Russia: North Russian Indigenous Group Protests Gazprom Pipeline

Russia: North Russian Indigenous Group Protests Gazprom Pipeline   An indigenous group inhabiting Russia's northern region of Yakutia has called for the rerouting of a planned Siberian gas pipeline.   The planned pipeline, which will link Yakutia's Chayandinskoye oil and gas deposit with the Far Eastern Russian city of Khabarovsk, is to be constructed near an indigenous Evenk settlement.   "We are not against progress or economic development, but we feel like we are the ones who will suffer...

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