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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.
more...Related topics/regions: [Russian Federation] [Climate change] |
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.
more...From: WWF International Related topics/regions: [Russian Federation] Image: Gray whale
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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.
more...From: WWF International Related topics/regions: [Russian Federation] |
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.
more...From: WWF International Related topics/regions: [Russian Federation] Image: Drift net fishing results in a large bycatch of sharks, turtles, seabirds and marine mammals which are usually thrown back dead into the ocean. (© WWF-Canon / P. Guglielmi)
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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.
more...From: WWF International Related topics/regions: [Russian Federation] Image: Siberian larch (© WWF)
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09.12.2008
Join the discussion in Poznan via OneWorld's "Virtual Poznan", which takes you inside the conference hall each day this week.
more...Related topics/regions: [Poland] [Internet] [Climate change] Image: Poznan conference logo
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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.
more...From: WWF International Related topics/regions: [Poland] [Climate change] Image: Snowboarders show their skill at the climate change negotiations in Poznan, Poland
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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.
more...From: Reporter Senza Frontiere Related topics/regions: [Russian Federation] |
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.
more...From Institute for Public Policy Research Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] |
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.
more...From: In These Times Related topics/regions: [Russian Federation] Image: Former Russian President Putin. © Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep
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27.04.2008
Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead is a son's documentary about his dad. But what a dad!
more...Related topics/regions: [Ukraine] [Russian Federation] [Media] Image: Noka Alekseyevna Kapranova (Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead)
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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.
more...From: Center for Reproductive Rights Related topics/regions: [Poland] [Philippines] [India] [Ecuador] [Brazil] [Argentina] Image: Brazil, one of the countries under review, has "serious violations of womens sexual and reproductive rights." © International Women's Health Coalition
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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.
more...From: Le Monde diplomatique Related topics/regions: [Ukraine] Image: Chernobyl 1986
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06.03.2008
Although he owes his advancement to Vladimir Putin, Dmitri Medvedev may prove a surprisingly liberal president of Russia, says Andreas Umland.
more...From Prospect Related topics/regions: [Russian Federation] |
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.
more...From: New Statesman Related topics/regions: [Russian Federation] [Europe] |
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.
more...From: WWF International Related topics/regions: [Russian Federation] [China] Image: WWF officer Pavel Fomenko inspecting seized tiger and bear parts after the interception of smugglers by Russian far east authorities. © WWF-Russia Amur branch
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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.
more...From: WWF International Related topics/regions: [Russian Federation] Image: Caviar © WWF-Russia Vladimir Filonov
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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.
more...From: Human Rights Watch Related topics/regions: [Russian Federation] |
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.
more...From: Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) Related topics/regions: [Russian Federation] |
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.
more...From: Environment News Service (ENS) Related topics/regions: [Russian Federation] |


