Residents facing eviction from their homes in the Black Sea city of Sochi continued a hunger strike for the 16th consecutive day on Thursday, Kasparov.ru reports. The move is a last-ditch attempt by residents to bring attention to what they say is the unfair amount of compensation being offered to them by the local government in exchange for their property, which the city plans to use to construct the primary facilities for the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Alik Le, head of a union of local residents, said that five of the ten original hunger strikers are currently continuing the protest that they began on May 19.
While local law enforcement representatives and doctors are present on the scene, no local or federal media has even remotely touched on the story, Le said.
"The regional media is blocking all information about us. Nobody in Russia knows ...
