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Moscow, Russia -- Issue 6(15), August-November, 2000


IN THIS ISSUE:
 

THE SEVENTH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL UNION

REFERENDUM KILLED, NUCLEAR WASTES WELCOMED

CHAOS IN RUSSIAN GENETIC ENGINEERING ACTIVITIES

LIVING WITH TAIGA

LACK OF CONTROL IS WHAT SOME INSTITUTIONS BENEFIT FROM

MURAVIEVKA, THE SEU PARK


THE SEVENTH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL UNION


  The Seventh Conference of the International Socio-Ecological Union was held in Kiev from August 21st-25th. Altogether some 160 people attended, including 120 delegates and 60 guests. An unprecedented number of sections - sixteen - were represented at the conference.
   The conference showed that cooperative efforts within the framework of the SEU is expanding. In addition to the fact that every program and campaign of the SEU (ten were represented at the conference) carried out its own section, another seven themes appeared in working groups' discussions: sustainable tourism, publicizing the SEU's programs and campaigns in the press, the school for young ecologists (a new program called "Qualification"), sustainable development, public environmental control, genetically modified organisms (GMO), and oil pollution in seas. The SEU's program "Qualification" was begun at the conference, and the SEU's campaign against the spread of genetically altered organisms received its official acknowledgement.
  Each program announced its future plans, which the conference participants discussed and ratified.
  Thus the program "Eco-Housing for the 21st Century" announced the beginning of the building of demonstration and ordinary ecohomes in several regions of Russia. The program has found new partners in Zaonezh'e (Karelia), Krasnoyarsky Krai, Tatarstan, and Ukraine.
   The program "Chemical Safety" described the lack of appropriate attention in the "green" community toward chemical safety issues. The scale of activity of this program needs to grow. This includes providing help to new local public initiatives.
  The program "Ecology and Children's Health" believes it is imperative to provide support to those organizations that work in defending children from harmful environmental factors, especially from endocrine damage. The program is creating a thematic network intended to become the Eurasian division of the large worldwide network "International Network on Children's Health, Environment and Safety".
  The program "For Environmental Safety in Rocket-Space Activity" will be monitoring people's health and the state of the environment in regions with heavy rocket-space activity. Future involvement in environmental consulting in RSA programs and projects is planned, as is participation in the development of national and international environmental politics in RSA spheres.
  The Forest Campaign of the SEU discussed and ratified a new initiative of campaign participants: a project to restore oak stands in Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, and also in several other countries in which there are organizations prepared to work actively in this field.
  The Section on Nuclear Safety, which unified the SEU's Anti-nuclear Campaign and program "Nuclear Safety," accepted a resolution including a protest against the import of nuclear waste into Russia and the unfurling of a plutonium program. The conference agreed to send a letter with an appeal to all the committees of the EU requesting them not to finance the completion of a second reactor in the Khmel'nitskaya nuclear power plant and a fourth on the Rovnenskaya plant (both in Ukraine).
  At the conference it was decided that the SEU, the Radical Movement "Rainbow Keepers" and the Union "For Chemical Safety" will begin a cooperative campaign to protest the violation of the human right to a healthy environment and livable conditions in the city of Votkinsk in Udmurtiya, where the building of experimental station for burning heavy rocket fuel has already begun.
  At the conference an initiating group, "Sustainable Tourism," was formed. The group's members received the blessing of the conference to develop and enact the SEU's program "The Development of Sustainable Tourism in the Member Nations of the SEU".
  An agreement was accepted in the section "Publicizing the SEU's programs and campaigns in the press" regarding cooperation between SEU organizations and the mass media. One of the section's goals was the formation of a system of "informational resposne" on a given event.
  The working group on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) came to the conclusion that without the cooperation of public organizations and experts it is impossible to control the development of genetically engineered foods, agriculture, and several other branches. Therefore in the year 2001 an SEU campaign will be founded against the spread of GMOs; during 2001 preparation of national and regional reports on genetic engineering is recommended.
  The program "Qualification" appeared at the conference. The program's basic content will be the creation of a system of constant preparation of environmental activists, for which the experience of the Student Nature Guards (Druzhina) Movement will be used.
  Setting priorities was a major part of the work of the section "Sustainable Development." In particular, these priorities included use of a conception of a basin approach in working with territories, active involvement in the process "Rio+10" and the preparation of "World Charter of Nature".
  The section "Public Environmental Control" gave its presentation with the initiative of program in the SEU framework of public inspection in defense of the environment.
   The working group "Oil Pollution of Seas," with reference to the critical state of the Caspian Sea, Black Sea, and Sea of Azov considers goal-oriented the development of alternative systems of oil transport that would avoid these waters. It is fixed to offer immediate participation in the given work.
  The program "Environmental Education" has temporarily halted its work. In the near future a new coordinator will be chosen and a new plan will be developed. The basic idea, however, naturally will not change in the future. The program sees the support of ecological textbook programs in NIS schools as one of it's basic challenges, as well as the goal-oriented attraction of youth and children to demonstrations about environmental defense.
  Conference participants spoke of the imperative need for close cooperation and coordination of work in various fields of the SEU's activity. It was noted that the majority of programs, campaigns, and initiatives are tightly tied to one another, and thus the success of their work directly depends on the effectiveness of cooperative efforts.
  The following were accepted at the conference:
   "Notice of the Regional Coordination of the SEU";
  Priorities of the SEU Council's work for 2000-2003.
  A new Council and Revision Commission were also elected.

