European Homeland Security
Credits: Lina Kolesnikova
 On April 11, 2011, at 17:55hrs local time (15:55hrs GMT) an explosion at Oktyabrskaya (October) station on the Minsk underground in Belarus took the lives of 15 people and wounded about 200 others, says Lina Kolesnikova |
 A tragic passenger cruise ship sinking on the Volga River has highlighted problems with ageing infrastructure and lack of safety enforcement on Russia’s river transportation system, according to Lina Kolesnikova |
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 Poland lost a significant tranche of its political elite one April morning this year when the Presidential Air Force jet crashed in Russia, killing all on board, reports Lina Kolesnikova |
 As the EU struggles to develop of co-ordinated security policy in the wake of the Lisbon Treaty, Lina Kolesnikova finds opinion is divided between centralised and state-led solutions |
 With the threat of a major terrorist attack still pressing, Lina Kolesnikova argues that too many emergency responders are still poorly organised and led, and calls for a “top down” approach to managing major incident response |
 Lina Kolesnikova discusses the work being achieved by FRONTEX to secure the EU’s borders, and calls for a Europewide approach to illegal immigration and cross-border criminality |
 Last year was exceptional for weather extremes in Moscow, culminating in a severe ice storm that paralysed the capital’s airports, writes Lina Kolesnikova |
 Lina Kolesnikova looks at the issues behind the large scale evacuation of foreign nationals in an emergency, saying that both the host government and the nations seeking to remove their citizens to safety must be aware of emergency response issues in advance |
 Lina Kolesnikova calls for a reassessment of security in all public areas of critical transport hubs to prevent a repetition of January’s Domodedovo airport attack in Moscow which killed 37 people |
 Lina Kolesnikova examines the threat to EU borders posed by the flood of immigrants from North Africa, and warns of severe consequences if a new border security policy is not soon agreed |
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