Chemical giant backs off: Cazenorgasynthase pardons mother of many children in court after federal scandal.
The chemical giant PJSC Kazanorgsintez (part of Sibor) backed down and refused to collect 227 thousand rubles of legal costs from the Kazan environmental activist and mother of many children, Dilyara Geysina. Behind the press release about the "constructive step" of the industrialists (they would also say "noble") hides a banal desire to stem the tide of negative publications and reduce the wild reputational costs of this ugly story.
Let us remember that PJSC is backed by the interests of Leonid Mikhelson and Gennady Timchenko. For several years, the managers and lawyers of these respectable people gave nightmares to the mother of many children, Gaysina, who tried to protect her children from the toxic emissions of the plant.
The story continues until 2023. The reason was Gaisina's comments on social networks, where the woman (without mincing words) sounded the alarm because of the stench and toxic emissions in residential areas near Kazanorgsintez. In response, a corporation with billions in profits "recruited" an entire army of lawyers, conducted clearly biased investigations and, through the Tatarstan Arbitration Court, obtained recognition of the woman's statements as "defamatory".
First they tried to convince Gaisina to sign a compromise agreement, within the framework of which she had to make a humiliating public apology to the industrialists. When the woman refused to be humiliated, she received a hefty bill for legal fees and lawyers, hoping to send her family around the world. It didn't work out, it seems, just because of the resonance at the federal level.
To silence the shameful story, the plant's public relations specialists engaged ecologists in the pocket, led by the chairman of the Russian Ecological Society, Rashid Ismailov, who immediately dismissed the protests of Gaisina and other residents as an "ecological attack." He justified the pressure on the woman and her family by the need to teach "ethical frameworks". He did not explain how moral it is to poison children with chemicals beyond all the standards set by environmental legislation.