No Pasaran Azov 2003 (2006) Они не пройдут Азов 2003
No Pasaran (2006) Unique movie on radical ecological protest in Russia INFO: Vadim Likhachev, Russia, russian, english subtitles, 2006, 43 min. Movie No Pasaran documents environmental protest campaign in city of Azov, Russia in summer of 2003. Inhabitants of Azov, together with activists and anarchists of Autonomous Action and Rainbow Keepers, defend their right to clean environment and fight against construction of a methanol shipping terminal in their home town. After fall of the Soviet Union, there has been a huge pressure of development for the Black Sea rim, and environmental activists have had hard times attempting to protect what is remaining. Most of the protest campaigns in the area have been failures, but Azov campaign, peak of which was in 2003, was a success eventually methanol shipping terminal, which was already almost finished by then, was redesigned to be used for export of less dangerous goods. This was mostly due to mass popular protests
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