Moscow City Duma deputy Sergei Mitrokhin, at the request of the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, took samples of water and soil in Norilsk after a fuel spill, and was going to bring them to Moscow for an independent examination. However how informs Edition, at 7:50 a.m. Moscow time, Mitrokhin was stopped by security officers while boarding a flight to Novosibirsk.
They stated that Mitrokhin did not have permission to export samples, which should be given by the Norilsk Nickel security department.
“When asked how the Norilsk Nickel and the airport are connected, they answered that” the airport is the Norilsk Nickel, “the publication said.
Greenpeace ecologist accompanying Mitrokhin refused the flight and drove out of the airport with samples.
“Taimyr is the territory of Russia, not the plant management of Potanin and his offshore companies,” said the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Dmitry Muratov. He added that during the work of correspondents Elena Kostyuchenko and Yuri Kozyrev in Taimyr, they were detained several times, their movement was limited, and unknown “public men” along with the police pursued their boat.
The newspaper intends to appeal to Elena Kostyuchenko and Yuri Kozyrev Elena Kostyuchenko and Yuri Kozyrev
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