In the summer of 2017, environment and climate team of DRA e.V. met passionate environmental activist Dmitry Zakarlyukin from Chelyabinsk at EuropeLab in Gdansk. The citizens of the industrial city of Chelyabinsk are suffering from enormous air pollution and have no access to objective data on the state of the air.
December 28th, 2017 Andrei Rudomakha and his colleagues were violently attacked in Krasnodar.
Andrey Rudomakha is an activist, manager of the NGO Environmental Watch on North Caucasus (EWNC). He took part at protection of such environmental objects as Bolshoy Thach mountain, was also active against construction of the ski resort "Lagonaki" in the territory of Caucasus Nature Resort.
We have lost a true man and an expert of unique significance. It is the end of an era not only for the Memorial, but also for the Russian and European public. DRA is bereft of a close friend and colleague who accompanied our work from the very start.
On 4th December 2017 in Vienna, civil society organisations and activists from Ukraine, Russia and other European countries founded a joint international platform to push for peace and the rule of law in eastern Ukraine.
DRA together with partner NGOs is organizing a session “Enhancing the impact of civil society in the Donbas Conflict” on 6 December 2017 (2-3.30 pm).
