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 […]
December 18, 2013 Climate change For those who noticed, 2013 was Russia’s year of the environment – Murmansk polluters lost the memo MURMANSK – As the end of Russia’s year of the Environment draws to a close, Bellona Murmansk held an event to tally up who in the region […]
December 17, 2013 Sochi Olympic Games Exiled activist’s Olympic torch illuminates Sochi’s environmental ruin and Kremlin graft TALLINN, Estonia – Every couple of weeks, Suren Gazaryan, a Russian national born in Georgia, shuffles between Estonia and Germany in […]
