"I'm driving from Krasnodar. I just passed the Yelizavetinsky checkpoint when a traffic police patrol pulled me over. They told me we'd have to go to the police station. Nothing's clear yet, they just took my documents.", - is talking Salnikov on video recorded immediately after the incident. He then calls his arrest "a show with flashing lights."

Next to Salnikov in the car was his father, whom he was driving from the oncology center where he was undergoing treatment.

"They just started chemotherapy, he's shaking. We need to get him home immediately. They're holding us up here. I say, 'Let's hurry up,' they're sitting there drawing up the protocol.— Salnikov is indignant. — "Let me come to the station myself," they know where I live. No, they won't let me go. Basically, they caught a notorious criminal who had been elusive for a long time."

Sergei's wife and I just went to the police station, and she saw him through the bars. He's about to be taken to court. We suspect he could be jailed altogether, because he said [on video] that we were ready to march for justice, and apparently they want to charge him with something more serious than a misdemeanor for those words.,” the chairperson of the Public Council for the closure of the Poltava landfill told a NeMoskva correspondent. Natalia Garyaeva.

NotMoscow Wrote Residents of Poltavskaya recorded a video message to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko asking him to inform Vladimir Putin about the landfill that is poisoning the water and soil in the area where most of Kuban's rice is grown. Residents stated that if their demands aren't met, they are prepared to stage a "march for justice."

Video: Poltava against the landfill