In Chelyabinsk, on the night of May 31 to June 1, unidentified persons poured yellow paint on the car of Lyubov Chagaeva, an activist of the Stop GOK movement. about this She writes on her Facebook page.
“Presumably, this is an intimidation of activists of the public movement STOP-GOK, who are fighting against the construction of the Tominsky GOK near Chelyabinsk. Recently, all the STOP-GOK symbols have been in yellow, ”writes Chagaeva.
She also notes that earlier attempts were made to intimidate Stop GOK activists. Unidentified people called them threateningly, posted leaflets with false accusations of pedophilia and false accusations of being responsible for an accident in which a child died.
- OVD-Info talked about the conflict between residents and the authorities over the construction of a mining and processing plant (GOK), and how they are trying to stop the protest.
- In February and March 2018, leaflets and graffiti appeared on the walls in Chelyabinsk and Kopeisk insulting activists and their relatives and calling for the murder of Stop GOK activist Sergei Belogorokhov.
- Two activists of the movement, Vasily Moskovets and Gamil Asatullin, are accused of attempting to set fire to the territory where construction is being carried out. Activists note that there is a provocateur in the case - Yevgeny Medvedev, who joined the movement, who led inflammatory conversations and persuaded Asatullin to commit arson. According to investigators, the instigator was Moskovets, the leader of the Stop GOK.