Russian research could be important in the fight against a possible global pandemic of bird flu, the RIA-Novosti news agency quoted a top flu official at the World Health Organization as saying on Monday.
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March 26, 2007A Russian man has died after being attacked by an owl he tried to steal from Moscow zoo, the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reported.
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March 22, 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, 2007Russia’s environmental and technological watchdog has launched a routine probe into the Kharyaga oil field operated by France’s Total in northern Russia, the agency said on Tuesday, March 13.
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March 14, 2007Russia’s population will fall to 135 million by 2016, from the current 142.2 million, a senior Russian sociologist said Monday.
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March 5, 2007U.S. investment bank Merrill Lynch said it has bought a minority stake in clean energy project developers the Russian Carbon Fund in a financing package worth around $200 million.
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February 26, 2007New 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, 2006Shares in Peter Hambro Mining bounced back by more than 12 percent in late Thursday trading, after Russian government officials indicated that the gold producer’s main mining licenses were not under threat.
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December 15, 2006
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