Tatyana Novikova has been fighting an unsafe nuclear power plant right on the country's border with Lithuania. She spoke to Chris Garrard about her campaign, the official persecution of anti-nuclear activists, and her invocation of the Aarhus Convention to the anti-nuclear cause.
… Belarus - fighting nuclear power in the shadow … | 28th July 2014 Comment Nuclear Power Belarus Russia EU Human Rights Lithuania … environmental campaigner and journalist from Belarus. Her home lies a short distance from …
Belarus may have taken the brunt of the fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, writes Kieran Cooke. But now it's pushing ahead with its own nuclear power station at Ostrovets - just 50km from Lithuania's capital, Vilnius, where the project is causing widespread public concern.
… Thirty years after Chernobyl, Belarus goes nuclear Kieran Cooke | 25th April 2016 News Nuclear Russia Belarus Lithuania Energy … novovoronezh_nuclear_power_plant_ii-cut.png Belarus may have taken the brunt of the …
The Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe may have scared most of the world off nuclear power, write Jan Haverkamp & Iryna Holovko. But mysteriously, not Ukraine, where the reactor meltdown actually took place. Thirty years on more than half of Ukraine's electricity is still nuclear, while the power sector is dominated by powerful oligarchs. So what are the chances of a post-nuclear Ukraine?
… Nuclear Energy Renewables Solar Russia Belarus Corporations … fleet for its electricity provision. Indeed, Belarus, Russia and Ukraine continue to face … continues to promote nuclear power, and Belarus is trying to introduce nuclear …
As the warring parties fight for control for Donetsk, the country's biggest chemical plant has come under fire, with missiles landing close to pipelines and storage tanks. If released, toxic nitrochlorobenzene could cause widespread death.
… | 11th August 2014 News War Ukraine Russia Belarus Health Toxics stirol-shell-cut.jpg As … set at 1mg per cubic meter. Ukraine, Russia, Belarus all at risk In the event of a release … army, citizens of Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus are exposed to a deadly threat from an …
Britain's nuclear bomb test veterans suffered severe genetic damage from radiation, writes Chris Busby, and their case for compensation is being heard in the High Court today. Key to their case is evidence of similar damage inflicted on in utero babies exposed to radiation from the Chernobyl disaster, and how the dreadful health impacts of radiation cascade down to future generations.
… WMD Health Law Science UK Ukraine Russia Belarus op_hurricane-cut.jpg Britain's nuclear … from Germany, Turkey, Greece, Croatia, Egypt, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, Italy, the …
New regulations on animal slaughter are in force across Russia, writes Georgy Borodyansky, with devastating effects on small farmers and consumers, who face a three-fold hike in the price of meat. Will the 'health and safety' madness destroy Russia's main producers of wholesome food?
… across the Customs Union (comprising Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan) on 1 May, with wide …
Russia has announced that it will build the first thermal nuclear power station in Kazakhstan, the world's largest uranium producer, writes Komila Nabiyeva. But where in that vast country will it be located? Who will own and operate it? How many reactors are planned? Who will get the power? And will it ever actually happen?
… Economic Union with his counterparts from Belarus and Kazakhstan in the Kazakh capital …
Sanctions against Russian natural resource tycoons could be good for the environment, writes eco-campaigner Konstantin Rubakhin - if only they would target the right people. But so far, the EU has been turning a blind eye to powerful Kremlin insiders with an open licence to pollute and destroy.
… in 1942, in the Belovezhskaya forest in Belarus. He walks through the forest and sees …
Renewable energy could supply Russia and Central Asian countries with 100% of their electricity needs by 2030, writes Paul Brown - and cut costs significantly compared to nuclear power and CO2-abated fossil fuels.
… well as Russia, the researched area includes Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and …
The need for cooperation over Russia's exports of gas to the EU via Ukraine was an important reason for the tentative peace deal struck in Geneva yesterday. But as Jack D. Sharples writes, gas will also be a source of East-West tensions for a long time to come.
… for 55-60%. Around 25-30% travels through Belarus, and the remainder comes through the …
… to intercept and seed the clouds over rural Belarus. On the twentieth anniversary of the … of that human-made rain, the south of the Belarusian Republic was covertly blanketed … limit in just a few weeks. It took the Belarusian government three years to start a …
As Russia looks like extending its dominion into Crimea and East Ukraine, Ola Cichowlas finds that Vladimir Putin cares rather less about the the heart of Russia itself - places like Berezniki, the country's very own chemical alley.
… are certainly not news here. The arrest in Belarus of Uralkali director Vladislav …