Today on July 30, YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin applied
to Prime Minister Putin and Public Prosecutor General Chaika
in view of unlawful cutting of the Khimki Forest.
According to the federal law "On Highways”, "cutting
of the woods is only possible after obtaining a permission
for construction of a highway. The Forestry Code requires
that every user of the forests should obtain a land declaration.
The normative acts of the town of Khimki require obtaining
of a special cutting ticket, which should be supplied with
a dendroplan and a tally sheet. According to our data, all
of these documents are missing, thus cutting of the woods
is unlawful,” runs Mitrokhin’s letter to Public Prosecutor
General.
Sergei Mitrokhin demands that Public Prosecutor’s office
should check the lawfulness of the cutting, while all the
works at the site should be suspended for the time of such
inspection, and also ensure that citizens can get access to
the forest which is a public territory.
Mitrokhin’s letter to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was written
in connection with the statement made by Putin’s Press Secretary
that cutting of the Khimki Forest had been performed “in accordance
with the law”, and the cutting zone "is far less than
stated by the Green”.
Mitrokhin offered to Prime Minister to disclose and publish
in the Internet all the information about construction of
the highway, plans of cutting and obtained permits in accordance
with the law "On the Order of Access to the Information
on the Performance of the State Agencies”.
"Closing of the information by the state agencies and
contractors [in the construction works] may lead to enhancing
of the conflict and radicalisation of the protest," Mitrokhin
warns. It should be also noted that at present Sergei Mitrokhin
and YABLOKO’s activists are going to the Khimki Forest, as
according Vyacheslav Sorokin’s information, the workers have
resumed cutting the trees while the police refuses to come
to the site.
See also:
Sergei
Mitrokhin stopped cutting of the trees in the Khimki Forest.
Press Release. July 30, 2010.
The Phobos company
continues eliminating the Khimki Forest despite Public Prosecutor’s
ban. Press Release. July 30, 2010
Ecologists and civil
activists detained in the Khimki Forest are facing 15 days
of arrest. Press Release. July 29, 2010.
Police
breaks into ecologists’ camp. Press Release. July 28, 2010
Public
hearings on the Khimki Forest postponed. Press Release. July
28, 2010.
Off with your
hands from the defenders of the Khimki Forest! Statement by
the YABLOKO party. July 23, 2010
Ecologists
block the driver who attacked the leader of the Movement in
Protection of the Khimki
Forest.
Press Release. July 19, 2010
In protection
of the Khimki Forest and its defenders. Statement by the YABLOKO
party. July 17, 2010.
Destruction of nature
has been accelerating. Statement by the YABLOKO party on the
threashold of the World Environment Day. June 4, 2010
Protection
of Environment
Human
Rights
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