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15.06.2009, 21:46
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Deep-water divers return to Lake Baikal in Eastern Siberia to resume research in the biggest fresh water reservoir in the world.
01.08.2009, 20:18
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has examined the depths of the world’s largest freshwater lake by volume - Baikal. He has been looking at how the research program into the ecosystem of the lake is progressing.
01.09.2009, 19:04
MIR submersibles have discovered fragments of an early 20th century train at the bottom of Lake Baikal, which may possibly carry so-called “Kolchak gold”, part of the gold reserves of the Russian Empire.
21.09.2010, 07:42
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A Russian scientist is trying to convince people they can change the world simply by using their own energy. He claims that thinking in a certain way can have a positive or negative effect on the surrounding environment.
23.07.2010, 09:53
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With science and technology making constant advances, some Russians believe eternal life is not such a distant reality after all – and they are ready to wait as long as it takes, even after their death.
16.07.2010, 20:21
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Ukrainian divers plan to ask Russia to give them several out of use Black Sea Fleet ships to sink as artificial reefs in the Yalta Gulf in the Crimea.
06.08.2010, 11:30
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As the record breaking heat wave continues to torment Russians, Mother Nature draws new surprises from its sleeves. A boat owner has caught half a dozen tiny freshwater jellyfish in the Moscow River.
19.12.2009, 09:14
If the cold gray winter makes you want to go to sleep and not wake up until spring, Russian scientists may have some good news after studying how ground squirrels use a secret weapon for winter survival.
25.03.2010, 10:45
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DNA from a 40-thousand-year-old bone found in a Siberian cave is believed to belong to a previously unknown hominin. The “Hominin-X” joins Neanderthals as a now-extinct evolutionary competitor of modern human.
21.10.2010, 18:36
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Russia is considering becoming the world’s top supplier of fresh water as growing demand turns it into a strategic resource. That is if it can upgrade its own consumption to modern standards.
Published: 12 July, 2010, 06:54
Edited: 12 July, 2010, 11:33
The captain of Russia's most durable scientific submarine Mir says his team is ready and willing to help end the oil spill disaster that ravages the Gulf of Mexico, but that requires a political decision.
With the amount of Corexit BP has sprayed in the area, volunteering to go there is the desire to commit suicide. Plus they are happy with skimming the oil for profit. Who says they want it fixed? BP is having anyone arrested who so much sneezes in the direction of the oil spill. Aren't they high and mighty?