting a plane at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport, Life News reported. A stewardess said Dodds' fall was the result of his being extremely intoxicated, having drunk vodka the entire flight from the northern Russian city of Nadym. "Alexander drank Beluga [vodka] almost all three hours of the flight, while not eating anything with it even once," she told Life News. The...

... Prospekt Bolshevikov metro station. It caused at least four stations on that line to shut down for half an hour. The video was taken by a surveillance camera. Friends of the jumper told Life News that he most likely was attempting to train-surf, an "extreme sport." They ruled out suicide. "Vitaly was getting ready to leave for America, a good contract was waiting for him there," said Valentin G. "He did website design and made a good living. There was not a single reason for him...

... surrounding ice cap has kept the lakes completely separated from external contaminants. Potential applications of the recent breakthrough could include the discovery of new life, hints about pre-ice age evolution and give a glimpse of how life exists in extreme conditions. Rumors that these lakes were also home to secret German submarine bases during World War II are also being revisited in the wake of renewed excitement, driven by Nazi claims that they had created an "unassailable" Antarctic...

... Russia's State Duma fraction Andrei Vorobyov proposed Tuesday that the other parties in the Duma sign a statement declaring the need to prevent an "orange scenario, revolutions and outside interference." Vorobyov called the proposal "extremely important for the country, for those who want peace, consequent stable growth and changes that will solve problems," according to comments carried by the United Russia press service. The Duma majority party leader said it could be inferred...

... mistakes and are now concentrating on relatively inexpensive and yet popular with Russian audiences in-house productions, as opposed to broadcasting expensive Hollywood blockbusters," said Anna Lepetukhina, an analyst at Troika. "While 2011 was extremely bad for CTC Media, 2012 can prove to be a turning point for them. They can for sure stabilize their share of the audience." The average daily share of viewers for CTC Media's television channel, the company's biggest source of advertising...

... adding that apart from the nuclear weapons, the submarine was carrying torpedoes and mines as well as its two nuclear reactors. The magazine said that if one of the torpedoes had exploded, it could have threatened the nuclear missiles, leading to an extremely dangerous nuclear accident. Media reports of what happened at the time of the fire were contradictory, and foreign journalists were unable to gain access to the high-security zone. 179738

... Novikov, adding that firefighters were pumping foam into the affected area. He said the institute's heavy-water research reactor was no longer operational. A Greenpeace Russia official said the incident was potentially very dangerous. "This is extremely dangerous … this should not have happened at all, but since it did, it shows that there has been a major failure in their operations," said Ivan Blokov, campaign director at Greenpeace Russia. "What we have here is a large amount...

... its economy, hurting its people, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Wednesday. Lavrov said Russia is "seriously worried" about the prospect of military action and is doing all it can to prevent it. 
 "The consequences will be extremely grave," he said. "It's not going to be an easy walk. It will trigger a chain reaction, and I don't know where it will stop." Russia has long walked a fine line on the Iranian nuclear crisis, mixing careful criticism of an important...

Militants fighting to carve an Islamic state from Russia's southern flank should avoid attacks on citizens now that they are protesting Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's 12-year rule. Militants fighting to carve an Islamic state from Russia's southern flank should avoid attacks on citizens now that they are protesting Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's 12-year rule, the leader of the insurgency said. 
 In a video posted on a rebel-affiliated website Friday, Islamist militant...

... services. They also use 30 percent less electricity than the current generation of electric trains in use in Russia. The Swallow variant was built for Russia's wider 1,520-millimeter-gauge tracks and is specially equipped to cope with the country's extreme weather conditions. Siemens presented its first German-built trains to Russian Railways vice president Valentin Gapanovich at its plant in Krefeld, Germany, on Jan. 27. The trains will begin arriving in Russia at the port of Ust Luga port in...

... big business. And then he directed television professionals to carry out his instructions. That is like telling generals to reform the army. Does that mean we should give up on the idea of public broadcasting in Russia? Of course not. I think it is extremely important that the question be on the agenda. In our complex society, there is no better exercise in democracy than the practical task of creating a public broadcasting service. Both parliamentary and radical opposition parties will demonstrate...