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
- 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
- Putin’s zinger climate claims at the UN pulled from outdated script
- Russian NGO leader flees to France amid possible treason charges
- Shabbily stored tons of radioactive waste threaten Siberian mining town
- Closed nuclear city in Siberia ramping up industrial plutonium-based fuel production
- Russia’s flagship nuclear battle cruiser – the world’s largest – puts in for repairs
- Poor economy forces Russian nuke utility to mull extending old reactors’ run times to 60 years
- Will the full rage of Arctic climate change make Obama’s Alaska trip less ‘hypocritical’?
- Russian nuke station offers discount prices as demand sags – with a few ecological pitfalls
- Russia announces second floating nuclear plant as new problems plague its first
- Russian official to plead guilty in US court over graft in cooperative nuclear weapons destruction program
- Obama, EPA to announce new rules for methane in oil and gas industry
- Obama to visit Alaska against background of climate change – and fears of oil drilling fans
- World’s largest nuclear icebreaker nearing completion in St. Petersburg
- Russia’s Kursk sub disaster anniversary highlights 15 years of polished deception
- Japan restarts first reactor since Fukushima disaster amid protest and concerns over new regulator
- Should the new Obama Clean Power Plan boost expectations for Paris?
- Russia submits claim on the North Pole to UN – but oil aspirations seem dead in the water
- Obama climate plan pivots toward Paris, and paves smooth terrain for CCS in America
- Russian impounds samples from sunken Soviet-era sub en route to Norway
- Russia to open first repository for extremely hazardous radioactive waste, but experts have doubts
- More of Russia’s Lepse-style nuclear service ships headed for radioactive bone yards