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Russian gas pipeline "Power of Siberia" fully completed

STORY: Russian gas pipeline "Power of Siberia" fully completed DATELINE: Dec. 23, 2022 LENGTH: 0:04:25 LOCATION: Moscow CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Kovykta gas field 2. video link footage of the commissioning ceremony 3. various of Kovykta gas field STORYLINE: A new gas field and a new pipeline section were connected on Wednesday to Russia's Power of Siberia pipeline, indicating full completion of the major gas route. The 800-km-long new section will transit gas from the Kovykta gas condensate field in the Irkutsk region to the Chayanda field in the Republic of Sakha before joining the preexisting part of the Power of Siberia pipeline. "This (new) section will complement the Power of Siberia main gas pipeline, thereby bringing our most important gas transportation route into operation throughout its entire length. It will exceed 3,000 km," Russian President Vladimir Putin said via video link at the commissioning ceremony for the Kovykta field and the Kovykta-Chayanda section of the Po

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Cloning mammoth project in Russia

YAKUTSK, Russia - Russian scientist Semyon Grigoriev, acting director of the Sakha Republic's mammoth museum, on Nov. 17, 2011 at the museum in Russia, obtains a sample of bone marrow from a mammoth's femur which was found in permafrost soil in Siberia. Scientists from Japan and Russia have confirmed that the finding of the well-preserved bone marrow increases the chance of cloning the extinct animal.

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Mammoth cloning project in Russia

YAKUTSK, Russia - Russian scientist Semyon Grigoriev, acting director of the Sakha Republic's mammoth museum, shows a cross-section surface of a mammoth's thighbone at the museum in Russia on Nov. 17, 2011. Scientists from Japan and Russia say finding the bone filled with such well-preserved bone marrow in permafrost soil in Siberia increases the chance of cloning the extinct animal.

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Visitors to Expo top 10 million

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Mineo Oishi (L) is all smiles as he gets a 2-carat diamond from Sakha Republic Prime Minister Egor Borison (L) after becoming the 10 millionth person to visit 2004 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture on July 4. ''It was a big surprise. I want to go home as soon as possible to tell my wife,'' 39-year-old Onishi from Nagoy said.

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Picture of frozen mammoth head shown

NAGOYA, Japan - Russian Republic of Sakha President Vyacheslav Shtyrov shows off a picture of the head of a frozen mammoth believed to have lived 10,000 years ago and discovered in frozen soil 1,200 kilometers north of Yakutsk near the Arctic Ocean in November 2002. The mammoth will be on display at the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture.

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Mammoth to be shown at Aichi Expo in good condition

TOKYO, Japan - Alexander Akimov (L), vice president of the Russian Republic of Sakha, and Toshio Nakamura, secretary general of the Japan Association for the 2005 World Exposition, speak to reporters Jan. 17 in Tokyo about a frozen mammoth found in Siberia that is to be shown at the 2005 exposition in Aichi Prefecture.

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Mammoth's skin shown in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Prof. Petr Lazarev (L) of a mammoth museum in Sakha in Russia's East Siberia, shows a piece of skin from a mammoth that was found in August in iced soil in Siberia, at a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Dec. 20. Lazarev has been working with Kazufumi Kobayashi (R), head of the Creation of Mammoth Association (COM) of Japan. The association is in charge of looking into the revival of mammoths by cloning or artificial insemination.

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EGYPT-KAFR EL-SHEIKH-COTTON-HARVEST

(221019) -- KAFR EL-SHEIKH, Oct. 19, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A man collects harvested cotton at a farm in Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt, Sept. 28, 2022. Bathed in the warm sun and pleasant breezes of the Mediterranean, cotton bolls bloomed on the research farm of Sakha Agricultural Research Station in Kafr El-Sheikh in the Nile Delta region of northern Egypt, turning the land into a white blanket. TO GO WITH "Feature: Agrotechnicians' hard work helps increase cotton yield, quality in Egypt" (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)

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EGYPT-KAFR EL-SHEIKH-COTTON-HARVEST

(221019) -- KAFR EL-SHEIKH, Oct. 19, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A woman harvests cotton at a farm in Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt, Sept. 28, 2022. Bathed in the warm sun and pleasant breezes of the Mediterranean, cotton bolls bloomed on the research farm of Sakha Agricultural Research Station in Kafr El-Sheikh in the Nile Delta region of northern Egypt, turning the land into a white blanket. TO GO WITH "Feature: Agrotechnicians' hard work helps increase cotton yield, quality in Egypt" (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)

