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Kazakhstan: collecting signatures on the web against the holding of the Olympic Games 2022 in Almaty

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The author of the petition is a civil society activist Andrei Buzykin which petition calls only the first step in a larger campaign against the Olympics in Almaty.

"With the implementation of these projects, Kazakh officials suffer not only the country's budget and the social sphere, but also ecology, environment, biodiversity. By bulldozers are habitats of flora and fauna, endangered species, brought in the Red book of Kazakhstan and the Red List of threatened and endangered species of the International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN. In this opinion, the inhabitants of the Republic of Kazakhstan is completely ignored, regardless of the Constitution, the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Kazakhstan ratified the Aarhus Convention and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. In international committees provided A forged information in order to conceal from the eyes of the world public flagrant violations of officials at all levels of the Kazakhstan legislation and international agreements ", - stated in the text of the petition.

Planned to petition the International Olympic Committee with the requirement to refuse to conduct the Olympic Games in 2022 in the city of Almaty.

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