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...H5N1 virus. In November and December of 2002, there were numerous migratory-waterfowl deaths due to H5N1 in Hong Kong's Penfold and Kowloon parks. Mysteriously, when further screenings of migratory birds were conducted immediately after, no H5N1 was detected. "Did birds from Hong Kong, which nest in Siberia and North Korea, somehow spread the virus elsewhere?" asks Rob Webster, a pioneering expert in animal influenzas. "That's a frightening possibility...
...chief of the Russian oil giant Yukos and the wealthiest of the country's "oligarchs," who made quick fortunes after the Soviet Union's collapse by acquiring cheap state property; with fraud and tax evasion; by prosecutors in Moscow, after special forces surrounded his plane at an airport in Siberia. The dramatic move, part of an ongoing probe into Yukos, was seen by skeptics as a Kremlin-led effort to keep the tycoon, who has funded opposition parties, out of politics...
...Belorus, Northern Europe, or Turkey and the Mediterranean. But after Sept. 11, the United States has become increasingly concerned that dependence on Middle Eastern oil could jeopardize national security. As a result, Russia’s five largest oil companies have been looking into constructing a pipeline from Western Siberia to Murmansk on the Arctic Ocean. From there, a supertanker could transport oil to the eastern seaboard of the United States, helping to alleviate its dependence on OPEC...
Farmer is known for comprehensively responding to the flood of electronic messages that fill his inbox—often within hours, whether he is in Boston, Haiti or Siberia...
...show no sign of backing down. Last Friday they announced they were now investigating a total of seven separate criminal cases connected with Yukos; five of them involved "premeditated murder or attempted murder." Among those alleged to have been murdered are a local official in the oil fields of Siberia and the general director of an oil company. "The common denominator in all five criminal cases is conflicts over property between state or commercial bodies and Yukos," a source close to the prosecutor's office told the Interfax news agency. Yukos rejects all allegations leveled against it as baseless...