I agree with Coyote, all I can see on the web is references to this translated newspaper article. Interestingly, there are only a few references to A. James Melnick out there, some articles about Soviet stuff in the eighties and nineties. And then some guy with the same name is listed on some sites as being co-author of Of Pandas And People. I don't know if that's true, or if its the same guy.
I can't find the original source, in any event, nor any other translation.
Sokolov is real, but I find no references about him talking about 'Baysun tracks'. Nor indeed is anybody talking about Baysun tracks, unless they are referring to this exact same blurb.
Are there any good refutations to these claims?
It's an unverified piece of information sourced from a translation that claims to be from a newspaper article thirty years ago, parroted by a liar who I am very sure did not bother to do one iota of fact checking when he was presented with this collection of words.
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