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
- Scram at Russia’s new flagship reactor goes unmentioned for six days, stoking speculation
- US court approved $14.7 Billion Settlement in VW emissions cheating scandal
- Danish shipping giant caught beaching ships in India and Bangladesh
- Environmentalists file suit against the Norwegian government over Arctic Drilling
- Former Russian eco-watchdog pleads guilty to ignoring Northern Russian pollution for bribes
- Russian environmental watchdog predictably restores license to polluting factory
- Nuclear submarine fire in Russia Far East again raises questions surrounding safe dismantlement
- In major environmental upset, Arctic oil drilling begins off Norway
- Lithuania seeks to sever ties with Russian nuclear plants
- Subsidies lock the world into oil and coal dependence, experts tell Bellona
- BREAKING: As Obama sinks Keystone, European environmentalists require more of their own governments
- Russian Defense Ministry confirms portable nuclear reactor development
- Russia names 100th ‘foreign agent’ in baffling new crackdown on NGOs and foreigners
- Russia’s electric grid commits to electric car infrastructure
- New appellate review should lead to freedom for Russia’s eco-prisoner Vitishko
- ‘Foreign agent’ law has put 33 percent of Russia’s NGOs out of business
- Vitishko to get another shot at freedom, as treason rumors swirl around Russian NGOs
- Second reactor in post-Fukushima Japan goes online to muted local protests
- Democratic debates put climate change on front burner – but whose willing to light the fire?
- Russian waste handler says 44-year-old radioactive hotspot near Moscow finally clean
- Two decades of legal harassment dissolve Bellona Murmansk as a Russian NGO – but it will continue its work
- BREAKING: Vitishko appeal granted, but ecologist remains in prison pending further court reviews
- Environmental prisoner Vitishko on hunger strike
- Russian Rights Council leader defends environmental and human rights groups to Putin
- Putin to re-examine case of imprisoned environmentalist Vitishko