Prokopyevsk

The charges against her client, Andrei Novashov, 45, from a small city called Prokopyevsk, are a case in point.

The snow in the town of Prokopyevsk, darkened by coal dust, was featured in Sunday’s Russian state TV report.

The burglar in Prokopyevsk, about 3,100 kilometers east of Moscow, picked the lock on the front door and stole a chain saw as well as several blocks of cigarette packs, the Interior Ministry's department in the Kemerovo region said on Friday.

The blast occurred at the Dzerzhinsky mine in Prokopyevsk in a coal-rich section of central Siberia known as the Kuzbass.