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Millions of Muscovites at risk of toxic waste poisoning

Published: 03 July, 2009, 11:56


Crowds of Muscovites are flocking city parks, but few are aware that a popular place of leisure used to be a testing ground for chemical and biological weapons and remnants from those experiments are still buried there.

 
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Annet August 26, 2009, 21:07 quote
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I heard smth like that about park Pobedy, but unfortunately these are only rumores,nobody provides official information.And of course we are all at great risk!

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