Having nine time zones, Russia begins its presidential elections in Chukotka, Yakutia, Sakhalin, and Kamchatka.
FORBES: While Moscow Sleeps, the Far East has Begun to Vote.
More than half the population of Chukotka and Magadan have fled the permafrost since the Soviet Union's collapse.
Amazingly, we can watch residents of Anadyr crowding the polling station in Chukotka.
FORBES: While Moscow Sleeps, the Far East has Begun to Vote.
Possibly, then, it is a coincidence that the federal tax authorities have just declared the region of Chukotka insolvent.
He is adored in the Chukotka region that occupies the barren far north-east of Russia where he has been governor since 2000.
It could be a region where there was heavy extraction of resources, particularly oil, or ferrous metals as in the case of Chukotka.
Mr Abramovich is governor of the far eastern province of Chukotka.
Chukotka lies nine time zones from Moscow and is about as far away from the world of Premier League football and all its excesses as you are likely to get.
As just one particularly stark example, Moscow has a population of almost 12, 000, 000 while the Federal subject with the smallest population, the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, has only about 51, 000 inhabitants.
FORBES: In Russia The Money Is Mostly Where The People Aren't
The biggest increases in per-capita income were in Sakhalin (where per-capita income grew 4.4 times) Dagestan (3.7 times), Chukotka (3.2), Moscow (2.8), Leningrad Oblast (2.4), Kaliningrad Oblast (2.4), and Saint Petersburg (2.3).
Another project involved the establishment of daily ice and weather observations by indigenous monitors in Alaska, Canada and Russian Chukotka, thus providing an uninterrupted record of indigenous observations covering four consecutive ice seasons.
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