Irkutsk: Baikal's defense picket went into thirty -degree frost

A one and a half hour single picket in a 30-degree frost near the government of the Irkutsk Region, the civil activist Marina Aksenova spent today. She stood with a poster: "To produce tourist cases on Olkhon = Spit in the heart of Lake Baikal." It was her answer to the rally, which was held in the village of Elanovs, Olkhonsky district. About five hundred local residents gathered there for the action.

In Elants, people demanded that the authorities allow the construction of residential buildings in the central ecological zone of the Baikal natural territory, as well as withdraw agricultural land from the national park and distribute them to peasant farms, to distinguish common hunting agents in the Olkhonsky district.

Marina Aksenova and her like-minded ecologists have the opposite point of view. They believe that construction cannot be resolved, and the boundaries of the national park must be preserved. She herself from the city of Angarsk, but decided to hold a protest in Irkutsk so that the regional authorities saw that there was a different point of view, opposite to the one that the rally participants in Elants expressed.

"The fulfillment of the requirements of their rally will lead to the fact that we will all unite and demand from UNESCO that Baikal is assigned the status of" Heritage under the threat ". Because Baikal’s coast is built up in a circle, reduce the guarded areas. If the authorities listen to the participants of that rally, then this will kill the island of Olkhon and Baikal," said the correspondent "Siberia. Reali" Aksenova.

The activist went to the picket today, despite the severe frost, as she received information that they plan to carry out a similar rally for building building permission in Irkutsk. If this really happens, then Marina Aksenova intends to go to this event and speak to the audience.