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Publish date: November 25, 2005
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The law provides for the initiation of auctions on licenses to mineral deposits. The manufactures criticize the bill because they believe it does not protect the domestic machine-building industry in their competition with foreign companies, DvinaInform reported. If the law is passed, the government will be unable to stimulate development of Russian machinery construction, the union maintains.
The industry also fears that the situation will be the same in the Barents Sea as in the Russia Far East, where foreign companies got almost all construction orders for the development of the Sakhalin offshore fields.
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.