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Publish date: March 24, 2006
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The two companies support different contractor development centers in the city and both fight for a stake in the Shtokman gas project in the Barents Seaб BarentsObserver reported. “No doubt, our port is at disadvantage in comparison with the one in Murmansk, that’s why it is very important for us to attract these companies to Arkhangelsk”, Mikhailovskii explained.
Statoil and Hydro opened their centers "Sozvezdiye" and "Intershelf" on respectively 13 and 21 February. These are the companies’ respective centers for training local companies to become suppliers in regional petroleum projects. The"Sozvezdiye" center is officially owned by the Arkhangelsk regional administration.
At first, the crew of the K-27 Soviet submarine was unaware anything was awry. As recounted by Vyacheslav Mazurenko, the sub’s chief warrant officer, the K-27 was three days into a five-day test mission in May of 1968, which was meant to precede a two-month, round the world deployment.
The war in Ukraine has put many things on hold. But in this feature for Bellona’s Russian-language Environment & Rights magazine, Viktoria Hubareva, a Kyiv-based journalist and ecologist, shows that Ukrainian environmentalists have their hands full.
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.