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 accuses US of upsetting nuke arms balance by letting critical arms control treaty lapse
- US presidential hopeful Obama pledges 80 percent emission cut by 2050, and slams nuclear fuel storage and reprocessing
- Democrats in US Congress vote to lift moratorium on offshore drilling in election year political shift
- Pasko case to raise complex issues of law and fact in European Human Rights Court
- Comment: Oil politics and thwarted NATO jingoism ironically stem new radiation crisis for Russia
- UPDATE: US-Russian nuclear pact shelved by president over Georgia– though US leaves door open to future collaboration
- Georgia conflict set to derail US-Russian civilian nuclear pact, providing environmental silver lining in tragic bloodshed
- US efforts In Georgia to contain nuclear theft being routed by Russian army
- Russian fighting in Georgia putting area’s nuclear materials stocks in jeopardy for theft
- US Navy investigation determines radiation leaks on US nuclear attack sub insignificant – but solicits input from environmental groups
- Booed in Bali, US chief climate negotiator to meet Bellona staff to prep for December’s UN climate conference
- Norwegian and Finnish activists detained during swoop on Russian environmental camp against Shtokman pipelines
- US sub leaks radiation in Japanese port, Japan’s foreign minister kept in dark
- Italy to build nuclear waste ship for Russian Northern Fleet subs
- Secret plutonium shipments from Sellafield to France banned by UK government
- Moscow snubs UK Ambassador at British funded Murmansk-based nuclear site, putting further funding in jeopardy
- Worker from Ukraine’s German embassy busted at home for smuggling nuclear materials
- Spent fuel elements removed from world’s first nuclear power plant at Obninsk, Russia in giant step toward decommissioning
- Prime Minister Putin slaps tax on foreign NGOs in effort to purge Russia of foreign influence
- In new AMEC twist, Russia offering to scrap aged British nuke subs
- Plant head confirms second Kola Nuclear Power Plant build to supply energy to Shtokman oil and gas field development
- Reshuffle at Russian Natural Resources Ministry set to skewer government’s only environmentalist
- Bellona activists prevented from taking rad measurements of German waste, but surprisingly allowed to keep photos
- Croatia complains it was kept in the dark after Slovenian reactor incident, while others were told leak was an ‘exercise’
- Russian government makes bold eco-legislation promises – but avoids discussing concrete measures