  The following were named as priorities of the SEU Council for 2000-2003:
  1. The providing of closer and perpetual cooperation between SEU members (through program and regional coordinators).
  2. The search for sources of financial support both for the SEU as a whole and for its member branches.
  3. The organization of the informational support of the SEU's and its member's activity.
  4. The organization of cooperation between the SEU and other members of public life (the population at large, the authorities, political parties, etc).
  5. The organization of all types of support for the activities of SEU members (legal aid, moral support, solidarity, defense).
  6. The organization of work of the CCI in the interests of SEU members and the SEU as a whole.
  7. The development of the SEU's external and internal politics (strategic planning, the development of program documents to clarify the SEU's position, an analysis of the world situation).
  8. The organization of analytical work needed for understanding global and regional processes at work, and in turn, adequate planning of the work of the SEU and its members.

  The following are the members of the new Council:

1. Farida Kamil-kyzy Guseynova
370200 Azerbaidjan, Sumgait
5 kvartal, ul. Dostlug, d. 13/34 kv. 18
Tel. (8-10-99450) 329-93-91
E-mail: guseynovafk@aznet.org

2. Sviatoslav Igorevich Zabelin
121019 Russia, Moscow
Box 211
Tel./Fax: (095) 124-79-34
E-mail: zabelin@online.ru

3. Irek Ilgizarovich Ziganshin
420015 Russia, Kazan
Box 93
Tel: (8432) 15-68-24 (home), 35-93-69 (work)
E-mail:odop@mi.ru

4. Askhat Abdurakhmanovich Kayumov
630000 Russia, Nizhny Novgorod
Box 631
Tel (8312) 30-28-81
E-mail:askhat@dront.ru

5. Sergei Vladimirovich Krichevsky
141160 Russia, Moscow Region
Zvezdny gorodok, d. 47, kv. 29
Tel (095) 526-29-67 (home)
E-mail: sergei.krichevsky@starcity.ru

6. Dmitry Sergeevich Rybakov
185031 Russia, Karelia
Petrozavodsk, Oktyabrsky pr.
Box 159
Tel (8142) 70-31-81 (home)
E-mail: greens@karelia.ru

7. Lev Aleksandrovich Fedorov
117291 Russia, Moscow
ul. Profsoyuznaya, d. 8, k. 2. kv. 82
Tel. (095) 129-05-96 (home)
E-mail:lefed@online.ru

 


