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(Note that the article link may only work on May 13.) PORTLAND, Oregon, May 13, 2004 (ENS) - Governor Mikhail Mashkovtsev of the Kamchatka Oblast Administration has signed a decree authorizing a 544,000 acre, headwaters-to-ocean, salmon refuge located along the southwest side of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula in cooperation with an Oregon conservation organization. Russia's 1,000 mile long Kamchatka Peninsula produces up to one-quarter of all wild Pacific salmon and contains a series of rivers that hosts the greatest diversity of salmonid fish on Earth. The territory of the Kol River Salmon Refuge includes no human settlements and is extremely productive,...

Putin's nuclear show blows up in his face By Julius Strauss in Moscow (Filed: 18/02/2004) Russia's biggest military exercise since the collapse of communism flopped yesterday, ruining an attempt to project Vladimir Putin as a global leader and reaffirm the country's status as a nuclear superpower. With Mr Putin and a host of military officials watching from the nuclear submarine Arkhangelsk, two intercontinental ballistic missiles went wrong during a firing from a submarine believed to be the Novomoskovsk. They were aimed at Kamchatka on the Pacific coast. A malfunctioning satellite was blamed. Putin promised that Russia will again be a...

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