The founder of Eco -Protection in Kaliningrad received an alternative Nobel Prize

The creator of "Eco -Protection" Vladimir Slivak was awarded the Right Livelihood Award as a defender of the environment and the inspirer of the civil movement against the use of coal and nuclear energy in Russia. " This is stated on the site "Eco -Protection", which is recognized by the Russian authorities as a "foreign agent".

Slivak became the first Russian ecological activist awarded The Right Livelihood Award. This award is called an alternative Nobel Prize of Human Rights.

Vladimir Slivak created Eco -Protection at the end of 1989 in Kaliningrad, it is one of the oldest environmental organizations in the country. In the early 2000s, Eco-Protection opposed oil production in the Baltic Sea near the Kurshi Spit, UNESCO World Heritage Object. The public campaign forced the Russian oil giant Lukoil to accept an agreement with the Lithuanian government on border cooperation in the case of oil spills, and also led to the introduction of space technologies for monitoring oil spills.

In October 2020, the Eco -Protection published a report on the descending race, in which coal mining and transportation were associated with public health and environmental pollution problems. The recommendations of the report were included in the special report of the Presidential Commission to the dedicated energy transition in Russia.

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Vladimir Slivak opposed the promotion of nuclear energy both within Russia and abroad. Eco -Protection has achieved a hazardous project for the construction of a nuclear power plant in the Kaliningrad region, retaining the status of "nuclear" behind the region. In 2014, the Russian government excluded atomic energy from the list of energy technologies in Kaliningrad.

• The Eco Protection organization is recognized as a foreign agent. The co -chair of the Eco -Protection, Alexander Korolev, was forced to leave Russia due to criminal prosecution - five criminal cases were instituted against her for violating the law on “foreign agents”. Later, one of them was closed . It was not possible to challenge the initiation of four cases.
• Criminal prosecution is connected with the disagreement of ecologists with the status of a foreign agent, which is why they refuse to provide reports on their activities to the Ministry of Justice four times a year, sending them only once a year, as an ordinary Russian NPO. Because of this, "eco-protection" was repeatedly fined. The number of fines reached thirty totaling about 2 million rubles. Eco -activists collected about 600 thousand rubles of donations for paying fines. The queen in December 2019 in Germany was recognized as a victim of political persecution and received political asylum.

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