Tag: Cranes

Putin’s cranes fail to reintegrate with the wild over diplomatic rifts – newspaper

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File Photo of Vladimir Putin and Pilot in Hang Glider Airborne Next to Flying Cranes

(Interfax – MOSCOW. April 12, 2013) The rare Siberian cranes that took a migration flight with President Vladimir Putin’s motorized deltaplane in the autumn of 2012, have not reintegrated with the wild over diplomats’ failure to come to terms on their hibernation in Uzbekistan, Vedomosti wrote on Friday citing the Flight of Hope project director, Alexander Sorokin. “Uzbekistan’s border service […]

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Putin’s last crane returning to Russia

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File Photo of Vladimir Putin and Pilot in Hang Glider Airborne Next to Flying Cranes

ASTANA. Nov 21 (Interfax) – A Siberian white crane from the project backed by President Vladimir Putin has been sent from Borovoye in the Kazakh northern Akmola region to Russia, the Kazakh Agriculture Ministry reported on Wednesday. Russian ornithologists will bring the crane back home. “An Akmola regional forestry and hunting inspection officer kept the crane at his Borovoye home […]

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