March 3, 2014 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russian-built Finnish nuclear project barely clearing legal hurdles and churning up SNF storage issues Finland’s prospective Hanhikivi Nuclear Power Plant has inched past an ownership hurdle after slightly more than 40 Finnish stakeholders […]
February 28, 2014 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Paks Nuclear Power Plant Deal: In spite of protests, Hungary will move forward and accept Russian financing VILNIUS–The Hungarian parliament has approved a deal with Russia for the expansion of Paks nuclear power plant; according to the […]
February 28, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Jail officials confirm Vitishko en route to prison colony in Tambov Region but won’t say to which Prison officials in Krasnodar have finally told the lawyer of Yevgeny Vitishko, an environmentalist who criticized the impact of the Sochi […]
February 26, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Jailed ecologist again missing in authorities’ hands while post-Olympic crackdown on activists rolls on The whereabouts of Yevgeny Vitishko, the ecologist and geologist whose outspoken opinions against the environmental destruction caused by […]
February 24, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Vitishko again disappears and more activists detained on Sochi’s closing day, answering uncomfortable questions On the closing day of the Sochi Olympics, police arrested activist Olga Noskovets of the Environmental Watch on the North Caucasus (EWNC) […]
February 21, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Prisoners’ advocacy group and lawyer confirm jailed ecologist Vitishko found alive, though ill, in Krasnodar prison Yevgeny Vitishko, the jailed environmentalist who has vocally opposed the metastasis of ecological disaster in the wake of the Sochi […]
February 19, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Imprisoned environmentalist’s location still unconfirmed after supposed jail transfer The whereabouts of environmentalist Yevgeny Vitisko, who last week had his appeal against serving three years in a penal colony for […]
February 18, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Vitishko secretly shipped to Krasnodar as Pussy Riot, from detention in Sochi, condemn the move Yevgeny Vitishko, the Russian environmentalist who drew damning attention to gross ecological violations surrounding the Sochi 2014 Olympics […]
February 17, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Jailed Sochi Olympic environmentalist on day 6 of hunger strike for his freedom as advocates for his freedom get hauled in Yevgeny Vitishko, the Russian environmentalist last week sentenced to three years in a penal colony for what is widely believed by Russian […]
February 14, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Norway brings heat to Sochi over Russian environmentalist’s jailing Members of the Environmental Watch on the North Caucasus (EWNC) today met with Norwegian Prime Minister Enra Solberg, who made a trip to […]
February 12, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Sochi Environmental activist gets three years in prison for eco-critique of the Olympics MOSCOW – A court in Krasnodar, Russia – the capitol of the region where the Sochi Olympics are being held – today jailed for three […]
February 7, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Sochi Olympic torch light to commemorate ecological wasteland SOCHI, Russia – The lighting of a torch can commemorate many things. Today, the Olympic torch will be lighted at Fisht Stadium in Sochi to […]
February 5, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Another Sochi activist arrested as Krasnodar police open war on environmentalists SOCHI, Russia – Another activists has been jailed in a crushing sweep against environmentalists who have gathered damning evidence on […]
February 3, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Bogus public cussing charge earns Sochi ecological activist 15 days in jail SOCHI, Russia – Yevgeny Vitishko, a prominent environmentalist whose trenchant criticism of ecological damages inflicted by Russia’s […]
January 30, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Olympic gashes and landfills cleave nature, and locals’ hearts NEAR KLEBOROB, Russia – About 25 kilometers north of the polished, banner-lined Olympic boulevards of Sochi and up into the mountains, the […]
January 27, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Maverick Russian ecologist unafraid of Olympic jailing, and rooting for his team TUAPSE, Russia – Yevgeny Vitishko and his wife Lena, surrounded by the soaring hills abutting the water in this Black Sea resort town, […]
January 25, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Olympic climate change hitting Krasnodar hard KRASNODAR, Russia – If the Kremlin has sent some 60,000 police officers and security forces into Russia’s Krasnodar region under the […]
January 21, 2014 Nuclear issues, Nuclear issues in ex-soviet republics Spending for the sake of spending, or why Rosatom’s new Hungarian venture is doomed to fail MOSCOW – A recent agreement signed between Russia and Hungary will have the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom build two new […]
January 15, 2014 Nuclear issues, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Russia advances some $14 Bln for Hungarian nuclear reactor build-out in dicey environmental bet Russia has agreed to provide Hungary with billions of dollars upfront to finance the planned extension of the Paks nuclear power plant south […]
January 11, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Freeing few so many can live in Hell: Putin’s Sochi bait and switch and Olympic ‘protest zones’ This week, 72 hours before the one-month-countdown to the opening ceremonies at the Sochi Olympics began its ominous tick, Russian President […]
