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Publish date: August 17, 2006
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According to police officials, several employees at the Sevmash plant are among the detained, Rosbalt reported.
11 people are arrested, including a representative of Sevmash’s security service, the workshop director, and one of the chiefs of the submarine dismantling department. According to the investigation, Zvezdochka plant lost about $340,000. The crime group used a Sevmash crane to load cars and railway carriers with titan, then the metal was shipped to scrap metal reception centres in Arkhangelsk and then further to Moscow.
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.