18 May 2012
Today, more activists were illegally detained by Russian police in the very center of Moscow. Protests in Moscow have still not ceased since inauguration of Putin (May, 7), despite unprecedented...
05 May 2012
Fabricated case accuses activists of beating armed guards with a plastic camera
On May 15 the regional court in Tuapse will hold its first hearing of the absurd case against two EWNC activists...
05 May 2012
On May 3, 2012, another vicious attack upon environmental activist occurred in Russia. However, unlike most previous cases, a woman became the victim. Galina Golubova is a long-time defender of...
19 Apr 2012
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), requests...
16 Apr 2012
The Movement to Defend the Khimki Forest has already accused Vinci in connection with multiple environmental crimes, as well as severe violations of human rights, in the Moscow- St.Petersburg toll...
16 Apr 2012
Today, Khimki Forest activist Mr. Alexey Dmitriev was brutally beaten near the door of his flat. The attack took place in the morning when Alexey was waiting near the elevator to go to his job....
20 Mar 2012
Protests sparked after another act of lawlessness and arbitrariness against environmentalists in Russia. Two of them – Suren Gazaryan and Evgeny Vitishko are already under the threat of...
09 Mar 2012
Mr. Suren Gazaryan and Mr. Evgenij Vitishko - two activists of the “Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus” - are accused of having committed a crime according to the article 167, part...
15 Dec 2011
Sergey Udaltsov declared hunger-strike once again, and this time it was a dry one, so he refused even to drink water. Activist is neither moved to hospital, nor freed. Udaltsov is now in a critical...
07 Dec 2011
The day before election to Lower House of Parliament , on Saturday, December 3, at 3pm, in the center of Moscow took place the protest action "Putin!...
02 Dec 2011
The action is organized by the defenders of the Khimki forest and conceived as the vivid flash mob.
That's what the activists say about this action:
26 Nov 2011
French company Vinci and its Russian partners have apparently started preparation for destruction of the last “obstacle” on the way of the Moscow-St.Petersburg toll motorway – a...
17 Nov 2011
Today, civic activists and representatives of environmental NGOs opened a winter camp in Khimki Forest. The camp is intended to ensure civil society monitoring of further developments of the...
