No Roads to 'Rubbish Dump of Life'

The Associated Press

A resident riding a snowmobile on the main street of Chersky, which has lost over half its population of 12,000.

CHERSKY, Sakha Republic — Picture a town inaccessible by road, buried under ice and snow for eight months of the year, unable to support a movie theater and without enough cars to warrant a traffic light or even a stop sign.

IT, Finance to Hire in 2011

By Rachel Nielsen

The labor market may grow 20 percent in 2011 on the back of GDP growth.

With online jobs portal HeadHunter.ru placing five ads for information technology and telecoms in the past week, you can say the labor market is healthy enough that even recruiters themselves are hiring.