The Northern Fleet - Updated

These pages containes continuous updates to Bellona Report no. 2:96, "The Russian Northern Fleet - Sources of Radioactive Contamination", in news article format.

• 1997-10-11: New Russian law on state secrets: All information on Northern Fleet radwaste and subs now secret
• 1997-10-10: The first task when reforming the Navy: Solving the nuclear sub decommission problems
• 1997-10-10: Naval yard employees blocked another road
• 1997-09-19: Defence and Foreign ministers pushing Start-2 ratification: Argumentation falls on deaf ears
• 1997-09-12: Russian Minister of Defence wants rapid ratification of START-2 treaty
• 1997-08-29: Naval tanker rusting in Severodvinsk pending dock repairs
• 1997-08-28: "Tomsk" arrived at the Kola Peninsula
• 1997-08-20: Referendum rejects radwaste facility in the Far East: Shkotovo majority says 'nay'
• 1997-08-15: Far East military-industrial complex: Major strike due by mid September
• 1997-07-27: Pacific Fleet not to be dissolved
• 1997-07-24: Nerpa workers received part of their salary
• 1997-07-24: The Russian Navy to undergo severe reductions: The Pacific Fleet may be dissolved
• 1997-07-24: New information revealed on 1986 sub accident: On the brink of nuclear disaster
• 1997-07-16: Russian government promises military salaries by September
• 1997-07-14: Amursky strike enters second month
• 1997-07-10: Spent fuel might get stuck in Severodvinsk
• 1997-07-08: Russian Parliament believes international co-operation is necessary to speed-up submarine scrapping
• 1997-07-01: The Navy blames the shipbuilding industry for malfunctioning submarines
• 1997-06-25: Pointless hampering of Start-II agreement
• 1997-06-17: Nerpa goes on strike on June 19
• 1997-06-16: "Tomsk" to enter final exams
• 1997-06-11: Finnish Andreeva Guba project suspended
• 1997-06-11: Follow-up of the AMEC declaration
• 1997-06-10: Nuclear Sub Sank in the Pacific
• 1997-05-26: Long delayed train arrives at Severodvinsk
• 1997-05-14: Plasma torch cuts submarines at Nerpa
• 1997-04-18: Fuel shipment from Severodvinsk delayed
• 1997-04-18: First 1997 Yankee for decommissioning
• 1997-04-17: "Peter the Great" stuck in Severomorsk
• 1997-04-10: Deputy atomc minister warnes against declining social conditions
• 1997-04-02: Nuclear powered submarines on sale
• 1997-03-20: No Finnish experts at Andreeva guba
• 1997-03-18: New strike brewing in Severodvinsk
• 1997-03-07: Finnish processing facility to the Northern Fleet
• 1997-03-06: Short funds slow Russian submarine decommissioning
• 1997-03-05: Nuclear wastes piling up at Kola
• 1997-02-27: Strikers blocked nuclear submarine
• 1997-02-26: Decommissioning of nuclear submarines at Polyarny
• 1997-02-19: Two Typhoon subs taken out of service
• 1997-02-18: Strike in Severodvinsk is temporary stopped
• 1997-02-14: Nuclear cruiser arrives in Severomorsk
• 1997-02-13: Submarine Builders Go on Strike
• 1996-11-19: No rush to ratify START-II agreement
• 1996-11-15: Officer killed while defuelling operation of nuclear-powered submarine
• 1996-11-12: Nuclear cruiser will proceed to the Northern Fleet
• 1996-11-11: Construction of new strategic nuclear-powered submarine has started