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Tirana Botanical Garden threatened by ring road
March 14, 2011

Last week, more than 33 Albanian civil society organizations -- including Bankwatch's Albanian partner organisation EDEN -- sent an open letter (pdf) to Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha, protesting against the potential destruction of the Botanical Garden in Tirana.

EBRD
Transport
Balkans
Balkans, biodiversity, road, transparency
Khimki defender Evgenia Chirikova is a woman of courage, literally now
March 11, 2011

Evgenia Chirikova, the leading figure of the Movement to Defend Khimki Forest has yesterday received the US Woman of Courage Award to honour her relentless efforts to save the Khimki Forest near Moscow from being transformed into a motorway.

EBRD
EIB
Transport
biodiversity, human rights, motorways
Shadow report on discrimination in Serbia doesn't cast the best light on EIB and EBRD
February 18, 2011

Roma's discrimination in Serbia is to be discussed by the UN. Serbian member group CEKOR is contributing with experience from the Gazela resettlement process.

EBRD
EIB
Transport
Balkans, human rights, participation, resettlement
EBRD can't stay away from Russian motorways - Khimki destruction goes ahead while women and children are being arrested
February 11, 2011

Yesterday, police in Khimki arrested an activist of the Movement for the Defence of Khimki Forest. The activist Alla Chernyshova and her daughters of 3 and 6 had to spend more than five hours in custody where she was questioned as the main suspect for a false bomb threat.

EBRD
EIB
Transport
CEE, human rights, Khimki, motorways, Russia
Financial intermediaries must not prevent transparency at the EBRD
February 1, 2011

On the occasion of a revision of the EBRD's public information policy, Bankwatch points out the lack of information when it comes to financial intermediaries.

EBRD
Social & economic impacts
financial intermediaries
Tree adoptions lead to more arrests in Khimki Forest
January 17, 2011

Despite the Russian government's controversial decision to go ahead with the Moscow St. Petersburg motorway's original routing through Khimki Forest, environmental activists have not given up their struggle to save the last remaining natural area in a densely populated region.

EBRD
EIB
Transport
human rights, motorways
Have you voted in the 2010 worst EU lobbying awards yet?
November 5, 2010

ArcelorMittal, one of the candidates for the worst EU lobby award, is the world's largest private steel company, producing 10 per cent of the world's steel. It is also one of Europe's largest emitters of CO2. Yet the company successfully lobbied the European Commission on behalf of Europe's biggest polluters to continue getting free greenhouse gas emissions permits until at least 2020.

EBRD
EIB
accountability, ArcelorMittal, corporations, EU, EU, extractive industries, local benefits, policy, transparency
Rotten perceptions, grim reality Turkmenistan off the agenda in European Parliament, Nabucco still nowhere near fit for purpose
October 26, 2010

Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, launched today, confirms Turkmenistan's position as one of the world's least democratic regimes. Promoters of the Nabucco gas pipeline project have opted to adopt a surprisingly tolerant approach to Turkmenistan's endemic failings.

EBRD
EIB
Energy & climate
Social & economic impacts
Bankwatch co-production on Kyrgyz gold mine wins at DOK Leipzig while EBRD sights financing for company featured in the film
October 26, 2010

During last weeks internationally-renowned 53rd Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, DOK Leipzig, Bankwatch's most recent co-production about the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)-financed Kumtor gold mine in Kyrgyzstan All that Glitters collected two awards: the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk award for an excellent Eastern European documentary film and the Healthy Workplaces Film Award for the best documentary film about the subject of work.

EBRD
Other harmful projects
Mining
accountability, Central Asia, extractive industries, local benefits, mining, success
Khimki Forest activist arrested for holding banner during picket action
September 13, 2010

Russian activist Yaroslav Nikitenko was arrested by police on Saturday during a legally permitted picket action in the town of Khimki near Moscow. The action was part of the campaign to change the route of the planned Moscow-St Petersburg motorway so that it avoids the Khimki Forest.

EBRD
EIB
Transport
Social & economic impacts
activism, arrest, CEE, human rights, Khimki, protest, Russia

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