SYDNEY, December 30. /ITAR-TASS/. The Australian icebreaker Aurora Australis slowly advances towards the Russian ice-nipped research ship Akademik Shokalsky, the Russian vessel's shipmaster Igor Kiselyov told ltar-Tass by telephone.
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