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Date(s) - Saturday - Jun 20, 2026
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Join us for an urgent and eye-opening webinar on the escalating militarisation of the Baltic Sea. As NATO expands its presence and military infrastructure across the region, peace and environmental activists are raising critical voices about the consequences for both people and planet. This webinar brings together two deeply experienced speakers to examine the historical, political and ecological dimensions of this growing threat.
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Oleg V. Bodrov is a Russian physicist, ecologist, and board member of the International Peace Bureau (IPB). He chairs the Public Council of the Southern Coast of the Gulf of Finland and coordinates the Baltic Civil Peace Initiative. A former scientist in the Soviet nuclear industry, he left the sector after the Chernobyl disaster and dedicated himself entirely to international environmental and peace movements. He co-founded the environmental organisation “Green World” and has spoken at the UN, IAEA, European Parliament, and in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As a documentary filmmaker, he has produced around 20 films on nuclear and environmental safety, many of which have won awards at international festivals. In this talk, he will address the nuclear and environmental dangers posed by current military postures in the Baltic region.
Agneta Norberg co-founded Women for Peace in Sweden in 1980 and is a long-time anti-nuclear activist. She helped organise peace marches from Copenhagen to Paris (1981), from Sweden to Moscow (1982), and from New York to Washington (1983) demanding nuclear disarmament. She is an advisor to the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. In her presentation, she will explore how the Baltic states, heavily influenced by Nazism during WWII, have not openly confronted that past in the way Germany has. She will show how the United States and Germany are now deeply embedded in these countries’ defence policies, with military bases serving as potential launching pads for conflict toward Russia, and how the Swedish military participates in these exercises.