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Publish date: March 5, 1997
Written by: Igor Kudrik
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— [The prosecutor] asked us to conduct additional investigations to furnish more compelling evidence of Nikitin’s espionage activities – and this we can do, says Yevgeny Lukin, spokesman for the Federal Security Service (FSB) in St. Petersburg, in an interview with St. Petersburg Times.
Lukin could not say, however, how long the additional investigations would take, or when Nikitin would have his day in court, writes the newspaper.
Tatyana Vasilyeva, spokeswomen for the prosecutor’s office in St. Petersburg, said to St. Petersburg Times that her office had ordered FSB to assemble a group of military experts, to determine whether or not Nikitin’s contributions to the Bellona report on the Northern Fleet contain classified information. This will be the fourth such military expert group assembled in the course of the case. None of the previous groups related the case to the Federal laws, but rather to sub-legal orders issued by the Ministry of Defence in 1993.
An accident aboard numerous Volgoneft oil tankers in the Kerch in mid December clearly show what can happen to aged ships when they are operated in bad weather—and when economic and military objectives are prioritized over the lives of crews and environmental safety.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
A visit last week by Vladimir Putin and a Kremlin entourage to Astana, Kazakhstan sought in part to put Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, on good footing with local officials.