Monday, February 1, 2010

Russian police raid environmental group working to protect Lake Baikal

Baikalsk Paper and Pulp Mill.  

By Jeremy Hance
mongabay.com
February 01, 2010

Russian police have raided the Baikal Environmental Wave organization reports the Moscow Times. Police seized several computers, citing the reason for the raid to uncover the use of unlicensed software.

A member of the group, however, linked the raid to its public stance against reopening the Baikalsk Paper and Pulp Mills on Lake Baikal, which closed due to pollution concerns two years ago.

"All of our programs are licensed. They confiscated the computers without checking the license documents, saying they didn't have experts to look at them," Galina Kulebyakina, a member of Baikal Environmental Wave, told The Moscow Times.  …

Russian police raid environmental group working to protect Lake Baikal

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