Am_Fear_Liath_Mor: If you can forget all the politico stuff at the end of the news story, I was interested if anything in this story about the environmental/medical part of the story chimes a bell

A little late to the thread, but here are couple of links that touch on "environmental/medical part." These are sources cited in the article that apparently do exist.

I'm not suggesting, nor do I believe, that the Russian article isn't filled with made-up facts and conclusions.

"A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health" published by International Journal of Biological Sciences.

The French agency Commission du Génie Biomoléculaire did apparently comment during their June 2007 meeting. Best can tell (I don't speak French; Google translation helped a little), is published on their website here.

Greenpeace comments here.