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A camel eating rubbish piled up in the streets of Makhachkala. Image via regoperator05/Instagram.

Corruption

Garbage piles up in streets of Makhachkala as city charges disposal firm with fraud

by OC Media

•1 min read

Rubbish has been piling up in the streets of the Daghestani capital, Makhachkala, for over a month due to a dispute between the city and the local waste management firm. Waste collection firm Lider has not been collecting rubbish since mid-January after failing to reach an agreement with the authorities over tariffs. Since the dispute began, the local Prosecutor’s Office have charged the company with creating an illegal landfill on the outskirts of the city. According to the company’s cont

Armenia

Yerevan municipality takes over waste-collection

by Hovhannes Ishkhanyan

•4 min read

Yerevan’s authorities have taken over waste-collection from Lebanon-based contractor Sanitek after the summer’s ‘rubbish crisis’. In mid-September, Yerevan residents found the ubiquitous black rubbish bins owned by the city’s waste removal contractor, Sanitek, tipped over. Standing next to them were new green containers owned by the city municipality. The appearance of the new containers in mid-September was the latest manifestation of the ongoing row between Yerevan Municipality and San

Daghestan

Protests over landfill in Derbent District of Daghestan

by OC Media

•2 min read

Protesters in four villages of Daghestan’s Derbent District blocked a local road on 25 July demanding that the authorities move a landfill from near their villages. The local authorities have promised to address the problem. Protesters used rubbish lorries to the road leading to the landfill in the morning. ‘The city has already collapsed. The rubbish hasn’t been removed from containers for the fourth day already’, reads a statement published in the group, Moy Derbent Plyus, in the

Agriculture

Illegal landfills found in six districts of Daghestan

by OC Media

•1 min read

Several hectares of land are occupied by illegal landfills in six districts of Daghestan. Almost all of them were created spontaneously on land intended for agriculture, and specialists are concerned about environmental problems in these areas. Last week, the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) carried out inspections which highlighted the problem of unauthorised landfills across the republic. Specialists visited sites in the districts of Derbe

Caspian Sea

Daghestani sewage company fined $170 for polluting Caspian Sea

by OC Media

•1 min read

A Makhachkala court has imposed a fine of ₽10,000 ($170) on Makhachkalavodokanal, a joint-stock company, for polluting the Caspian Sea. The court ruled that the company disposed of raw sewage into the sea. Inspectors from the Federal Agency for Fisheries conducted inspections along the Caspian coast, where they discovered discharges of untreated sewage into the sea in seven areas along Makhachkala’s coast, including the central city beach. Agency spokesperson, Khadizhat Mazgarova, told