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
- Radwaste storage site near St. Petersburg scratched over funding shortfall
- Cautious optimism among supporters that Vitishko may be released early
- BP and Gulf States agree to $18.7 billion damage settlement, but will it make the region ‘whole?’
- Hurricane season brings fears of massive Deepwater Horizon oiling in Gulf of Mexico
- Is Russia postponing reactor builds over power surpluses or financial deficits?
- Bellona’s experts oppose building a second nuclear power plant in Russia’s Kursk Region
- Russian nuclear submarine still smoldering after serious fire in dry-dock
- Major St. Petersburg rights group called ‘foreign agent’ by Russian Justice Ministry
- Environmentalists locate illegal fence that landed Sochi critic Vitishko in prison
- Russia’s Far East no longer home to any spent nuclear fuel
- Wanted: Someone to decide what to do with Russia’s radioactive debris at the bottom of the Arctic
- Rosatom claims international sanctions against Russia won’t stop international nuclear clean up efforts
- Exiled activist’s Olympic torch illuminates Sochi’s environmental ruin and Kremlin graft
- Movement on dismantlement of decrepit Lepse nuclear service ship finally on horizon
- In self-immolation by Olympic torch, Putin gives NGOs millions and may pardon punkers and activists
- Why you shouldn’t care if the IAEA praises Fukushima decommissioning efforts
- Chernobyl-type reactor survives CPR and goes back online at Leningrad nuclear plant
- Murmansk air conference denounces ‘pseudoscience’ and makes headway on contentious industrial pollution
- Japan tries to plug leaks about leaks, donning Russia’s mantle of nuclear and Olympic explosions
- Environmentalists and reporters in Sochi targeted by Kremlin’s Olympic fever
- Russian-US Megatons to Megawatts non-proliferation program draws to a close
- St. Petersburg court frees nine foreign activists and three Russians on bail in Arctic Sunrise case
- Russia’s nuclear corporation embarks on permanently storing radioactive waste – but final solutions still distant
- New spent nuclear fuel storage and reprocessing site in Siberia could end contamination from Mayak
- Rosatom’s new ‘roadmap’ slashes number of new reactors, but leaves loose ends on shut downs