NYTimes: Putin Anti #Ecolgy #Russia tsar uses #Microsoft to suppress opposition Dissent focusing on Siberian ecological Wave Baikal Human Rights group http://baikalwave.blogspot.com/ which published Green ecology opposition Yabloko party leader Alexey Yablokov books on government abuse nuclear energy http://www.baikalwave.eu.org/filez/yablokov.pdf (russian) and investigation of Chernobyl ecological catastrophe http://bit.ly/dt39fA (eng) comparable to USSR dissident leader Andrey Sakharov http://www.xmail.net/technologos/ADS.html Although the investigation has failed to prove the existence of counterfeit software, the criminal case has not yet closed.
http://www.xmail.net/technologos/APUT.html The District Court has refused to consider a complaint made by the environmentalists with regard to improper conduct on the part of the police. NYT confirms http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/world/europe/12side-raids.html
Meanwhile, according to confidential information from law enforcement agencies, the police actions were likely triggered by security forces of the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill (BPPM) and Irkutskenergo. http://www.xmail.net/technologos/APUT2.html Computers were confiscated from ecologists in the midst of demonstrations and actions against the measure taken by the Russian government to resume production at the BPPM and to resume the unregulated dumping of waste into Baikal. It was during this period that the leadership of the Mill began instigating provocation at mass rallies organized by the ecologists.
The wide international attention and intervention of UNESCO has put the Irkutsk police in an extremely awkward position. Even police officers who had nothing to do with the seizure of computers from the Baikal Wave believe the case was grossly falsified.
This is not the first such “attack” on the Baikal Wave. In 2002, at the initiative of the Yukos oil company, the FSB carried out searches and resided over a similar seizure of computer equipment.
