... two fishermen in the Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk ended in tragedy when a man stabbed his friend after the pair failed to bring in a satisfying haul, police said Thursday. The men, both drunk, began arguing while driving home from the disappointing fishing trip, police representative Olga Shamanskaya said, RIA-Novosti reported. After the victim blamed the man driving the car for the poor fishing location and arriving at the spot late, the driver swerved into a ditch and stabbed him with a knife...

... into the Pacific. PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY — At a corner of this huge country, at the very edge of the world, the Kamchatka Peninsula juts 1,500 kilometers into the Pacific. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Population: 179,395 Main industries: Fishing, energy, mining, manufacturing Mayor: Vladimir Semchyov Founded in 1740 Interesting fact: Kamchatka’s eastern coast, where Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is located, is one of the most seismically active spots in the world. During the last century...

... Ust-Luga charged with dealing with environmental aspects of the port's development, says the threat to the wildlife of the Gulf of Finland has been overblown. "Construction works will mostly affect shallow areas of seabed. The feeding grounds for some fish species may disappear, but usually within three to five years plant marine flora is already recovering," she told The Moscow Times. Another project has sprung up not far from the town of Lomonosov, an outlying suburb of St. Petersburg on the...

Russia plans to sign an anti-poaching agreement this year with Japan and China to protect heavily fished Far East crab populations. At the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Vladivostok, Russia will sign an anti-poaching agreement with Japan and China to protect Far East crab populations, after a similar agreement with South Korea...

... climate where you live, you can always comfort yourself with the fact that it's probably colder in Murmansk, where snow can linger into May and reappear in September. Murmansk Population: 307,700 Main industries: Shipping, fishing City manager: Andrei Sysoyev Founded in 1916 Interesting fact: Murmansk is home to the tallest building in the Arctic, the 16-story Arktika hotel. Helpful contacts: Mikhail Sokolov, deputy city manager and chairman of the committee on economic...

... the Trans-Siberian Railroad — linked Krasnoyarsk to the biggest Russian cities and facilitated its fast growth. In 1976, Astafyev — who lived here for the last 20 years of his life — noted in one of his best-known novels, "Queen Fish," that the city was becoming foreign to him because it was growing bigger and noisy. Since then, Krasnoyarsk has turned into a big industrial city, with rich mineral deposits making it one of Russia's biggest metallurgy centers. Once a year...

... mobile museum of contemporary art, provided some of the most amusing 90 minutes this city has enjoyed in some time. All those crazy artists with their crazy smiles and inspired, fruitcake exhibits — balloons trapped in a cage, a six-foot wooden fish, a motoring machine with all kinds of crazy moving parts, a purple spiked throne, a plastic man trapped in a plastic, computerized world — simply made Moscow smile. This was humor and fun at its sublimely silliest. Moscow doesn't believe in...

... Mobile Museum of Contemporary Art, provided some of the most amusing 90 minutes this city has enjoyed in some time. All those crazy artists with their crazy smiles and inspired, fruitcake exhibits — balloons trapped in a cage, a six-foot wooden fish, a motoring machine with all kinds of crazy moving parts, a purple spiked throne, a plastic man trapped in a plastic, computerized world — simply made Moscow smile. This was humor and fun at its sublimely silliest. Moscow doesn't believe in...

... EU average of 4.72 hectares per capita. Most of the Russian footprint (58 percent) comes from land and sea areas needed to absorb its vast carbon emissions, followed by crop raising and forestry. The rest comes from areas used for grazing animals, fishing and building. Experts said the greatest potential for reducing the country's footprint lies in energy efficiency. "Energy saving in buildings is the largest reserve for Russia to reduce CO2 emissions," WWF director Igor Chestin said...

... ruling party ideologue. An unidentified member of the president's technical staff was blamed for the unauthorized tweet. In February, already a lame duck, Medvedev appeared gripped by a spell of nostalgia, using Twitter to post some favorite photos: him fishing on a sunny day; a winter landscape snapped from a train window; a view of Buenos Aires from a rain-spattered hotel window. And, looking back on his foray into the world of social media, a picture of him at Twitter headquarters: "Here's how...

... Pugachyova, Valery Leontyev — who have set up a colony in Miami untroubled by the State Department. Kobzon's son Andrei appeared in front of the cameras on Monday — defiantly bald — as Putin and Medvedev tucked into beer, potatoes and fish at his basement Zhiguli restaurant on Novy Arbat. It's hard to imagine that Kobzon's visa question did not come into the choice of venue. The visa ban came at the same time as Russian state channel was airing "Mur," a prewar detective drama...

... and address of any person holding such information. At the end of this process, the written approval of the Cypriot attorney general is needed for its disclosure, thus preventing the misuse of the current legislation and discouraging any type of "fishing" expeditions by the tax authorities. Withholding tax rates will remain at the same low level for investments of 100,000 euros ($127,000) and above — 5 percent for dividends, zero percent for interest and zero percent for royalties....

... its agreements with Switzerland and Luxembourg. Furthermore, the amendments to the double tax agreement regarding information exchange contain robust safeguards for taxpayers against their abuse by the tax authorities, and in particular against "fishing expeditions," but no mention is made of these positive aspects in Klein's comment. These factual errors and omissions are only part of the picture, however. Klein's comment presents Cyprus as an economic basket case that has been used by...

... extinguish a blaze. The equipment inside the fire station in the Moskva City business district is brand new, and there is even a guestroom where exhausted firefighters can plop down to watch Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" movie or feed fish in an aquarium. But the atmosphere here was tingling with uncertainty on a recent afternoon as the firefighters, emergency specialists, doctors and other personnel waited for news on who would replace their charismatic boss, Sergei Shoigu, who built...

... dispersed the crowd in Bolotnaya Ploshchad by pressing cordons of officers and rushing at the demonstrators. In some cases, officers carried and dragged people away from areas they were clearing. Police in boats moved along a canal next to the square fishing out riot helmets that had fallen into the water. Demonstrators also picked up some of the riot gear that had been stripped from officers. "This is the first trophy for the museum of the revolution," said 31-year-old computer programmer...