What would the criminals who At 03:49 PM 5/8/00 EDT, you wrote: >Russian Environmental Digest (REDfiles) is a compilation of the week's >major English-language press on environmental issues in Russia. >1 - 7 May 2000, Vol. 2, No. 18 > >1. Putin Signs Law Implementing START-II Nuclear Disarmament Treaty >2. Moscow Rejects US Plan To Revise ABM Treaty >3. Moscow Allows for Exceptional Cases in Nuclear Exports >4. Birthrate Dips in Ex-Communist Countries >5. Russian Nuclear Arsenal at No Risk To "Love Bug," Says Official >6. 30 Percent of Chechnya Is in Zone of Ecological Disaster >7. More Oil Burns Than Is Extracted in Chechnya >8. Ecological Protection Firm Set Up in Chechnya >9. Chernobyl-Type Disaster Ruled Out >10. Air Pollution Appalling in 200 Russian Cities >11. No Incidents at Russia's Nuclear Facilities in 2000 >12. Fish With an Indelicate Smell Is Siberian Delicacy > >1 Putin Signs Law Implementing START-II Nuclear Disarmament Treaty >Deutsche Presse-Agentur, May 4, 2000 > >The START-II treaty on the reduction of nuclear arms by Russia and the >United States officially came into effect Thursday after a seven-year >delay. > >In Moscow, President Vladimir Putin undersigned the law ratifying the >agreement which halves the nuclear arsenals of both sides. > >Washington ratified the treaty in 1996, but it was then blocked in the >Russian parliament by Communist and nationalist forces which regarded >it as undermining the country's defence capability. > >The new, more Kremlin-friendly parliament elected in December finally >ratified the treaty last month, followed by the upper chamber of the >legislative, the Federation Council. > >Under START-II, Russia will by 2007 reduce its number of warheads to >3,000 and the United States to 3,500. > >Moscow has warned it may still disregard the treaty if Washington goes >ahead with plans to deploy a national missile defence shield in breach >of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty. > >But experts say that Russia will be forced to drastically reduce its >nuclear arsenal with or without the treaty since it cannot afford to >maintain existing stockpiles of largely outdated weapons. > >The Russian law also makes provisions for a further START-III treaty >on further reductions by 2003. Preliminary talks began last year about >this next possible phase of disarmament. Russian currently has about >6,900 warheads. > >(back to top) > >2 Moscow Rejects US Plan To Revise ABM Treaty Agence France Presse, >May 4, 2000 > >Moscow has rejected new US proposals to modify the 1972 Anti-Ballistic >Missile treaty (ABM) to allow Washington to deploy a nuclear defence >shield, Interfax news agency reported. > >"These proposals are not constructive and cannot form the basis for >future discussions about this problem," said General Leonid Ivashov, >head of international cooperation at the Russian defence ministry, >cited by the agency. > >"They represent an attempt to tear up the ABM treaty," he added. > >US ambassador to Moscow James Collins announced on April 28 that the >United States had presented a draft agreement to Russia on modifying >the ABM treaty that would allow deployment of a limited national >missile defense system. > >Moscow considers the treaty to be a cornerstone of Russian defence and >world stability and refuses to allow any changes to the agreement, >which Washington wants to amend to put in place a missile defence >system by 2005. > >Russia is threatening to leave the START-I and START-II disarmament >agreements if the United States violates ABM. > >The thorny issue is expected to loom large over a summit in Moscow on >June 4 and 5 between US President Bill Clinton and his Russian >counterpart Vladimir Putin. > >The United States wants the ABM, which bans construction of missile >shields, changed so it can counter possible attacks from so-called >"rogue states" like North Korea and Iran. > >But this argument is "misleading" said General Ivashov, since "it is >very unlikely that these states will have the means in the coming >years to strike the United States with such weapons." > >(back to top) > >3 Moscow Allows for Exceptional Cases in Nuclear Exports ITAR-TASS >News Agency, May 7, 2000 > >Russia allows for exports of nuclear materials, equipment and >technologies to countries, which do not have nuclear armaments and >have not put their activity under control of the International Atomic >Energy Agency (IAEA), but only in exceptional cases and on a number of >conditions. > >President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on changes in the >presidential ordinance of March 27, 1992, "On Control over Exports of >Nuclear Materials, Equipment and Technologies from the Russian >Federation. > >The decree's text, received by Itar-Tass on Sunday from the >presidential press service, in particular, runs as follows: > >"In exceptional cases such exports from the Russian Federation to a >country, which does not have nuclear armaments and has not put all of >its nuclear activity under guarantee of the International Atomic >Energy Agency, can be done on particular resolutions of the Russian >Cabinet under the following conditions: > >" -- the supply does not run counter to the international commitments >of the Russian Federation; > >" -- the government of the importing country gives official assurances >to exclude the use of supplied materials, equipment and technologies >for works that may result in the creation of a nuclear explosive; > >" -- the supply is made exclusively for the safe operation of nuclear >facilities on territory of the importing country; > >" -- guarantees of the International Atomic Energy Agency are applied >to the aforesaid facilities. > >"The Government of the Russian Federation has the right to set >additional conditions for the exports. " > >The President has instructed the Cabinet to bring its normative legal >acts in correspondence to the decree. > >(back to top) > >4 Birthrate Dips in Ex-Communist Countries New York Times, May 4, 2000 > >The collapse of Communism in 1989 produced a sharp drop in the >fertility rate throughout Eastern and Central Europe that could reduce >the region's population nearly 20 percent by the year 2050, according >to a United Nations report issued today. > >With political collapse and economic uncertainty, many women almost >immediately stopped having children or decided to delay motherhood, >according to the report by the United Nations Economic Commission for >Europe, part of a larger economic survey of Europe. > >And in more developed countries, the transition to capitalism has >produced new economic opportunities for both women and men, making >early childbearing less common. > >A result will be a smaller labor pool and a quickly aging population, >said Miroslav Macura, the chief of the population unit that prepared >the report. With the rise in emigration and at least temporary >increases in mortality rates in large parts of the region, which >includes Russia and the European parts of the former Soviet Union, he >said, a population of some 307 million could fall to about 250 million >in the next 50 years. > >With the fall of Communism, real incomes have declined in the region >and are only slowly recovering, with larger gaps between rich and >poor. At the same time, governments have cut back support for families >with children, while services like day-care centers have become >private or more expensive. > >"People have been impoverished and decided that having kids at a time >of poverty and misery is not the right thing to do, so they cut back," >Mr. Macura said in a telephone interview from Geneva. "This is family >downsizing comparable to company downsizing." > >Western Europe is also facing reductions in the fertility rate -- >which measures the average number of children born to women of >childbearing age -- and an aging population, which is raising the >prospect of an economy without enough young, skilled workers to grow >and pay for the rising number of pensioners. The answer is likely to >be more immigration from Central and Eastern Europe, which may create >new political problems in Western Europe and further diminish the >skilled work force to the east. > >In Eastern and Central Europe, the decline in childbearing is much >sharper than in the West. When a population has a fertility rate of >2.1 children per woman, it replaces itself, Mr. Macura said. But by >1997, the average fertility rate in the transition economies was 1.37, >a third lower than in 1988. In the market economies of Western Europe, >by contrast, the average rate was 1.58. > >The rate fell most sharply after 1989 in the former East Germany, >where in 1993 the rate had dropped to 0.76. By 1998, it had improved >to 1.06, rising to a figure still smaller than both Latvia and >Bulgaria, whose rates had fallen to 1.09 and 1.11 respectively. The >more prosperous countries of Central Europe will make up some of their >population decrease from new immigration that will come from even >poorer countries to their east, suggested Tomas Kucera, a professor of >demographics at Charles University in Prague. > >He also said that the large generation born in the early 1970's, which >is currently postponing motherhood, is likely not to postpone it >forever, especially as economies stabilize. But they will have fewer >children, often no more than one. > >"Fertility will never again reach pre-1989 levels," Mr. Kucera said. > >Given the high levels of unemployment and underemployment in Central >and Eastern Europe, having fewer children is "rational economic >behavior in some ways," Mr. Macura said. He suggests that in Russia >and many of the poorer states, a smaller labor force will help. But he >concedes that paying for the benefits and illnesses of an aging >population will be difficult, and that some countries, like Russia, >will see a sharp decline in its population as a strategic threat to >its influence and power. > >Still, despite Russia's high mortality rate, women are still having >babies early in Russia, as well as in Ukraine and Belarus, Mr. Macura >said. The United Nations study projects Russia's population to decline >by 18 percent in the next 50 years, but the drop is relatively small >in percentage terms compared with Hungary, 25 percent; Bulgaria and >Latvia, both 31 percent; and Estonia, 34 percent. > >(back to top) > >5 Russian Nuclear Arsenal at No Risk To "Love Bug," Says Official >Agence France Presse, May 6, 2000 > >Russia's nuclear arsenal is in no danger of contracting the "love bug" >an official said Saturday, the day after Washington admitted four >Pentagon computers had been hit by the virus. > >Computers controlling thousands of ballistic warheads were protected >from the "ILOVEYOU" virus by sturdy in-built defences, Ilshat >Baichurin, spokesman for Russia's nuclear rocket force, told the >ITAR-TASS news agency. > >Russia's defence systems would "remain inaccessible from the outside >for the next 150 years," he added. > >On Friday, Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon said three classified >internal e-mail systems were contaminated by the love bug, and another >classified system also was infected. > >Military operations were not hurt by the attack, he said. > >Carried in e-mail with a cybermessage that reads "ILOVEYOU" the virus >is activated when the recipient opens an attached "love letter." > >(back to top) > >6 30 Percent of Chechnya Is in Zone of Ecological Disaster ITAR-TASS >News Agency, May 6, 2000 > >The greater part of the Chechen territory is stricken with ecological >diseases to various extent, while 30 percent, including Grozny, is in >the zone of ecological disaster, Itar-Tass learnt on Saturday from >official of the ecological service of the Russian Defence Ministry >Vyacheslav Nikiforov. > >"All actions in Chechnya, taking place in the economic sphere over the >past few years, are comparable with ecological terrorism," he noted. > >In Nikiforov's opinion, the economic system which existed in the >republic up to the last time and "based on criminal use of natural >resources" left disastrous ecological heritage to the Chechen >republic. > >According to Nikiforov, home-made mini-refineries producing >petroproducts whose number was at least 1,500 till last August, >inflicted the greatest damage on the environment. A considerable part >of home-made installations were destroyed by mobile squads of the >Russian Interior Ministry, but quite a number of mini-refineries are >still operating. > >Military ecologists corroborated their statements on Saturday during >an overflight of Chechen lowlands by a helicopter. According to the >press centre of the United Army Group, 39 such illegal installations >were destroyed on Friday. > >The scale of ecological problems has become even more evident with the >advent of spring, Nikiforov claimed. According to the ecology >official, this is connected with the fact that waste of >mini-refineries, amounting to 70 percent of the total volume of oil >taken for refining, gets into the Terek, Sunzha, Argun and Belka >rivers in the form of numerous oil slicks and threatens to upset the >ecological balance in the Caspian. > >According to estimates of military ecologists, the total contaminated >area in Chechnya from the operation of underground mini-refineries can >amount to 1,500 and more hectares, while the content of toxic >substances in soil and water tops concentration ceilings by 10-20 >times. The depth of their penetration into soil tops two meters. > >Nikiforov noted that the exact size of damage, inflicted on Chechnya >by ecological terrorism, will be calculated over the next few months. >In the official's words, this work is done in the framework of a >decision, taken by the Russian government on April 15. > >The decision determines top priority measures to locate a source of >contamination and rehabilitation of contaminated areas of Chechnya. It >is planned to use more than 60 million roubles for its first stage in >2000. > >(back to top) > >7 More Oil Burns Than Is Extracted in Chechnya British Broadcasting >Corporation, May 05, 2000 > >Every month 170,000 tonnes of oil (equivalent to 2m tonnes a year) >burn at Chechnya's neglected oil wells. That is 10 times more than the >rate of extraction, Russian Deputy Fuel and Energy Minister Valeriy >Garipov told an international conference in Moscow titled "Russia and >the Environment - extraction, transportation and refining of oil". > >There are 26 oil wells on fire in Chechnya. Some of the incidents that >have taken place are "very serious", Garipov said, and there have been >attempts to reignite some wells after they have been extinguished. > >The problem is, he said, that "nobody pays". The bill for restoring >the oil industry in the republic is being picked up exclusively by the >Rosneft company. Senior officials at the Fuel and Energy Ministry have >been personally charged with reviving Chechnya's oil sector and the >ministry has made this one of its top priorities, Garipov stressed. > >(back to top) > >8 Ecological Protection Firm Set Up in Chechnya British Broadcasting >Corporation, May 05, 2000 > >The state-owned enterprise Ecotech has been created in Chechnya. It is >going to remove from the subsoil the harmful substances, accumulated >there as a result of technogenic processes. > >Some 2m tonnes of oil products have been accumulated in the subsoil of >Groznyy area alone as a result of leakages of oil products from >storages and pipelines, which lasted for many years, a spokesman for >the staff of Sergey Yastrzhembskiy, assistant to the Russian >president, told ITAR-TASS on Thursday [27th April]. > >Major General Boris Alekseyev, head of the