Nikolai Rybakov’s Facebook page, 12.09.2021

Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

Today in Yekaterinburg, together with Maxim Petlin, Сhairman of the Sverdlovsk Region branch of the party, and Yabloko’s candidates for the State Duma Alexander Kudelkin, Vladislav Postnikov, Albert Khusnutdinov, and Konstantin Kiselev, head of the Yabloko faction in the Yekaterinburg Duma, I came to the park of the Ural State University of Railway Transport which Yabloko activists helped to save from cutting. The management of the Ural State University of Railway Transport has been trying to build a swimming pool instead of the park for ten years already. In 2020, dozens of large trees were cut down on the territory, which caused discontent among citizens. Thanks to the actions of the activists from the Sverdlovsk Region branch of Yabloko and local environmental activists, the felling was stopped, and new trees were planted in place of the felled ones. Yabloko considers it necessary to introduce a moratorium on the development of green zones in our cities – the environmental situation in megacities is unfavourable and it is necessary to find other territories for construction, and not to destroy parks and gradens.

Together with Maxim Petlin we attended the training of observers. Many people want the elections in the country to be fair and so that everyone’s voice be heard.

At the end of the day, we met with voters and handed out leaflets in the Mayakovsky Park for Recreation and Leisure.