Press releases
August 28, 2007
28 August 2007. Today Greenpeace Russia and WWF Russia met with the delegation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headed by Mr. Gilbert Felli, Olympic Games Executive Director. The IOC delegation arrived in Moscow yesterday to discuss with the Russian authorities the master-plan of preparing Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
August 21, 2007
Greenpeace insists on changing the plans for construction of the Olympic venues in the Sochi National Park. Today ecologists sent an appeal to the vice chairman of the RF Government A.D. Zhukov who is in charge of the implementation of the Federal Program for preparation of Sochi for hosting the 2014 Olympics. The ecologists demanded to exclude high conservation value areas from the construction plans.
August 21, 2007
The first results of Greenpeace water patrol at the Neva River appear to be shocking. At the Okhta River which is one of the main Neva tributaries, a wastewater discharge point has been found where the oil product content exceeds the allowable concentrations by 140 thousand times.
August 20, 2007
Moscow-Amsterdam, August 20, 2007. Today, Greenpeace has published the letter of JV “Techsnabexport”, the organization being responsible for international nuclear contracts in Russia, about purchase of depleted uranium hexafluoride (UF6) from URENCO Dutch company at price of USD 0.6 per kg. The representatives of the nuclear industry consider UF6 to be “valuable” raw materials for the energy industry, but such low price makes it doubtful. In the opinion of Greenpeace, this is one more confirmation that the UF6 export from Western Europe to Russia is nothing else but import of radioactive waste to Russia.
July 13, 2007
Today Greenpeace Russia called on the president of the international Olympic Committe (IOC) Jacque Rogge to protect the unique territories of the buffer zone of the Wold Heritage property «Western Caucasus» from Olympic venues construction.
July 05, 2007
5 July 2007, Moscow. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) chose Sochi as the host city for the 2014 Winter Olympics. This decision can hardly be called well considered.
July 02, 2007
2 July 2007, Christchurch, New Zealand. World Heritage Centre and IUCN will be sending their monitoring mission to Western Caucasus soon. This decision was made at the 31 World Heritage Committee (WHC) session.
June 19, 2007
19 June 2007. Today, at a press conference in St. Petersburg, Greenpeace Russia released preliminary results of an independent research project on the environmental condition of the main river in the city and announced the launch of the Clean Neva project. The goal of the project is to improve the water quality in the Neva and to keep it clean.
June 06, 2007
May 22nd 2007. Moscow-Sochi. The Press Service of the RF ministry of natural resources tomorrow, on the 23rd of May in Sochi there will be the opening of the forum “Sochi-2014 – a step to the stable development”, associated with the commemoration of the International Biological Diversity Day. Both the representatives of different ministries and departments and the representatives of sociality and science are going to take part in the forum. It is also planned to invite the representatives of United Nations Environment Program, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural organization, world resources institute, and of other organizations.
June 02, 2007
June 1, 2007, Moscow. Today, on International Children's Day, Greenpeace activists came to the Russian Ministry of Health and Social Development demanding a stop to experiments on children. With the Ministry's approval, Russian children are still given genetically modified food. Furthermore, kids living in the radiation contaminated town of Muslyumovo have been part of an experiment all their lives.
