Environmentalist Kimaev and journalist Gritsevich were detained during a raid against an unauthorized landfill near Sochi

Environmentalist Vladimir Kimaev and journalist Anna Gritsevich were detained in Sochi during a raid against an unauthorized landfill that appeared in the village of Chereshnya, Adler district, Krasnodar Territory, after a flood. the Caucasian Knot about this told The leader of the Law and Order movement, Roman Shikarev, . According to him, he received information about the detention of Kimaev and Gritsevich at about 15:00. “Vladimir Kimaev said that he and Anna Gritsevich were being taken to the Blinovo police station. The environmentalist tried to prevent the emergence of an unauthorized landfill in the village of Chereshnya,” he said. According to Shikarev, the ecologist and Gritsevich went to the landfill after a complaint from the village head of Akhshtyr, Alexander Koropov. “Thirty KAMAZ trucks are waiting their turn to dump the garbage collected after the flood within the village of Chereshnya, Adler District, on the border with the Sochi National Park. Local residents tried to block the road, the head of the city scared the riot police, and people dispersed. So another landfill appeared in Sochi,” Gritsevich wrote on Facebook last night. At the same time, on May 28, the mayor of Sochi, Anatoly Pakhomov, came to the village of Akhshtyr and unsuccessfully tried to persuade residents not to interfere with the unloading of garbage, claiming that this landfill was temporary.