Seven people were detained in Arkhangelsk due to a rally against the import of Moscow garbage

In Arkhangelsk, on Lenin Square, seven people were detained in connection with a rally against the landfill at Shies station, which took place on April 7. This was reported to the OVD-Info hotline, information about the detainees is also available in the telegram channel “Pomorye is not a garbage dump”.

The police detained Yevgeny Voloshin, Yevgeny Balashov, Elena Fefilova, Igor Ivanov, Yulia Tretyakova, Mikhail Yankovsky, Pavel Kuznetsov "to clarify their participation in the past action." They were taken to Police Station No. 4.

Voloshin, Balashov, Fefilova were released without protocols on an administrative offense, Ivanov, Tretyakova, Yankovsky and Kuznetsov are still in the department.

An indefinite protest rally against the dump at Shies station is taking place on Lenin Square - the authorities plan to take all Moscow garbage there. The protesters announced this action immediately after the end of the rally on April 7 - since then, people who are not indifferent to the situation have been in shifts on the square.

No one was detained at the April 7 rally, but were brought ten protesters to the police the next day. On April 9, the situation repeated itself - five participants in an open-ended action were detained . On April 10, protesters were fined up to 200 thousand rubles.

18:22 In Severodvinsk, the police detained activist Valery Sheptukhin, Aleksey Semyonov told OVD-Info. Sheptukhin is being taken to Arkhangelsk in connection with the rally on April 7, he is charged with part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (repeated violation of the rules of the rally).

19:22 Ivanov, Tretyakov, Yankovsky and Kuznetsov were released from the police without administrative protocols.