PENZA: Egor Chastukhin, an 18-year-old environmental activist, holds a flask to a drain spurting out warm, putrid water near the historic city of Penz...
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. AFPPIX: Egor Chastukhin, an 18-year-old environmental activist, holds a flask to a drain spurting out warm, putrid water near the historic city of Penza in western Russia.
The water's source is a nearby paper factory previously fined for pollution. Its destination is a tributary of the Sura river, around 600 kilometres from Russia's capital Moscow. And since an unprecedented crackdown on dissent launched after Russia's military intervention in Ukraine, their future is in doubt.
“What we’re doing is legal and harmless. But tomorrow they could link it to extremism or terrorism. The slightest transmission of information could become an alleged threat to the state,“ Egor says. Following the probe, Alexei, then a member of a pro-government environmental group, was accused of carrying out the inspection without the approval of his superiors and kicked out.After the factory, activists and AFP journalists visited a landfill outside Penza, a jumble of rotting vegetables, batteries and medical waste emitting toxic fumes.
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