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The Moscow Times, July 22, 2004

50 Protest Phenol Gas

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Residents from the Metrogorodok district in eastern Moscow demonstrate outside Mayor Yury Luzhkov's office on Wednesday.
Moscow residents marched in front of Mayor Yury Luzhkov's office on Wednesday to protest the city government's failure to resettle residents from aging apartment buildings emitting dangerous levels of phenol gas.

About 50 protesters marched from Pushkin Square, where the protest had been sanctioned to take place, to Luzhkov's office at 13 Tverskaya Ulitsa, chanting and carrying signs that read, "We and Our Children Want to Breathe Air, Not Phenol" and "Phenol Buildings Are Moscow's Disgrace."

Several protesters were wearing hygiene masks over their mouths.

"We technically only had permission to demonstrate at Pushkin Square," said one of the protest organizers, Ilya Yashin, a Yabloko party official. "But we felt we had a right ... to make our voices heard."

Exposure to phenol, which was used in the 1970s in the construction of apartment blocks in the city, can damage the body's vital organs.

 

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