School march

Teachers of the Moscow school No. 1567 called on their graduates to go to the rally "For Honest Elections" on December 24. "The results of the elections in showed that they do not consider us for people. The authorities believe that we will humble ourselves with any humiliation and agree with any falsification. If we endure this, then it will be even worse," the teachers' appeal , which was signed by Tamara Eidelman, Lev Sobolev, Edward Beznosov and others. At the same time, they noted that they call for a rally only graduates, and not current students.

The authors of the appeal believe that mass protests have already brought some result. "It is already noticeable now how people began to change over the past week-and this is the most important thing. Our Prime Minister clenched several promises, which there was not even a question a month ago. He promised to restore-albeit in a mutilated form-the election of governors, and even consider the passing of the pardon of Khodorkovsky if he writes it. If new, honest elections are held, the country will become different. Power. Power. Power. Power. Power. Power. The property, for example, will no longer be able to falsify the results of the presidential election with the same composure.

Famous cultural figures also called on to come to a rally on December 24. The appeal was signed, in particular, actor Maxim Vitorgan, directors Pavel and Harry Bardin and Valery Todorovsky, actresses Anastasia Tsvetaeva, Ksenia Alferova and others. “It is very important to assert our human, civil dignity again and again - that we have gained on December 10. If we want to change something, we should be a lot. We will disgrace, scare and provoke, say that we are victims of political technology. Don’t give in. We will fight for our rights fun and benevolently. Everything is just beginning. Before a meeting at a rally,” they said in their appeal . It was signed by the directors of Harry Bardin, Alexander Proshkin, Valery Todorovsky, Vladimir Mirzoev, Nikolai Khomeriki, actors Maxim Sukhanov, Evgeny Dobrovolskaya, Evgeny Podchkin, Yegor Beroev, Julia Menshova, Marina Zudina, Margarita Terekhova and many others. There are already about 200 signatures.

On December 24, Boris Akunin (Grigory Chkhartishvili), journalists Dmitry Bykov, Olga Romanova and Oleg Kashin entered the rally organizing committee on December 24. The official applicants of the rally are the activists of the "Solidarity" Sergey Davidis and Nadezhda Mityushkina, journalist Sergei Parkhomenko and spokesman for the Left Front Anastasia Udaltsova. In the group "December 24 on Vasilievsky. Two weeks later", created on the social network Facebook, more than 30 thousand people have already entered. The community was created after the organizers of the second large -scale opposition rally in Moscow submitted an application for an event.

Currently, a folk collection of funds for rally "For honest elections" has been announced, which will be held in Moscow on Sakharov Avenue on December 24. At the request of the organizers, journalist and civil activist Olga Romanova took up the collection of donations from individuals. For these purposes, she opened a wallet in the Yandex.Money system (wallet number: 410011232431933, money transfer instructions ). You can put any amount at the expense, these funds are not taxed, and the names of the donors are known only to the owner of the wallet. In the first three hours after the opening of the Romanova wallet, more than 200 thousand rubles were raised.

On December 10, participants in a rally against falsification of elections on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow adopted a resolution, in which, in particular, the investigations of the elections were required. In total, protesters put forward five demands to the authorities: the immediate liberation of all political prisoners; cancellation of the results of falsified elections; the resignation of the head of the CEC Vladimir Churov and the investigation of his activities, the verification of all facts of falsifications; registration of opposition parties, adoption of democratic laws on parties and elections; Conducting new open and honest elections. The opposition gave the authorities for two weeks to fulfill the conditions put forward.