Prohibiting techniques

The city hall of Novosibirsk repeatedly refused to agree on the Siberian march planned for August 17. This was reported by SIBINFO with reference to Alexei Baranov, the organizer of the action. “They have not yet been given an official refusal in fact, it should only be tomorrow,” the activist said.

Baranov explained that he was announced at the refusal at the meeting in the city administration with the participation of the first vice mayor of Novosibirsk Viktor Ignatov. “In general, they invented there, allegedly the militants of the“ Right Sector ”will come to the city, provocations are possible and therefore they are forced to refuse us,” said the organizer of the march. “They say that some third forces can take advantage of the action. Although they never called them.”

The activist added that he was persuaded to withdraw the submitted notification.

Regarding the further intentions of the organizers of Baranov, he said that the march will most likely take place on the appointed day. "We plan to go without posters and flags and end everything with a rally without using microphones and speakers so as not to violate the current legislation," he said.

There is no final decision regarding the format of the action, Baranov added. “Perhaps,” he remarked, “that we will make the names of all information portals as elements of clothing that received notifications from Roskomnadzor about the removal of publications about the march.”

The first notification of the Siberian march was submitted on August 1 . The organizers formulated the purpose of the action for the federalization of Siberia as the formation of the autonomous Siberian Republic as part of Russia.

On August 4, the city authorities refused to agree on the march . As explained in paper signed by the acting First Vice-mayor Gennady Zakharov, such a decision was made "to ensure the inviolability of the constitutional system, territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Russian Federation."

The next day, the organizers of the action recalled their notification, submitting another to the other - about the conduct of the procession and rally on August 17 for the inviolability of the constitutional system, in particular, the state compliance with the principle of federalism, enshrined in Articles 1 and 5 of the Constitution. "

The collection of participants in the action - at 15:40 local time near the store "Capital" on Maxim Gorky Street. The beginning of the procession along the October Highway and Kirov Street - at 16:20. The rally will be held on Pimenov Square from 17:00 to 18:30.

At the same time, Baranov submitted an application to the Novosibirsk prosecutor’s office on the fact of illegal refusal of the city hall .

After the first reports of the Siberian march, Roskomnadzor demanded that Roskomnadzor demand from more than 10 publications to delete publications. The "facets" and "New Region" refused to fulfill the illegal order. The Russian BBC service edited its text, but also refused to delete it. Other Russian media, as well as the website of the television news service of the Ukrainian television channel "1+1" subordinate to the demand of the department.