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
- UN climate convention convenes with small hopes, but agenda toward bigger deals unclear
- Russia boasts two of 10 most polluted cities on Earth in 2013 tally
- Arctic Sunrise detainees to be moved as Dutch proceedings in an international court to free them begins
- Fukushima accepts international help before embarking on removing spent nuclear fuel from damaged storage
- Bellona’s St. Petersburg office clears one court hurdle in ongoing legal hassles for Russian NGOs
- Ukraine must clear CCS hurdles now lest it run into a brick wall later
- Press Release: One technology holds key to significant CO2 reduction in Ukraine
- Bellona files police report against Statoil over six years of chemicals leaked into Norwegian Sea
- Pirates and pot heads: Silly new allegations waft over Greenpeace’s accused buccaneers
- Russian investigators press piracy charges against all aboard the Arctic Sunrise
- BREAKING: Murmansk court begins marathon day of charging Arctic Sunrise activists and crew with ‘piracy’
- Murmansk court jails remaining eight Arctic Sunrise activists and crew for two months before trial
- Arctic Sunrise activists to sit in jail as Russian prosecutors try to make ‘piracy’ charges stick
- UPDATE: As activist vessel arrives in Russian port under Coast Guard tow, all on board threatened with piracy charges
- Murmansk awaiting return of arrested activists from Arctic oil rig – Russian officials say piracy charges loom
- Russian investigators admit to 15 injuries after nuclear sub fire in Vladivostok, contradicting earlier reports
- Foundering vessel in Arctic finally rescued by icebreakers, Russian maritime authorities not pleased by incident
- Japan_Shut_Downs_TyphoonJapan halts last two reactors for tech inspections while Fukushima braces against typhoons
- UPDATE: Fire on Russian Pacific Fleet nuclear submarine said to be extinguished with no casualties or radiation leaks
- Rescue plans for damaged tanker in Arctic unclear as Russian military flotilla steams by
- Norway’s Halden reactor institute skirting law by sharing nuclear research for potential military use
- Russian press attacks over alleged Norwegian pollution distracting and ill-informed, say observers
- UPDATE: Obama meeting with Russian NGOs proves his single success after two-day showdown at economic forum
- New radiation spikes at Fukushima as technicians engage in ‘whack-a-mole’ problem solving methods
- Ocean dumps of leaking water at Fukushima ‘unavoidable’ says Japanese nuclear regulator