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 <title>Onward to the Middle Ages (in Russian)</title>
 <description>Authorities and Supreme Court forced the Udegeis to return to the woods.</description>
 <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:31:46 +0200</pubDate>
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 <title>President Medvedev visited Sevmash, inspected ”Yury Dolgoruky</title>
 <description>Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev yesterday visited the Sevmash Shipyard in Severodvinsk, where he inspected construction of Russia’s new state-of-the-art nuclear submarines.</description>
 <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:29:29 +0200</pubDate>
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 <title>Shell and Sovcomflot partner up</title>
 <description>Oil company Shell and Sovcomflot, which is Russia’s main shipping group, are embarking on a partnership with the hopes of being the forerunner when it comes to shipping liquefied natural gas through the Arctic waters. The two companies have also struck a deal where Shell will charter Sovcomflot’s aframaz oil tankers.</description>
 <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:14:21 +0200</pubDate>
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 <title>Passenger traffic down 25 percent</title>
 <description>Murmansk Airport handled 25,4 percent less passengers in the five first months of the year than in the same period last year.</description>
 <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:15:04 +0200</pubDate>
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 <title>Shtokman could require 20 LNG carriers</title>
 <description>Sovkomflot and Shell are entering a partnership agreement to be prepared for the huge potential for LNG-shipping from the Arctic.</description>
 <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:57:59 +0200</pubDate>
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 <title>Governor of Murmansk Oblast in governmental commission</title>
 <description>Governor Dmitry Dmitriyenko has been appointed member of the Russian Government’s commission on development of fisheries.</description>
 <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:51:23 +0200</pubDate>
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 <title>Canadian Botanists head out on a research trip</title>
 <description>Some Canadian botanists will be going on a month long trip in an isolated corner of the Canadian North in order to gather more than 1,000 plant samples. The hope is that by gathering these plant samples, they will be able to track some of the impacts of climate change happening in the area.</description>
 <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:47:27 +0200</pubDate>
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 <title>No signs of pollution in the White Sea</title>
 <description>Satellite monitoring shows no signs of pollution in the White Sea, while the Gulf of Finland is heavily polluted by the shipping business.</description>
 <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:49:23 +0200</pubDate>
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 <title>Seal virus spreads to Arctic otters</title>
 <description>The first transmission of a seal-killing virus that started in the Atlantic Ocean has been documented in a population of Pacific sea otters in Alaska. The transmission of the disease from the Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Sea is the first sign that melting Arctic ice not only affects the habitat of Arctic animals, like polar bears and seals, but also makes it easier for pathogens to travel into the area and into the Arctic wildlife.</description>
 <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:47:52 +0200</pubDate>
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 <title>Nine subs to be scrapped</title>
 <description>In 2009 Russia will utilise nine of its older nuclear powered submarines.</description>
 <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:45:56 +0200</pubDate>
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