Putin leaves Kazakhstan without deal to build nuclear plant
A visit last week by Vladimir Putin and a Kremlin entourage to Astana, Kazakhstan sought in part to put Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, on good footing with local officials.
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Publish date: November 25, 2005
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The law provides for the initiation of auctions on licenses to mineral deposits. The manufactures criticize the bill because they believe it does not protect the domestic machine-building industry in their competition with foreign companies, DvinaInform reported. If the law is passed, the government will be unable to stimulate development of Russian machinery construction, the union maintains.
The industry also fears that the situation will be the same in the Barents Sea as in the Russia Far East, where foreign companies got almost all construction orders for the development of the Sakhalin offshore fields.
A visit last week by Vladimir Putin and a Kremlin entourage to Astana, Kazakhstan sought in part to put Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, on good footing with local officials.
Russia is formally withdrawing from a landmark environmental agreement that channeled billions in international funding to secure the Soviet nuclear legacy, leaving undone some of the most radioactively dangerous projects and burning one more bridge of potential cooperation with the West.
While Moscow pushes ahead with major oil, gas and mining projects in the Arctic—bringing more pollution to the fragile region—the spoils of these undertakings are sold to fuel Russia’s war economy, Bellona’s Ksenia Vakhrusheva told a side event at the COP 29, now underway in Baku, Azerbaijan.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.