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Publish date: March 5, 1997
Written by: Igor Kudrik
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— [The prosecutor] asked us to conduct additional investigations to furnish more compelling evidence of Nikitin’s espionage activities – and this we can do, says Yevgeny Lukin, spokesman for the Federal Security Service (FSB) in St. Petersburg, in an interview with St. Petersburg Times.
Lukin could not say, however, how long the additional investigations would take, or when Nikitin would have his day in court, writes the newspaper.
Tatyana Vasilyeva, spokeswomen for the prosecutor’s office in St. Petersburg, said to St. Petersburg Times that her office had ordered FSB to assemble a group of military experts, to determine whether or not Nikitin’s contributions to the Bellona report on the Northern Fleet contain classified information. This will be the fourth such military expert group assembled in the course of the case. None of the previous groups related the case to the Federal laws, but rather to sub-legal orders issued by the Ministry of Defence in 1993.
Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.
After years of inaction, Germany is working on its Carbon Management Strategy to resolve how CCS can play a role in climate action in industry. At the end of February, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action published first key points and a proposal to amend the law Kohlenstoffdioxid Speicherungsgesetz (KSpG). Bellona Deutschland, who was actively involved in the previous stakeholder dialogue submitted a statement in the association hearing.
In the midst of a global discussion on whether natural gas should be used as a transitional fuel and whether emissions from its extraction, production, transport and use are significantly less than those from other fossil fuels, Russia has developed ambitious plans to increase its own production of liquified natural gas (LNG) in the Arctic – a region with 75% of proven gas reserves in Russia – to raise its share in the international gas trade.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our main focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution risks and climate change.