REFERENDUM KILLED, NUCLEAR WASTES WELCOMED


  Russian authorities do not care about what people think or want. We have received several proofs for that lately. 2,5 million of signatures is just an obstacle for nuclear bosses. As you may know already, the Central Election Commission (CEC) has killed the referendum that would have asked whether voters opposed the importation of radioactive materials for storage, reprocessing or burying. But citing numerous technical inaccuracies, the Central Elections Commission struck off more than a fifth of the 2.5 million signatures collected across the country this fall, leaving the environmentalists with just over 1.873 million signatures - 127,000 short of the 2 million needed to force a referendum.
  Clearly it was another step towards something that has been long desired by the Nuclear Power Ministry - passing the amendment to Russian environmental legislation allowing to dump spent nuclear fuel in Russia.
  The hearings in Russian State Duma required to pass the amendment were several times rescheduled, due to the controversies and protests. The Nuclear Power Ministry and Evegeny Adamov, the Minister, personally worked hard to lure the deputies into amendement support, observers say.
  Had the CEC agreed to accept at least 2 million of the collected signatures, the hearing would have had to have been canceled, as stipulated by the referendum law. But as the referendum was halted, there was nothing to stop the Duma from passing Adamov's bill, which would allow his ministry to go ahead with a deal to accept up to 20,000 tons of spent fuel from 14 countries in Asia and Europe for 50 years of storage. "The authorities do not allow people to use democratic means to prevent Russia from being turned into a radioactive dump," said Vladimir Slivyak, a leader of the SEU Anti-nuclear campaign. Activists said the real reason was that the election commission was ordered to block the referendum by the government.
   The voting in State Duma (Russian Parliament) was finally scheduled for December 22. However, on late December 20 it was moved onto December 21 - to prevent the environemntalists demonstrations. This did not, however, affect the Nuclear astroturf groups demonstration at 10 am - right before the voting. The routine slogans - jobs and profits is just a populistic outside of the whole nuclear junk affair. The Ministry will get all the money from the deals, and will, of course, spend it for the further nuclear power development.
  The majority of Duma fractions said "yes" to the bill in its first reading, despite the numerous protests and despite the signatures collected. Thus Duma memberes do not even pretend anymore that they work for the interests of the people who has elected them. The bill is still to undergo chnges and to pass the second reading.
  The meaning of the current events in Russia for the rest of the world is much more dreadfull than it may seem. Not speaking of the ethical side of nuclear states turning Russia into radioactive waste dump, this means the further promotion of the nuclear power development worldwide. Goverenments and corporations are getting rid of the responsibilty for the waste their nuclear entereprises produced already, and feel free to prodice even more without thinking of consequences. Nice bargain offered by Russian Minatom (prices for NW processing and storage are much lower than the worldwide) allows the nuclear irresponsiblity to continue.
  Separate issue is the safety of the territories through which the waste would be shipped (if would) to Russia. Taken into account the rise of the terrorism in the world and within Russia, one may say that the whole world safety is questioned.

  Contacts:
Alexey Yablokov,
chairman of SEU "Nuclear safety" Program
E-mail:yablokov@voxnet.ru


CHAOS IN RUSSIAN GENETIC ENGINEERING ACTIVITIES


   Moscow - 29 November 2000
  A report released by environmental organisations today reveals that field trials of genetically engineered (GE) crops are taking place throughout Russia and GE foods are being approved for human consumption, in the absence of any procedures. Although an Inter-Agency Commission on Genetic Engineering Activities, GENCOM, was established in 1997 to issue permits for releases of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), it operates under a cloak of secrecy and some of its members are the same scientists that are undertaking GE experiments.
  The report entitled: "Genetically Engineered Food and Crops in Russia" and published by the Socio-Ecological Union (SEU), reveals that at least 18 notifications for deliberate release of GMOs, including field trials and processing/consumption have been granted. Monsanto leads with 8 notifications for field trials of potatoes resistant to Colorado beetle, which are being tested in 18 regions of Russia, herbicide tolerant soybeans, maize and sugar beet.
  Biosafety measures for field trials are inadequate. "Field trials of GE apple trees and strawberries in Orel were taking place right next to gardens growing apple trees and strawberries. Cross-pollination could result in these home-grown fruit becoming genetically engineered!", explained Dan Swartz, the author of the report, published jointly with ANPED, The Northern Alliance for Sustainability, a network of non-government organisations based in Amsterdam.
  The report reveals that the Ministry of Health has approved two varieties of Monsanto's GE potatoes and Monsanto's Roundup Ready (herbicide-tolerant) soybeans for human consumption, In addition, the OECD list also includes AgrEvo's (now Aventis) GE sugar beet, approved for processing and consumption.
   "It is highly likely that GE soybeans, maize and potatoes are already on the Russian market. The soybeans and maize are coming into the country via commercial imports and food aid from the US", explains Victoria Kolesnikova from SEU. "Despite a new law requiring labelling of GE products and a Federal Register of GMO Products, we have seen none of the products listed on the register and available on Russian supermarket shelves labelled", she added.
  The report calls on the Russian Government to introduce a moratorium on all environmental releases of GMOs until procedures for licensing field trials and approving the marketing of GE foods are in place. It also calls for the declassifying of information about genetic engineering that currently enables information to be withheld on the grounds of state or commercial secrets. The report also demands that the responsible institutions implement the labelling regulations that came into force in July 2000.

