Protesters believe that plans to build a road through Zhukovsky Forest are a pretext to construct a multi-billion-dollar aviation center. Activists removing a fence in Zhukovsky Forest, in the Moscow region, and a confrontation between protesters and police, on April 30. Video by Alexandra Odynova / MT ZHUKOVSKY...

Police have broken up an eco camp set up by protesters trying to stop the destruction of a Moscow region forest to make way for a road connecting the city of Zhukovsky with the nearby site of the MAKS international air show. Police have broken up an eco camp set up by protesters trying to stop the destruction of a Moscow...

... back road leading to the village of Polukhino, where he ran into three young men who were drunkenly riding around on a scooter. When he asked them for directions, they responded by brutally punching and beating him with sticks they found in the nearby forest. They then made off with their victim's camera, cellphone, signet ring, thermos and boots before going into hiding. The suspects, all from Krasnoufimsk, range in age from 16 to 26. At the moment, authorities are determining the exact charges and...

Search and rescue helicopters and volunteers struggling through thick forest and mountainous terrain spotted bodies but no survivors on the Indonesian mountainside where a Sukhoi Superjet 100 crashed by the time darkness forced an end to the search Thursday night. Correction appended Search and rescue helicopters and...

... Thursday on charges of disobeying police orders. He joins opposition leaders Alexei Navalny and Sergei Udaltsov, who are serving 15-day terms for their role in street demonstrations last week and are scheduled to be released May 24. Police detained Khimki forest defender Yevgenia Chirikova and several other activists on Thursday evening after she invited demonstrators on Kudrinskaya Ploshchad to a Saturday protest against construction in a forest in the Moscow region city of Zhukovsky, Chirikova said on...

... used in Europe is now being introduced into the Russian Civil Code. This kind of mortgage gives the creditor a significantly stronger legal position with respect to the obligation secured by the mortgage. Property right to subsoil, water bodies and forest land plots.   Substantial amendments to the nature and extent of ownership rights to subsoil, water bodies and forest land plots are intended to clarify regulation of these kinds of real estate. As a whole, these progressive proposed real estate...

... Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky for 17 years. Q: Which day trips would you recommend taking outside Petropavlovsk? A: So much depends on the time of year. In the winter and spring, you can rent cross-country skis and follow beautiful trails that take you through birch forests and under volcanoes. You can also go dog-mushing for the day. In the summer, you can arrange trips on horseback or go rafting down the Avacha River. Ascending Avacha Volcano is a must. And if you like gardening, I’d recommend going to a...

... Regional Development Minister Alexander Bastrykin by Russia's only daily English-language newspaper. Oleg Govorun (Îëåã Ìàðêîâè÷ Ãîâîðóí) was born on January 15, 1969 in Bratsk, Irkutsk region. Education: Chemical engineering, Moscow Institute of Forest Engineering, 1993 1987-1989: Served in the army 1993-1995: Worked in the private sector in Moscow 1995-1997: Worked as deputy manager, project manager and a specialist in the department for liaisoning with government agencies at Rosprom 1997-2000:...

... Ulyanovsk hospital. A 24-year-old mother who mistakenly fed poisonous mushrooms to her daughter and her friend's daughter faces five years in jail after the girls died in an Ulyanovsk hospital. The unidentified mother handpicked the wild mushrooms in a forest and ate them together with the girls, aged 4 and 10, on Sept. 20, the Investigative Committee said Monday. The three became violently ill and, a while later, were rushed to the hospital, where the girls died. A toxicology test revealed that the...

... the Sokolniki city park. Only about a third of the Moose Island park is within Moscow city limits. No new calls came in to police about the animals overnight Thursday, and a police representative told RIA-Novosti that they may have gone back into the forest. 179742

... at Zhukovsky, which hosts the biannual MAKS air show, has been earmarked as the site of the new National Aircraft Manufacturing Center. But local residents and environmental activists clashed with police and developers last month after a protected forest was cleared to build a road to a special economic zone at the site of the present-day Gromov Flight Institute, an aviation research center. In their letter to Rogozin, residents argued that the "momentary financial advantage" of the commercial...

