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
- Germany refuses to ship radioactive waste to Mayak pending safety evaluations
- Russia’s climate fight could lead to cleaner air by reducing black carbon in Arctic
- Opening of Cancun shows UN process is at stake, while governments shoot for smaller targets than binding CO2 reductions
- Russian Duma gets bill that would stiffen penalties for attacking journalists
- Delegates brace for setbacks but hope for the best as Cancun’s climate summit kicks off
- Beketov makes surprise appearance in most recent Moscow rally for press and environmental freedoms
- Second major march in Moscow decries press freedoms and highlights attacks on Khimki Forest reporters
- Beketov found guilty of slander as persecution of journalists covering Khimki clear cutting continues
- Russian Presidential Rights Council calls for stiffer penalties for assaulting journalists
- Press rights group ‘outraged’ over treatment of editor who publicised the Khimki Forest issue
- Russia hocks reactors to Vietnam with no waste plan in sight
- Presidential oil spill panel casts first stone of blame for Deepwater Horizon blowout as Gulf residents struggle against fatal dispersant related illnesses
- Civil suits against Khimki forest defenders and two reporters get wrapped into one case by Moscow court
- British nuclear sub runs aground off Scotland’s coast
- Medvedev picks surprise candidate to head Presidential Human Rights Council
- Major European bank monitoring organization appeals to Europe to choke financing of highway through Moscow’s Khimki Forest
- Kola Nuclear power plant billed as safe, clean energy at recent economic forum
- Another malfunction shuts down the No. 3 reactor at the Kola Nuclear Power Plant for the third time in three months
- Russian-Norwegian demarcation agreement sparks fresh controversy between Russian environmentalists and authorities
- Deepwater Horizon spill oil found at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico
- Bellona’s Nikitin marks 10 years of freedom after defeating the FSB
- US chides Kremlin over human rights and jailed activist in a new turn for the Obama Administration
- Internal BP probe of Gulf oil spill cites multiple failures by multiple parties, deflecting most blame
- Khimki Forest clear cutting still on says Moscow Mayor Luzhkov
- UPDATE: Gulf of Mexico oil platform explodes west of Deepwater Horizon site – still unknown whether oil is leaking