14 PERCENT OF RUSSIAN TERRITORY ECOLOGICALLY UNSAFE.
Publication: Monitor Volume: 1 Issue: 16
One inevery seven square miles of the Russian Federation is too contaminated for safehuman habitation, Pravda reported May 18. Chemical dumping, poor nuclearwaste management, and the absence of a plan to clean up Soviet-era disasters,including Chernobyl, may mean that there will be “no healthy people” in Russia inthe next century, the paper said.
Baltic Cooperation Expands.