Russian Arctic town struggles with polar bear ‘occupation’
People in Russia’s eastern Arctic are scrambling to come up with a plan to take back their community after it was overrun by dozens of polar bears. There are so many bears — as many as 52 according to officials — that Russian TV says locals are calling it an “occupation.”
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