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Last month Yeltsin cast an absentee ballot for Bush. He released information from the flight recorder of KAL 007, the Korean airliner that a Soviet interceptor shot down off Siberia in 1983. Yeltsin was making a humanitarian gesture to the families of the passengers, who included many Americans. But he was also inviting Bush to take credit for having encouraged the move, thus giving the beleaguered President a boost in the polls. Worried that his government was backing the wrong horse, the Russian ambassador to Washington, Vladimir Lukin, sent Yeltsin a positive assessment of Clinton and urged the conciliatory call...
...some 12,000 years ago, toward the end of the last Ice Age, small bands of Asian nomads began to cross the dry land bridge that spanned what is now the Bering Strait, between Siberia and Alaska. The migrations continued intermittently, and when melting ice flooded the land bridge, they stopped. These were the ancestors of the Sioux, Cherokee, Maya, Aztecs and all other Native Americans, and when they first arrived, they were hunter-gatherers like their Asian cousins...
...year after unearthing nine skeletons in Siberia, scientists identified the remains of Russia's last Czar, Nicholas II, and his wife Alexandra, who were executed 74 years ago by a Bolshevik firing squad. A third skeleton was identified as that of the royal family's doctor, and the other six bodies, thought to be some of the monarchs' children and servants, will be identified by the end of the month...
...water down its tough fiscal policy and pump more money into circulation. Gaidar expects the amount of cash coming off government presses to increase fivefold by August, much of it in new 1,000- and 5,000-ruble notes. To sweeten the public mood on a visit to Siberia last month, Yeltsin ordered that a second plane accompany him loaded with 500 million rubles in back...
...freighters. The newly hatched caterpillars climbed up to the highest point on the ship, and were eventually blown to shore. Considered far more destructive than the European gypsy moth, which annually defoliates 4 million acres in the American Northeast, the Asian gypsy moth has decimated millions of acres in Siberia and China. Among the reasons: the Asian moths can cover 20 miles before laying their eggs. (Females of the European variety do not fly.) If the Asian gypsy moth becomes entrenched in the Pacific Northwest, the Forest Service estimates that the toll on the timber industry could run upwards...