August 5, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Imprisoned anti-Sochi activist on sixth day of hunger strike as evidence of his innocence comes to light Yevgeny Vitishko, the environmental activist whose strident opposition to illegal builds outs and waste dumping surrounding the Sochi Winter […]
August 4, 2014 Nuclear Agreements, Nuclear Russia, Radwaste storage at nuclear fuel cycle plants in Russia Holy grail or epic fail? Russia readies to commission first plutonium breeder against uninspiring global track record VILNIUS—As it celebrates reaching first criticality at the BN-800 reactor at Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Plant, after many years and billions […]
August 1, 2014 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Rosy predictions for commercial Arctic traffic bring North Pole nuclear icebreaker tours to a halt The break up of the Soviet Union offered numerous stomach churning options for adventurous tourists. A half a million dollars bought you a […]
July 28, 2014 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Russian Navy Soaring Russian nuclear submarine construction dwarfs post-Soviet dismantlement spending After nearly two decades that saw more than $20 billion in foreign funding help dismantle derelict nuclear submarines in Russia’s Northern […]
July 21, 2014 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Russian Navy Multi-million dollar nuclear clean up vessel finally sees action in Cold War legacy efforts The Rossita nuclear waste transportation ship – donated to Russia by Italy in 2011 – has finally completed a first mission, transporting […]
June 25, 2014 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Russia’s derelict nuke service ships undergoing dismantlement – some more quickly than others The nuclear service ship Volgodarsky will be entirely dismantled by the end of 2014 – possibly as early as the end of autumn – the […]
June 23, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Ecodefense awaits court to fight ‘foreign agent’ label Ecodefense, the Russian NGO, which last week became the first environmental organization to be forcibly registered as a ‘foreign agent’ […]
June 23, 2014 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Russian Navy UPDATE: Joint Russian-Norwegian inspection of sunken nuke sub scheduled to begin later this week Russia and Norway are scheduled on Tuesday to launch another joint expedition to determine the condition of a sunken nuclear submarine and […]
June 19, 2014 Uncategorized As 2022 Olympic contenders fall away, IOC urges Oslo to remain in the running As numerous candidates to host the 2022 Winter Olympics abandon the idea, Russian contractors for the environmentally disastrous Sochi Games […]
June 18, 2014 Russian Navy Russian Navy sets the Severodvinsk, its most expensive – and oldest – nuclear sub to sea The Severodvinsk nuclear submarine, which has been under construction for over two decades – the longest, most expensive build of any sub […]
June 17, 2014 Russian NGO law UPDATE: Russian environmental group tarred as ‘foreign agent’ for protesting nuclear plant The Russian environmental group Ecodefense, whose anti-nuclear campaigns derailed the building of a controversial nuclear power plant, […]
June 12, 2014 Accidents and incidents, Russian Navy Fire-ravaged Yekaterinburg nuclear sub to reenter active duty by year’s end The Yekaterinburg nuclear submarine – which two years ago was ravaged by a fire during repairs in dry dock while its intercontinental […]
June 11, 2014 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Russian Navy Long-time push to dismantle huge Soviet nuclear battle cruiser again put off The long struggle to dismantle the Soviet era nuclear missile cruiser Admiral Ushakov – which has been out of active duty for the past 17 […]
June 10, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law New law allowing Russia’s Justice Ministry to name foreign agents claims five NGOs Russia’s Ministry of Justice has slapped five more non-governmental organizations with the “foreign agent” label five days following […]
June 10, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Letters from Olympic prisoner Vitishko reveal jailers’ abuses, mass beatings Yevgeny Vitishko, imprisoned for his vociferous opposition to environmental devastation wreaked by the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games, says he’s […]
June 6, 2014 Access to information, Arctic Putin playing hot potato with Duma bill that would abolish state environmental impact assessments A proposed bill on the floor of the Russian Duma that would do away with the obligatory legal process known as a State Environmental […]
June 3, 2014 Climate change US EPA to seek 30 percent CO2 cut in power plant emissions within next 16 years Taking a historic step to fight climate change, the Obama administration proposed a plan Monday that aims to slash carbon dioxide emissions […]
June 2, 2014 Industrial Pollution UPDATE: Kola Peninsula nickel production facilities issues itself license to continue to pollute, continuing month of grave air code violations A plan by the controversial Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine (KMMC) near the Norwegian border that will allow it to keep polluting at […]
May 22, 2014 Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Fukushima starts dumps of water into sea amid scandal and technical breakdowns Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) has started diverting treated groundwater at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the […]
May 9, 2014 Arctic, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russia trumpets victory in new ‘super modern’ nuclear icebreaker project St. Petersburg’s Baltic Shipyard has won an uncontested tender to build the first three of Russia’s new generation of “super modern” […]
