MOSCOW - The death toll from a deadly blaze that ripped through a Russian nightclub last weekend has risen to 124, investigators said Wednesday. The fire at the Lame Horse club, in the Ural Mountains city of Perm, broke out early Saturday when an in
MOSCOW - Russia and the United States expect to strike a new nuclear arms treaty this month, a senior Kremlin aide told Russian news agencies Tuesday. The START I treaty signed in 1991 expired Friday. It obliged each country to cut its nuclear warhe
PERM, Russia - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin lambasted local officials on Tuesday for failing to enforce fire safety rules at a nightclub where 118 revelers died in a blaze at the weekend. Russia's most deadly fire in decades was sparked wh
In the weeks before his death in a Moscow prison, lawyer Sergei Magnitsky drafted a series of handwritten letters and petitions describing his transfer through a succession of crowded jail cells, some reeking of sewage, others cold and damp, each mo
PERM, Russia - Panicked clubgoers crushed each other to death in a popular Russian nightspot as they tried to flee a fast-moving fire that one eyewitness told The Associated Press was started by pyrotechnic fountains set up on the stage. Officials s
PERM, Russia - A blaze sparked by an indoor firework show ripped through a crowded Russian nightclub on Friday, killing at least 101 and injuring 134 as revelers stampeded for the exits, the Emergencies Ministry said. The firework show went disastr
PERM, Russia - At least 101 people were killed and 140 injured on Friday when hundreds of people stampeded out of a packed Russian nightclub after fireworks sparked a blaze, the Emergencies Ministry said. Clubbers rushed for the doors of the Lame H
MOSCOW - An explosion apparently caused by pyrotechnics tore through a nightclub in the Russian city of Perm early Saturday, killing at least 94 people, according to news reports in the country. It was not immediately clear if the pyrotechnics were
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