A resident of Norilsk was fined for filming a rally in defense of the Bashkir Shikhan Kushtau

The Norilsk City Court fined local resident Fidan Buranbaev for filming a rally in defense of the Bashkir shihan Kushtau. Taigareports this. Info".

The court found Fidan Buranbaev guilty under the article on violating the rules of participation in the action (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code) and imposed a fine of five thousand rubles. According to the publication, on August 19, a Norilsk resident came to the Dolgoye Lake park, planning to take photographs of the posters. Having learned about the detention of one of the protesters, Buranbaev went to the police and spoke about his participation in the action.

Earlier, on November 2, the same court fined Norilsk resident Fanis Davletberdinov for participating in this rally.

• Shikhan Kushtau is a small mountain in the Ishimbay region of Bashkortostan. Local activists have been fighting for several months against deforestation for the development of soda and limestone deposits in the territory of Kushtau. Starting in August, work in the protected natural area resumed .
• Activists advocate for the preservation of natural monuments - the shikhanov of Toratau, Kushtau and Yuraktau. The previously existing shihan of Shakhtau was completely destroyed to obtain raw materials by the Bashkir Soda Company. On August 15, police detained more than 70 defenders of Kushtau, many of them were later arrested under administrative charges. The head of Bashkortostan, Radiy Khabirov, threatened the protesters with criminal charges, but later promised that the Shikhan would be given the status of a specially protected area. On September 2, the government of Bashkiria declared Shikhan Kushtau a natural monument of republican significance.
• Many activists and defenders of the Kushtau Shikhan are demanding the resignation of the head of the Ishimbay district administration, Azamat Abdrakhmanov - according to various evidence , it was he who led the destruction of the activists’ tent camp and the arrests on August 15.