For Love and Freedom on Clean Mother-Earth! _______________________________________________________________ !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! !!! !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! ! ! !!!!! !!!!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !! ! ! ! ! !!! ! ! ! ! ! !!! !!! !!! ! ! ! !!!!! !!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !! ! ! !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! ! !!!!! ! ! !!!!! !!!!! ! _______________________________________________________________ "ECODEFENSE!inform" environmental inform-bulletin * number 25 * _______________________________________________________________ ................................................* AUGUST 1994 * _______________________________________________________________ "ECODEFENSE!" Moskovsky prospekt 120-34 236006 Kaliningrad/Koenigsberg Russia telephone +7 0112 437286 E-mail: ecodefense@glas.apc.org _______________________________________________________________ CONTENT News PUBLICATIONS ENVIRONMENTAL Event KALININGRAD AUTHORITIES STOPPED THE ACTION OF GREENS Document STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE PRESENT ECODEFENSE!inform present WISSENSCHAFTSLADEN HANNOVER e.V. _______________________________________________________________ Publication Published WWF Baltic Bulletin issue 3-4, 1994 by WWF-baltic office in Sweden. Content: any kind news about baltic nature from researchers who concerning about Baltic Sea environment. Available in English. Contact: WWF-BB editor Britt Hagerhall Aniansson, PO Box 26044, S-750 26 Uppsala, Sweden, tel +46 18 46 99 66, fax +46 18 46 95 59 Environmental THREE SEIZED IN RUSSIA WITH RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCE ST PETERSBURG, Aug 18 (Reuter) Russian police said on Thursday three men had been seized while trying to sell a batch of unspecified highly-radioactive material. The three were arrested GERMANY SEES THIRD WORLD BEHIND NUCLEAR SMUGGLING By Tom Heneghan BONN, Aug 18 (Reuter) German officials were tight-lipped on Thursday about a possible Pakistani connection in nuclear smuggling but made clear they suspected would-be atomic powers BOLIVIA: TOXIC WASTE EXPORTS DOG HUGE-BONN, (Aug. 18) IPS Greenpeace has accused the huge German firm Metallgesellschaft of unfairly profiting at "the expense of the people and the environment in Bolivia." A spokesman for the international BNA INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT DAILY Aug. 19, 1994 Germany GERMANY, RUSSIA AGREE ON CLEANUP OF POLLUTED CHEMICAL COMPANY SITES DUSSELDORF, Germany (BNA) Germany and Russia have agreed to cooperate in restoring polluted chemical sites in both GERMANS, RUSSIANS HOLD NUCLEAR SMUGGLING TALKS MOSCOW, Aug 20 (Reuter) Top officials from Germany's intelligence service arrived in Moscow on Saturday for talks on how to stop nuclear materials being smuggled across international borders. RUSSIA ADMITS LAX NUCLEAR SECURITY By Konstantin Trifonov ST PETERSBURG, Aug 19 (Reuter) An official from Russia's nuclear watchdog, in the first admission of lax security at nuclear facilities, said on Friday that the theft of radioactive materials The Guardian August 19, 1994 GERMANY DENIES TECHNOLOGY SALES ENCOURAGE ARMS PROLIFERATION; Nuclear smuggling 1: Anna Tomforde in Bonn reports on growing unease following last week's arrest of four couriers BYLINE: Anna Tomforde GERMAN officials yesterday BOMB INGREDIENT LITHIUM FOUND WITH SMUGGLED PLUTONIUM By Kevin Liffey BONN, Aug 20 (Reuter) German authorities said on Saturday they had seized around one kg (two pounds) of lithium-6, used in the making of hydrogen bombs, when they confiscated _______________________________________________________________ *************************************************************** KALININGRAD AUTHORITIES STOPPED THE ACTION OF GREENS August 19, 1994 (EDI) Kaliningrad, The authorities of Kaliningrad/Koenigsberg stopped the non-violent international environmental action of Baltic Greens. The bus with 36 people from Lithuanian Green Movement, Lithuanian Universities, ECODEFENSE! (Kaliningrad/Koenigsberg) and other environmentalists was stopped before Russian-Polish border (in Kaliningrad region). The bus went along the Lithuanian and Kaliningrad coast of the Baltic Sea. The participants of the action went out on the coast time-to-time and collected coastal garbage. The plan of the action included similar walk along the Lithuanian, Kaliningrad and Polish coast. After it the plan included to bring the garbage and give it to the authorities: Lithuanian garbage to the lithuanian authorities, the Russian