News
Publish date: February 10, 2006
News
The editorial board and editorial staff of the Environment & Rights magazine invite you to cast your votes in the 2005 ECOview Contest.
Contest.
The aim of this contest is a poll intended to determine those events on the Russian environmental front that proved to be most significant in the life of the country and its people in the past year. Your votes will allow benchmark environmental events of 2004 to win the following nominations:
1. Victory! The most triumphant legal defense in the field of environmental rights.
2. Behind the shroud of secrecy The most indicative and outrageous example of concealing or whitewashing crucial environmental information.
3. We have contact! The most successful dialogue the media, non-governmental organizations and representatives of the public have forged with governmental bodies and authorities.
We welcome your suggestions and opinions on which events of the past year were the most striking, remarkable or important in the sphere of protection of the environmental rights of the Russian citizens.
Please enclose the reasoning behind your choice of the event and its nomination.
Prizes are only a letter away for those of you who will present their choices in the most comprehensive and interesting ways.
Please note that the deadline for your suggestions is March 1, 2006.
Your letters can be sent to these addresses:
For regular mail:
191028 Post Box 58
St. Petersburg, Russia
For e-mailed correspondence:
ecopravo@ecopravo.info
Throughout the past year, our mission at the Bellona Environmental Transparency Center has focused on two key, but intertwined issues—nuclear and radiation safety as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, and the worldwide influence of Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, which itself is actively involved in the war and has participated in the occupation of a Ukrainian nuclear power plant.
At the beginning of the year, reports in the German and Russian press suggested an approximate 70% increase in uranium imports from Russia to Germany in 2024. But does this reflect broader European trends? It does not. Overall, imports of uranium and nuclear fuel from Russia to Western countries actually dropped sharply in 2024. Unlike the situation in Germany, this is already an established trend.
A Lingen, Germany plant could begin producing nuclear fuel in cooperation with a subsidiary of Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear corporation, which is directly involved in the war in Ukraine and occupying the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.