November 17, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games The slow, imperceptible shifts of life behind bars: Bellona visits Yevgeny Vitishko in Russian prison colony SADOVAYA PRISON COLONY, Sadovaya, Russia – The potbellied guards, tinted sepia by the dark cabbage mud and grey, pissing fog…
November 11, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Promises to bring water to Olympic striken village remain a pipe dream AKHSHTYR, near Sochi, Russia – This settlement of some 160 people about 20 kilometers north of central Sochi heard hundreds…
November 9, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Gazprom poised to continue Olympic environmental ravages begun in Sochi KRANSNAYA POLYANA, near Sochi, Russia – Of all the continuing environmental metastases spawned by Sochi’s hosting of the 2014 Winter…
October 31, 2014 Access to information, Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Bellona’s EcoJurist 2014 competition supporting environmental lawyers in record numbers The Environmental Rights Center (ERC) Bellona is experiencing a record-breaking year in applications to its EcoJurist program, its five-year running…
October 22, 2014 Access to information, Nuclear Russia, Russian human rights issues Silence greets questions posed by Bellona at public hearing on Kalinin nuclear reactor experiment MOSCOW – Nearly 30 questions posed to a roundtable discussion held Friday on boosting the engineered power capacity of the…
