Abramovich, Reindeer,
Billionaire Roman Abramovich, Chelsea football club owner and Governer of Chukotka was in Rovaniemi, Finland yesterday visiting the Lapin Liha Company who showed him their products from reindeer meat. He has already purchased a reindeer slaughter house in Finland, which he has shipped to Chukotka, where one of the primary activities of the indigenous peoples there, is reindeer husbandry. He is also connected to a mega project that is under discussion in the region: the building of a tunnel under the Bering Strait, another version of the age old dream of connecting the continents. Meanwhile, 40 reindeer were killed in Hopseidet, Finnmark, with the construction of a road through their traditional migration route being the most likely cause.