Press releases
November 20, 2009
The thaw of permafrost presents a serious threat for the Russian economy, according to a Greenpeace report presented today at a press conference at Information Agency RIA Novosti. Important infrastructure, including thousands of kilometers of oil and gas pipelines in West Siberia, is under threat of damage and destruction. Greenpeace will hand the report to federal and regional governments, as well as major companies.
November 05, 2009
Today Greenpeace got a refusal from St. Petersburg’s City Administration to make an independent research of the wastewaters discharged into Gulf of Finland by the local’s waste water treatment plants.
July 07, 2009
6-7 July 2009 Moscow. On the first day of Russian-US summit talks in the Kremlin, Greenpeace reminded presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama of their responsibility to take leadership in agreeing plans to avert catastrophic climate change.
October 15, 2008
As Philips business relations gathered for the Philips Simplicity Event in Moscow’s Red Square to celebrate its 110 years on the Russian market, Greenpeace activists unrolled a banner with the phrase: “Philips: simply take back & recycle! Greenpeace is calling on the company to accept responsibility for its own-branded electronic waste (e-waste). Philips should take back and recycle its products in every country where they are sold, including Russia.
August 27, 2008
Today Greenpeace activists marked with toxic danger signs several illegal waste water discharges into Neva river. All pipes marked belong to the city water treatment monopoly — State Unitary Enterprise «Vodokanal of St. Petersburg».
July 01, 2008
July 1, 2008, Moscow. - Russian Greenpeace activists gathered today at the Japanese Embassy demanding release of the two whales defenders, who exposed a major stolen whale meat scandal in the so-called Scientific Whaling Fleet. Peaceful protests against unnecessary and unjust detention of Japanese activists Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki took place all around the world.
June 02, 2008
02 June 2008, Moscow, Russia – Greenpeace welcomes the United Nations Environment Programme’s criticism of plans to build 2014 Winter Olympics facilities on a site critical to rare and endangered species.
April 23, 2008
April 23, 2008, Sochi. Today Greenpeace Russia met with the Coordination Commission of the International Olympic Committee that is now in Sochi with official visit to inspect the progress of Olympic construction.
December 07, 2007
December 7, 2007, Moscow. Today, on the eve of World Climate Protection Day, Greenpeace activists held a demonstration. They reminded us that Russia ranks third in the world in terms of emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), and hence the problem of global climate change should concern each of us.
November 22, 2007
November 22, 2007. Krasnodar Region. Greenpeace has mapped the most polluted areas of the Black and Azov Seas coasts, oil-slicked after a petroleum tanker shipwreck in the Kerch Strait. Today Greenpeace experts will hand this map over to the crisis center at the Chushka Spit.
