Around 5 million tourists visit Sochi every year – spending on average $50 a day at the seaside. The value they get for that expenditure is an issue that needs to be addressed. Wine at $30 per glass in one restaurant retails at loss for a whole bottle in a nearby shop. Oleg Panichev,...
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Great Bustard Back!
““In 2003 a delegation from the UK visited us. They had read our work on the great bustard population and decided to look us up. They offered their cooperation, and the programme is now in its fifth year,” explained Anatoly Khrustov, the Saratov Head of the Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution.” The Great...
No Cussing: Omsk Region in Southwestern Siberia!
It is against the law to cuss now in the Omsk Region in southwestern Siberia. The use of a bad word will now cost residents of Achairskoe village from $6 to $16. The higher fine is put in effect if you cuss in front of children. Sofia Arefyeva the head of the village administration...