Scores of emergency personnel on Thursday helped battle a fire that burned a docked Russian nuclear submarine, state media reported.
In a special report for CNN's Eye on Russia week, Moscow Correspondent Matthew Chance travels across the vast country from the northern port of Murmansk in the Arctic to the southern city of Sochi on the Black Sea. Here Chance recalls some highlights from his epic journey.
CNNI's Zain Verjee talks with Mathew Chance on news from Russia, ranging from space exploration to the Winter Olympics.
Twelve people were killed and six were injured in an explosion at an open-cast mine in Russia's northwest Murmansk region, a local emergency official said Friday.
Two crewmembers were killed when a fire broke out aboard a nuclear submarine in Russia's Northern Fleet, Russian Defense Ministry officials told CNN.
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