In the middle of March several news articles were released (http://www.izvestia.ru/news/518368, http://www.dv.kp.ru/daily/25851.4/281981
In major press sources, information about excluding tigers from the Russian Endangered Species List would not appear out of nowhere. It is unlikely that careful Moscow scientists would play with the status of such a significant species, a species that has the attention of royalty and famous people, as well as our new old President. Especially interesting is the comment of Vyacheslav Rozhnov to a reporter from “Komsomol’skaya Pravda”: “According to international criteria, the Siberian Tiger may not get into the Red Book. But we will base our conclusions on the characteristics of Russian nature”.
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