  For more information:
Victoria Kolesnikova, Olga Berlova, Anna Kochineva
E-mail: seupress@mtu-net.ru, seupress@yahoo.com
Iza Kruszewska, ANPED
E-mail: iza@cpa-iza.u-net.com


LIVING WITH TAIGA:
TRN conference chronicles


   "The Russian forest sector is a Titanic sinking to the bottom with millions of tons of lumber and a system of governance that took decades to form," said Aleksei Grigoriev at the opening session of the Fifth International Conference of the Taiga Rescue Network (TRN), "Living with the Taiga: Boreal Forests in the 21st Century." The conference, which is being held in the Moscow suburb of Zvenigorod between September 18-22, focuses on the most troublesome social aspects of the coexistence of humanity and the taiga that worry world community.
  The conference has gathered more than 250 people from various countries, from environmental activists to scientists to tribal leaders. The general concern that unites most of them is preserving boreal forests in the presence of human activity, the source of life of their children and grandchildren.
  In recent years, forests have become an object of attention not just for biologists and foresters. After all, the forest is resource that could save the earth from the global warming and climate change. It is forests that absorb carbon dioxide gas, which is the basic cause of Greenhouse effect.
  "We want to prove that people can gain not only from destroying the forest. More specifically, that gain is not measured only in money, but in everything that we receive from the forest, including clean air and water. We searched for positive examples of how to rationally carry out sustainable forestry, and found them here, in Russia," said Dmitri Akesnov, one of the organizers of the conference and a member of the Forest Team of the Social-Ecological Union. According to the organizers, putting together a completely optimistic conference was impossible. With the liquidation of the nature protection structures in Russia-including the Federal Forest Service (FFS)-hopes for the definite introduction of ecologically sound forest use have almost completely disappeared.
  The causes of the ruthless destruction of forests vary from uncontrolled cuttings by corporations for enormous profits to the selective sanitary cuttings foresters conduct due to the poeverty and disorganization of forestry in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. The one result? The forest is diappearing.
  Russia already lost practically all of the oak stands in European Russia, while the unique Ussuriskaya taiga and the relatively undisturbed forests of the north are under the threat of extinction. This is the reason why greens (and no longer only greens!) are sounding the alarm. Today there are various reforestation programs, but forests grow slowly and do not replace the things that disappear with that which is called the real taiga-the trees that are hundreds of years old, the unique flowers, grasses, and animals-that community that arose over the ages. "Sure, we manage to win official protection for certain territories. Alone, however, protection will not save. Everything that happens around the forest is likewise very important to the forest itself and its inhabitants. That's what ecology is: everything is tied to everything," say the conference attenders.
  In the meantime, the majority of Russian foresters cannot see the forest for the trees, looking at it simply as a pile of timber. It looks as though those who will represent the former forest league in the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) and answer for the protection of the Russian forest worry only about how to cut it down faster so as not to "lose a potential resource." Though the representatives of the Forest Service used to offer to at least outward signs of respect, offical representatives of the "reconstructed" MNR have completely ignored today's international conference. Four years ago, when the same conference was held in the Finnish border town of Kuusamo, official foresters still came and actively participated in the discussion, even as the scandal around the Karelian forests became increasingly tense.
  The bi-annual TRN conference is a marker, and looking back at each one, it becomes clear how much the Russian and international greens have managed to accomplish through their joint efforts. A row of unique forested lands in Karelia are now protected. It is now possible to teach forest giants, such as ENSO-Stora and UPM Kummene to carry on a dialogue with society and fulfil society's demands. The concept of "old growth forests" - that is those that were not planted by people and which are extremely valuable for several reasons - is now respected. Earlier, forestry workers would act as though they did not understand at all.

