Environmental activists from the Kuban village of Poltavskaya reported pressure from security forces and the administration after a video message to Putin.
Police officers came to the environmental activist's workplace To Vadim Motovilov and demanded that he appear for questioning regarding a comment he allegedly left on social media. According to security officials, the comment contained slander against officials. Krasnoarmeysky district of Krasnodar KraiThe question of initiating a case under Article 129 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is being decided.
Previously Chairman of the National Rice Union Igor Lobach He filed a complaint with the Slavyansk Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Krasnodar Territory. He requests an investigation into "defamatory statements made by Public Council member Natalya Yuryevna Garyaeva regarding rice producers in the Krasnodar Territory" and a review of media outlets publishing "defamatory materials" about the Poltava landfill.
The denunciation ends with the following passage:
"In connection with the above, I ask you to take measures to restrict access to the aforementioned information resources, which disseminate knowingly false socially significant information, the accumulated posting of which is carried out by the Wikipedia Foundation with servers and data centers located in the United States, with the assistance of an organized group of individuals in Russia, likely with the aim of undermining the economic (food) security of Russia, through false information about the quality of rice grown by agricultural producers in the Krasnodar Territory and, likely, in the interests of foreign producers, and to ensure that those responsible are brought to justice."
"This is the height of cynicism and absurdity. They're not concerned that rice is growing in a garbage dump, that the court has proven excessive mercury and arsenic levels, that there are no protective measures, and that 20.000 cubic meters of leachate leak into groundwater annually in the rice-growing area. What they're worried about is that they're losing income because of these videos. Now they're trying to sue us for telling the truth.", — she told the journalist NotMoscow environmental activist Natalia Garyaeva.