Moscow admits building highway via radioactive site

Moscow (AFP) Jan 24, 2020

Moscow's powerful mayor on Friday acknowledged that a planned highway project would pass a radioactive waste site, but pledged to clean it up after months of protests by residents. In his first comments on the environmental dispute, Sergei Sobyanin said officials will continue to build a highway and bridge over the Moscow river, but would "ship out the radioactive soil". Moscow, which ha