Students of North-Caucuses Islamic University Center of Education and Science.

The Rybachy Peninsula is located in the very north of the Kola Peninsula, which is part of Russia’s Far North. Throughout the whole winter these lands are covered in darkness, while in the summer, the Sun scarcely sets below the horizon.

A record-breaking heatwave sparked new fires in central Russia over the weekend, bringing losses to more than 4.6 billion rubles ($150 million.)

Sustained heat, reaching over 100 (Farenheight) degrees - never before endured in 130 years of record keeping - sparked more than 26,000 wildfires, including scores around Moscow where peat bogs, long ago drained by the Soviets to fuel power plants, caught fire and created the thick smoke that shrouded the capital.

Russian civil society wins battle over Khimki forest

“Roma question” in Russia?

Dirty dancing at Coyote Ugly

By day Olya is an ordinary college student. She goes diligently to her lectures at Russian State Humanities Universities where she is majoring in “exhibition work”. In a year Olya will graduate. But she has no plans to organize exhibitions. To start Olya knows she wants to be a “coyote”.

By Gazeta Russa

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January 20, 2011

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