[3] On July 18, 2019, the European Parliament adopted a resolution demanding that Russia stop persecuting environmental activists in the Arkhangelsk Oblast.

[13] In December 2019, Moscow authorities prepared a territorial waste management plan, excluding the Shies landfill so as not to inflame further protests.

[14] According to expert Andrei Churakov, the exclusion of the facility at Shies station from the list of priority investment projects was of a formal nature.

It will include more than 100 photographs by nine authors and memories of people who took part in the protest[16] In 2018, construction of paved areas began on the territory of the Shies station with the help of Russian Railways .

[17] And at the end of the year, activists placed the first trailer near the construction site for round-the-clock duty, to which people came from nearby settlements and even from the entire region.

A few hours before the start of the rally, volunteer Yulia Chapulina, who was counting the number of participants, was detained by the authorities.

[27] On June 16, a rally was held at the Stroitel cultural center in Severodvinsk in support of activists at Shies station.

[29] On July 26, 2019, the “Day of Solidarity with Shies” event was held, during which residents of the region hung red cloth outside their windows.

Governor Igor Orlov, who had previously called the protesters “shitholes,” later commented on this event: he decided that people simply hung out their washed clothes to dry.

[31] On September 30, a recording of a meeting was published on the website of the Arkhangelsk Oblast Assembly of Deputies, in which a deputy from the Libertarian Party of Russia demanded the return of a plot of land due to the expiration of the lease as the agreement on the use of the forest area in the area of the Shies station which was concluded in 2018 had expired.

[33] On January 9, 2020, the Arkhangelsk Regional Arbitration Court, at the request of the Urdoma administration, declared the construction of the Shies landfill as illegal.

[35] On December 2, 2020, the Arbitration Court of the Northwestern Federal District (St. Petersburg ) accepted the cassation appeal of Technopark LLC dated November 23, 2020 suspending the demolition of the landfill for up to two months.

At the same time, the activists who remain to live in the tent camps were proposed to be considered unrelated to continue the fight against the construction of the landfill, since they allegedly left the “Stop-Shies” coalition.

[36] On January 12, 2021, the management of Technopark LLC stated that activists at Shies station were hindering reclamation efforts by refusing to move the tent camp from a land plot of 15 hectares.