Rare sighting in #Russia - grassroots protests in #Irkutsk against mass scale logging on thousands of square kilometers of tayga, including around #Baykal lake. The wood is logged legally and illegally (on much larger scale) mostly by #China companies who consider Russian Siberia to be practically their property in exchange for keeping Russia on lifeline and allowing it to barely survive the war it started.
@kravietz it is a defacto Chinese colony, soon to be legalized.
@kravietz, it started not now and not even recently, but way earlier. I remember a talk with a friend from there with whom I discussed that seven years ago.