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Explorers of the New Century
By Magnus Mills
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Mills specialises in dislocation and creeping unease' he's expert
at creating apparently breezy and banal narratives, all the while
hinting that something, somewhere, is terribly wrong. But his fifth
novel is different. This time the realisation hits you suddenly, and
hard, at around the halfway mark.
Perhaps you'll sense a few nagging peculiarities but, until that
point, Explorers of the New Century appears to be a deadpan pastiche
of Edwardian-era Boy's Own adventure stories, modelled on Scott and
Amundsen's 1912 race to ...
 "The Moscow Times (Russia)")
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Tomsk Had a Different Take on Beslan, THE MOSCOW TIMES
Newspaper article from: The Moscow Times (Russia)
; ...m. local time, the Siberian city of Tomsk kicked off its 400th birthday party. At...from you. Email the Opinion Page Editor Tomsk, a city of some 500,000 people, is...the horrific news from Beslan came in, Tomsk was stunned and torn. The city had been...
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S&P affirms Tomsk region's rating.
Newspaper article from: Russia & CIS Business and Financial Newswire
; S&P affirms Tomsk region's rating MOSCOW. Aug 30 (Interfax...Standard & Poor's affirmed the Tomsk region's 'ruA' national scale and...S&P said in a news release. Tomsk is one of the most developed industrial...
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Shelton Canada Corp.: Petrosibir Obtains Option to Acquire Shares in Tomsk Refining AB.
News Wire article from: Marketwire Canada
; ...shareholders in the Swedish registered refinery Tomsk Refining. The agreement gives Petrosibir...to acquire Mr. Malyarenko's shares in Tomsk Refining, equal to 17.5 per cent of...discussions with the other shareholders in Tomsk Refining about potentially combining the...
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Tomsk Explosion Chemical, Russian Officials Maintain
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition
; ...immediate consequences of the accident at Tomsk in western Siberia do at this point seem...to cause alarm. No one on the city of Tomsk, population 500,000, has had to be...little land outside the perimeter of the Tomsk-7 secret nuclear facility near the city...
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At Tomsk Jail, Beatings Part of the Drill, THE MOSCOW TIMES
Newspaper article from: The Moscow Times (Russia)
; ...beatings. Boris Kreindel, chairman of the Tomsk Regional Human Rights Commission, a nongovernmental...a high-security prison colony in the Tomsk region. "According to my information...because they refused to leave their cells. A Tomsk regional prosecutor said Tuesday his office...
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Tomsk region to hold tender for iron deposit in June.
Newspaper article from: Russia & CIS Business and Financial Newswire
; Tomsk region to hold tender for iron deposit in June TOMSK. June 7 (Interfax) - The Tomsk region will hold a tender in June for its 51% stake in TomGDK Ruda, the company developing the Polynyansky section of the Bakcharskoye iron ore field...
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Bailiffs arrive in Tomsk region in Yukos case.
Newspaper article from: Energy News
; Bailiffs arrive in Tomsk region in Yukos case TOMSK. July 5 (Interfax) - Representatives from the court bailiff department at the Russian Justice Ministry arrived in Tomsk region on Monday to carry out work as part of the court proceedings...
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NUCLEAR SAFETY: CONFLICITING APPRAISALS OF TOMSK EXPLOSION
Newspaper article from: Europe Energy
; ...decontamination measures in the region of Tomsk in Siberia, where the explosion on April...stored radioactive liquid waste at the Tomsk-7 nuclear plant spread nuclear contamination...Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspected the Tomsk-7 facility in mid-April at the invitation...
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RUSSIA-TOMSK-POWER-PLANTS.
Newspaper article from: Energy News
; Goetz to build gas-powered power plants in Tomsk MOSCOW. April 16 (Interfax) - The administration in Tomsk region, ZAO EleSi (Tomsk) and Germany's Goetz signed a preliminary agreement on the construction...
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Metropol evaluates Tomsk region iron ore projects.
Newspaper article from: Russia & CIS Business and Financial Newswire
; Metropol evaluates Tomsk region iron ore projects TOMSK. Jan 31 (Interfax) - A group of experts from the Metropol...develop iron ore deposits at the Bakcharskoye ore field in the Tomsk region, a spokesman for the regional administration told...
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