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by pvg 2086 days ago
Norilsk is over 3500 km from Kamchatka.
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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If it's an outdated pesticides, as suggested in another comment, then it's very related.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.