Masks are thrown

The Ministry of Emergencies began to issue masks and respirators to residents of Volokolamsk near Moscow, suffering from poisonous emissions from the Yadrovo landfill, Interfax reports with reference to the regional department of the department.

It is reported that the first batch of respirators has already been issued to local residents, the purchase of another party is being prepared.

Since Friday, the city has introduced an increased readiness for emergency situations, the acting on the eve of Heads of Volokolamsk District Andrey Vikharev. According to the official, the local authorities decided in stages to enter the emergency mode.

On Thursday in Volokolamsk, several thousand people gathered for a spontaneous rally near the city administration building. They demanded to introduce emergency mode in the entire Volokolamsk district. Vikharev and the mayor of the city Petr Lazarev came to the protesters.

Both officials said at the rally that the emergency mode would begin to operate in the area from Friday. However, later the Ministry of Emergencies said that there are no grounds for introducing an emergency regime in the Volokolamsk district.

Protests against garbage dumps continue in other cities of the Moscow Region and neighboring areas. On Wednesday, in Kolomna of the Moscow Region, OMON employees detained about 20 residents of Kolomna, opposing the import of garbage to the Volovichi training ground. Later, all the detainees were released from the police, for two of them they made protocols under Article 20.2 (violation of the procedure for conducting public events), another one under Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (disobedience to the police). The protests against go to Kolomna since March 25 - local residents blocked the road and do not allow waste to be imported to the landfill.

On Monday, about 800 residents of the Tarusa of the Kaluga Region reached the rally demanding to close the illegal landfill in the territory of the abandoned plant. On Wednesday, the prosecutor's office of the Tarusky district ordered the owners of the plant to eliminate the landfill.

Protests in Volokolamsk against the Yadrovo landfill have been going on since the beginning of March. On the 24th, about two thousand inhabitants of the city entered the next rally. The first protest rally held on March 3 gathered more than 5 thousand people; Moreover, the entire population of the city barely exceeds 20 thousand. The demonstrators demanded to close the landfill and not to build in the vicinity of the city trace and garbage plants.

On March 21, residents of the cityattacked the head of the Volokolamsk district Evgeny Gavrilov . The incident occurred when he, along with the governor of the Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov, arrived at the hospital, where children were hospitalized with poisoning with poisonous emissions. A spontaneous rally was held at the hospital. Two days later, the governor sent Gavrilov to resign .