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NEW: Anti-landfill protests have erupted across Russia over controversial reforms in waste management policy. In this OCCRP investigation, @iStories_Media reveals these protesters may unknowingly be challenging powerful people with ties to Vladimir Putin. https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/the-spoils-of-russias-trash-reforms-go-to-the-well-connected
2. Putin ordered the closure of Moscow’s largest landfill in 2017, sparking a surge in companies that haul trash out of the city and into areas like the Vladimir region, where fed-up residents are blocking trucks that have been dumping Moscow garbage into a nearby landfill.
3. For over a year, OCCRP’s Russian member center @iStories_Media has investigated the private waste operators that won new waste management contracts. In multiple cases, the beneficiaries had close ties to Putin allies, including well-known oligarch Arkady Rotenberg.
4. As in many OCCRP investigations into corruption, the link between oligarchs and state-backed business is obscured by a web of foreign companies. In this case, the Rotenbergs’ connection to the landfill in the Vladimir region involves entities from Gibraltar to Hong Kong.
5. Reporters also found that new incinerators under construction in Russia have similar problems: fierce opposition from local communities and signs that well-connected people are benefitting from them.
6. Our newest Russian member center, @iStories_Media, covers local issues as well as Kremlin policy.
Go to their site to read this story in Russian
, as well as more of their investigations into corruption in Russia and how it affects people’s lives. https://www.istories.media/investigations/2020/06/18/lyudi-iz-okruzheniya-prezidenta-rossii-podelili-mezhdu-soboi-musornii-rinok-na-2-trilliona-rublei/
Go to their site to read this story in Russian
, as well as more of their investigations into corruption in Russia and how it affects people’s lives. https://www.istories.media/investigations/2020/06/18/lyudi-iz-okruzheniya-prezidenta-rossii-podelili-mezhdu-soboi-musornii-rinok-na-2-trilliona-rublei/
