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Publish date: March 11, 1998
Written by: Igor Kudrik
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FSB agents paid a visit to a bookstore in St. Petersburg in lateFebruary this year where Bellona "Northern Fleet" reports were on sale.After confiscating all the reports at the store, the agentswarned the scared salesmen that it was illegal to distribute thepublication in Russia due to the fact that it contains state secrets.
Belllona WEB has learned that the FSB plans to ransack theMurmansk apartment of retired Rear Admiral Nikolay Mormul, one of theadvisors to the report, who is suspected of possessing this "bannedliterature".
On another tack, two Bellona employees brought some 50 copies of thereports to St. Petersburg earlier this week. The customs officers provedindifferent to the impudent "smuggling" of the "banned literature".
Bellonas "Northern Fleet" report was officially declared "bannedliterature" in October 1996, when 1505 copies were confiscated by customsat St. Petersburg airport. The report is the first book to be prohibited inRussia since the fall of the Soviet Union.
During the year 1997, several hundred reports were brought intoRussia without difficulties. The report is available on World Wide Web inRussian, English and Norwegian.
Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.
After years of inaction, Germany is working on its Carbon Management Strategy to resolve how CCS can play a role in climate action in industry. At the end of February, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action published first key points and a proposal to amend the law Kohlenstoffdioxid Speicherungsgesetz (KSpG). Bellona Deutschland, who was actively involved in the previous stakeholder dialogue submitted a statement in the association hearing.
In the midst of a global discussion on whether natural gas should be used as a transitional fuel and whether emissions from its extraction, production, transport and use are significantly less than those from other fossil fuels, Russia has developed ambitious plans to increase its own production of liquified natural gas (LNG) in the Arctic – a region with 75% of proven gas reserves in Russia – to raise its share in the international gas trade.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our main focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution risks and climate change.