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Publish date: May 15, 1998
Written by: Igor Kudrik
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Passing through Oslo after a trip to northern Norway, the man who is credited for the fall of the Iron Curtain spoke to Bellona Web during a brief interview at Fornebu airport.
– There are many speculations about the case, it is a kind of knot that is difficult to undo. I hope it will not overshadow… poison the relationship and co-operation between the two countries (Russia and Norway, editor’s note). Fortunately, the case has reached a new stage, and the court will make its decision on it, said Mikhail Gorbachev on his way to a car waiting for him at the airfield.
Confronted with the Nikitin case while he was in northern Norway a few days ago, Gorbachev replied that he believed Nikitin was "no spy".
Following Kazakhstan’s country-wide vote in favor of building a nuclear power plant earlier this month, Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom has begun a courtship of officialdom in Astana, the country’s capital, in apparent hopes of landing a contract to construct it.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
Kazakhstan voted in a referendum last weekend on whether to build its first nuclear power plant, and an exit poll showed voters backed the idea promoted by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's cabinet in an effort to phase out coal plants.
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