Russia

Beyond poverty alleviation: envisioning inclusive growth in the BRICS countries

This paper presents a status report of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) on two crucial development parameters—inequality and poverty—that have a significant bearing on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs; especially SDG-1 and SDG-10). The paper tracks the origins and movements of absolute and relative poverty, …

Tiger count

according to Russian scientists who have pioneered a method that uses sniffer dogs to count Siberian tigers, conservationists have overestimated the number of the endangered species. Last year, a survey backed by the World Wide Fund for Nature ( wwf ), estimated that there were between 415 to 475 animals …

Distress signals

Further repair of the damaged space station Mir has been postponed till further notice. Mir was hit by a cargo vehicle overloaded with garbage on June 25. The repairs have been put off as the present three-member crew is weary from the troubleshooting its been called upon to do after …

Nuke deal

with a view to curbing the spread of Russian nuclear technology to other countries, the us department of energy will be funding the development of a new nuclear reactor design at the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow. The us will provide a new technology that makes use of radioactive thorium instead …

Toxic streams

SIBERIAN rivers have turned into poisonous streams carrying large amounts of toxic chemicals into the Arctic Ocean, harming wildlife in the region. According to the findings of State of the Arctic Environment, a report compiled by scientists from eight Arctic nations and published recently in Norway, these rivers contain hundred …

Homicide by nuclides

MAYAK, a nuclear energy facility in the former Soviet Union that remained shrouded in secrecy for over 40 years now, has been identified as perhaps the most disastrous, according to a recent research report. Though not as well- known as the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, the Mayak complex is …

Deadly legacy

THE scars left by industrial pollution have failed to heal in Sumgait, a former industrial city located near Azerbaijan's capital, Baku. Plans to repair the dam age done to the city's ecology and economy have remained on paper due to interference from the industrial lobby and some politicians. Sumgait was …

Oil in a day`s work

IN THE wake of the devastating energy crisis, energy- related issues were catapul- ted onto the geopolitical agenda as one of the main issues affecting the global economy. But as the spot price of oil stabilised in the volatile Rotterdam market, energy policy was again rele- gated to the background, …

Tantulum tantalises!

a process for coating metals so that they never rust has been developed for Russian military projects but could soon be made available to the world. The process has been developed at the Kola Science Centre (ksc) in Arctic Russia. Objects coated with tantalum are almost 100 per cent non-corrosive, …

Canine calamity

REELING under economic hardships, people of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. Are afflicted these days with a new problem - an army of 10,000 stray dogs infected with rabies. The authorities have declared a state of emergency in view of the threat posed to the citizens by the increasing number …

Short lived!

russians today are living for shorter durations than a decade ago. A recent World Health Organization (who) survey has revealed that life expectancy in Russia has plunged to its lowest in 15 years. Though life span has dipped in all 15 republics of the former Soviet Union, Russia scored the …

Taking off together

High Speed Civil Transport, a joint US-Russian project to test Russia's supersonic airplane, the TU-144L on which future concords are to be modelled is underway at the Tupolev aviation complex in Russia. NASA is paying the complex US $10m for trial flights and equipment. A number of other aeronautics companies …

A Russian roulette

a worldwide operation of smuggling chlorofluorocarbons (cfcs) and other ozone-eating chemicals in Europe and North America is undermining efforts to heal the ozone layer, claimed British environment minister John Gummer at a recent seminar in London. Identifying the Russian mafia as the main source of illegal cfcs, he said, "Those …

Clean burn

Biological weapons, toxic industrial wastes and pesticides

Misery unlimited

AS IF a deep economic crisis was not enough, Russians have to now contend with the snowballing effect of the AIDS epidemic. Earlier, as part of the Soviet Union, the people led a comparatively sequestered life with low levels of drug abuse and conventional behaviour. With the opening up of …

Money rains

A TEAM of scientists from Norway, Finland and Russia are studying one of the most polluted areas in the world, the Kola peninsula in Russia. The pollutants emitted out into the atmosphere from the smokestacks of Russian smelters get deposited on the region's soil here. The level of these pollutants …

Siberian tiger in the cold

A RECENT series of studies on conservation in Russia revealed that the country's vast network of zapovedniki (wildlife sanctuaries), once the strictest and most extensive in the world, is now on the brink of collapse. Funding for the zapovedniki>/I> is scarce owing to the fact that despite its vast size, …

Nuke is no good

DO YOU want a nuclear plant in your vicinity? This will be the question which residents of the Kostroma district in north-east Russia will answer in a referendum to be held on December 8. The referendum came about after a tireless campaign by In the Name of Life, a community …

Burying in empty space

RADIOACTIVE wastes from nuclear power plants pose an environmental hazard. Various options for the disposal of lethal leftovers from these plants have been considered. One such possibility is their

Crash landed!

A RUSSIAN space probe to Mars which lifted off on schedule on November 16 from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, crashed into the southern Pacific Ocean, west of South America, near the Easter islands, the next day. The probe carried four thermoelectric generators fuelled by radioactive plutonium. The plutonium isotope …

No more poison

russia's Supreme Court recently overturned parts of a presidential decree that gave a Russian metallurgical plant carte blanche to import and store spent nucleur fuel. Though Russia's constitution prohibits the import of nuclear waste for storage and disposal, President Boris Yeltsin's ukase , signed in 1992, gave the Gorno-Khimichesky combine …

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