From Reuters.com
Mining gold in Russia’s remote Chukotka region
Chukotka, a region revived in the last eight years by the $2.5 billion investment of Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich, produced a fifth of Russia’s gold in the first half of this year. Gold is the region’s passport to growth after Abramovich quit as governor last July.
Only South Africa holds more gold than Russia, but Moscow’s fragmented industry has struggled to access vast reserves in its inhospitable Far East. The region was first mined in the 1930s by prisoners of the Gulags set up by Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
Senior Commodities Correspondent Robin Paxton and Moscow-based video journalist Heleen van Geest return from the Chukchi Peninsula with a series on the revival of gold mining in the Gulag region.
Informative article. Calling Alaska home the remote mines fierce weather conditions are no big thing. You work inside mostly, and learn to deal with the weather. I think that Russia should get the gold out and allow their people to share in the wealth. In the US we have a lot of people who want no progress, no mining, no fishing, and no oil production. I call them the Know Nothing people.
G.I. Joe says “It’s best to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. Besides, many of my superiors find it helps them, er, uhh “get into the mood” better than Viagra.”
Graphic: Iran protests
Thousands of supporters of Iran’s defeated presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi marched in Tehran on Tuesday following a disputed poll prompting the biggest street protests since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
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Everbody needs to back off with the “journalists are horrible” comments and look at the graphs again. The estimated rates are NOT actual rates. These are based upon the latest data and then projected, like any other probability. Also, I totally agree with Judy H. Remember, not every country in the world has a viable, working health surveillance system. It is guaranteed that there are more cases out there that we don’t know about. Always. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a HIGHER mortality rate in certain populations.
Also, p emery is absolutely correct. We haven’t seen the full impact of this current outbreak yet.
Graphic: BRIC nations by the numbers
Brazil, Russia, China and India, the so-called BRIC group of emerging powers, have gained clout on the global stage in the past decade as their economies grew faster than those of developed countries.
Very interesting. As a suggestion this chart could include GDP world rank of each country next time.
I agree that unless the A330 has a design flaw lightning impact cannot be the culprit. If a design problem exists, it would be possibly because of the lack of coordination between the German and French branches of Airbus, which caused the E-design debacle at th A380.
But a far as I know, the A330 is built totally in France.
Further, the A330 should have a GPS or similar location device, which surly would have an independent power source. Therefore, the total lack of information re. the location of the aircraft is not explainable.
Finally, the statement that the A330 is “state of the art” is obviously not true, as it was designed in the seventies, but how much this fact is relevant here, cannot be assessed at this stage.
But… the email server hosted outside of the censored country also has an IP address; and it can be blocked once discovered. This does not sound very serious.