Billions were invested into saving a dying village after Norilsk Nickel closed its smelting plant. A year later, the main projects are not working out and some of them have not even started yet
A man was stabbed to death in the north Russian village of Umba on New Year's Eve. Was it a drunken brawl or a lynching? This village has been known locally as "Tersky Kushchevka", a reference to a south Russian mafiatown.
Repression against indigenous peoples is comparable to the first years of Stalin's industrialization. But this time the government is acting in the interests of private capital
Near Murmansk, early voting for military personnel was blocked from prying eyes by a moat. The regional election commission assures everyone that it is legal.