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 today was…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 massive Olympic build…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
