KBR villagers achieve ICRF's reaction to their complaints

The head of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has ordered to initiate a criminal case on the complaints of residents of the village of Urvan about the operation of a landfill and the construction of a garbage disposal factory.

On August 5, Urvan villagers posted a video appeal addressed to the head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). The plans to build a waste disposing complex in the village should be revised and the factory should be built further away from the residential area, the authors of the appeal assert. They were sceptical about the authorities' statement about the low environmental risks of the factory. The garbage landfill located in Urvan is poisoning the air in all village areas, commentators said in social networks.

Alexander Bastrykin, the ICRF Chairman, has ordered to initiate a criminal case based on the Urvan villagers' appeal, the ICRF's Information Centre reported in its Telegram channel.

"There is a large landfill of household waste near the village, because of which residents are suffocating from the pungent smell ... Their appeals to the local administration yielded no results," the message says.