New outbreaks of the H5N1 strain of bird flu are likely in Moscow and the surrounding provinces, the government veterinary service warned Wednesday, as officials also confirmed the presence of the virus in a southern region of Russia.
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February 22, 2007
One of Russia’s main zoos has closed down after the deaths of two geese sparked a bird flu scare, but a local health expert ruled this out as the cause of their deaths.
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December 19, 2006
Several dozen people rallied in Irkutsk on Saturday to demand that the authorities release information on plans to build an international uranium enrichment center in Angarsk, a city located in the vicinity of Baikal Lake in the eastern part of Russia.
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December 17, 2006The British lawyer who represented Greenpeace in the battle with Shell over the disposal of the Brent Spar oil platform has been hired by Russia to prepare a case against the Anglo-Dutch oil company over problems at its development project on Sakhalin Island in the country’s Far East.
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December 15, 2006
There is nothing funny about work in Arctic. And a group of Russians at an Arctic weather station felt it on their own back. They spent two nerve-wracking days hiding in an attic while waiting for permission from Moscow to shoot a hungry polar bear rampaging through their house.
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Peter Hambro Mining said Russian authorities did not find any material ecological breach in its mining projects during their initial inspections, AFX News reported Wednesday.
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December 14, 2006The head of Russia’s environment watchdog has proposed firing his deputy, who led a recent crackdown on a vast Shell-run hydrocarbon project in Russia, a source in the federal service said Thursday, RIA Novosti agency repots.
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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
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