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  • Pollution Killing Hundreds of Thousands of Russians Each Year: Ecologist

    05/13/2002 3:39:35 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 6 replies · 203+ views
    Tehran Times ^ | May 14 2002
    MOSCOW - Between 250,000 and 350,000 Russians do not reach the term of their natural life each year because of pollution, the head of a Russian environmental group told Moscow's echo radio Friday. "Between 250,000 and 350,000 people die each year in Russia due to environmental reasons, that is that they do not reach the age that they could have reached," said the chairman of the Russian Center for Ecology Policy, Alexei Yablokov, who is also a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Children particularly suffered from pollution-induced health problems, AFP quoted Yablokov as telling. "The number of children...