Monthly Highlights from the Russian Arctic, October 2024
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.
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Publish date: October 13, 2003
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The first deputy of the Transport Ministry Vyacheslav Ruksha said that a new federal company would be established to manage effectively the nuclear icebreakers, ITAR-TASS reported. At the moment, Murmansk Shipping Company manages the nuclear icebreakers. The Sevmorput will also take over Atomflot Company, service base for nuclear icebreakers. According to the Transport Ministry, this restructuring would allow to make shipping in the Arctic Ocean more effective. The icebreakers, including the nuclear ones, help to transport 1.7m tons of cargo annually. This number should reach from 12 to 15m tons. Half of this cargo would be hydrocarbon raw materials from Timano-Pechora and other Siberian deposits, Ruksha added.
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.
Russia is formally withdrawing from a landmark environmental agreement that channeled billions in international funding to secure the Soviet nuclear legacy, leaving undone some of the most radioactively dangerous projects and burning one more bridge of potential cooperation with the West.