Russia revealed to have dumped waste in Baltic

Feb 05, 2010
TBT Staff

The radioactive material dumped in the Baltic is alleged to have come from Latvia.

STOCKHOLM - Swedish Television (SVT) has unveiled that Russia dumped nuclear waste and chemical weapons in the Baltic Sea in the early 90s.

The waste is alleged to have come from the Karosta naval base in Liepaja, Latvia. It was dumped off the coast of Gotland in Sweden.

Members of the Swedish government reported knew of the dumping at the time, but did nothing to prevent or clean up the pollution.

The television channel said that there were three top secret documents -- created in 2009 and 2010 -- that revealed there were suspected dumpings in the Baltic Sea in 1991 and 1994.

BBC reports that the Baltic Sea is one of the most polluted in the world because it is slow to drain into the ocean and that experts claim it is on the verge of being declared a dead sea.

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