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...Gold medals cannot be covered with mud, no matter how hard somebody tries to dirty them. And silver medals don't turn into gold, no matter what somebody tries. The Canadian pair surely understand that they got their consolation medals just to calm down the crowd. OLGA IVANOVA Novosibirsk, Russia...
...issuing threats." RUSSIA Plane Mystery Prosecutors launched a criminal inquiry into the crash of a Russian passenger plane that plunged into the Black Sea, killing all 78 people on board. Israel closed its main airport amid fears that the downing of the Siberian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk was a terrorist act. U.S. officials said the Tupolev-154 may have been struck accidentally by a Ukrainian missile during a training exercise. MACEDONIA Plan in Jeopardy Macedonian police attempted to reoccupy several villages in the north of the country that had been held by ethnic Albanian rebels, but withdrew...
Appelbaum's conservative roots stretch back to Novosibirsk, Siberia, where he spent his first 16 years of life. It is a city of about one million, sustained by a manufacturing base that relies on government defense contracts. The chilly arctic air that keeps temperatures below freezing eight months of the year accompanied ominous political winds swirling about the Appelbaum family...
...concessions, often to friends and relatives. He says that in the Khor River watershed, a region of about 12,000 sq. mi., more than 90 forest enterprises are operating with almost no oversight from the government. "What is the solution?" asks an exasperated Yablokov. "Chechnya? Send troops to Novosibirsk...
...outflow from Siberia helps put to rest one of the most enduring myths about the region--that it is virtually empty. The number of humans is in fact low in absolute terms. Currently Siberia has 30 million inhabitants, with the largest concentrations in cities like Novosibirsk (pop. 1.4 million) and Vladivostok (pop. 640,000). The entire Russian Far East, covering 2.4 million sq. mi., has 8 million people, less than the population of Moscow. But Siberia is not empty; it is not even underpopulated...