
The fragile environmental coalitions cleaning up the Black Sea oil spill
This article by Angelina Davydova, editor of Bellona’s Ecology & Rights magazine, first appeared in The Moscow Times. The oil spill in ...
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Publish date: March 30, 2005
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“We have fully fulfilled the 2004 plan of combat readiness of our fleet’s submarine forces. The plan for 2005 is as strenuous: we’ll operate in the near and remote ocean zones,” Abramov said. “The Defence Minister and the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy have set norms for a pre-set potential of military security,” he said. “We are keeping up with the potential. We have everything to maintain it,” Abramov said. He added that priority in the Defence Ministry’s budget funding for the upkeep of the fleet falls on the marine-based strategic nuclear forces.
“The submarine forces constitute the basis of the Northern Fleet. They concentrate the main attack potential ensuring military security for the Russian Federation,” the commander stressed. Abramov noted that it is above all the maritime strategic nuclear forces, as well as the general purpose forces, including both nuclear and diesel submarines. “The present Northern Fleet is a formidable force. It is larger than the British and French fleets combined. Properly used, the Northern Fleet and its submarine forces create a good potential for the military security of the Russian Federation,” Commander Abramov said, RIA-Novosti reported.
This article by Angelina Davydova, editor of Bellona’s Ecology & Rights magazine, first appeared in The Moscow Times. The oil spill in ...
The following speech was given by Bellona nuclear expert Dmitry Gorchakov at the Arctic Frontiers conference, which was in session this week in Troms...
Social media are ablaze after Bellona founder Frederic Hauge met Motvind’s Eivind Salen on Norwegian national broadcaster NRK’s Debatten program last night.
"Maritime transport along the Northern Sea Route remains a bad idea. Even with a warmer climate, cold, wind and darkness will define the Arctic winter," said Bellona's Senior Adviser Sigurd Enge to a packed hall at the Arctic Frontiers conference.