The practice of recent years shows that an ordinary citizen can gain world fame without completely wanting it. When a person enters the struggle with the state for his rights, the outcome of such a confrontation is not difficult to predict. More than five years have passed since the moment when the laying of the expressway in the Khimki town near Moscow was completed. Over a long period of time about this city, and about the highway, and about the forest through which the road was laid, every day was reported on TV. And almost always the name of Evgenia Chirikova was mentioned.
Childhood and youth
The construction of a consumer society is carried out according to a strict plan. People who are citizens of a destroyed country called the Soviet Union do not ask if they want to change their natural status. The indisputable priority is the interests of large companies. This fundamental principle clearly illustrated the conflict between residents of the city of Khimki and a private transport company. One of the characters in the drama was Evgenia Sergeyevna Chirikova. At first glance, her civic and human position may seem strange and not real. Although she didn’t do anything supernatural.
The biography of the young woman says that she was born on November 12, 1976 in an intelligent family. Father, candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, worked as a teacher at one of Moscow institutes. The girl grew up and was brought up in a healthy environment. She studied well at school and received a certificate of maturity entered the Moscow Aviation Institute. This educational institution is known for the fact that within its walls talented cultural and art workers received a ticket to life. Chirikova was an ordinary student who sought to get a quality education. Before she received a diploma, she worked part-time as a programmer in various commercial structures.
Conflict of interest
After completing her studies, Chirikova began to build a career in small business. Together with her husband, they established an enterprise that provides services for the design of power supply systems for enterprises. They earned well and eventually decided to move to Khimki near Moscow. This is one of the few towns around the capital, where a decent ecological situation was still preserved. The husband, wife and two children were quite happy with the new living conditions. Personal life was calm. Business brought a decent income. However, this fragile well-being did not last long.
In 2007, quite by accident, Evgenia Chirikova learned that a expressway would be laid through the now-famous Khimki Forest. From this news it followed that in a short period of time clean air, green grass and local water bodies will be elementarily polluted. Such "pictures" can always be seen in the vicinity of any metropolis. The natural reaction of a decent person is to stop the process of building the route, which will lead to the degradation of a natural oasis. And the young woman made an impulsive decision to fight for her rights.
Tough confrontation
Evgenia Chirikova, driven by a sense of justice, joined in the struggle for her interests. It should be emphasized that the interests of the citizen of the Russian Federation Evgenia Sergeyevna Chirikova did not have commercial content. Its requirements are simple and understandable - clean air, green grass and frogs croaking in the local swamp. But it was not there. Physically strong men with axes and saws, bulldozers and graders for laying a highway advanced to the cutting site. What could locals oppose to this force, which operated under the shadow of the Law?
An outpost organized by city activists on the cutting route stood for several days. To picketers came journalists from different media. The social and political leaders of the opposition wing expressed their support to Chirikova in every possible way. In this context, it should be noted that Eugene has always emphasized that her political career does not appeal to her. But in the process of struggle, one does not have to choose protective equipment.
For some time, the laying of the highway was suspended. A pause was required in order to neutralize the activists who made the main contribution to the confrontation. The editor of a local newspaper was severely beaten, on the pages of which materials were published on the consequences of laying the main line. A few weeks later, a lawyer was killed who defended the editor in the courts initiated by the local administration. After these events, Chirikova decided to take the children out of the city, since she received the corresponding threats. Such ambassadors should respond quickly and accurately.
