About 38,000 hectares of the forest are on fire in the Russian Far East, Siberia and the Volga-Urals region.
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May 8, 2007The skeleton of a Siberian mammoth dating back some 15,000 years and a meteorite from Russia go on auction in Paris, April 16, in the first such sale of curiosities from paleontogy, Christie’s auction house said Tuesday.
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March 21, 2007
Weather forecasters have so far been unable to explain December’s unusual warm spell, the head of the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring said Wednesday.
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December 13, 2006Russia has set a deadline of February 1 for Shell’s Sakhalin-2 project to repair environmental damage or face the loss of its operating licences, the RIA Novosti news agency reported citing a Russian federal agency.
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Russia will carry over 300 kilos of enriched uranium from a Soviet-era nuclear research reactor in eastern Germany back to Russia, the Reuters news agency reported Thursday.
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December 7, 2006
Russian prosecutors have uncovered more than 100 violations of environmental, labor and migration law at a giant oil and liquefied natural gas project run by Royal Dutch Shell PLC on the Russian island of Sakhalin, according to an report Wednesday.
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December 6, 2006Activists of several Russian youth movements gathered in Moscow downtown to protest against hosting Olympic games-2014 in Russia. Most sports of the winter Olympics are alien to Russia, and there is no need to plant foreign culture where there is lots of own nice traditions, activists said.
The protesters chanted “Seoul — yes! Sochi — no!†indicating that they saw South Korean city as a much more suitable bidder than Russia’s Sochi.
Many of the young people were wearing t-shirts with the Olympic bear, famous symbol of Russian Olympics, crossed out.
Sochi, a city on the Black Sea coast, bade to host the Games, and is now up against the Austrian city of Salzburg and the South Korean city of PyeongChang. However some youth activists, as well as environmentalists, are not at all happy about Sochi making it to the shortlist.
“Mountain skiing is an alien sport for Russia,†one of the action’s participants, head of Green Patrol in Krasnodar region, told RIA Novosti. “Russia keeps trying to take up alien habits and hobbies. â€
“Russia has own traditional winter sports — playing snowballs, making snowmen. Mountain skiing is an intellectual sport that will take ages to sink in Russia. This is why we think the Olympic Games should be held in Seoul,†he said.
Meanwhile, Russian environmental researchers have also voiced concern about the impact of staging the Games in Sochi. They say the sports venues worth billions of dollars that are to be built for the Olympics will seriously disturb migrating birds, who stop at the Black Sea bays on their way to the south.
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October 27, 2006A spokeswoman for King Juan Carlos said Russian reports that he brought down a tame and inebriated bear during a visit in August were “ridiculousâ€, AP reports.
The palace confirmed that the king, who is known to enjoy hunting, was in Russia at the time, but it said he had not killed any bear, let alone one that was fed vodka-spiked honey.
In Russia, meanwhile, Vyacheslav Pozgalyov, the governor of the Vologda region, has begun an inquiry into how a bear named Mitrofan met its end.
The newspaper Kommersant reported that the region’s deputy hunting chief, Sergei Starostin, had contended that the “good natured†bear was taken from its home at a local vacation resort and “generously fed†honey mixed with vodka before being released near where the king was to be hunting.
“His highness, Juan Carlos, took Mitrofan out with one shot,†Mr. Starostin said, according to Kommersant.
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October 20, 2006
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