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Inter Press Service: Environmentalists and rights campaigners have mounted pressure on the Russian government to rescind the decision to demolish more than 500-year-old woodlands to make way for the construction of a new super-highway linking Moscow with the country's northern capital, St. Petersburg.
Despite the divided public reaction, the multi-lane motorway project was given the go-ahead in late December, just three months after President Dmitry Medvedev suspended it. Ecologists have argued the new highway could......
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Activists Protest Destruction of 500-Year-Old Forest by Road
Posted by Inter Press Service: Kester Kenn Klomegah on May 19th, 2011
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