US EditionDespite risks, residents fight to protect Russian national park
Local authorities classify the project as road repairs to bypass laws, with the highway costing $6.3 million and expected to ease congestion near Moscow, officials said.
- On the outskirts of Moscow, Irina Kuriseva, after being fined in July, returned to check on the construction site in Losiny Ostrov National Park.
- In Korolyov, authorities had become completely indifferent, easing laws in favor of polluters and developers, despite Russian law prohibiting construction in national parks.
- In July, Kuriseva and five other activists blocked machinery spreading asphalt in the forest, and Kuriseva said, 'We were interrogated like criminals who had killed someone.'
- Authorities used fines and brief detentions to deter activists, but the source only reports protests and arrests without quoting Judge Maria Loktionova.
- With dissident voices in Russia silenced, Trunin said authorities justify the 'repairs' argument amid legal and environmental risks.
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‘We Only Want to Defend Nature’: Protesters Fight Roadway Construction in National Park Near Moscow
After being fined last month for protesting against the construction of a roadway through a national park near Moscow, 62-year-old Irina Kuriseva recently returned to check on the site. “We only want to defend nature,” she told AFP at Losiny Ostrov National Park, a nature reserve northeast of Moscow that spans around 130 square kilometers (50 square miles) and is home to hundreds of species, including endangered birds.
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Despite risks, residents fight to protect Russian national park
After getting fined for her environmental protest against a road being built through a national park near Moscow, Irina Kuriseva is back to check on the construction.
Russia: Environmentalists Opposed to the Project to Build a Motorway in the Heart of a National Park
Koroliov - Barely out of the court which sentenced him to a fine for "disobedience to the police", Irina Kurisseva returns to inspect the new destructions in a national park near Moscow, where the authorities want to build a highway. In Russia, on the background of offensive in Ukraine and repression of any dissenting voice, the struggle for the protection of the environment has become a risky affair. "The authorities have become totally indiffe…
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