In Yekaterinburg, a picketer who stood at the residence of the governor of the Sverdlovsk region with a poster against the construction of a landfill near the city was detained and already released. about this . He himself told Vecherniye Vedomosti
A man stood with a poster addressed to the president: “Putin, are you with the people? Save the Sysert urban district! In a video message, the picketer explains that he is appealing to the president as the “guarantor of the constitution,” and also demands that the governor prohibit “Austrian citizens” from building a landfill in the Sysertsky district near Yekaterinburg .
According to the detainee, the police verbally reported that the poster contained an insult to the president - however, so far they have not drawn up a report on the violation and only seized the poster itself. The Yekaterinburg resident assumes that the text of the poster will be analyzed to decide whether to initiate an administrative case.
Local residents have been holding similar pickets to the governor’s residence for the third day now.
- Since the spring of 2023, residents of Yekaterinburg have been holding mass and individual pickets against the construction of an industrial park for waste processing in the Sysertsky district. Despite the assurances of the authors of the project and the governor , the protesters believe that, under the guise of a waste recycling center, the authorities will place a landfill near Sysert, which will cause environmental damage to the area. This has already happened near Tyumen. In November, area residents voted against the waste facility at a public hearing. As a result, the Sysert administration decided to reject the construction plan. After this, the legislative assembly of the Sverdlovsk region adopted a law that took away the authority of the regional city councils to adopt their own general plans, and the project still remains in force.
- Activists of the Sysert region faced pressure and threats . In December, one of the picketers was fined for violating the rules of participation in a public event.