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Publish date: November 18, 2008
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The council is also comprised of eminent St. Petersburg-based human rights and judicial watch dog organizations such as Citizen’s Watch, Memorial, Lawyers for Human Rights, Soldiers’ Mothers of St. Petersburg, the Galina Starovoitova Museum, For Russia Without Racism, International Bar “St. Petersburg,” Liga Women Votes of St. Petersburg, and the Regional Press Institute.
The report is a shocking indictment of human rights violations and civil abuses documented by direct interviews and by the Russian media, and focuses on government sponsored abuses from racially motivated attacks, pandemic hazing in the Russian military, abuse of prisoners in pre-trial detention facilities and penal colonies, censorship and suppression of the independent media, violent suppression of peaceful demonstrations, routine police abuses against foreigners and Russians alike, and the routine neglect of law enforcement officials of rape reports filed by women.
The report provides in-depth analysis of these issues in the context of the Russian constitution – and how each of these issues constitutes a violation of each Russian citizen’s right to legal protections.
The report also offers considered recommendations to the government on how to address these issues and guarantee the rights of Russian and foreign citizens alike.
Download the report in Word format in the box to the right.
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.