Baikal Wins YUKOS Auction

Interesting development - from a very interesting part of the world: Lake Baikal: One of the oldest, deepest, most biologially diverse lakes in the world - containing about a fifth of the world's fresh water; more than the Great Lakes, combined. Info on the Tunguska Event of 1980:

• Halexandria.
• MonkeyShrine.
• INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE "90-TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TUNGUSKA PROBLEM"
• Alt explanation (Wolfgang Kundt, Institut für Astrophysik der Universität Bonn, Auf dem Hügel 71, D-53121 Bonn).

Info on the Irkutsk region from Kommersant, "New Russia's First Independent Newspaper".