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The governor of Omsk, in western Siberia, has banned the sale of food to other regions.
ECONOMIST: Will Russia hold together?
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Meanwhile, production is falling in the mega-fields in western Siberia that account for the majority of Gazprom's production.
ECONOMIST: Russian gas and Europe
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Its gas is closer to market than Russia's, in western Siberia, or Turkmenistan's in Central Asia, which are 1, 000km east of Baku.
ECONOMIST: Of politics and pipelines
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Despite many subsequent expeditions, the bird's main breeding grounds, thought to lie in the wildernesses of western Siberia or northern Kazakhstan, have eluded detection.
BBC: Slender-billed curlew, WWW
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Most Russian gas at present is located in Western Siberia, which is thousands of miles from any major market and only has pipeline connections to Europe.
ECONOMIST: Don't worry, there won't be an effective gas cartel
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This transaction would support the sale of U.S. oil field equipment to the Chernogorskoye Joint Venture, ostensibly a private sector project, in order to develop a new oil field in Western Siberia.
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As big as the Bakken is (oil billionaire Harold Hamm thinks it could hold 24 billion barrels of recoverable oil), the Bazhenov shale of western Siberia is estimated to be 80 times bigger.
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Just a week earlier the government reversed its position on pipeline ownership, giving him and his peers a provisional green light to build a 2m-barrel-a-day link from the oilfields of Western Siberia to the northern port of Murmansk.
ECONOMIST: Russian energy
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So, look for energy resources to be coming from offshore Greenland, central Sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, the North Sea, North Africa, Southeast Asia, Eastern and Western Siberia and the Caspian says Schlumberger.
FORBES: We Need To Find 36 Million More Barrels Of Oil A Day
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Despite the small number of genes which made it through, the Neanderthals did go extinct in Europe, western Asia and Siberia - for reasons which remain unclear.
BBC: So we're part Neanderthal. What now?
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"There's pressure on forests in north-western Russia, touching Scandinavia, but the main problem is in far-eastern Siberia where the mafia is particularly violent, " Mr Bismarck told me.
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