26 March 2007 year

Boris Gabarayev, Director General of Research Institute of Power Engineering

– Uranium enrichment centers will give us additional clients More

23 March 2007 year

Nikolay Kuzelev, Director General of All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics and Automation

– The International Uranium Enrichment Center project is very profitable for Russia More

23 March 2007 year

Luis Echavarri, Director General of OECD Nuclear Energy Agency

– Russia’s initiative for establishing an international uranium enrichment center is extremely important for both nonproliferation and guaranteed access of NPPs to nuclear fuel More

20 March 2007 year

Valery Yazev, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Energy, Transport and Communication

— I am pushing everybody in the country into raising the share of nuclear energy from present 16% to 25% More

19 March 2007 year

Sergey Obozov, head of Rosenergoatom

– The meeting of Rosatom’s Board has shown once again that the Russian Government pays serious attention to the nuclear energy sector development More

16 March 2007 year

Sergey Shmatko, Atomstroyexport President

— One of our key tasks is to actively promote Russian nuclear technologies on international markets More

16 March 2007 year

Viktor Opekunov, member of State Duma Committee on Energy, Transport and Communication

— Supervision by First Vice-Premier will help the nuclear power industry to solve all of its tasks More

16 March 2007 year

Anton Badenkov, Acting President of TVEL

– The decision to enlarge the activities of Russian nuclear companies abroad was one of the most important results of Rosatom’s Board meeting More

14 March 2007 year

Clay Sell, US Deputy Energy Secretary

— The United States supports Russia’s position on the situation over Busherh More

13 March 2007 year

Valentin Mezhevich, First Vice Chairman of Federation Council Committee on Natural Monopolies

— Atomstroyexport must not continue building Bushehr NPP without financing More

13 March 2007 year

Yuri Senturin, Vice Chairman of State Duma Committee on Energy, Transport and Communication

— Contradictions over Bushehr NPP are result of hard situation over Iran’s nuclear program More

13 March 2007 year

Mikhail Grishankov, first vice chairman of State Duma Security Committee, chairman of SD Anti-Corruption Committee

– The position of the Russian side on the Bushehr NPP project is quite legitimate More

12 March 2007 year

Viktor Opekunov, chairman of the State Duma Sub-Committee on Nuclear Energy

– Political reasons are decisive in the situation over Bushehr NPP project More

12 March 2007 year

Vladimir Zhidkikh, first vice chairman of State Duma Committee on Federation Affairs and Regional Policy

— Iran’s position is surprising, considering their initial interest More

03 March 2007 year

Gleb Pavlovsky, President of Effective Policy Foundation

— When protesting against something, one should offer some other thing in exchange More

02 March 2007 year

Anatoly Nazarov, Chairman of Ecological Committee of Chernobyl Association (Moscow), Director of Ecological Center of Institute for the History of Natural Science and Engineering of RAS, Chairman of Bio-Sphere Department of RANS, academic

– To protest against nuclear energy means to call for destruction of industry More

02 March 2007 year

Sergey Maltyzhakov, Director of Green House regional project, candidate of historical sciences

— To hold anti-nuclear demonstrations with just slogans rather than arguments in hand is mere populism More

02 March 2007 year

Valery Tikhomirov, Director of Research Institute for Environment Protection, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences

– Those calling for “closing everything down” show absolutely non-constructive and groundless approach More

02 March 2007 year

Sergey Baranovsky, President of Russian Green Cross, academic, professor, doctor of technical sciences

— The cooperation of public and ecological organizations with Rosatom should be constructive More

02 March 2007 year

Vladimir Akhrameyko, deputy of Murmansk regional duma

— The idea to protest against NPP in Murmansk is just a pre-electoral move More

01 March 2007 year

Vitaly Lebedenko, chairman of “Ecological Forum” all-Russian public movement

– It makes no sense protesting against nuclear energy development More

01 March 2007 year

Sergey Artyomenko, expert on regional development in the post-Soviet area

— The anti-NPP actions make one wonder: what is behind such activity? More

01 March 2007 year

Igor Starchenkov, Chief of Radiation Safety Inspection of Mari El

– Anti-NPP actions are politicized and related to elections More

01 March 2007 year

Vladimir Grachev, chairman of State Duma Committee on Ecology, member of Russian Academy of Sciences

– It is a stupid idea to close the whole nuclear power sector More

01 March 2007 year

Yuri Raptanov, chairman of the council of all-Russian public ecological organization “Podorozhnik”

– The anti-nuclear actions by the Russian greens are part of the western countries’ rivalry with the Russian nuclear power industry More

01 March 2007 year

Gennady Dernovoy, ecological expert, deputy secretary of Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Moscow region

– What they are offering to TV cameras is just a traditional ecological anti-nuclear “scary story” More

01 March 2007 year

Valery Kuznetsov, deputy of Novovoronezh municipal Duma (Voronezh region)

– The organizers of the actions against the construction of new NPPs have political ends in view More