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Publish date: November 17, 2004
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On October 22, one of Putins trusted aides, Sergei Prikhodko, was appointed as a new chairman of the TVEL Corporation, Russias sole nuclear fuel trader. Prikhodko, who has served as a foreign policy counsellor to Putin, has been working in the Kremlin since 1997, MosNews reported.
TVEL has a 17 percent share of the global nuclear fuel market. It supplies fuel to 75 nuclear reactors worldwide, including plants in former Soviet republics and in Eastern Europe. It is also preparing to start shipments to China, Iran and India.
Appointment of Prikhodko seem to follow the tradition that emerged in the last few months. Installing Vladimir Putins closest people as managers of Russian state energy companies has become traditional practice, the liberal Kommersant daily wrote on October 23, following Prikhodkos appointment.
Earlier this year MosNews reported that Igor Sechin and Vladislav Surkov, also trusted aides of Putin, were appointed to chair state-owned Rosneft Oil Company and pipeline firm Transnefteprodukt, respectively. In addition, Dmitry Medvedev, Putins chief of staff, serves as the chairman of the state-controlled natural gas monopoly Gazprom.
Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.
After years of inaction, Germany is working on its Carbon Management Strategy to resolve how CCS can play a role in climate action in industry. At the end of February, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action published first key points and a proposal to amend the law Kohlenstoffdioxid Speicherungsgesetz (KSpG). Bellona Deutschland, who was actively involved in the previous stakeholder dialogue submitted a statement in the association hearing.
In the midst of a global discussion on whether natural gas should be used as a transitional fuel and whether emissions from its extraction, production, transport and use are significantly less than those from other fossil fuels, Russia has developed ambitious plans to increase its own production of liquified natural gas (LNG) in the Arctic – a region with 75% of proven gas reserves in Russia – to raise its share in the international gas trade.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our main focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution risks and climate change.