Photo: Maksim Platonov
Kazan is the second city in Russia in terms of air purity, but the second in terms of pollution of the Volga River. Pilot projects for the reclamation of giant landfills and silt fields have been launched in Tatarstan, but periodically there are still signals about air pollution. We are ahead of the whole of Russia in terms of the number of automatic air monitoring stations, but malicious violators of environmental legislation are still detected (up to five criminal cases a year). Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Tatarstan Alexander Shadrikov told Realnoe Vremya about how his department is finishing the year and what unique projects it is going to implement in the near future.