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Bellona – St. Petersburg

Logo: Bellona, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Environmental rights NGO based in Saint Petersburg, Russia

Bellona – St. Petersburg was a branch of the Norwegian environmental rights organization Bellona Foundation. The St. Petersburg office of Bellona Foundation (ERC Bellona) was founded in April 1998 following the trials of such activists as Fedorov–Mirzoyanov, Nikolai Shchur, and Alexander Nikitin, who had begun to distribute information about environmental threats and were being persecuted by the very agencies responsible for causing these threats. ERC Bellona was located in the center of St. Petersburg, on Suvorovsky Prospect.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Apr 1998Founded1

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Bellona – St. Petersburg was a branch of the Norwegian environmental rights organization Bellona Foundation.2

The story

The branch's mission statement was to "defend the right to unspoiled natural resources" in Russia. Bellona St. Petersburg had three major goals detailed on its website. The first goal termed their "legal direction," was to extend legal help to Russian citizens in defense of their right to unspoiled natural resources. The second goal, their "informational direction", aimed to increase awareness of environmental safety law through its website and quarterly magazine, Ecology and Law. The third goal, their "expert assessment direction," aimed to provide expert assistance on energy safety.

Each year, ERC Bellona would carry out at least five different projects, the results of which were published on its website, in the form of annual reports.

The organization closed its offices in Russia, in November 2022, citing the invasion of Ukraine as a major reason for the closure. The activities of the St. Petersburg office have been moved to Vilnius, Lithuania.

From Wikipedia’s article on Bellona – St. Petersburg, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

  1. Apr 1998Founded Founded1

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