MOSCOW — Russia said Friday it was considering sending prisoners to help clean up the Arctic after a massive diesel spill hit a remote Siberian territory last year.
The head of Russia’s Federal Prison Service (FSIN), Alexander Kalashnikov, said that an agreement to that effect had been reached with the administration of the Arctic city of Norilsk.
“Russia’s FSIN is looking into the possibility of getting convicts involved in the cleanup of the Arctic zone,” Kalashnikov said at a meeting in comments confirmed by the prison service.
He asked prison management officials, who are in charge of penal colonies in the Arctic, to “continue” working on the issue.
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