Nature And Ecology

May 02, 2025 16:58

• Kuban environmentalists doubt statements on harmlessness of Black Sea fish

  The pollution with the spilled fuel oil (mazut) affects all marine life, but it is impossible to objectively define how poisoned the fish caught in the Black Sea is due to the absence of independent laboratories.

April 28, 2025 15:27

• Authorities count over 22,000 refusals of children's vacations in Anapa

  More than 22,000 refusals of making trips to children's camps in Anapa (Crimea), which are located in the emergency zone of the fuel oil (mazut) spill, have been registered. This was reported by Alexander Bugaev, the First Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Federation.

March 18, 2025 21:46

• Ecologists treat fine to blogger Ozarovsky as punishment for his activities

  A fine for using obscene language to blogger from Anapa Yuri Ozarovsky followed his criticism of officials regarding the ineffective solution of problems with fuel oil spills.

March 06, 2025 22:17

• Rights defender Legkobitov treats his criminal prosecution as intimidation attempt

  The criminal case against the human rights defender from Yessentuki, Georgy Legkobitov, accused of slandering an officer of the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service), was opened after his statement about violations in the case of his son Sergey, who was convicted in a bribery case.

January 18, 2025 22:14

• Rights defender Nagavkin asks Putin to send colony inmates to Anapa

  In a letter to the Russian President, Igor Nagavkin, a convicted human rights defender, has offered to involve prisoners from the penal colonies in the liquidation of the environmental disaster in Kuban (the Krasnodar Territory) and expressed his desire to go to Anapa; he himself has expressed his readiness to take part in cleaning the beaches voluntarily and free of charge.

September 29, 2024 22:54

• After collecting signatures against construction on embankment, activist Antonova warned by police

  The police have issued a warning about the inadmissibility of violations to Yana Antonova, an activist, who was collecting signatures from Krasnodar residents to the petition against the development of Rozhdestvenskaya Embankment.

September 09, 2024 22:29

• Kuban environmentalists treat repeated inclusion of their colleagues into register of foreign agents as example of pressure on activists

  The repeated inclusion of the "Civil Initiative against Environmental Crime"* into the register of foreign agents is an example of authorities' pressure on eco activists, environmentalists from Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) assert. According to their version, due to authorities' pressure, many colleagues have abandoned their public activities.

September 01, 2024 23:38

• MoJ repeatedly declares Kuban ecological NCO foreign agent

  The non-commercial organization (NCO) "Civil Initiative against Environmental Crime"* has been added to the register of foreign agents, the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has informed.

August 25, 2024 21:34

• Environmentalists assess consequences of attack on Port Kavkaz

  As a result of drone attack on Port of Kavkaz in the Krasnodar Territory, 30 fuel tanks sank, which poses a significant threat to the environment. The situation is complicated by the fact that authorities would not disclose the type of fuel that is in the tanks; and therefore it is impossible to take measures to prevent the consequences, the environmentalists, Valery Brinikh and Evgeny Vitishko, have stated.

August 08, 2024 23:48

• KBR villagers achieve ICRF's reaction to their complaints

  The head of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has ordered to initiate a criminal case on the complaints of residents of the village of Urvan about the operation of a landfill and the construction of a garbage disposal factory.

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