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Cultural and Environmental Presentations

The Civil Society Organization Plotina (Russian word for dam), based in Krasnoyarsk presented a cultural and environmental project, entitle it "Angara: A Living River." Plotina's event included a photo exhibit with pictures documenting their summer expeditions in the Lower Angara Basin, a tribute performance of folk songs from villages that are within the projected flood zones of two dams, and a talk with archeologists excavating the Boguchanskaya Dam reservoir area. Visitors of the exhibition commented about their feelings on large dam construction in the Lower Angara region.

Contact
Aleksey Kolpakov
Title: President
E-mail: aleksej-ka [at] narod [dot] ru
Web: http://www.plotina.net/

Symbolic Soil Sent to RusHydro

For the Future of Evenkiya! sends soil samples to RusHydro in opposition to a proposed dam.

The youth organization ‘For the Future of Evenkiya!’, based in Tura, in north central Siberia, wanted to demonstrate to RusHydro their categorical opposition to the planned Evenkiiskaya hydro dam project. Director Viacheslav Repin and Irina Zhukova asked dam opponents living within the projected flood zone for the dam to send them a bit of earth from their native villages. On March 14, Repin and Zhukova sent a package to RusHydro directors containing soil from the villages Nidym, Uchami, Tutonchany, Yukta, Kislokan, and Tura, along with a letter explaining that the soil symbolizes of the land and livelihoods that would be lost if Evenkiiskaya Dam is built, and that the communities these lands support would like RusHydro to leave Evenkiya forever.

Contact
Viacheslav Repin
Title: Director
Email: repinviacheslav [at] rambler [dot] ru
Website: http://www.rsd-evenkya.ru/index.php/mestn-soobshestvo/za-budushee-evenki...

 

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