SYDNEY, December 31. /ITAR-TASS/. Crewmembers and passengers of the Russian research ship MV Akademik Shokalsky, trapped in thick ice off Antarctica's coast, are set to see in the New Year, the vessel’s chief mate Nikolai Velichko told Itar-Tass.
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