Charles Digges holds both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Russian literature from Harvard University. He has been a journalist for a number of major newspapers and media companies worldwide such as The Moscow Times, the International Herald Tribune, BBC, The Nation and The Amsterdam Volkskraant. He has covered major conflicts and climate change cases, particularly in Africa, and helped to start up the Dutch-funded media group WIR in Nairobi, Kenya. This is now East Africa's only independent news agency. He has worked in Bellona's Russian program/ team since 2001, and writes for the English Bellona pages: www.bellona.org.
Author articles
- Russia retires Chernobyl-era reactor at Kursk nuclear plant
- Permafrost melt caused by climate change could cost Russia billions, environmental minister says
- A toxic stew that’s threatened St Petersburg, Russia is finally getting mopped up
- Russian officials hold virtual public discussion on radioactive waste storage
- A toxic brew off Kamchatka’s beaches is killing marine life and puzzling environmentalists
- Russia’s most radioactive ship reaches dismantlement milestone
- Russia’s new Arktika nuclear icebreaker delayed for at least a year
- Nuclear plant lifetime extension: A creeping catastrophe
- Activist from Ecodefense, under pressure from Russia’s ‘foreign agent’ law, flees to Germany
- Yamal LNG project built on a shifting foundation of climate change
- Visit to Russia’s floating nuclear plant aims to clear up ‘fake news’ about reactor tests
- Rapid electric car charger opens on Norwegian Russian border
- The Murmansk Commercial Seaport seeks to fence in clouds of coal dust
- Northern Norway finally catching up with e-car charging mania
- Rosatom says it’s hitting schedule targets in prepping its floating nuclear plant
- Russia said to be searching Arctic for a nuclear powered missile it lost in test
- Russia to start breaking down one of its most radioactive ships next month
- Dangerous sulfur dioxide levels at Kola nickel plant are dropping, cheering environmentalists
- Russia’s big-wigs weigh Arctic development plans
- Bellona visits Russia’s floating nuclear power plant at sea
- Major Russian polluter pledges to turn over a ‘green’ leaf on national television
- Andreyeva Bay gears up to send away more old nuclear fuel
- Russia’s sunken subs to lie where they are for another three years
- Youth ecology and recycling group named newest Russian ‘foreign agent’
- In rare twist, eco-group taken off ‘foreign agent’ list