Three small businessmen have helped organize protests against a landfill outside Moscow. Now two of them are behind bars and police have raided their offices.
Denis Kunaev Artem Lyubimov and Andrey Zhdanov at the Istrinsky District Court, April 2, 2018 The consultant Artem Lyubimov, a businessman in Volokolamsk, was one of the people organizing the city’s protests against the “Yadrovo” landfill, until he was arrested for 15 days on April 3 for resisting the police. Lyubimov’s lawyer, Denis Kunaev, told Meduza that officers simply stopped his client’s car and delivered him to the local police station, where he was later tried and convicted.