Word: siberian
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...happened last week all the more inexplicable. At about 10 a.m., shortly before the zoo's Wild Asia exhibit was due to open, Silverman unlocked two doors and, along with Barbara Burke, 21, a volunteer aide, proceeded to walk into the two-acre enclosure. Twenty feet inside, two powerful Siberian tigresses sprang from thick foliage and pounced on her. Burke escaped by clambering up the 16-ft. chain fence. Silverman was the first fatality in the zoo's 86-year history...
...type of life." In the late 1960s and early '70s, he managed to see a lot of exotic animals, when, at least in Berkeley, "every rock star who was making god-knows-how-much money thought the coolest thing to do was go out and buy his kid a Siberian tiger." But the laws changed, and Berger realized he had to bring himself to the wilderness instead of the wilderness coming...
...million-barrel-a-day Yuganskneftegaz. Then state oil firm Rosneft snapped it up, using a shell company, for a bargain $9.4 billion. That drew catcalls even from Vladimir Putin's own economic adviser, Andrei Illarionov. Managers from Rosneft turned up on New Year's Eve at Yuganskneftegaz's Siberian HQ to claim the keys. Meanwhile, in Houston, Deutsche Bank is challenging the temporary bankruptcy protection won earlier by Yukos lawyers hoping to stave off the sale. The bank argues that Texas law has no place in a Russian tax dispute. The ruling prompted Putin to crack: "I am not even...
...parliamentary status - and thereby his immunity - was approved. (Satsyuk's opponents had argued that his job at the SBU was incompatible with being an M.P.) Meanwhile, the first signs emerged that Ukraine's orange revolution may be seeping across the border into Russia. Last week in the Siberian city of Barnaul, the capital of the Altai region some 3,500 km east of Moscow, more than 100 journalists published an open letter of protest against what they said was pressure from the Kremlin to smear Vladimir Ryzhkov, an M.P. from Altai and an outspoken opponent of President Vladimir Putin. According...
...DIED. FAINA FANG-LIANG CHIANG, 88, Siberian-born widow of former Taiwanese President Chiang Ching-kuo; in Taipei. The shy Russian met her future husband, son of Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, at a Soviet machinery plant at age 16. She married into the political dynasty in 1935. As First Lady from 1978 to 1988, Chiang avoided the public spotlight and lacked the glamour of her predecessor, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, but won respect for her modest lifestyle and dedication to her four children. Recalled Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian, "She had the values of a traditional Chinese woman...