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Storm warning issued in Khabarovsk Territory

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KHABAROVSK, August 12 (Itar-Tass) - A storm warning has been issued in
Khabarovsk Territory. According to the Far Eastern interregional
territorial department for hydrometeorology and environmental monitoring,
"Rains and thunderstorms are expected in the region on August 12-14 with
an increase in wind gusts up to 20 metres per second. Emergencies are
possible, just as setbacks in the operation of motor transport and the
functioning of the housing/public utilities sector facilities".
Meteorologists point out that the freshet that resulted in the
flooding of many thousands of hectares of fields, hayland, and summer
cottage communities in the flood-plain of the Amur river in the Jewish
Autonomous Region and Khabarovsk Territory shifts downstream and is to
reach the Amur mouth sometime after August 20.

.RF, Italy youth soccer teams to play friendly in St Pete.

ST PETERSBURG, August 12 (Itar-Tass) - A friendly match between the
youth teams of Russia and Italy is to be played at the Petrovsky (Petrine)
Stadium here on Wednesday. The match is to begin at 17:00, Moscow time.
Zenit players Anton Sosnin and Pavel Mochalin are also expected to
play for the Russian team. Both players were regularly invited to take
part in the training sessions of the youth team and in preparations for
Wednesday's match.

.Hunters shoot two brown bears on Kamchatka.

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, August 12 (Itar-Tass) - Game managers have
shot two brown bears that posed danger to the local residents in Palan
Township on the Kamchatka Peninsula, an offical at ther Kamchatka agency
for the protection and use of the animal world told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.
Hunters were licensed to kill bears on the outskirts of that inhabited
locality after a bear had mauled a woman there on the night from August 3
to 4.
Since the beginning of summer, game managers had to shoot five beasts
that were of danger to people. The above-mentioned incident was this
year's only instance of bear's attacking a human being.
There are up to 16,000 brown bears on the Kamchatka Peninsula now. In
summer months the beasts come to the banks of rivers to feed on salmon
and red caviar.
Specialists believe that there is enough feed for the beasts in the
rivers. Garbage dumps that attract bears as an easy way to get feed are
the cause why they approach inhabited areas and tourist camps.
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