Despite Public Prosecutor’s ban the workers of the Phobos company
constructing the Moscow-St.Petersburg highway continue cutting
of the Khimki forest. Vyacheslav Sorokin, whose house is located
in 200 meters from the Khimki Forest, informed YABLOKO’s leader
Sergei Mitrokhin of it today.
This morning Sorokin hearing the noise of working machines
came to the site and demanded from the workers to show him
their permit on cutting of the woods. After their refusal
he called the police.
The police arriving to the site confirmed that the workers
had no permit for such works and demanded that they should
stop their work and leave the forest.
Sorokin also informed the policemen of stop cutting of the
woods until the end of the trial. As it turned out, the police
had not had this information yet.
Now the police refuses to come to the site of cutting, so
the worker continue cutting the woods. According to a local
resident, the cutting is performed from the side opposite
to the contracting company’s camp (i.e. from the other side
of the Vashutinskoye highway). Two days ago YABLOKO’s activists
erected a barricade there so that to prevent a free delivery
of more machinery there. However, according to Sorokin, the
workers have already dismantled the barricade.
Sergei Mitrokhin with a group of YABLOKO’s activists is already
in the way to the site of cutting.
See also:
Protection
of Environment
Human
Rights
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
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