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Published in: oDRA new Chernobyl at your doorstep?
Three decades after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in Ukraine, Belarus is building its first nuclear power station....
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Published in: oDRNuclear safety in Europe: decision-making behind closed doors?
European citizens don’t want to be left out of decision-making over nuclear power. But a recent meeting of the Espoo...
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Published in: oDRRosatom: climate’s new best friend
As Russia’s economic crisis continues to hit budgets, the country’s state nuclear corporation is going green to...
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Published in: oDRMy first death threat: the life and times of a Russian ecological activist
Last month, Yaroslav Nikitenko received his first death threat. The veteran campaigner speaks on environmental...
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Published in: oDRNuclear transboundary consultations are a test for public participation and transparency across Europe
Over the next three years, 30 nuclear reactors across Europe will reach their retirement age. Making the...
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Published in: oDRRussia’s eco-activists: not out of the woods yet
It’s Russia’s Year of Ecology. But as these activists tell us, campaigning on environmental and urban issues is far...
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Published in: oDRHatching discontent in Ukraine
In Ukraine, big agriculture uses unscrupulous methods to manufacture consensus for expansion and marginalise local...
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Published in: oDRArmenia: before the goldrush
A British mining company has struck gold in southern Armenia. What’s in it for the locals? Updated 3 February with...
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Published in: oDRTbilisi’s Panorama project is urban boosterism at its worst
A massive new construction project overlooking Georgia’s capital reveals the true extent of an oligarch’s grip on...
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Published in: oDROil & Money: tackling corruption and climate change
London can no longer be a welcome host to companies that plunder state and carbon budgets.
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Published in: oDRNew life for Ukraine’s aging nuclear power plants
European institutions are helping Ukraine extend its already outdated nuclear operations — increasing short-term...
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Published in: oDRSergey Kirienko, from nuclear to political power
After ten years as head of Rosatom, Sergey Kirienko is now deputy head of Russia’s Presidential Administration. What...
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Published in: oDRIn Russia, some men want to watch the world burn
2017 is set to be Russia’s Year of Ecology. But in the south of the country, environmental activists face corrupt...
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Published in: oDRRussia: the tinderbox in the struggle for a safe climate
Russia is at the forefront of the global climate change struggle. We ignore it at our peril.
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Published in: oDRBreak the silence on Azerbaijan oil workers’ deaths
Months on from a deadly fire on a Caspian sea oil rig, the Azerbaijani authorities are yet to conduct a full investigation.
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Published in: oDRNoah’s Valley is drying up
Corruption, ill-conceived fish farming and mismanagement are contributing to a water crisis in Armenia’s Ararat Valley.
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Published in: oDRNeoliberalism, mining and Armenia's politics of plunder
The resurgence of fighting with Azerbaijan could hinder progressive mobilisation in Armenia, but recent...
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Published in: oDR“When you buy coal, you have a moral right to ask where it came from”
A new report highlights a stark truth: the UK’s dependence on international coal not only devastates the...
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Published in: oDRBelarus’s Chernobyl taboo
Thirty years after the catastrophe at Chernobyl, the government of neighbouring Belarus still refuses to release...
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Published in: oDRTowards a post-nuclear Ukraine
Thirty years on from Chernobyl, nuclear energy still accounts for more than half of Ukraine’s electricity. With...