Russia's Khimki Activists Say Authorities Targeting Children

Russia's Khimki Activists Say Authorities Targeting Children

A prominent environmental activist says the Russian authorities are threatening to take away her children.

Yevgenia Chirikova, leader of a movement seeking to prevent the Moscow region's Khimki forest from being felled to make way for a new highway, says somebody unexpectedly rang her doorbell on February 21, but she did not answer. She didn't know it yet, but her visitors were from Russia's Child Protection Service.

Note: They do the same thing here.