man smokes along a street in central Moscow

Russia Launches Anti-Smoking Crackdown

By Alissa de Carbonnel & Megan Davies | Oct 16, 2012 10:28 AM EDT

Russia launched a crackdown on smoking on Tuesday with a bill to ban tobacco advertising and raise taxes on cigarettes to help tackle a public health crisis.

wooly mammoth

11-Year-Old Boy Finds Largest and Most Well-Preserved Wooly Mammoth in a Century

By Makini Brice | Oct 05, 2012 03:09 PM EDT

While roaming around his home in North Russia, by the Sopkarga polar weather station, Yevgeny Salinder came across the corpse that is now estimated to be 30,000 years old.

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