Putin chides Nornickel, orders law change after Arctic fuel spill
Greenpeace compared the scale of the disaster to Alaska's Exxon Valdez oil spill.
June 5, 2020
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MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin chided the billionaire boss of Norilsk Nickel on Friday over a huge Arctic fuel spill and ordered changes to the law to try to prevent such a disaster from happening again.
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