Lawyer
Says Activists Murder Not Linked to Antinuclear Work
October
7, 2002
KYIV,
Ukraine -- Alexei Tolkachov, the chairperson of the Public
Committee for State Security, has said that the murder of Ruslan Syniavskyi was probably unrelated to Syniavskyis groups involvement
in antinuclear work in Ukraine. Tolkachov
told NIRS WISE Ukraine that Syniavskyi, while being a leader of the environmental
non-governmental organization Public Control, was not working on the groups
legal campaign against the completion of Ukraines controversial reactors
at Khmelnytskyi and Rivne (K2R4).
Tolkachov also said that Syniavskyi was a private businessman.
The Public Committee for State Security, meanwhile,
takes its case to court today. Representing
several groups, lawyers for will argue that the state nuclear monopoly Energoatom,
did not conduct proper studies of the environmental and safety impacts of
the K2R4 units.
For more information, contact NIRS WISE Ukraine
at akul@svitonline.com or see our
website at http://nonukes.narod.ru