alexander ivanov owns a local shipping business. for the last two years, he's been taking care of the baby seals using the hut that he borrows from a friend. each seal needs seven kilograms of food per day. ivanov pays for this out of his own pocket. >> translator: i don't give them names, or it would make releasing them too painful. as you can see, this one is way too small. >> reporter: the main reason why so many baby seals are in trouble is global warming. in the last 30 years, the ice floes of sakhalin have shrunk by almost half. seals spend the first month of their lives on the ice, learning how to swim and catch fish. but if it melts before they have grown enough, they are unable to survive. ivanov and his friends built a pool to help the seals get used to swimming. >> translator: it looks happy to be back in the water again. >> reporter: recently researchers and veterinarians have begun supporting ivanov's rescue mission, providing the baby seals with extra nutrition. >> translator: he's giving a helping hand to these animal

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the attitude, whether this is accurate or not, but certainly a week later ivanov screamed at the table across table saying when you intervened in the balkans, we didn't like it but we didn't stop it. we then get an agreement in a settlement in our area and you wreck it. and it -- things went downhill from that time. as you point out, they go up and go down again. they go up again, they go down again. they remember it far more than we do because it is really in their backyard. the position of kazakh at the time was equivalent to steve hadley. you can imagine what had happened had there been an appropriate mirror image. in any case, it's part of an area that's sensitive to them, remains sensitive, as you and others have noted. and one we sometimes don't appreciate the importance that they attach to these countries and we saw that again in ukraine in 2013-2014. >> thank you very much. >> a footnote? >> yes. >> i was actually deputy secretary who signed the instruction to the american ambassador in moldova responding to the kozak memorandum. the way the president vernon came to us, he told