Tutti i temi: Russia

11.03.2008 Euroopan unioni ja Venäjä ovat vaarassa ajautua kärhämään pohjoisnavan luonnonvaroista, varoittaa EU-komission tuore raportti. Komissio kannustaa unionia pitämään kiinni eduistaan ja ehdottaa uutta napa-aluepolitiikkaa, joka ottaisi huomioon "luonnonvarojen saatavuuden ja uusien kauppareittien avaamisen".

10.03.2008 European Union leaders need to consider potential conflict with Russia over energy resources at the North Pole as global warning melts the ice cap and aggravates international security threats, says a new report.
From: Planet Ark/Reuters

06.03.2008 Although he owes his advancement to Vladimir Putin, Dmitri Medvedev may prove a surprisingly liberal president of Russia, says Andreas Umland.
From Prospect

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.
From: New Statesman

29.02.2008 Ihmisoikeusaktivistien, kansalaisjärjestöjen ja median toimintavapaus Venäjällä on viime vuosina jatkuvasti kaventunut, arvioi Amnesty International uudessa raportissaan.

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.

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.

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.
From: Human Rights Watch

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.

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.

03.01.2008 David Young outlines the diplomatic wranglings the U.S. and E.U. will have to engage in during the next three months before they "give Kosovo the green light to unilaterally declare its independence."

06.12.2007 In past years, the HIV epidemic has ravaged the populations of many former Soviet nations, the majority of victims claimed by needle sharing and drug use. Thanks to new programs such as needle exchange and harm reduction, these countries are taking big steps in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

30.11.2007 Amnesty International on huolestunut ihmisoikeusloukkauksista, joihin Venäjän viranomaiset ovat syyllistyneet parlamenttivaalien alla. Viranomaiset ovat rajoittaneet opposition kannattajien, ihmisoikeusaktivistien ja toimittajien kokoontumisvapautta ja ilmaisunvapautta.

27.11.2007 Domestic violence in the Russian Federation; sex slavery in India; self-immolation in Central Asian republics; gender-based violence and HIV; and 'compensation' marriages are the five underreported stories used by the UN Population Fund to launch a campaign against gender-based violence.
From: UNFPA

25.11.2007 A year on, Ivar Amundsen remembers his friend Alexander Litvinenko and reflects on the ruthlessness of Putin's Russia.
From The New Statesman

22.11.2007 Invasion - a comparison of Soviet and Western media performance, by Nikolai Lanine and Media Lens.

20.11.2007 Major world powers, including Russia and the United States, are circumventing international bans on chemical weapons development under the pretense of expanding law enforcement capabilities, charge arms control experts.

16.11.2007 Through persistent virtual activism, thousands of outraged Russian bloggers have managed to expose and attract government attention to a pharmaceutical scam that urged pensioners to buy bogus, and very costly, anti-arthritis medication.

14.11.2007 Severe weather on the Kerch Strait near the Black Sea is blamed for sinking ships transporting oil and sulfur; now that same weather is impeding rescue efforts and cleanup, which is expected to take years.

01.11.2007 Russia is removing tariffs from many African goods in a new effort to support development and improve trade relations with the continent.