Karina Zabolotnaya is a correspondent for the North Desk of RFE/RL's Russian Service.
For two years, activists have been protesting near the northern town of Shiyes against a massive landfill project for trash from Moscow. Now a court has declared the project illegal and ordered the site restored. Now, activists are debating whether the battle is over and what comes next.
Every year, a Moscow NGO sends volunteers on expeditions to the Far North of Russia to perform triage on some of the country's most beautiful and endangered architectural monuments. At the same time, they bring books to dying villages where the library is the beating heart of the community.
