Russian protesters say factory to pollute world’s oldest lake

Agence France-Presse: Hundreds of people protested on Sunday in Moscow against the reopening of a factory environmentalists say will lead to waste being dumped into the world's oldest lake, a Greenpeace activist said. "The fate of (factory) workers must be decided while taking into account the fate of (Lake) Baikal -- and not that of the oligarchs," Russian writer Valentin Rasputin said in a message read out during the protest. Greenpeace activist Evgeny Usov put the number of protesters at nearly ......

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