They complained for days about the stench coming from a waste dump.
Then their children started getting sick.
Residents of Volokolamsk, a town outside Moscow, took to the streets Tuesday after 57 children were hospitalized. Their spells of dizziness and nausea were thought to be linked to the noxious fumes emanating from the landfill, the Moscow Times reported.
[The world produces more than 3.5 million tons of garbage a day — and that figure is growing.]
Andrey Vorobyov, governor of the Moscow region, which includes Volokolamsk, visited the hospital where the children were taken. Video posted on social media showed parents and protesters waiting outside.
Vorobyov left the hospital flanked by men in black parkas emblazoned with the Russian word for “police.” Protesters were reportedly visibly angry with the official.
As he passed through the crowded street, demonstrators on the sidelines began pelting Vorobyov with snowballs.
The Moscow Times reported that a video of a young girl “making a throat cutting gesture” directed at the regional official had spread across social media.
The regional government has denied media reports of plans to evacuate children from the region.
In July 2017, Andrew Roth wrote about Vorobyov's ties to Aras Agalarov, the Russian businessman who with his son, Emin, brought the Trump-owned Miss Universe pageant to Moscow in 2013.
Earlier in the week, Vorobyev praised turnout in his region in the presidential election and said in a statement that the vote, which secured another six-year term for President Vladimir Putin, was transparent and open.
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