September 12, 2010 Nikitin Case Bellona’s Nikitin marks 10 years of freedom after defeating the FSB Ten years ago today, Russia’s supreme court issued a final verdict, topping off a five year legal battle that Bellona’s…
August 29, 2010 Access to information, Gas Stakeholders and public discuss technical tasks to complete a true environmental analysis of the Shtokman project TERIBERKA, Northwest Russia – In the ramshackle gymnasium of an unheated school in this village near Murmansk, Shtokman AG met…
August 20, 2010 Access to information Comment:A sad tale of emergency officials, ecologists, and the press wandering in a radioactive wood – Russia’s MChS maintains all is quiet on the Bryansk front MOSCOW – Last Wednesday, August 18, a group of journalists and environmentalists joined representatives of the Russian Ministry of Emergency…
August 19, 2010 Access to information, Climate change, International climate conferences Comment: Russia’s 2010 fire catastrophes could be repeated – what can be done? ST. PETERSBURG – The forest fires of 2010 became a genuine catastrophe for Russia. By the most modest of estimates…
August 18, 2010 Access to information, International climate conferences Millionaire Russian Duma deputy allegedly orders raid on international anti-corruption offices in Vladimir VLADIMIR, Russia – The offices of the international anti-corruption NGO Transparency International in the Russia city of Vladimir, 200 kilometers…