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
- Putin meets with new human rights council, offering dubious promises to roll back recent repressions
- UK Member of Parliament calls Sellafield ‘intolerable risk’ as fiscal watchdog report cites uncertain clean up costs
- Norway caught in Russia’s new civil rights erosions as Barents scholar charged with treason
- Near disaster aboard Norwegian oil rig as anchor swings loose, puncturing ballast tanks
- President Obama wins second term, giving a new tailwind to environmental policies that were sidelined in campaign
- American environmental establishment urges voters not to turn back Obama’s progress
- Shaky Severodvinsk nuclear sub sets to sea for trials – again
- Russia’s upper house of parliament passes treason bill as season of broad repressions continues
- Despite Superstorm Sandy, American public left with only perceived notions of presidential candidates’ climate stance
- Russian defense ministry says it will raise two sunken nuclear subs – observers skeptical it will happen soon
- US Nunn-Lugar officials rebut reports of its demise as media seem to dig its grave
- Pussy Riot appeal frees one member, leaving other two jailed
- UPDATE: Russia turns back on Nunn-Lugar after 20 years of cooperative nuclear weapons destruction – Russian papers say
- UNICEF asked to back out of Russia under unclear circumstances, upsetting rights activists
- Post Hurrican Isaac oil washing up on Gulf of Mexico shores tied to BP Deepwater Horizon blowout
- EU officially released bleak report on its nuclear power plants, and hints at requiring nuclear liability insurance
- Climate issue fails mention in first US presidential debate as domestic energy policy takes center stage
- Leaked EC review of nuclear power plants shows lack of safety and emergency preparedness – upgrade costs staggering, says Bellona
- Russia could resume subcritical nuclear bomb tests in Arctic, sources say
- USAID expulsion from Russia shows framework of long-planned Putin initiatives
- Pussy Riot appeal pushed back as one band member fires her lawyer
- America tired of hearing climate change addressed as a joke, grassroots voter efforts show
- France’s Total swears off artic oil drilling, putting other majors in environmental hot seat
- Russian parliament votes in first reading to expand treason laws – casting a darker shadow on the future of NGOs
- Further delays to drill Russia’s Arctic seas show ‘unpreparedness’ of industry to grapple with safety