The boats are in naval bases all along the Kola coast, and two of them are lying in Murmansk, a city of 430,000 people. Slow progress Bellona's Russian office is in Murmansk. Privately, many Western experts are deeply worried at the potential for catastrophic contamination in northern Russia. They say the problems are not technical, but political - the creaking pace of Russian officialdom, and the ingrained instinct to secrecy. But Bellona refuses to despair.
Progress is very slow.
But it's happening. And as long as it is, that's good.