ecological security service >of the Russian Armed Forces, believes, that the worst damage was >inflicted on the natural environment of Chechnya between 1992 and >1999. That was the time of control-free, barbaric use of the natural >resources of the republic. > >During the Dudayev rule, which was a period of absolute lawlessness, >oil began to be refined at privately owned mini-refineries. There were >some 15,000 of them. The mini-refineries, built by the gangsters >illegally, without any idea of technical norms and standards, >functioned without any control whatsoever, contaminating the natural >environment. As a result of it, one-third of the Chechen territory >became a zone of ecological disaster and another 40 per cent fell >under the category of a zone with an especially unfavourable >ecological situation. > >Military ecologists are doing the monitoring of the natural >environment in the republic, using special military planes. "Our >specialists are taking part in working out the technology of the >elimination of contamination hotbeds. It is thanks to the action taken >by the Joint Army Group in the Northern Caucasus, that an ecological >catastrophe has been prevented in the region," General Alekseyev said. > >In the opinion of specialists, there is a possibility that the >situation will be improved. The needed research has been done, the >technologies are being mastered, which will help extract from the >subsoil the oil products accumulated there and process them into fuel >and lubricating materials. This work will be done by Ecotech, created >in the republic on the order of the Russian government. > >(back to top) > >9 Chernobyl-Type Disaster Ruled Out British Broadcasting Corporation, >May 05, 2000 > >Moscow, 24th April: A nuclear disaster similar to the Chernobyl >tragedy is absolutely impossible in Russia today, Deputy Atomic Energy >Minister Bulat Nigmatulin told a Monday [24th April] briefing in >Moscow. > >Russia has made significant changes in RBMK reactors since the >Chernobyl accident, Nigmatulin said. "Nuclear specialists are >absolutely sure that such a situation will not recur," he said. > >He pointed to the crucial role of the human factor in the Chernobyl >accident, which caused errors in the operation of the power plant. > >Since Chernobyl, Russia has started paying more attention to the human >factor and regularly holding training sessions on the simulators they >now have, he said. The personnel of nuclear power plants also rehearse >actions to be taken in possible emergencies. > >(back to top) > >10 Air Pollution Appalling in 200 Russian Cities ITAR-TASS News >Agency, May 4, 2000 > >The level of air pollution in more than 200 Russian cities is above >the country's sanitary permissible standards, Russia's First >Vice-Premier Mikhail Kasyanov told the Cabinet meeting on Thursday. > >The Cabinet was discussing measures to improve environmental >protection in the country. > >The Constitution of Russia "demands that the government take urgent >measures to ensure the citizens' right to environmental security," >said Kasyanov who chaired the meeting in the absence of >President-elect and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. > >The government information administration told journalists that the >State Environmental Protection Committee, which had prepared all the >necessary materials for the Cabinet meeting, suggested that the >ensuring of the ecological security of the population and the national >economic sites is the most important task of the environmental policy >in Russia. > >Taking into account the specifics of the accomplishment of this task, >the State Environmental Protection Committee found it advisable to >work out an ecological security concept to be endorsed by the >president. The document is to set tasks not only to the government >agencies operating in the environmental protection sector but also to >the law enforcement agencies, economic ministries and departments >charging them with the attainment of required conditions for the >sustainable functioning of the socio-economic sphere and the averting >environmental threats to the country's population and economy. > >(back to top) > >11 No Incidents at Russia's Nuclear Facilities in 2000 ITAR-TASS News >Agency, May 3, 2000 > >There were no incidents at Russia's nuclear facilities this year which >would impair their safety, the press service of the State Nuclear >Inspection told Itar-Tass on Wednesday. > >Automatic isolation systems were triggered two times at Bilibino and >Leningradskaya nuclear power plants by malfunctions. Safety systems of >research reactors were activated nine times. > >Two of the alarms were caused by errors of the personnel of >Dmitrovograd's Research Institute of Nuclear Reactors and three by >voltage fluctuations at Saint Petersburg's Institute of Nuclear >Physics. > >Four other localised shutdowns were set off by malfunctions of >equipment at Dubna's Institute of Nuclear Research and at Obninsk's >Physics and Energy Institute. > >A minor radionuclide leakage was registered at the Siberian Chemical >Combine on April 4 as a furnace was tested without being loaded with >nuclear material. No atmospheric radionuclide emission occurred, and >three