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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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