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Russia: Pavlovo Environmental Catastrophe

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Russia, Digital Activism, Disaster, Economics & Business, Environment, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Health, Human Rights, Law, Protest, Technology, RuNet Echo

At OpenDemocracy.net, Roman Yushkov writes [1] about the 1997 ecological disaster in Pavlovo, a village in the oil-rich Perm region, and the local residents’ long fight to get LUKOIL and the local authorities to resettle the village.