A group of Protestants had since early December organized a camp in the vicinity of Kazan (Tatarstan, Russian Republic) to address the incinerator that is building RT-Invest. The images show that many of the people gathered were old, who complain that the road that is opening up to the location of the incinerator is illegal. On 16 December last, a large group of special policemen and private guards were deployed in camps and dismantled in tissue shops, stoves and other shops, and, according to reports from social networks, several of the protesters were arrested. In the images you can see older people singing in front of the police crushing:

Comprehensive monitoring of environmental conflicts around the world (Environment Justice Atlas: The Atlas of Environmental Justice) gathers the Tatarstan incinerator's conflict between Russia's environmental conflicts. The authorities of the Russian Federation have planned five new incinerators in their territory, four in the Moscow area and one in Tatarstan, within the ‘Russia Verde 2017-2020’ plan.

As throughout the world, the Kazan incinerator project mobilized against a group of citizens who denounced that in selective collection their authorities do nothing, that the incinerator will cause many economic, polluting and ecological damage, and that they will study and work alternatives such as the Zero Waste model that the American city of San Francisco has popularised in the world.

The authorities have repeatedly stopped the citizens’ protests, both in the capital of Moscow (directly banning concentrations) and in Tatarstan, dissolving the camp that had been set in motion and carrying out its arrest.