Environmental Degradation of Russian Coastal Regions: The Case of the Gulf of Finland

The authors, Trumbull and Bodrov, devote particular attention to two major developments, a multifunctional port complex and expansion of an existing nuclear power plant. Based on extensive personal observations and government documents, they analyze the emerging environmental threat posed by these initiatives as well as the challenging political environment that discourages public participation and local involvement in spatial planning.

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Dry toilet demonstration sites in Russia

Releases of household wastwater from settlements in rural areas of the Leningrad region considerably contribute to the pollution of rivers and lakes, and thus the Baltic Sea, since the wastewater is usually not processed at all.

This summer CCB supported a CEI project on construction of two demonstration sites with urine separating toilets in the Leningrad region.

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Baltic Salmon in Belarus? YES!

  It has finally been confirmed that Baltic Salmon (Salmo salar) is indeed living in the Vilia basin in Belarus. In September 2009 researchers of the Belarus Academy of Sciences found young salmon in the Dudka river, about 800 m upstream the confluence with Vilia.

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First cycle River Basin Management Plans under our control?

The European Community has faced the important challenges to recover the good status of water bodies by 2015, as required by the Water Framework Directive. Water in rivers, estuaries and coasts will hopefully improve under measures set up in the River Basin Management Plans drawn up for river basin districts across Europe.

Read the article by CCB Water Policy Officer Anna Smolka, on her experience from the RBMP planning process.

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Report from the International River Watch Camp in Belarus

Between July 30 - August 5 2008, an International River Watch Camp was organised by ARB BirdLife (Belarus) and Friends of the Baltic (Russia) at the Vileiskoye lake (basin of Western Dvina) in Belarus.

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Salmon management

Read about salmon management in Denmark and the new ban on driftnets that came into force in the Baltic Sea on 1st of January 2008.

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Belarus Environmentalists are Pressing Ahead with the Project to Protect Baltic Salmons

In the small Belarus town of Ostrovets the Atlantic Salmon Conservation Round Table was held on the 14 th December 2007.

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Report from the Estonian National Salmon Forum held in December 2007

Taavi Nuum, Estonian Green Movement, gives his reflections on the situation for salmonids in Estonian waters.

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Organic Agriculture in Belarus - Does it exist?

Nina Palutskaya, CCB salmon project leader in Belarus asks herself this question. Read her answer.

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Atlantic salmons spawning in the river Tartak, Belarus, November 2007

Nina Palutskaya, CCB project leader of the project "Restoration of wild salmon habitats - preparation and awareness raising" in Belarus, recorded Atlantic salmons spawning in the Tartak river. Read about her experience.

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Environmental specialists from Belarus and Lithuania met at the CCB workshop in Vilnius 23-24 August 2007

Nina Palutskaya, CCB project leader of the project "Restoration of wild salmon habitats - preparation and awareness raising" in Belarus, attended the meeting.

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Environmental education programme River Watch supported by CCB arrived Belarus about two years ago and captured the imagination of several schools straight away.

Nina Palutskaya from Belarus writes about the implementation of the River Watch programme in her country.

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