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Climate scientists point to permafrost as a "ticking time bomb" for the planet

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an empathetic friend of the people

The Underground by Hamid Ismailov Varlam Shalamov economic pressureOne of the best Russian novels of the 21st Century Continent Magazine The Underground is the unforgettable story of an abandoned mixed race boy navigating the wondrous and terrifying city of Moscow before the Soviet Union's collapse. I am Moscows underground son, the result of one too many nights on the town. So declares Mbobo, the twelve year old narrator of this captivating novel by exiled Uzbek author and BBC journalist Hamid Ismailov. Born to a