  For more information:
Vladimir Zakharov,
SEU Forest Campaign
E-mail: forestnews@online.ru


LACK OF CONTROL IS WHAT SOME INSTITUTIONS BENEFIT FROM


  After the TRN conference SEU Forest campaign started a new information fight for Russian forest. After the elimination of State Environment Committee and Forest Service Russian forests are supposed to become a fossil.
  "Proposed merge of these institutions with Ministry of Nature Resources will make any efforts to interact with forest control bodies even harder that it was before. Former Forest Service had over 200 thousand people in staff including over 70 thousand specialists of forest protection. New Forest department within a ministry will likely have less than 5 thousand! No one knows still what a new forest policy will be like. Ministry keeps silence ignoring all the requests" - Comments Alexey Grigoriev, SEU forest expert. "Budget of forest protection activities is also a question. The whole ministry in 2001 will have around 150 millions of dollars while forest service used to have 250 millions of dollars before the ruble crisis of 1998. It makes us think that ministry will get additional money from somewhere else:
  Illegal cutting of the 1 group forest is also a big problem all over the country and in Moscow region in particular. There forests are most valuable in terms of environment and according to the Russian law all the activities conducted in such forests are to pass a state environmental impact assessment at the federal level, which has never been done for the last 5 years since this legislation is in place. All the permissions to transform forestlands to non-forest lands (when one is allowed to cut trees) were issued by the national government. The 1 group forests have being cut mostly for the elite dachas construction purposes. Russian NGOs won several cases in the Russian Supreme Court against the government but it didn't stop the process of illegal cutting.
  According to statistics the amount of forests in Moscow region increases every year. But in reality these "optimistic" numbers include abandoned agricultural areas being covered by bushes and wick seedlings.

  For more information:
Vladimir Zakharov,
SEU Forest Campaign
E-mail: forestnews@online.ru


