The last two remaining stocks of the dreaded smallpox virus in Russia and US will now be destroyed by June 30, 19", if all the members of the World Health Organisation (WHO) agree on its

AN OIL spill from an ageing section of the Nurlino-Novosibirsk pipeline, running along the Belaya river in the Russian region of Bashkortostan, which was earlier thought to be of meagre

CASH-STRAPPED Russians want to make money out of Mir, their station in space. Their proposal to raise funds is to make the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officials use

IN A damning revelation, Bellona, the Norwegian environmental group, has disclosed that dozens of Russian nuclear ftiel containers carrying a large amount of radioactive matter which had

A HIGH-altitude Russian spy plane has been donated to western European scientists for studying ozone layer depletion over the Arctic region. Russia will provide the European Science Foundation in

WITH energy in perpetual short supply, the Armenian government has decided to restart the Metsamor nuclear reactor which was closed down in 1988 following a devastating earthquake. Reviving the

GLOBAL collaboration in space exploration has taken another giant leap forward with the signing in August of a us $190 million deal - to develop and launch the first module of a new international

A collapsed sewerage system and an acute water crisis are causing misery to the residents of Kharkov, Ukraine's 2nd largest city. Up to 200,000 cubic metres of untreated sewage has been

The recent Atlantis Mir docking in space, only the 2nd of its kind, is the first tentative step towards Mars