Word: baikal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...concluding excerpt from Memoirs recounts how his activism infuriated the KGB and led to his exile. -- Was Solzhenitsyn friend or foe? -- Who killed Baikal? -- The case for nuclear power...
...planet's oldest, deepest and largest lake, Baikal is about the size of Belgium and accounts for a fifth of the world's freshwater reserves. The threat to this unique ecosystem, home to more than 1,000 species of plants and animals unknown anywhere else, stimulated a vociferous Soviet environmental movement. Baikal, says Siberian activist Valentin Rasputin, contains "such pulchritude as to be unimaginable this side of paradise...
Glasnost on the air. The Blue Eye of Siberia, a Soviet documentary on the deterioration of Lake Baikal, plays on April 18 and 19, and a two-hour feature on April 22 will address the Soviet Union's worst ecological disasters...