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...trip." That's what a Russian official once told me, alluding to Sakhalin's nefarious reputation as the penal colony of last resort, whose very name was said to make a man faint from fear. A chrysalis-shaped island at the entrance to the Sea of Okhotsk in the deepest reaches of the Russian Far East, Sakhalin's remoteness, fierce natural conditions and notoriety have made it one of Asia's most foreboding places to visit. But the isolated island is changing?albeit very slowly?from a once closed and alienated enclave into a travel and business destination...
What goes up must come down, especially in Russia these days. On Tuesday, a $3.5 million Israeli satellite that was launched on a converted Russian nuclear missile crashed moments later into the Sea of Okhotsk. Earlier in the day, a warplane misfired six rockets in southern Russia, hitting a house, but causing no casualties. On March 10, an attack jet accidentally fired a missile that narrowly missed a nuclear power plant south of Moscow. TIME Moscow correspondent Terence Nelan says many more foul-ups go unreported because Russian defense and space programs still operate under the old Soviet veil...
...these arrangements don't always work: Russia has been trying to orchestrate a second pollack treaty in the Sea of Okhotsk, off Siberia, but Poland, South Korea and China have refused to go along. And even when nations enact bans or quotas for certain species, they can be difficult to enforce. Sometimes ships flying flags of convenience just ignore agreements...
...with the Red Army on the islands in 1945. Says he: "Among those who were born here, there are no thoughts of giving up. We will fight before quitting these islands." Russian military men insist that the Kuriles are a protective shield for Russian ports on the Sea of Okhotsk and for the nuclear-armed Soviet ballistic-missile submarines that loiter in the sheltered waters...
Bogdanov rules over the coldest, richest, most remote region of the Soviet Union. It is an area nearly twice the size of Texas, tucked into the farthest corner of the Soviet Far East, between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Straits. Temperatures in some parts of the region fall to -95 degrees F in winter, and even in late March the central Kolyma basin recorded -35 degrees F on a crystal-clear...