... spending a lifetime in Leningradka’s traffic jams was memorably summarized by United Russia Duma Deputy Robert Shlegel in commentary he made in 2010 defending the controversial replacement Moscow-St. Petersburg highway that will run through Khimki Forest. “I made acquaintances, fell in love, quarreled and parted, fought and made friends, died from cold and heat, read poems, wrote poems, studied, worked, slept, ate, drank, hitchhiked and … even had a birthday once. In a word, I lived...

... immediately be reached for comment. Other chamber members are described as "not loyal" and also treated with a certain degree of respect. Mikhail Blinkin, a transportation industry insider who campaigned against a highway through the Khimki Forest, is "dedicated," "respected" and should be "worked with." It says lawyer Yelena Lukyanova, known for her opposition views, cannot be influenced by the Kremlin and recommends that the Kremlin negotiate with her through...

... Moreover, Mezentsev damaged his reputation in June 2011 after ordering his aides to delay a regularly scheduled Aeroflot flight to Moscow for which he was running late. A few months later, Mezentsev was criticized by Medvedev for failing to douse forest fires around Bratsk, the region's second-largest city. Ahead of the March 4 presidential election, Mezentsev applied to be a candidate but indicated his loyalty to Putin by claiming that their competition would be "formal" only. He was...

... There is a new generation of Russian citizens. They no longer believe in the centuries-old maxim that the government is always right. They believe in the principles of the rule of law. This is what motivates environmental activists who are defending a forest from illegal destruction, students fighting to preserve historical buildings and demonstrators reading the text of the Constitution regarding the right to assembly to OMON riot police threatening to beat them with truncheons. For these activists...

... was lost 20 minutes later at 2:35 p.m. local time (11:35 a.m. in Moscow), moments after it requested permission, for an unknown reason, to descend from an altitude of 3,000 meters to 1,800 meters, RIA-Novosti reported. The terrain south of Jakarta is forested and mountainous, and the last known position of the Superjet was above the western slopes of extinct volcano Mount Salak, which climbs to 2,221 meters at its highest point. Indonesian authorities did not immediately rule out the possibility...

... important as it is — and more about fairness and solidarity. Instead of concentrating on a few big cities, they might focus their campaign on the hundreds of grassroots cases of community activism in which ordinary people band together to fight forest fires, protest a corrupt police chief or block an environmentally harmful development project. A leader who makes ordinary Russians feel hopeful, proud and united will win against the cynically divisive strategies of the incumbents. All this might...

... requirements as to how such rights are used should be covered by laws/codes regarding specific types of natural resources. Our view is that this is a reasonable and, indeed, the only possible approach, since: each of the types of natural resources (land, forests, water) has its own particular features, which require distinct legal regulation; in Russia, public ownership of land (state, municipal or unclassified into either of those) is predominant, and this cannot fail to be reflected in the regulation...

... (Iskusstvo i Kultura Korei): a new permanent display. Located at 12 Nikitsky Bulvar. M. Arbatskaya. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., closed Mon. 691-8219/9614, www.orientmuseum.ru Paperworks Gallery at Winzavod Center of Contemporary Art: The Forest Tsar (Lesnoi Tsar): sculptural works by Ivan Gorshkov, to June 20. Located at 1 4th Syromyatnichesky Pereulok, Bldg. 6. M. Chkalovskaya, Kurskaya. Noon to 8 p.m., closed Mon. and Sun. 798-5430, www.paperworks.ru Pop/off/art Gallery at Winzavod...

... cities in Siberia, Krasnoyarsk boasts sights like picturesque churches and fountains with dazzling night lighting. But none of them can compare to its main attraction — majestic Siberian nature. Surrounded by rocky mountains blanketed with deep forest, Krasnoyarsk is spread out on both banks of the Yenisei River. Writer Viktor Astafyev, a Krasnoyarsk native, once described the Yenisei as "sometimes kind and quiet, broad, sometimes locked in cliffs, sometimes furious, foaming or raging with...