Tamil Naduâ??s Ranipet Industrial Belt is out of the top 10 but still figures in the list of top 30 most polluted places on earth along with Maharashtraâ??s Mahad Industrial Estate. The 2007 top 10 list also includes Sumgayit in Azerbaijan, Linfen and Tianying in China, La Oroya in Peru, Dzerzhinsk and Norilsk in Russia, Chernobyl in Ukraine, and Kabwe in Zambia. The â??Blacksmith Institute Pollution Report for 2007â?? names 65 other sites in India (nine of them in ...
That was in 1988, just when the Azeri pogroms against the Armenians were igniting in Sumgait and Baku. Ruslan and his mom got out through Georgia and bounced around Abkhazia and Ukraine before settling in a kamunalka apartment filled ...
... in the Azerbaijan SSR, passed a resolution calling for unification with the Armenian S.S.R. Violence against local Azerbaijanis was reported on Soviet television, provoking massacres of Armenians in the Azerbaijani city of Sumgait. ... The "Committee" put Gorbachev (vacationing in Foros, Crimea) under house arrest and attempted to restore the union state. The coup leaders quickly issued an emergency decree suspending political activity and banning most newspapers. ...
