Monthly Highlights from the Russian Arctic, March 2024
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.
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Publish date: March 30, 2005
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“We have fully fulfilled the 2004 plan of combat readiness of our fleet’s submarine forces. The plan for 2005 is as strenuous: we’ll operate in the near and remote ocean zones,” Abramov said. “The Defence Minister and the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy have set norms for a pre-set potential of military security,” he said. “We are keeping up with the potential. We have everything to maintain it,” Abramov said. He added that priority in the Defence Ministry’s budget funding for the upkeep of the fleet falls on the marine-based strategic nuclear forces.
“The submarine forces constitute the basis of the Northern Fleet. They concentrate the main attack potential ensuring military security for the Russian Federation,” the commander stressed. Abramov noted that it is above all the maritime strategic nuclear forces, as well as the general purpose forces, including both nuclear and diesel submarines. “The present Northern Fleet is a formidable force. It is larger than the British and French fleets combined. Properly used, the Northern Fleet and its submarine forces create a good potential for the military security of the Russian Federation,” Commander Abramov said, RIA-Novosti reported.
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.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has told the United Nations atomic energy watchdog that Russia plans to restart Ukraine’s embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, currently occupied by Russian troops and technicians, fueling worries about a serious nuclear accident on the front lines of a grinding military conflict.
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