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EGYPT-KAFR EL-SHEIKH-COTTON-HARVEST

(221019) -- KAFR EL-SHEIKH, Oct. 19, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A woman carries harvested cotton at a farm in Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt, Sept. 28, 2022. Bathed in the warm sun and pleasant breezes of the Mediterranean, cotton bolls bloomed on the research farm of Sakha Agricultural Research Station in Kafr El-Sheikh in the Nile Delta region of northern Egypt, turning the land into a white blanket. TO GO WITH "Feature: Agrotechnicians' hard work helps increase cotton yield, quality in Egypt" (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)

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(2)Mammoth to be shown at Aichi Expo arrives in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - A frozen mammoth found in Siberia that is to be shown at the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture is packed in the Russian Republic of Sakha to be airlifted to Nagoya airport. The mammoth's head retaining two tusks and left front leg were unearthed from a site near the coasts of the Arctic sea in the Russian republic. (Kyodo)

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Picture of frozen mammoth head shown

NAGOYA, Japan - Russian Republic of Sakha President Vyacheslav Shtyrov shows off a picture of the head of a frozen mammoth believed to have lived 10,000 years ago and discovered in frozen soil 1,200 kilometers north of Yakutsk near the Arctic Ocean in November 2002. The mammoth will be on display at the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Iran pins high hopes on local production by Japan automakers

Nader Sakha (L), chief executive officer of Iranian auto parts maker Crouse, and Mohammad Zarabian, vice president of the Bahman Group, which assembles Mazda passenger cars in Iran, brief Kyodo News about their operations on July 24, 2016, in an industrial zone in the suburbs of Tehran. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Visitors to Expo top 10 million

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Mineo Oishi (L) a is all smiles as he gets a 2-carat diamond from Sakha Republic Prime Minister Egor Borison (L) after becoming the 10 millionth person to visit 2004 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture on July 4. ''It was a big surprise. I want to go home as soon as possible to tell my wife,'' 39-year-old Onishi from Nagoy said. (Kyodo)

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Reporter visits world's coldest place

YAKUTSK, Russia - A Landscape of snow and ice on the outskirts of Oymyakon village in Russia's Sakha Republic in Eastern Siberia. This photo was taken by Tsukasa Arita. (Kyodo)

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Mammoth cloning project in Russia

YAKUTSK, Russia - Russian scientist Semyon Grigoriev, acting director of the Sakha Republic's mammoth museum, shows a cross-section surface of a mammoth's thighbone at the museum in Russia on Nov. 17, 2011. Scientists from Japan and Russia say finding the bone filled with such well-preserved bone marrow in permafrost soil in Siberia increases the chance of cloning the extinct animal. (Kyodo)

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Cloning mammoth project in Russia

YAKUTSK, Russia - Russian scientist Semyon Grigoriev, acting director of the Sakha Republic's mammoth museum, on Nov. 17, 2011 at the museum in Russia, obtains a sample of bone marrow from a mammoth's femur which was found in permafrost soil in Siberia. Scientists from Japan and Russia have confirmed that the finding of the well-preserved bone marrow increases the chance of cloning the extinct animal. (Kyodo)

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Coldest inhabited place in the world

Photo taken in January 2019 shows a monument marking the day that the temperature fell to minus 71.2 C in 1926 in Oymyakon in the Sakha Republic of Russia, known as the coldest permanently inhabited place in the world. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mammoth to be shown at Aichi Expo in good condition

TOKYO, Japan - Alexander Akimov (L), vice president of the Russian Republic of Sakha, and Toshio Nakamura, secretary general of the Japan Association for the 2005 World Exposition, speak to reporters Jan. 17 in Tokyo about a frozen mammoth found in Siberia that is to be shown at the 2005 exposition in Aichi Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Mammoth's skin shown in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Prof. Petr Lazarev (L) of a mammoth museum in Sakha in Russia's East Siberia, shows a piece of skin from a mammoth that was found in August in iced soil in Siberia, at a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Dec. 20. Lazarev has been working with Kazufumi Kobayashi (R), head of the Creation of Mammoth Association (COM) of Japan. The association is in charge of looking into the revival of mammoths by cloning or artificial insemination.