This is a story about a Russian scientist and vocal critic of the Putin government who collected evidence of environmental disaster in Siberia and is now seeking asylum in Canada.
It’s a convoluted tale that sounds like something out of a Cold War novel. The veracity of some of the events in question are impossible to independently confirm. The story involves sensitive information about military installations and industrial polluters, the mysterious deaths of a half dozen other people who knew about the data, dead seals drifting to the shores of the world’s most ancient lake, a pet dog shot in …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
