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by tandav 2090 days ago
related: there was another large poison spill in russia this year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norilsk_oil_spill

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Norilsk is over 3500 km from Kamchatka.
Probably why the commenter said there was another oil spill in Russia.
Probably but 'both are in Russia' is fairly poor relatedness. Norilsk is a mining center and one of the most polluted places on the planet. It's literally made of spills - rare earth metals are extracted straight out of the decades-long polluted soil.

Kamchatka is more like a less-developed, even more BFE, Russian Alaska.

If it's an outdated pesticides, as suggested in another comment, then it's very related. Because it's a leakage from an old Soviet storage tanks.
Heh, yes, 'everything is related to everything somehow' is among the trickiest problems of online forums.