An idea first proposed by Mikhail Gorbochev may herald a new collaboration between the US and Russia [Photo Russia Today]

 


Russian national park to bridge US-Russia divide (via AFP)

Russia on Thursday decreed a national park in its remote Far Eastern Chukotka region, paving the way for a joint US-Russian nature reserve spanning the Bering Strait, an idea first proposed by the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed the decree to create the new…