The lawyer for Shies's defense had glue poured on the lock in his office

Lawyer Oksana Vladyka, who defends environmental activists who oppose the construction of a landfill at the Shies station in the Arkhangelsk region, said that a lock in her office was covered with glue. about this Vladyka herself writes on her page on VKontakte.

According to Vladyka, this happened after she refused to let a policeman inspect the premises. Major Aleksey Ogorelkov from the public order department of the city Ministry of Internal Affairs came to her office on the evening of September 8 and announced that the duty unit had received a message that “extremist literature is being printed in this office.” Vladyka did not let him in, but left the office herself. Then she called her lawyer and friends, after which she returned with friends to the office to pick up things, and found that “superglue was poured into the lock cylinder” and the lock could not be opened.

Vladyka's friends arrived in two cars. Shortly after both cars drove away from the office, they were stopped by traffic police and the police. They announced that the car Vladyka was in was wanted because it had allegedly been stolen. However, the owner of the car was driving. When this turned out, the police said that extremist literature was being transported in the car. “Having turned everything in the car upside down and not finding anything interesting, the car is reluctantly released,” writes Vladyka.

In another car, she said, the police decided to look for "explosives or something like that." This car was also searched and then everyone was released without finding anything. After that, both cars were followed for some time, the lawyer reports.

• In October 2019, Vladyka was searched under an article on the distribution of pornography (Article 242 of the Criminal Code). She was a witness in the case, clarifies Mediazona , but her phone and laptops were seized from her. According to Novaya Gazeta, the case was later suspended "due to the impossibility of identifying the guilty person."
• It was planned to build a landfill at the Shies station in the Arkhangelsk region. Local residents believe that the construction of the landfill will lead to an environmental disaster. The activists opposed the construction, were on duty at the station and blocked the passage of construction equipment. Currently, construction work at the station is suspended.