Word: siberia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SAVING SIBERIA WITH CAPITALISM...
...FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR IN ARCTIC AND environmental studies and a participant in an exchange with the Russian Academy of Sciences, I focused on the ecological impact associated with development of the Russian north, including Siberia [COVER STORY, Sept. 4]. I welcome your efforts to publicize what is indeed an environmental crisis of international concern in that region. However, your essential question "Can Siberia be saved by capitalism?'' was inadequately answered. You published a photograph of a devastating clear-cutting of timber resulting from a Russian joint venture with Hyundai, yet nowhere is the nature of that tragic deal covered...
Your cover story "The Rape of Siberia" is a disappointment. You seem to have compassion for the soil but not for the lives of the hundreds of thousands of Estonians, Latvians, Ukrainians and members of other nations who perished in Siberia during Soviet rule. AINA O. NUCHO Baltimore, Maryland...
...time our Republicans in Congress get through, Alaska and the rest of the U.S. will look the same as Borneo and Siberia. Then when bottom-line greed is finished, there will be enough unemployed, motivated citizens to homestead all those square miles and spend their lives pulling up stumps. EUGENE W. FOOTE Ocean Grove, New Jersey...
...were taken by the Soviet NKVD (more recently the KGB) from our home in Budapest, Hungary, and, though innocent, accused of espionage. (After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the charges were dropped.) We were shipped to the labor camps (Gulag) of the dreaded Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia, where I spent eight years between life and death. At one point, I weighed 85 lbs., and only a miracle saved me from joining those wooden crosses. My father's body is buried there, and it is quite possible that one of those crosses marks his grave. GEORGE Z. BIEN Fairfax...