Environmental Protester Slain in Siberia - AP

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Environmental Protester Slain in Siberia

Saturday July 21, 2007 11:31 AM

By ALEX NICHOLSON

Associated Press Writer

MOSCOW (AP) - Attackers dressed in dark clothes and wielding
metal pipes raided a camp of environmental protesters in Siberia
early Saturday, leaving one dead and several injured, a
spokeswoman for the local administration said.

Eight demonstrators were hospitalized after the attack, one of
whom later died from his injuries, according to the spokeswoman
for the Angarsk city administration, who was not authorized to
give her name.

A criminal investigation had been opened in connection with the
attack, she said.

More than 20 demonstrators had been camped out by a reservoir
near Angarsk, about 2,600 miles east of Moscow, to protest
nuclear waste processing at the state-owned Angarsk Electrolysis
Chemical Plant, Russian news agencies reported, citing local police.

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6795688,00.html

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Source: Reuters

Russian environmentalists attacked, one killed
21 Jul 2007 11:08:38 GMT
Source: Reuters

MOSCOW, July 21 (Reuters) - A Russian environmentalist was
beaten to death and seven others wounded on Saturday when a
group armed with iron bars and baseball bats attacked their camp
near a nuclear waste processing plant in Siberia.

Russian media reported up to 15 people shouting fascist slogans
attacked the environmentalists, who were living in the camp to
protest against nuclear processing in the city of Angarsk near
Lake Baikal, 5,000 km (3,125 miles) east of Moscow.

"One of the injured died in intensive care as a result of the
attack," Ekho Moskvy radio station quoted one of the
environmental activists, Olga Kozlova, as saying.

Another resident of the camp, Marina Popova, said the attackers
shouted slogans against anti-fascists.

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Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L21298710.htm

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Fascists pigs! I am so sorry for that person's family.

[tom_paine]

2. BushPutinists = fascists

Yes, it is almost that simple now. I stand amazed that it could ever be so.

[jpak]

3. Hateful sloganeering pronuclear anti-environmentalist fascists - what a concept

Not like anything that nasty ever gets posted on this forum...

:evilgrin:

[struggle4progress]

4. Siberian environmentalists camp attacked

July 21, 2007, 20:23

~snip~ "They were obviously prepared; they jumped out and immediately started beating everyone up, trampling the tents, beating the tents and cutting them with knives," Andrey Kravchenko, an environmentalist, said. ~snip~

Those arrested deny any connection to extremist organisations - but witness accounts describe them as skinheads, and say they shouted fascist slogans. ~snip~

http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/11198

[struggle4progress]

5. Russian activist killed in nuclear protest attack

(AFP) 21 July 2007

MOSCOW - An environmental activist died on Saturday after a night-time attack on a protest camp outside a nuclear facility in Siberia, a police official said. ~snip~

The Angarsk electrolysis chemical combine was chosen last year as the site for a new uranium enrichment facility that the Russian government wants to make available to countries seeking to develop nuclear energy. ~snip~

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2007/July/theworld_July554.xml§ion=theworld&col=