A-Infos (en) Russia, Anarchists and anti-fascists in Moscow defeated the administration of Khimki Khimki felled timber

According to local residents, about 20.00 a group of young people, numbering from 400 to 
500 people attacked the administration of Khimki. Young people chanted slogans: "Defend 
Russian forest", "Strelchenko (Chapter Khimki signed a decree on the construction of 
logging roads), hands off from the forest", etc. Having a column from the commuter train 
station and in front of him carrying a huge tranparant "Protecting our forest from the 
Nazi occupiers!", young people, according to eyewitnesses, the building started throwing 
stones and smoke bombs. ---- As a result, the building knocked out most of the glasses, 
there are other injuries.After the "feast kamnemetaniya" lasted a few minutes of the youth 
managed to disperse. The police did not detain anyone.

Local residents with not only sought to help the police, but expressed support for such 
radical action to protect forests Khimki. This is not particularly surprising, since the 
decision on logging (as well, and the mayor himself Strelchenko) is extremely unpopular 
among the citizens.

Recall, for more than week standoff lasts local residents and environmentalists on one 
side and developers and the authorities - the other for the commencement of the felling of 
forests in place the proposed route in the area of Sheremetyevo airport.26 July it came to 
melee combat, and today the city administration and the developer for some strange reason, 
cancel the alleged public hearing, which was supposed to explain to residents the legal 
foundation and desirability of deforestation.

As you can see, the lack of readiness for dialogue with the authorities and the developer 
triggers a transition of the defenders of the forest to more radical protests.It should be 
noted that among the slogans chanted that the attackers were charged Strelchenko in 
ordering an attack on opposition journalist Michael Beketova in November 2008.

Beketov was seriously injured and are still deprived of the opportunity to speak and move. 
Version of the involvement of the mayor Khimki to attack Beketova who actively criticized 
the mayor's office, is quite popular among the townspeople, but was not proved the result.

Also today, at 17.00, nearly 200 advocates gathered at the Khimki woods DK "Homeland", 
where they invited the local administration to the public hearing, organized by "Heat", 
cut down the forest.

However, already in place an advertisement to inform people that the public hearing will 
be canceled. Instead, officials tried to organize a rally in support of the construction 
of highways and logging.This angered people who felt the administration's actions 
"provocation" and "blatant fraud".

So after a small gathering, rally defenders Himskinskogo timber headed to the site of 
harvesting, which now goes to the heart of the forest. They intend to expand the eco-camp 
there.

Upon arrival, the defenders of the forest met dozens of policemen and security guards. 
They do not allow the territory of deforestation. As of the ICD Elena, an activist with 
the Moscow Ecological Movement "Garden city".The situation is very tense. We arrived on 
the scene helpers Zhirinovsky and amounted to an act of the General Prosecutor's Office 
that they and other people the police do not miss.

Recall how to find defenders of the forest on July 26, the company "Heat" no approvals for 
logging. Precisely because of this guard woodcutters hired thugs who attacked the 
activists. In this regard, the State Duma deputy from the Fair Russia Anton Belyakov sent 
deputatscue request to the Prosecutor General of Russia.

In addition, activists reported that on Friday 30 July at 11.00, held public hearings on 
the scandal Khimki felling of forests in the Public Chamber.

Source

Links:

Defenders Khimki forests held a press conference and strayed from the bandits

The attack on forest defenders Khimki

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