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Publish date: October 17, 1997
Written by: Igor Kudrik
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The debt of the state to Zvezda yard, which performs repairs on nuclear powered subs and also has been involved with subs decommissioning, amounts to some 27.5 million USD, including some 10.4 million USD as delayed salaries. Today the yard has forced 2/3 of its employees to go on unpaid leave, since the state orders for this year amount only to 30% of the industrial capacity of the yard.
–The workers and engineers are losing their professional skills, being at a stand-by for almost a year, claimed yard manager Valery Maslakov.
In the middle of July the employees of Zvezda received salaries for November 1996. Prior to this pay-back, 300 workers ran a blockage of the Trans-Siberian railway.
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.
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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.