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...broker wanted to know, should he return to the tiny mining enclave on the Siberian border to negotiate in earnest for the emeralds? "Nyet," declared two of the Russians. The disagreement between the mine operators and bureaucrats might have been resolved by paying off both sides, but the foreigner's previous visit had aroused dangerous interest among the locals. A mafia group headed by a fearsome gangster nicknamed the Gorilla had got wind of the deal and was demanding a piece of any sale. The curiosity of the local KGB had also been piqued, and it too had no intention...
...Siberian factory director, his thick fingers playing with the end of his tie, eyed his two foreign visitors carefully and then leaned back in his chair to listen to the international businessman. An outsize copper relief of Lenin hanging on the wall behind him provided the only splash of color in an office that probably saw its best days about the time Sputnik was launched...
...March 22? For nearly a fortnight, international aviation officials asked themselves that question. Was it a technical failure? A terrorist bomb? A stray bird? All they knew was that the Hong Kong-bound Airbus A-310 disappeared from radar and exploded deep in the Siberian taiga . . . until last week, when the plane's flight recorder finally yielded a haunting clue: the voice of a child...
Animal protection is also near the top of his priority list, he said. China recently banned and called for the confiscation of all medicines using substances from endangered species, such as the giant panda and the Siberian tiger...
Oddly, the Siberian tiger -- a critically endangered subspecies -- may have the best chance of survival, but only if poaching is controlled. "The Amur tiger has 800 miles of unbroken habitat to move through," says Howard Quigley, who is co-director of the Siberian Tiger Project, a Russian-American conservation effort, "but unless poaching is stopped, there will be no tigers to move through it." The Tiger Trust and the World Wildlife Fund offered vehicles, training and supplemental pay for Russian wildlife rangers, but the killing of tigers continued as those proposals languished for months on the desks of bureaucrats...