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Violation of the right to have access to environmental information is becoming a regular practice in Russia. Environmental activists are experiencing reprisals from the officials.
NEW YORK - Russia could be developing a top-secret new type of submarine capable of patrolling underwater longer than existing diesel-powered submarines, the Russian daily Kommersant reported Wednesday.
NEW YORK - A Russian environmentalist was beaten to death and seven others wounded on Saturday when a group armed with iron bars and baseball bats attacked their camp near a nuclear waste processing plant in Siberia, Reuters reported
An environmental activist, who was gathering signatures from the public as part of a petition to the city’s mayor to build a park in the center of Murmansk, was detained by the police.
A bullet for your thoughts
In the minutes following the brutal and senseless assassination of Anna Politkovskaya last Saturday, my phone and email were abuzz with the shock and outrage of my former colleagues in the Moscow foreign press corps. Many of them were already busily typing away, collecting theories and interviewing one another about our recollections of the iron lady of Russian journalism. The words on the lips of my western colleagues and me were: “It could have been any one of us.”
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