"In the interests of safety they didn't come out to work -- the people are scared by the invasion of bears," the spokesman said.

A bear killed two geologists at the worksite on July 18, officials said.

The one and only Soviet horror-adventure-action film I saw (and it was a good one) was about a hunt for a man-eating bear in Siberia. (Featuring: endless forests, endless tundra, endless swamps.) Where the final twist was that the man-eating bear was so hard to track because it was two man-eating bears.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}