Nikitin Case

Part of: Russian legal issues

Alexander Nikitin, former Russian submariner, contributed to the Bellona report about radioactive contamination in the Northern Fleet. The Russian Security Service charged Nikitin with espionage and state treason. After 5 years of legal battle he was acquitted of all charges.

ARTICLES
frontpageingressimage

bellona archive

[ 18.03.2009 ]
Alexander Nikitin: ‘Our our main goal was liquidating nuclear waste dumps in Northern Russia’
ST. PETERSBURG – Fifteen years ago, in March of 1994, a report was published which, in essence, saved the Arctic region from a nuclear catastrophe. The report by the then little-known Bellona Foundation uncovered the secrets that were for decades hidden by Soviet authorities, and later, the Russian military.
frontpageingressimage

Rashid Alimov/Bellona

[ 10.02.2006 ]
Alexander Nikitin looks over the last decade since his trumped-up arrest
ST. PETERSBURG―Earlier this week, as Bellona St. Petersburg head Alexander Nikitin recalled the morning he was arrested 10 years ago by the Federal Security Service (FSB) on trumped-up charges of espionage, he drank a little toast to his freedom and full acquittal by the Russian supreme court in 2000. It was a bitter-sweet memory―his represented the first case when an alleged spy had won out against the FSB, the successor organisation to the KGB―a true benchmark in Russian legal history.
frontpageingressimage

Frederic Hauge/Bellona

[ 23.11.2003 ]
Nikitin application admissible
The European Court on Human Rights has examined the application filed by Aleksandr Nikitin against Russia, and declared it admissible. The Court is expected to rule on the merits of the case in late 2004.
All articles for Nikitin Case >>
NEWS
[ 26.07.2004 ]
Prosecution's actions arbitrary and abusive

The European Court of Human Rights denotes the Russian Prosecutor General’s actions against Aleksandr Nikitin as ”arbitrary and abusive”. Yet, since Nikitin was acquitted despite of these actions, the Court found no violations of his rights under the European Convention on Human Rights.

[ 18.03.2003 ]
Beats off Russian Government

In its reply to the Russian Governments observation on Aleksandr Nikitin's application to the Strasbourg Court, his attorney beats off the Government's feeble arguments.

[ 07.12.2001 ]
Justice prevails - winner takes it all

A Court in St. Petersburg ruled today that a local TV-channel has to pay Aleksandr Nikitin and Bellona compensation for the outrageous espionage-accusations it made against them two years ago.

All news for Nikitin Case >>

Support Bellona's work for the environment - Phone +47 23 23 46 00 | E-MAIL: info@bellona.no