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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3Here's his wikipedia stub - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Mitvol wherein you will note the name of Boris (indymedia regulars will recall the problems bzzting Boris).
You can't really make up your mind on the Sakhalin projects or Mitvol or Shell's role in the same without learning a little bit about them - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhalin-II
At first Mitvol built a reputation for being just the sort of tough environmental cookie sensible people dream about on the Irish scene. A man who used his ministerial powers to bring surprise visits and inspections on environmentally damaging industrial activity (noting that the mid Asia region which was once united under the Soviet system is the most scarred human activity section of the planet). But that could have been just fluff - what is interesting is his attack on the billionaire suburbs of Moscow, which are legendary for their recently erected mansions and dachas and palaces none of which keep "equilibrium" with the surrounds.
some bits of Mitvol's career from the very same news-organisation (Moscow news) which the contributor above ave the impression they are a close reader of :-
Textbook Case
When Gazprom first said it wanted a stake, it could not reach agreement with Shell on a price. That is when Oleg Mitvol, the head of the Natural Resources ...
www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2006/12/20/007.html
Mitvol Tries to Allay Investors' Fears
Government environmental inspector Oleg Mitvol attempted to allay investors' concerns Tuesday, insisting his investigation into Shell's Sakhalin-2 project ...
www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2006/11/15/041.html
Mitvol Stops Construction Work at Moskva-City
As if taking on Shell, Alla Pugachyova and Moscow region Governor Boris Gromov was not enough, government inspector Oleg Mitvol has now trained his sights ...
www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2007/07/10/058.html
Mitvol Trashes Sakhalin Ecology Plan
The government may sue the Shell-led Sakhalin-2 group in international courts to ... Oleg Mitvol, deputy head of the Federal Service for the Inspection of ...
www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2006/11/13/041.html
Shell succumbed to months of creeping state pressure on Monday, ... Oleg Mitvol loves to grab the headlines. He barges onto private oil fields unannounced, ...
www.themoscowtimes.com/indexes/2006/12/12/01.html
Mitvol's Agency Hit by Infighting
... oil firms such as Shell, dissolved into infighting between officials Friday, ... Oleg Mitvol, the outspoken deputy head of the ministry's environmental ...
www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2006/12/11/045.html
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Recently we had news of grass-root opposition to high pollution stake development in the "far north east" of the Russian state as Nazi's thought by some to be hirelings of the Russian state killed an anarchist environmentalist- http://indymedia.ie/article/83558
Fifty million dollars.
They could have bought twenty mayo county councils for that.
they probrably did!