14 PERCENT OF RUSSIAN TERRITORY ECOLOGICALLY UNSAFE.

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.