Don't give up! Residents of the regions secured the return of the folk festival organizers and the rescue of dogs from a "slaughterhouse" apartment.
Sometimes solving even the smallest problems requires incredible effort in battling bureaucracy or other obstacles. But people don't give up.NotMoscow" tells about these small but important victories.
👍Speed Festival passed at the von Derviz estate (Starozhilovsky stud farm, Ryazan region) under the leadership of the original organizers Irina Avdekova и Margarita NadeevaThey came up with the idea and launched the festival four years ago. But this year, the activists complained the governor To Pavel Malkov and journalists on the pro-government organization ANO "Center for Creative Industries," which decided to "appropriate" the event. The center invited its partners, and Avdekova and Nadeeva were not listed as organizers. After the ANO's publicity refused from participating in the festival.
👍Animal rights activists Nizhny Novgorod together with the police 13 dogs were taken away Dalmatians were bred by a school physical education teacher who kept the animals in her apartment without food, water, or access to a walk. The dogs would urinate in the apartment and die of starvation there. Neighbors complained to every authority for 10 years, but authorities and regulatory agencies failed to respond. This week, volunteers rescued the dogs and are preparing to file a complaint with the prosecutor's office. The woman was fired from the school.
👍Activists Petersburg achieved the initiation of a criminal case on the theft of funds allocated for cleaning Gulf of FinlandLast May, individual entrepreneur O.E. Starovoitova signed a government contract for 1,7 million rubles to clean up the shoreline in Lakhta. Activists inspected the cleanup and discovered that an increasing portion of the shoreline was littered with trash and household waste. This triggered a wild boar infestation. Police started a criminal case of fraud on an especially large scale. It was discovered that part of the allocated amount was stolen more than 1,3 million rubles.
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Photo: Charity Foundation "Speed" on VKontakte, screenshot from the program "By the Way," Oleg Zoloto / MP7