workers in the room wore the radioprotective gear. > >(back to top) > >12 Fish With an Indelicate Smell Is Siberian Delicacy New York Times, >May 2, 2000 > >Istvyanka, Russia -- Almost any resident of this village can tick off >the seemingly endless string of superlatives about the great lake -- >inland sea, really -- that laps insistently against the town docks. >Lake Baikal is the biggest, the oldest, by far the deepest, the >clearest lake on earth. > >Were it empty, all of the world's rivers would have to flow for an >entire year to fill it. It has more than 1,500 plants and animals >found nowhere else, including the world's only purely freshwater seal. > >But press a resident to say what he loves most about Baikal, and he >may cast his lot with the nondescript, gray, oily, foot-long fish that >dwells therein. > >Siberians love the lowly omul. They love it fried, dried, smoked, >baked, grilled, salted, stuffed, with internals and without internals, >with and without scales. Residents of the eastern shore even like it >slightly decayed -- "with odor," they call it. > >In warm weather, which is to say above freezing, they sell it from >dozens of roadside stands along the shore, their portable cookers >belching the smoke of burning alder, with rows of cured fish on the >tables waiting to be wrapped in newspaper and carried away. > >"The stands are a relatively new thing," said one 31-year-old >omul-hawker, who would identify himself only as Mikhail. "In Soviet >times you could hardly find any fish. The rumor was always that the >catch went under a contract to Czechoslovakia." > >"Some days we sell a hundred, some days 10," he added. "It depends on >the weather." > >Life has not been kind to the little fish, a distant cousin of the >lake herring that inhabits the Great Lakes. Experts at the Russian >Academy of Science's Institute of Limnology -- limnology is the study >of lakes -- say the population has risen and fallen in tandem with >wars, famines and other events that forced people to turn to this >reliable food supply. > >In the 1960's fishermen took so many omul that netting them was >briefly banned. When a hydroelectric dam was built on the Angara >River, Baikal's only outlet, the lake rose, causing a change in water >temperature that led to a drastic decline in the fry that are the >omul's main meal. One result has been a smaller and, presumably, >hungrier omul than in past decades. > >Still, it remains the lake's most abundant fish. Up to 150,000 tons of >omul live there, although the numbers are said to have declined in >recent years, and the government limits the annual take to 10,000 >tons. > >Served in a decent restaurant, the omul's abundant, light gray meat >tastes not unlike flounder, bland and only slightly fishy. Smoked, it >acquires an almost sweet flavor. > >But to an outsider the omul's main selling point seems to be not taste >but price. Just about any stand will sell one, smoked until its >cellophane-thin skin turns golden, for between 7 and 15 rubles -- >about 25 to 50 cents -- depending on its size. > >The wharf at Listvyanka, the main stopping point for travelers from >the nearby big cities of Irkutsk and Angarsk, is prime territory for >the omul merchants, and it appears to be flourishing. On the steep >hill behind the shore, steam baths and vacation homes have sprung up >with spectacular views of the snowcapped Khamar-Daban mountains to the >east, across 30 miles of water. > >The dozen or so omul sellers who have set up their smokers and tables >on the wharf said they were increasingly visited by German, Japanese >and American tourists. But one day recently, a cold wind blew in off >the ice-covered lake and customers were few and far between, so they >entertained a visitor with some of the more exotic omul recipes. > >There is raw salted omul: the fish is placed in a pile of salt, organs >intact, and left for 12 hours before being washed and eaten. And there >is pressed omul, in which layers of salt and gutted omul are >alternated, lasagna-style. There is hot-smoked omul, roasted for 40 >minutes, and cold-smoked omul, bathed in cool alder smoke for three >days. Lightly salted and dried -- its innards are pried open and >exposed to the air with tiny matchstick-size crossbeams -- "you can >take it anywhere," one merchant said. "It will last forever." > >Although the overwhelming preference is for gutted fish, some >customers prefer hot-smoked omul with the organs intact, and they >generally wolf it down, scales and all. > >"They like it with organs because it's juicier that way," said Yana >Borodina, 23, who tended one table. > >And finally, there is omul "s dushkom" -- with odor -- the delicacy of >Baikal's mountainous eastern shore and a traditional dish of the >Buryat, the Mongol-related people who live there. > >The recipe is fairly simple: catch an omul, place it in warm sunlight >until it begins to smell -- generally 10 to 20 minutes -- and eat it, >scales, organs and all. "Each according to his taste," a grimacing Ms. >Borodina said, then told a joke: it seems that a man from the east >went into a market and asked the owner, "Is the fish fresh?" > >"Of course," the owner said. 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