Alex Ovchinnikov

Editor of UWEC Work Group

Alex is a Belarusian environmental journalist and activist. He has MAs in philosophy and sociology (urban studies) from European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania. Alex was an author and co-editor of Green Belarus Belarusian Independent Environmental Media and author and co-editor of Eco.Rayon Ukrainian regional environmental media. In September 2021, he left Belarus for political reasons, first living in Ukraine and now in Georgia. Alex has continued his environmental activities in exile, organizing local environmental meetings and workshops. Participant of the EcoVillage Georgia project.

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Articles at UWEC:

  1. Environmental consequences of the war in Ukraine: June 2026 review
  2. The Zone and the war: the new tragedy of Chornobyl
  3. Environmental consequences of the war in Ukraine: Dec 2025 – February 2026 review
  4. Four years of full-scale war in Ukraine: the environmental perspective
  5. Environmental Consequences of the War in Ukraine—October-November 2025
  6. Environmental and Climate Activism in the time of invasion: Ukraine
  7. Environmental and Climate Activism in the time of invasion: Georgia
  8. Environmental consequences of the war in Ukraine. August-September 2025
  9. Environmental and climate activism in the time of Invasion: Belarus
  10. Environmental consequences of the war in Ukraine: May – June 2025 review
  11. Environmental consequences of the war in Ukraine: February – March 2025 review
  12. Environmental consequences of the war in Ukraine: December 2024 – January 2025 review
  13. Environmental consequences of the war in Ukraine: October – November 2024 Review
  14. Environmental consequences of the war in Ukraine: September 2024 review
  15. An environmental perspective: Are sanctions against Russia working, and if not, why not?
  16. Environmental consequences of the war in Ukraine: May review
  17. Environmental consequences of the war in Ukraine: April 2024 review
  18. Environmental consequences of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Review. March 2024
  19. Environmental consequences of the war in Ukraine: February review
  20. Environmental consequences of Russia’s war in Ukraine: January 2024 Review
  21. On the path to international recognition of ecocide
  22. Green Reconstruction of Ukraine
  23. Belarus eliminates independent environmental organizations and exits the Aarhus Convention: an interview with Ecodom’s Marina Dubina
  24. Civil society on the path to Ukraine’s green recovery
  25. Tracking impacts on nature while winning the war: an interview with Olha Boiko
  26. Interview with  Olena Kravchenko of the NGO “Environment-People-Law”
  27. War and Rivers: a conversation with Eugene Simonov
  28. Russia prosecutes activist for citing IAEA report
  29. Resistance is not useless: How Russian environmental activism persists in wartime
  30. UWEC Work Group: The Year in review