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MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator...
the summit, Swedish television reported that Russian ships had allegedly dumped chemical munitions or radioactive materials near Gotland Island in 1991 or possibly in 1994, as they were leaving former Soviet naval bases in Latvia.The Swedish government said the reports had to be verified before they could be commented upon. The Russian military denied the allegations and called them absurd as those bases had never stored any chemical or nuclear weapons.
In general, it is amazing what gas can do. Finland says it was happy to learn that the Russian side will finally build sewage and effluent purification facilities in Kaliningrad, Moscow"s Baltic exclave.
This issue has been up in the air for the past 15 years. Kaliningrad is considered one of the most polluted corners of the Baltic Sea because it still lacks purification facilities. Even St. Petersburg has improved sewage and effluent purification standards in the past few years.