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Written by smock
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Friday, 28 August 2009 21:12 |
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W. Putin has appointed that this will be the “greenest” OG ever. Sochi is situated in Caucausus Region of Russia. This wild beauty region is protected by Sochi National Park and the and the bordering buffer zone of the Western Caucasus reserve with status of a UNESCO World Heritage site. It’s hard to believe that without international control principles of sustainable development will be preserved. This concern is confirmed by the report of a UNESCO monitoring team which visited Sochi in April 2008. It asserts that facilities are too close to the buffer zones and other boundaries of the reserves. We support NGOs in they endeavour to protect one of the last wild alpine areas at the eastern edge of Europe, with many unique plant and animal species, from irreversible devastation.
Read letters to UNESCO and articles below to find out about the threats to the nature reserves and how Russian government influences NGOs (f.e. WWF-Russia) to pay off their pressure.
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"Rosprirodnadzor" reveals violations in Sochi Olympic objects |
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Written by smock
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Friday, 13 August 2010 19:35 |
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The "Rosprirodnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Nature
Supervision) made checks of the construction progress of Olympic objects
in Sochi and revealed 25 violations of the nature protection
legislation, on which fact administrative cases were initiated.
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Sochi residents protest against alternate Kurortny Avenue |
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Written by smock
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Friday, 23 July 2010 19:55 |
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On June 20 residents of city-resort Sochi held a number of
rallies and pickets in defence of municipal streets against construction
of federal highways; most of them are planned right under tenants'
windows and assume cutting away a lot of greenery.
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Nature defenders try again to draw attention to Sochi ecology |
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Written by Caucasian Knot
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Friday, 23 July 2010 19:53 |
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In central Sochi, nature defenders have again held a picket,
asserting that many environmental problems of the resort have not been
given due attention yet.
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Toxic Russia, Destroying itself and the World |
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Written by smock
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Friday, 09 April 2010 12:18 |
The United Nations and the IOC
are both condemning Russia’s appalling environmental butchery of the
Sochi region as it is raped in preparation for the Olympics. Paul
Goble reports:
Thursday, Russia’s Vice Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak appealed to
ecologists “not to block” the construction of facilities for the Sochi
Olympic Games now planned for 2014, the latest indication of the way in
which Moscow has found itself under pressure from environmental
activists.
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