[Unofficial translation provided by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre]

Today, on 4 March 2018, another assembly of the residents of Podkurovka and Yasashnaya Tashla villages took place, to discuss further joint actions and to demonstrate to Governor Morozov’s administration that a protest is getting ready to go into an active phase at any moment. The assemblies took place as part of the meetings with a parliament member Alexey Kurinny.

However, the citizens were not able to have a calm conversation with their elected member – Vice Governor Olga Nikitenko dispatched her staff and free-lance instigators, as well as local supporters of environmental contamination, who tried to sabotage the event.

One can only thank the civil servants who discredited themselves, the ruling political party and the corrupt Governor in the eyes of the population.