Nature activists condemn police crackdown on Khimki forest protest

Environmental activists have criticized Russian police for using heavy-handed tactics after they detained at least 25 people at a rally against the demolition of mature woodland near Moscow to make way for a new highway to St. Petersburg. Yevgeniya Chirikova, a leading campaigner to save the more than 500-year-old forest, and Sergei Mitrokhin, leader of […]