Full Coverage: Eastern Europe

26.06.2009 In an attempt to highlight rapidly melting summer sea-ice in the Arctic, an expedition will attempt to sail through the Northeast Passage of the Russian Arctic in a single summer, a trip that took over two years to complete when first attempted in 1839.

20.04.2009 BP and Exxon continue to ignore requests to join consultations with an international scientific panel to work to protect the world’s most endangered whales, threatened by oil and gas development around Sakhalin Island in Far East Russia, say campaigners.

25.02.2009 Protected forest in Russia, including a “maternity hospital” for the Amur tiger and unique Korean pine stands, have been sold for logging in controversial circumstances and in the face of protests by the local population and an environmental group.

18.02.2009 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has proposed outlawing fishing with drift nets, otherwise known as “walls of death”, following a lengthy campaign by fishermen, politicians in Kamchatka and NGOs.

12.02.2009 A petition signed by more than 8,000 people has been handed to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin against the construction of a hydroelectric power station in Siberia that critics say would threaten the indigenous population as well as the local ecosystem.

09.12.2008 Join the discussion in Poznan via OneWorld's "Virtual Poznan", which takes you inside the conference hall each day this week.

05.12.2008 ...and snowboarders want to keep it that way, which is why they have been showing their tricks at the climate change negotiations in Poznan.

17.11.2008 The public has been admitted to the trial of four men in connection with the murder of outspoken Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, though no mastermind or hit-man is among the defendants.

01.05.2008 About half of the people who moved to Britain from the countries that joined the European Union on 1 May 2004 have already left the UK, according to a new report.
From Institute for Public Policy Research

28.04.2008 "After eight years of Putin, the country has a rubber-stamp parliament dominated by a single party, whose only stated policy is loyalty to the Kremlin," writes Fred Weir in Moscow.

27.04.2008 Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead is a son's documentary about his dad. But what a dad!

18.04.2008 The UN needs to address women's reproductive rights as it conducts the first "peer reviews" of member countries' human rights records, says a coalition of 11 rights groups from around the world.
From: Center for Reproductive Rights

11.04.2008 For 50 years dangerous concentrations of radionuclides have been accumulating in earth, air and water from weapons testing and reactor incidents. Yet serious studies of the effects of radiation on health have been obscured – not least by the World Health Organisation, writes Alison Katz.

06.03.2008 Although he owes his advancement to Vladimir Putin, Dmitri Medvedev may prove a surprisingly liberal president of Russia, says Andreas Umland.
From Prospect

29.02.2008 Energy is the key to Europe's new relationship with Russia - and supposedly Moscow's weapon of choice in its plan for European domination. Yet this new Cold War is not inevitable, says Misha Glenny.
From: New Statesman

21.02.2008 Key members of a smuggling ring trading tiger skins and bear parts into China will face trial in March after a six-month operation in the Russian far east.

01.02.2008 Russia's application for a caviar export quota makes nonsense of a commercial caviar harvesting ban intended to help the recovery of the decimated sturgeon populations of the Caspian Sea basin, WWF Russia has claimed.

28.01.2008 Ten journalists and two human rights defenders were arrested this Saturday during a violent protest against government repression and corruption in Ingushetia, an autonomous Russian republic bordering Chechnya.
From: Human Rights Watch

08.01.2008 Global retail giant Wal-Mart is selling products made from illegally logged timber – in turn threatening the habitat of the highly endangered Siberian tiger, according to new evidence from an environmental activism group.

04.01.2008 One of many projects launched as part of the 2008 International Year of Sanitation is a wastewater treatment project that reduces the amount of raw sewage flowing into the Russian Volga River basin.