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Publish date: August 10, 2007
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The city authorities’ actions in the Moscow region of Kuntstevo on Academic Pavlov Street, where forest area is being chopped down in order to build a multi-story living complex, were the main reasons why Mintrokhin decided to take such steps. A fight broke out on July 19th between local residents and the construction workers who were trying to fence off the construction site.
In a conversation with a correspondent from the radio station Echo Moskvi, Mintrokhin said that “an enormous group of people arrived at Academic Pavlov Street: construction workers, the militsiya and employees from private security companies, a few of which were armed with pistols. They destroyed the cars that the local residents had set up to block the road for the construction workers in what turned out to be a real seizure of the courtyard territory. Meanwhile, the militsiya took the aggressors’ side rather than counteract these lawless acts.
Throughout the past year, our mission at the Bellona Environmental Transparency Center has focused on two key, but intertwined issues—nuclear and radiation safety as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, and the worldwide influence of Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, which itself is actively involved in the war and has participated in the occupation of a Ukrainian nuclear power plant.
At the beginning of the year, reports in the German and Russian press suggested an approximate 70% increase in uranium imports from Russia to Germany in 2024. But does this reflect broader European trends? It does not. Overall, imports of uranium and nuclear fuel from Russia to Western countries actually dropped sharply in 2024. Unlike the situation in Germany, this is already an established trend.
A Lingen, Germany plant could begin producing nuclear fuel in cooperation with a subsidiary of Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear corporation, which is directly involved in the war in Ukraine and occupying the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
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.