MURAVIEVKA, THE SEU PARK


  Muravevsky Park is located in the Russian Far East, in the Amurskaya Oblast. It is the first nature park in Russia since 1917 that is not owned and operated by the government. Instead, the property was rented from the government on a fifty-year lease. More than 200 species of birds live in its 13,000 acres of wetlands and neighboring fields.
  For many years Sergei Smirensky, the director of Muravevsky Park, dreamed of creating conditions in which people and wildlife could live together in harmony, and also to test out new technologies and developments in protection of ecosystems, environmental education, and sustainable development. The nature of the Amursky Krai greatly impressed Sergei, and in 1991, working in cooperation with the International Crane Foundation (ICF), he launched the Socio-Ecological Union's Amur program in hopes of realizing his dream. In 1993, Muravevsky Park leased 11,000 hectares for 50 years for the development of sustainable land use. At that point, Sergei had nothing else to start with but well-intended ideas and enthusiasm.
  "We came to realize rather quickly that abandoning certain projects and simply protecting certain valuable sites was not a solution to the problem,- says Sergei Smirensky, the park director. Our plan to create a park for sustainable use of natural resources is an attempt to solve a problem. We're trying to understand how to use the natural resources of a unique territory. When we speak of sustainable development and sustainable use of natural resources, we mean not only stability for today and tomorrow, but for a much greater length of time. Stability demands attention to three factors: ecological, economical, and social. We gave ourselves a task including not only a study of the protection of the territory, but also the renewal and management of the territory. One of the challenges was introducing forms of sustainable use of natural resources, such as agriculture, ecotourism, and the sale of local handicrafts.
  Now the park is one of the centers of life in the Russian Far East. As Sergei Smirensky says, "Wedding parties come here for photographs, just as they would visit a war memorial". The territory of the park is quite diverse, including meadows, bush, lakes, and tracts of forest, but most of the park is occupied by marshes. The park protects a habitat for the white crane (Grus leucogeranus), white-naped crane (Grus vipio), and Japanese crane (Grus japonensis), as well as other migrating birds. Since the moment the park was formed in 1993, the population of rare birds has doubled. Hundreds of local children and teachers have attended summer camps in the park and become passionate advocates of the park.
  Even five years ago few people believed that the first non-governmental park would be able to develop according to plan, especially considering that an integral part of that plan was the implementation of self-sustaining and ecologically clean agriculture. Muravevsky Park is working on a model program to introduce this kind of agriculture. The park's deputy director Sergei Shalagin, a qualified specialist and man of the soil, is leading the program. Under his direction, soy has been cultivated in the park for several years. This year, soy was sown on a 120-hectare tract of land that the local region handed over to the park expressly for this purpose. Although herbicides and chemical fertilizers are not used in the park, crops are fruitful, and the park is able to subsist financially on the profits made by selling the harvest, without any outside sources of monetary support.
  A model farm was set up, where workers tested new varieties of soy and other grains. They obtained and repaired farm equipment, and completed construction of a granary; work on the construction of a heated garage has already begun. Workers are also preparing a business plan for an animal farm and the receipt of an international certificate of the environmental quality of their products. At the same time, they are studying the soil in areas under agriculture for long-term future environmental monitoring.
  One of our challenges was to build an economically effective, self-sufficient system, says Sergei Smirensky, And it's not even because we don't like to ask for money (although sometimes we have to) because in many cases grant money initiates from the ruin of nature. The fact is that there are many ways to earn money. Right now we are self-sufficient. We have electricity in the park; our refrigerators, computers, and printers run on energy from solar panels. We're just finishing the construction step and are organizing various materials from our experience, which we hope will be of interest and help to many. We hope that next year we can begin bringing people to the park and having more discussions.
  According to Sergei Smirensky, many of the problems of protected areas, such as poaching and fires, are simply provoked by the stern line between the nature reserve's employees and the local population. Park employees decided to try to combine the interests of the region that they took under protection and the interests of the residents of the region and oblast. The local population is now proud of their wetlands and, naturally, does not start fires. Even poaching fell significantly. All of this became possible thanks to the model programs of the park and friends of the park. Relations between the park and the local population continue to grow noticeably warmer. Muravevsky Park's environmental education program played a large role in this transition. The park carries out several international programs of children's education. Every year summer camps where children can study and have recreation free of charge are held with the help of overseas colleagues. At the present time, park officials are working to found a Teen Social Adaptation Center, for which a two-story building is almost complete.
  Park workers are also preparing informational materials and texts on the methodology they used. These materials can be used for regular classes with schoolchildren and park visitors. Workers have prepared expositions and led seminars devoted to the classics of global and Russian ecology, hunting management, and nature protection. One of the park employees leads a year-round lesson in home economics in various classes in a school in the village of Kuropatino. An exposition of handicrafts was held, and the best works were sent to a contest in the United States. The park held three sessions of a summer camp and seminar in ecology, agriculture, and artistic upbringing. More than 180 students and teachers from the Tambovsky Region (including more than 30 kindergarten teachers from the village of Kresovozdvizhenka), the province of Kheilingtszyan (People's Republic of China), and the State of Wisconsin (USA) took part in these projects. Four summerhouses with bunk beds were built specially for the camp, a soccer field was set up, as was a place to hold lessons. This was the first time the park had welcomed a group of teachers, students, nature reserve workers, and state farm workers from the People's Republic of China. In turn, this was the Chinese delegation's first opportunity to take part in an environmental camp. Indeed, the interest our Chinese neighbors took in the park and its programs was so great that an international agreement was reached between China and the Amurskaya Oblast to hold cooperative environmental meetings and to create an exchange for students and teachers between 2001-2005.
  During the summer camp, six teachers of agriculture led classes in teaching children to choose directions and methods for instituting rural agriculture on the basis of the study of soil, climate, and the local and world market of agricultural products. The students received a general picture of the advantage of cooperative forms of action, actively took part in the development of organizational forms of the youth organization ?Future Farmers of Russia. After ten Russian-American environmental camps had been held, 460 children became interested in nature and its protection. An understanding and love of nature are the hardest things to teach, especially to local children. Poverty, depression, alcoholism and crime are a way of life in these regions. Children need to understand that the hope for a better future lies within themselves. The park helps them to find hope, and the environmental camp solidifies it. More than 50 American elementary, middle, and high school teachers, as well college students have all visited the camp. The Americans, who tend to know Siberia more as a place of exile and punishment, returned home with a different view of this place, and with the memory of people striving for a brighter future.

  For contacts:
Sergey & Elena Smirenski
E-mail:sergei@savingcranes.org


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