RUSSIA: RUSSIA THREATENS TO FILE AN OFFICIAL COMPLAINT AGAINST COMPANY WHICH IT SAYS SUPPLIED RADIOACTIVE SAND LAID FOR A DAVIS CUP GOLF QUARTER-FINAL

Record ID: 990090

  • Title: RUSSIA: RUSSIA THREATENS TO FILE AN OFFICIAL COMPLAINT AGAINST COMPANY WHICH IT SAYS SUPPLIED RADIOACTIVE SAND LAID FOR A DAVIS CUP GOLF QUARTER-FINAL
  • Date: 16th July 1999
  • Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (JULY 17, 1999) (ITF- NO ACCESS SWEDEN/RUSSIA) 1. ACTION FROM DAVIS CUP TIE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND SWEDEN STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN (JULY 16, 1999) (RTN - ACCESS ALL) 2. GUSTAV AKERBLOM OF THE SWEDISH RADIATION PROTECTION INSTITUTE STANDING ON A RACING TRACK COVERED BY SAND, TAKING A HANDFUL OF SAND. 3. CLOSE UP AKERBLOM'S HAND WITH THE SAND. 4. AMATEUR TENNIS PLAYER CLEARING THE TENNIS COURT AFTER THE GAME. 5. GUSTAV AKERBLOM SWITCHING THE GEIGER COUNTER ON, AUDIBLE GEIGER COUNTER SOUND. 6. CLOSE UP COUNTER'S METER. 7. SOUNDBITE (English) GUSTAV AKERBLOM POINTING AT THE AREA ON THE MAP WHERE THE SAND WAS COMING FROM: "Many many people live on that shale. And there is a similar kind of shale in Northern Estonia as well as in St.Petersburg area in Russia." 8. AMATEUR TENNIS PLAYER STAFFAN WILOW CLEARING THE COURT. 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Staffan Wilow: "I have been playing on this ground for about twenty years and and I have been playing on the other courts in Sweden. I had never heard anything like that and I did not feel unsure at all. It must be safe." 10. AKERBLOM TALKING TO THE TENNIS PLAYERS. 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Gustav Akerblom: "After the Chernobyl accident there have been very strict regulations in Russia to limit the risk of radiation from contaminated food and building material. But this regulation do not apply to the natural material." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 30th July 1999 13:00
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  • Location: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN AND MOSCOW, RUSSIA
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  • Country: Sweden Russia
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