Russian teen eco-activists fight for future as risks mount
Penza, Russia (AFP) Aug 27, 2023
Egor Chastukhin, an 18-year-old environmental activist, holds a flask to a drain spurting out warm, putrid water near the historic city of Penza in western Russia. "It smells like herbal tea," he jokes after taking a waft of the sample while Sonia, his wife, jots down notes. She records the odour and its yellowish colour as two other teenage activists, Alexei Zetkin and Yakov Demidov, lo