Alexander Nikitin became a public figure in 1996 when he was arrested by the Russian security police, the FSB, and charged with high treason. The cause for his arrest was his contribution to a Bellona report on the security risks related to nuclear contamination from the Russian Northern fleet. In April 2000, after several trials and four years of fighting against the FSB, he was found not guilty by the Russian Supreme Court. Alexander has continued his work for human rights and the environment since then, and is today the chairman of Bellona St. Petersburg.
Author articles
- Bellona’s Russian nuclear project celebrates its 25th anniversary
- Dispatch from Zheleznogorsk: How Russia injects radioactive waste into the ground
- Who’s to blame and what to do? Rosatom and the No Nukes movement
- In a perpetual search for perpetuum mobile
- Chernobyl in Fukushima’s shadow – nuclear energy today and in the future
- Unlearned lessons from Chernobyl
- Rosatom presents a few results from its work in 2010 with a cocktail of gallows humour
- Does Russia need floating nuclear power plants?
- The new bill on radioactive waste management in Russia: An analysis
- Law and disorder in Russia
- Russia’s crisis must be put to use
- Perspectives on the handling of spent nuclear fuel in Russia
- Rosatom state corporation
- Andreyeva Bay: The unanswered questions
- Andreyeva Bay – Time to avert a catastrophe
- Life Extension of Russian Nuclear Power Plants
- K-159 Sank: What are the Radiation Risks to the Barents Sea?
- Nikitin’s speech to the AAAS