Putin leaves Kazakhstan without deal to build nuclear plant
A visit last week by Vladimir Putin and a Kremlin entourage to Astana, Kazakhstan sought in part to put Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, on good footing with local officials.
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Publish date: October 22, 1998
Written by: Thomas Nilsen
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The courtroom is still closed to international observers, but Nikitin’s lawyer Jurij Schmidt says that he will request an open court later on in the trial. Aleksandr Nikitin will in the first part of the day continue with his statements in the case, and then prosecutor Gutsan will start asking questions. The Judge has called in witnesses for tomorrow.
Jurij Schmidt says the defence team doesn’t need more witnesses than Nikitin himself and those two that the Judge has called in from the prosecutor’s list of witnesses. -We only need Nikitin to tell about the work with the Northern Fleet report, thus showing that this is a case about environmental problems, and has nothing to do with espionage, says Shmidt.
Aleksandr Nikitin says he will continue the work with solving the nuclear waste problems as soon as this process is over.
A visit last week by Vladimir Putin and a Kremlin entourage to Astana, Kazakhstan sought in part to put Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, on good footing with local officials.
Russia is formally withdrawing from a landmark environmental agreement that channeled billions in international funding to secure the Soviet nuclear legacy, leaving undone some of the most radioactively dangerous projects and burning one more bridge of potential cooperation with the West.
While Moscow pushes ahead with major oil, gas and mining projects in the Arctic—bringing more pollution to the fragile region—the spoils of these undertakings are sold to fuel Russia’s war economy, Bellona’s Ksenia Vakhrusheva told a side event at the COP 29, now underway in Baku, Azerbaijan.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.