Environmental groups in Russia not linked to the government have long faced pressure from authorities.
Environmental activist Egor Chastukhin takes water from the sewerage of a paper factory on the bank of Sura river in Penza, on August 22, 2023.What remains of ecological advocacy in Russia rests on the shoulders of under-resourced activists like teenager Egor Chastukhin.
She records the odour and its yellowish colour as two other teenage activists, Alexei Zetkin and Yakov Demidov, look on. "People who drink this water, fish in it and bathe in it need to understand the danger," Egor told AFP.'Citizen scientists' battle to save historic UK river Russia has outlawed the work of Greenpeace and the World Wide Fund for Nature, branding them and dozens of other Western-linked groups"undesirable".
Suddenly, a press officer and factory employee holding a camera arrive on the scene, with the rag-tag group taking off after a security guard appears - a move that is sometimes followed by a police visit.The group regularly inspects rivers and dumps. Together with a more experienced activist with a legal background, they report violations to local prosecutors or the environmental protection agency.
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