At night of July 28 special riot police (OMON) broke into the
camp of the Khimki Forest defenders made close to the cutting
site. The police detained 16 persons, including the leader
of the ecologist Yevgeniya Chirikova and five journalists.
However, YABLOKO and ecologists continue defending the Khimki
Forest. YABLOKO’s experts state that the highway Moscow –
St.Petersburg can well take one of the alternative routs without
going through the Khimki Forest which is acting as the “lungs”
of the region. Cutting of the woods has been held without
any permits. Representatives of the construction company did
not come to the scheduled meeting with the ecologists and
residents of Khimki where they had promised to show “all the
due permits”.
In the evening of July 28 Sergei Mitrokhin and YABLOKO’s
activists came to the site and joined the ecologists. They
also made barricades so that to block cutting of the woods.
YABLOKO’s activists also undertook an attempt to get to place
of stationing of the workers cutting the woods and to talk
to these people. It turned out that the camp was guarded by
the police and a private security company. The police demanded
from the activists to leave the camp. However, there was no
cutting of the woods from 6 to 10 p.m. when YABLOKO’s activists
were in the Khimki Forest.
See also:
YABLOKO to participate
in public hearings on the Khimki Forest. Press Release. June
28, 2010.
Off with your
hands from the defenders of the Khimki Forest! Statement by
the YABLOKO party. July 23, 2010
Destruction of nature
has been accelerating. Statement by the YABLOKO party on the
threashold of the World Environment Day. June 4, 2010
In protection
of the Khimki Forest and its defenders. Statement by the YABLOKO
party. July 17, 2010.
Ecologists
block the driver who attacked the leader of the Movement in
Protection of the Khimki Forest. Press Release. July 19, 2010
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