Summary of independent environmental examination of the Moscow-St.Petersburg motorway project, section 15-58 kilometres (Khimki Forest)

The examination was initiated by a coalition of environmental NGOs and carried out by 18 experts in the field of environmental protection, environmental law, forestry, urban planning and transport development. It was handed over to Russian president Medvedev on February 1, 2011.

The main task of the 15-person commission was to assess the project as a whole and recommend resolutions to the conflict. It concluded that concludes that widening the existing highway, outside Khimki Forest, is the best alternative.