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Laser Show Needs a Permit
Russia’s supervisor and defender of consumer rights Rospotrebnadzor has committed all laser show arrangers to obtain sanctions for holding them. The actions were taken after the Aquamarine trance festival, when a laser beam caused incurable retina injuries to dozens of people.
Rospotrebnadzor chief Gennady Onishchenko has committed all arrangers of theatrical and entertaining actions to agree on the laser show with his department. They will have to provide specification for the laser equipment, the layout of laser installation and specify the trajectory of laser beams.
This requirement of Rospotrebnadzor was shaped in the wake of July 6 accident in Vladimir region. Roughly 30 people with similar retina injuries sought treatment in Moscow hospitals after the Aquamarine festival of trance music held in the wood. The diagnosis was the same for all victims – the retina hemorrhage.
“When I was hospitalized, the loss of eyesight was 70 percent, it is 30 percent after the hospital and the eyesight will never restore,” said Dmitry, who took part in the festival. “We applied to the Prosecutor General Office and some of us have been summoned for the conversation, but there are no results yet,” said Denis, another patient of an ophthalmologic clinical hospital.
The trance festival was arranged by Cosmic Connection. According to one of its representatives, Alexander Pogosyan (DJ Sashi), “the laser show was ordered to a firm that has all safety certificates, but the firm responsible for the laser delivered the program with the beams descending sometimes.” Pogosyan couldn’t be reached for comment yesterday but he gave an interview to the Ukrainian 24 newspaper a day before, specifying that he hadn’t taken part in the laser show arrangement and would never use lasers in his parties again.
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of July 31, 2008
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