25 August 2003 The sudden death of the Sakhalin governor leaves behind an island on the brink of an oil boom.VLADIVOSTOK, Russia–More than 1,000 rescuers in the Far East searched for three days before finding the wreckage of an Mi8 helicopter that was carrying Sakhalin Governor Igor Farkhutdinov and 19 others when it disappeared from radar on 20 August. The […]
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