Coal mine blast in Russia kills 18 miners
Posted by: prabirghose
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-02-13 09:08:09 -0800 | humanitarian-news
18 miners are feared to have lost their lives when methane gas trapped in the mine caught fire in Russia and resulted in an explosion around 800-meters below ground level as reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com of dated 11th of February 2013....
Imprisoned Pussy Riot band member Tolokonnikova hospitalized
Posted by: prabirghose
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-02-04 13:38:27 -0800 | humanitarian-news
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is one of the Pussy Riot feminist punk band members who is serving out her two-year prison sentence in the prison colony of Mordovia in western Russia and, has to work round the clock to meet the tasks...
Russian baby narrowly escapes being crushed under truck wheels (Video)
Posted by: Nina Rai
Nizhniy Novgorod :: Russia | updated 2013-01-27 09:25:19 -0800 | humanitarian-news
Report By: Nina Rai Nizhny Novgorod, Jan. 23, 2013: A toddler had a truly providential escape, when she narrowly missed being crushed under the wheels of an oncoming truck after being involved in a road mishap in western Russia. The...
Emergency declared in Sakha, Russia to hunt down the wolves
Posted by: prabirghose
Sakharovo :: Russia | updated 2013-01-08 16:38:29 -0800 | humanitarian-news
Packs of wolves are out after flocks of reindeer in Sakha Republic in northeast Russia and this has forced the authorities to declare a sort of emergency and orders have been issued to hunt down the animals. The measures have...
Putin's adoption ban may bring agony for children with special needs
Posted by:
aymaan30
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-01-01 15:09:20 -0800 | humanitarian-news
The sweeping ban on US adoptions in Russia, apparently part of a ruthless response to an US law targeting Russians deemed as human-rights violators, has ended prospects for more than 50 youngsters preparing to join new families in the US....
The Independent - ‘What about Pussy Riot, Mr Putin?’ Mary Dejevsky dines with the President
Posted by: worldnewspapersco
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-03-20 15:58:26 -0700 | humanitarian-news
What about Pussy Riot, Mr Putin?’ Mary Dejevsky dines with the President Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, dashed any hope of mercy for members of the Pussy Riot protest rock group yesterday, reiterating his view that, by performing in Moscow’s main...
The Moscow Times - Razvozzhayev Tells Harrowing Tale
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Moscow :: Russia | updated 2012-10-27 14:49:02 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Razvozzhayev Tells Harrowing Tale Opposition leaders and human rights groups on Wednesday lambasted the apparent kidnapping and torture of Left Front activist Leonid Razvozzhayev as a return to Stalinist political repression and an unprecedented escalation in the crackdown against dissenters....
Pussy Riot band members lose appeal, sent to prison in Siberia
Posted by: prabirghose
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2012-10-26 07:21:11 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Two members of the Pussy Riot Russian punk band 24-year old Maria Alyokhina and 22-year old Nadezhda Tolokonnikova had been convicted in August-2012 for performing offensive dances in a Church and has now been sent to remote jails in Siberia....
Shock at finding 250 human fetuses in the forests of Ural in Russia
Posted by: prabirghose
Yekaterinburg :: Russia | updated 2012-07-27 12:06:08 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Local residents out for a Sunday stroll in the forests of the Urals in Russia were shocked to discover more than 250 human fetuses preserved in four 50-liter vats of formaldehyde. As per Russian law, abortion of fetuses of up...
Russian of Tyumen escapes from girlfriend via the rubbish chute
Posted by: prabirghose
Tyumen :: Russia | updated 2012-07-27 22:47:04 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Fed up of being continuously nagged and pestered by his girlfriend, a 31-year old Russian of Tyumen, Siberia, decided to escape via the rubbish chute – this has been reported in bbc.com of dated 17th of May 2012. He was...
Lyudmila Putin has been seen only twice in last 2 years – where is she?
Posted by: prabirghose
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2012-07-27 16:12:33 -0700 | humanitarian-news
It seems a great scandal is brewing from behind the Iron curtain – and rumors are rife that Anna Chapman could be the reason as reported in mailonline dated 24th April 2012. Lyudmila Putin, the first Lady of Russia has...
Siberian plane crash leaves 32 dead out of 43
Posted by: prabirghose
Tyumen :: Russia | updated 2012-07-27 16:48:59 -0700 | humanitarian-news
An ATR-72 twin engine turboprop aircraft with 39 passengers and 4 crew members crashed shortly after takeoff - 32 deaths have been reported. None of them appear to be foreigners. The survivors have been airlifted to nearby hospitals. The aircraft...
Tired of ‘waiting for death’ 105-year old Russian woman commits suicide
Posted by: Nina Rai
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2012-08-29 13:30:30 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Report By: Nina Rai 21 March, 2012 Most people on earth would be petrified at the very thought of death, however, here is the case of a Centenarian who got so fed up of ‘waiting for death’ that she took...
The opposition began a chain in Moscow for Putin not to leave "to enter the Kremlin"
Posted by: Nazish Fatima
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2012-04-19 06:36:31 -0700 | humanitarian-news
The Russian opposition has mobilized thousands of people Sunday, February 26 in Moscow to form a human chain along the ring road surrounding the city center, with one week of the presidential election of March 4. Their slogan: "Do not...
Refueling Of Nome Can Now Be Considered Complete
Posted by: Larry-Crehore
Vladivostok :: Russia | updated 2012-07-28 01:46:13 -0700 | humanitarian-news
The international effort to refuel Nome after a storm last November prevented the normal delivery barge of heating oil and gasoline from getting into the Port of Nome is now complete. The Russian tanker Renda after delivering 1.3 million gallons...
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