June 6, 2023 Access to information, Russian human rights issues Moscow marks Ecology Day by blocking access to Bellona’s websites within Russia The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, or Roskomnadzor, has blocked all of the Bellona…
May 17, 2023 Russian human rights issues, Ukraine A new issue of Environment and Rights appears against uncertain legal backdrop With the latest issue of Environment and Rights, which is available in English here, our editors had to confront a…
January 21, 2021 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Putin signs new amendments to Russia’s controversial ‘foreign agent’ law As 2020 closed, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a package of controversial new laws expanding the government’s powers to label…
January 13, 2021 Air Pollution, Climate change, Nuclear Russia, Renewable energy, Russian human rights issues Bellona’s Russian offices sum up the work they did in 2020, a most unusual year The past year has been unusual throughout the world. Restrictions related to holding public events, gathering in offices and taking…
December 18, 2020 Nuclear issues, Russian human rights issues Rashid Alimov, who helped sound alarms on Russia’s radiation dangers, succumbs to covid-19 Rashid Alimov, a prominent environmentalist who led vigorous efforts to inform Russians of radiation dangers and campaigned for clean air…