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Russia charges plant director in Arctic diesel fuel spill

by Associated Press
| June 8, 2020 12:27 PM

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities have charged the director of an Arctic power plant that leaked 20,000 tons of diesel fuel into the ecologically fragile region with violating environmental regulations, a crime that could bring five years in prison.

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