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Save The Sturgeon, Save Russia?

Filed under: Dining

The tug of war between the desire to protect the sturgeon population and the booming caviar business gets a little more interesting with a declaration from Russia's first Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov. Ivanov, a potential contender to succeed President Vladimir Putin in 2008 has said that he believes that black caviar might have to be taken off the menu for a while to let sturgeon stocks recover. Reuters quotes him as saying that the move could help "repair our national wealth in this time after we so rapaciously annihilated it." Ivanov has said he could survive without caviar. In the past, Russian agriculture officials have asked Putin to declare a state monopoly on the export of black caviar from Russia.

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Tags: caviar, expire-images:2008-9-24, ivanov, putin, russia, sturgeon