Echo-Vostok News Agency

NA Echo-Vostok emerged from the newspaper Echo of Chernobyl. This publication, started in 1991 as an an attempt "to bring to light the real consequences of this horrible nuclear disaster," convinced Konechenkov and others of the need to establish an independent "eco news" agency. In September 1992 the News Agency Echo-Vostok was registered as a non-govermental ecology, information and publishing center. The founders are the agency staff and the international NGO Chernobyl Union.

Since May 1993 the agency has been issuing a weekly newsletter on nuclear issues in Ukraine and NIS countries. At the request of the Austrian organization "Anti-Atom International," in 1993 NA E-V translated into Russian and published a summary of the book IAEA�35 Years of Promotion of Nuclear Energy, and in 1994, D. Seyfried's book Gute Argumente�Energie.

Beginning in late 1994 Echo-Vostok started publishing different eco-literature as joint projects with ISAR. In June 1995 the news agency founded, together with the National Technical University of Ukraine, the Library of the Future of Energy.

Promotion of renewable energy sources and energy saving technologies are the current emphases of the agency's activities. The staff consists of five persons.

Last updated:    January 1997

A print version of much of the information contained in this NIS Third Sector Organizations section can be found in the The Post-Soviet Handbook (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1999).

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