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A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
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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.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
But it’s unlikely to impact emissions from shipping along the Northern Sea Route.
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.
The following op-ed, written by Bellona’s Charles Digges, originally appeared in The Moscow Times. In recent months, the Russian nuclear in...