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Welcome to CHUKOTKA, where its currently -30°C and so windy that in the capital, Anadyr, ropes are tied along the streets

to stop its inhabitants from blowing away.

Its so cold here that people don't use freezers. They hang their meat in plastic bags on nails above their windows. Spring

and summer, when they arrive in June, last a mere eight weeks. The Bering sea, one of four seas that wash against

Chukotkan shores, freezes hard enough to support weights of up to 35 tons. There's no crime because it's just 'too damn

cold'!

Where yesterday collides with today
Chukotka is, in fact, a remote territory of Russia. It covers 284.000 square miles of frozen landscape, bordering the

Bering Strait and straddling the Arctic Circle. Nine time zones ahead of Moscow, it lies right behind the International

Dateline, where yesterday collides with today. There is nowhere else on earth earlier than here. Conditions are cruel, and

there may seem little to be passionate about other than reindeer, vodka, and the weird weather, but Chukotka has captured

the interest of one of the world's richest men, the oil billionaire Roman Abramovich.


From hospitals and cinemas to supermarkets
Roman Abramovich, whose fortune is in excess of $14 billion, is the world's 22nd-richest person, and four years ago he was

voted governor of Chukotka. Since then, he has been pouring money into this frozen province. Despite not having been born

or raised in Chukotka, he has spent an estimated $300 million of his I personal fortune on the region. In Anadyr alone he

has rebuilt the hospital, dental clinic, and primary school, modernized the airport, opened its first supermarket and

cinema, and sent 8,500 local children on holiday. He even owns the local radio station, the aptly named Blizzard FM.

Abramovich not only owns a radio station, he also owns a football club, but not in Chukotka, where it's too cold to play

football. The club he owns is over 5,000 miles away in London, England, where, in 2003, he bought Chelsea Football Club.
-42 C and falling
The inhabitants of Chelsea, England, could not imagine the life of the inhabitants of Chukotka. Locals like to boast that

last winter the wind chill took the recorded temperature of -42°C down to -100°C. Schools were closed for a month. It's

generally too cold for outdoor sports or any kind of cafe society, but there are some restaurants and a bar in the

supermarket. Snow covers the ground from September to May, which means there are no gardens or woodland: the only flowers

are the plastic ones which adorn restaurant tables. But for all this, Abramovich has made Anadyr into a boom town. People

find it difficult to understand what he has done and why he has done it.

From reindeer meat to French camembert
Roman Badanov, news editor of Chukotka TV says: 'Anything Abramovich does is news here because so little happens. Why did

he choose us? No one knows - its a secret he keeps to himself.' But he did choose them and they are grateful. In the

supermarket you can buy everything from carved walrus tusks to French camembert, Greek olive oil and Scottish whisky. A

few years ago there was only frozen reindeer meat, often eaten for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And Abramovich takes his

duties as a governor seriously - he flies in most months on board his private Boeing 767. He has a built a Canadian-style

wooden house, thereby earning himself the unique distinction of owning homes in St Tropez, Knightsbridge (London), Moscow,

and Anadyr. Far from being resentful that he visits only monthly, the local people are astonished that he comes at all.

Such is his popularity that the locals refer to BA and AA: Before Abramovich and After Abramovich.

'Why doesn't anyone believe I find this place interesting?' Abramovich himself asks: 'Why doesn't anyone believe I find

this place interesting? I think I can change things here - after all, I have achieved success in business.' But some

suspect that he's hoping for vast returns on Chukotka's natural resources, which include 1.2 billion tons of oil and gas

and the second-largest gold reserves in Russia. But his motives don't trouble most of the 73,000 population. Just one

person, Nathalia, who runs the local Internet service, sounded a note of caution: 'The people are fools because one day

Abramovich will go. This is our moment, but it is only a moment'.

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