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June 2001: GREENPEACE
URGES PUTIN TO VETO NUCLEAR WASTE IMPORTS
7
June 2001: US
CONDITIONS CAST DOUBT ON FUTURE OF RUSSIAN PLANS TO IMPORT
NUCLEAR WASTE
6
June 2001: GREENPEACE
CALLS ON PRESIDENT BUSH TO VETO EXPORTS OF US CONTROLLED NUCLEAR
WASTE TO RUSSIA
18
April 2001: GREENPEACE
SEES SECOND DUMA READING AS BREAKTHROUGH FOR STOPPING SPENT
NUCLEAR FUEL IMPORTS TO RUSSIA
28
March 2001: GREENPEACE
WELCOMES DISMISSAL OF ADAMOV AND CALLS ON RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT
TO REJECT HIS RADIOACTIVE WASTE IMPORT SCHEME
22
March 2001: DUMA
DELAYS DECISION AS POLITICAL OPPOSITION GROWS TO LAW ALLOWING
RADIOACTIVE WASTE IMPORTS TO RUSSIA
12
March 2001: RUSSIAN
SUPREME COURT ACCEPTS GREENPEACE PETITION TO INVESTIGATE ILLEGAL
REJECTION OF SIGNATURES OPPOSING RADIOACTIVE WASTE IMPORTS
5
March 2001: EU
RUSSIAN "DISARMAMENT" FUNDING COULD INCREASE RUSSIAN STOCKS
OF WEAPONS-USABLE PLUTONIUM
Download
the Greenpeace report: The
Disarmament Myth of Plutonium Fuel Production 
2
March, 2001: GREENPEACE
REVEALS DOCUMENTS PROVING CORRUPTION BY RUSSIA'S ATOMIC MINISTER
AND CALLS FOR HALT TO HIS PLANS TO IMPORT RADIOACTIVE WASTE
Click
the following link for the confidential report from the Russian
Parliamentary Anti-Corruption Commission detailing illegal
business activities of the Minister of Atomic Energy, Evgeny
Adamov:
(English
translation) 
( in Russian) www.greenpeace.ru
21
December 2000: RUSSIAN
PARLIAMENT VOTES TO BECOME THE WORLD'S NUCLEAR DUMP SITE
21
December 2000: GREENPEACE
CALLS ON DUMA TO REJECT CHANGES TO ENVIRONMENT LAW TO ALLOW
IMPORT OF FOREIGN NUCLEAR WASTE
29
November, 2000:
GREENPEACE CONDEMNS RUSSIAN REJECTION OF NUCLEAR WASTE IMPORTS
REFERENDUM
24
October 2000: 2.5
MILLION RUSSIANS SAY NO TO RADIOACTIVE WASTE IMPORTS AND CALL
FOR NATIONAL REFERENDUM
9 October 2000: GREENPEACE
AND RUSSIAN VILLAGERS DELIVER RADIOACTIVE SOIL TO DUMA IN
CALL FOR AN END TO GOVERNMENT PLANS TO IMPORT THOUSANDS OF
TONS OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE
23
March 2000: RUSSIAN
CABINET EXPECTED TO APPROVE PLANS TO IMPORT NUCLEAR WASTE