YABLOKO celebrated World Environment Day
Press release, 05.06.2015
On June 5, World Environment Day, YABLOKO conducted picketing outside the Ministry for Natural Resources and the Environment of Russia. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin and Secretary of YABLOKO Political Committee Galina Mikhaleva participated in the action.
The action took place under the slogan “The nature is for the people not for the Ministry for Natural Resources!”. The placards told about the crimes committed by the Ministry: the permission to drill the Arctic shelf, nickel mining in the Black Earth region, construction of cathedrals in parks, 5 tuns oil spill each year, construction of palaces for high officials in the Black Sea region and so on.
several placards were devoted to persecution of environmental activists including Evgeny Vitishko.
Posted: June 5th, 2015 under Environmental Policies, Evgeny Vitishko case.