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A group of scientists and public figures began collecting signatures under an appeal to the authorities regarding the introduction of the inventions of Viktor Petrik. The appeal was published on the website ljenauka.com on the eve of the opening of the International Forum "Clean Water - 2010". The site systematized materials on Petrikgate.

The authors of the appeal "are deeply concerned about the state support of the activities of the citizen V.I. Petrik, issued for the brilliant inventor and scientist." They express alarm for the health of children in the Novgorod region and other regions where water treatment systems manufactured according to Petrik's patents are installed.

Scientists and engineers who signed the document, including experts in the field of water supply, urge the head of government Vladimir Putin to conduct a public examination of the state of the industry. President Dmitry Medvedev, in their opinion, should instruct the Prosecutor General’s Office to conduct an audit of Petrik’s activities, and the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika - to ban the use of “nanophilters”. The authors of the appeal are asking for support from State Duma deputies, participants in the Pure Water forum, Russian and international human rights and environmental organizations.

Meanwhile, in Moscow on Monday, a lawsuit began on the claim of the Society for the Protection of Consumer Rights with a demand to ban Petrik's filters. The inventor himself did not appear at the first meeting in the Perovsky District Court. The hearing was postponed to November 9th. The court is going to appoint an examination of "nanofilters". The plaintiffs refer to the results of an independent examination, according to which these filters make water unsuitable for drinking. The RAS Commission to combat the pseudoscience came to the same conclusion. Petrik, in turn, announced his intention to sue the academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences Eduard Kruglyakov, Evgeny Alexandrov and Vladimir Zakharov. According to Petrik, he was subjected to "directed shilming, monstrous insults and the systematic destruction of the achieved results of scientific and inventive activity."

The Pure Water project, launched in 2006 at the initiative of United Russia, provided for the multi -billion dollar expenses for the widespread introduction of Petrik's inventions. This year, after revealing publications and the conclusion of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the financing of the Pure Water program was cut up to 3 billion rubles a year, and the main performer was the “Russian Water Society” (RVO), the organizer of the Pure Water - 2010 forum. According to the official representative of the RVO, Petrik is not related to this structure. At the same time, as noted by the authors of the appeal, one of the companies of Petrik is a co -founder of the RVO.