A participant in protests against a landfill was detained at Shies station

The police detained Victoria Chernyshova, who was taking part in protests against the construction of a landfill at the Shies station in the Arkhangelsk region. about this with reference to eco-activist Nikolai Viktorov. writes MBKh Media

Chernyshova was detained at the railway station. The woman is charged with obstructing the work of equipment and a fight with employees of a private security company. What kind of violations of the administrative or criminal code in question - Viktorov could not specify. Now Chernyshova is being taken to the police department in Kotlas.

He also notes that under pressure, protocols are drawn up for many activists right at the station, after which they are released.

May 31 On the Shies News page on Twitter , they report that Viktoria Chernyshova was found guilty under Article 20.2.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (organizing a mass gathering of citizens in a public place). She was fined ten thousand rubles.

• A landfill is being built in Shiyes to bring garbage from Moscow into the region. It is planned that it will cover an area of ​​300 hectares. Local residents believe that the operation of the landfill will lead to an environmental disaster. For more than a month, activists have been on duty at the construction site and block the roads to the station.
• On April 7, an uncoordinated procession and rally took place in Arkhangelsk against the import of Moscow garbage, a landfill for which is planned to be built at Shies station. On that day, the police did not detain anyone, but after the event, pressure on environmental activists intensified. About 36 people were fined for holding an anti-garbage campaign in Arkhangelsk for a total amount of more than 991 thousand rubles. According to MBH Media, the figure has already reached one million rubles.
• At the end of April, a criminal case was opened under the "Dadino article" 212.1 of the Criminal Code - repeated violation of the rules of public events. Andrei Borovikov, a participant in the Arkhangelsk environmental protests, became his defendant.