“Pomor’e ne Pomoika”: Framing the Protest Campaign against the Landfill Project at Shies Station in Russia’s Arkhangelsk Region
Journal: Slavica Bergensia
Year: 2023

This chapter studies the protest movement against the proposed Shies landfill for Moscow’s waste, intended to be built in the Arkhangelsk region of North-Western Russia. The focus of the analysis is on the “Pomor’e ne pomoika” movement, the largest organized protest group that actively mobilized against the landfill. The Shies protest campaign, which began in the summer of 2018, culminated in the eventual cancellation of the construction project and the activists’ triumph in 2020.&nbsp; The auth