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.
News
Shtokman Group to be determined in summer
Publish date: May 23, 2006
Shortcuts on this page
News
Shtokman Group to be determined in summer
Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom this summer will announce partners to develop the massive Shtokman natural gas field.
Gazprom has said it plans to choose two to three partners to develop the field, Interfax reported. The company will name its foreign partners for the huge Shtokman gas project "this summer," Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko said, adding a further delay to the project that was first planned to start in 2000.
More News
All news
Moscow snips last ties to cooperative nuclear cleanup agreement with West
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.
Bellona urges a ban on Arctic fossil fuels at COP 29 side event
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.
Bellona Nuclear Digest. September 2024
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.