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Smog-Choked Russian City Appeals to Biden for Aid Updated: Dec. 16, 2020
Residents of Russia’s heavily polluted industrial city of Chelyabinsk are calling on U.S. President-elect Joe Biden to help them avoid “ecological genocide.”
In a video appeal, residents said Russian authorities routinely ignore their complaints that industrial emissions are getting worse every year, causing rising cases of cancer and suffocating the city in smoke.
“They’re taking away our natural right the right to breathe clean air,” Chelyabinsk environmental activist Valentina Volkova said.
Volkova told the Belsat broadcaster Tuesday that the activists have also sent a written version of the appeal to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.