garbage to the Russian authorities, the Polish garbage to the Polish authorities. The authorities said the action organizers need pay about 1.300.000 Rub (about $650) for the trip in Poland where Polish Greens waited the bus for the action continuation. Participants don't had this money and the official faces of the Kaliningrad administration don't helped (Before it lithuanian authorities helped to the organizers, in the similar case). Action participants will present the packs with the coast garbage to the administrations of the coastal regions. _______________________________________________________________ *************************************************************** STOCKHOLM IMTERNATIONAL PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE PRESENT Ian Anthony (ed.) THE FUTURE OF THE DEFENCE INDUSTRIES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE Sipri Research Report No.7 Oxford/Stockholm, University Press/SIPRI, 1994, 142 p. The report examines the defence industries in Central and Eastern Europe as they attempt to restructure in the wake of changes brought about by the end of the cold war and downward trends in both military expenditure and arms control exports. Separate chapters examine the developing military doctrines in Central and Eastern Europe, the trend in military expenditure, the nature of the efforts to restructure the defence industries, the international dimensions of industrial restructuring and the role of arms exports. Finally, the book attemps to relate the on-going process of defence industrial restructuring into the context of an overall economic structural adjustment that is now underway in the countries under study. Just a personal matter of terminology: I believe it is better to speak about 'military' industry instead of 'defence' industry, especially as a large part of this study is devoted to Eastern European international arms exports and the 'defence' priorities/intentions of the customers are not always clear. Ernst Gulcher For more information: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute - SIPRI Ian Anthony, Siemon Wezeman Pipers Vag 28, 171 73 Solna, Sverige, tel: +46-8-6559700/6559751; fax: 6559733 email: siparms@pns.apc.org (sipri@pns.apc.org, Sipri@z.se) _______________________________________________________________ *************************************************************** WISSENSCHAFTSLADEN HANNOVER e.V. (continuation from N24) Therefore we give advice to all who need scientific support in dealing with environmental problems and conflicts. We give literature references and help to build up information networks for organizations. If the ones who ask our help are private people, grass root organizations and citizens' action groups or if the probelm is from outstanding public interest we try to do the work for free - as far as possible. Therefore we take part in research with our own projects (see below). We try hard to work in fields that are of an topical scientific interest and to use our work in a way that is of interest for relevant groups of society and not only for the scientific community itself. We support critical scientists and academics and give students the chance to take part in our projects to get to know something about existing alternatives to the traditional scientific framework. Following a selection of topical projects: * Environmental consciousness of foreign people. * Electromagnetic fields. Advices for the public and strategies for mediation. * History of nature and technics. Case studies and comparisons in history and presence. * Ecology and time-system. * Saving energy. * Waste avoidance. Conseptional reflections and case studies. * Food-stuffs and genetics. * Climate change and its implications. * Traffic and environment. Contact: WISSENSCHAFTSLADEN DEUTCHLAND , Nieschlagstrasse 26, 30449 Hanover, Germany. Tel. +49 511 441916 fax +49 511 452023 _______________________________________________________________ *************************************************************** ECODEFENSE!inform bulletins get more than 150 env.NGOs of EARTH *************************************************************** Editorial Board thanks for financial help from "Sowing the Seeds of Democracy: A project for Environmental Grant-Making in tha NIS" program, which realize by ISAR. *************************************************************** The reprint are welcome (with the reference, if possible). *************************************************************** Editorial Board: Alexandra Koroleva, Vladimir Sliviak ***************************************************************