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Shein drank a glass of juice
The ex-candidate of Astrakhan mayor Oleg Shein softened the hunger strike, publicly drinking a glass of orange juice. He stated that this is a "tatthorn gesture" with the Central Election Commission. On Thursday, the head of the CEC Vladimir Churov said that he intends to personally watch the video from all polling stations of Astrakhan, RIA Novosti reports. This promise Churov gave in a telephone with a conversation with the leader of Fair Russia Sergey Mironov, who came to Astrakhan to support Shein. The regional branches of "Fair Russia" are beginning to unlimited protests in solidarity with Shein, Mironov said in an interview with Radio Liberty.
On the 28th day, Shein does not intend to leave the hunger strike demanding the cancellation of the mayor's election results ( 
On Thursday, Shein performed in the Astrakhan Regional Duma and gave evidence of falsifications. In the morning, the deputies voted to include this question on the agenda at the suggestion of the speaker Boris Klycanov. The performance of representatives of the regional prosecutor's office and the election commission is also expected.
On Thursday morning, Rostelecom should be transferred to representatives of “Fair Russia” of videos from all Astrakhan weekends on hard drives. According to Shein, on Friday he expects to file a lawsuit.
Meanwhile, in the center of Astrakhan, a share of solidarity with starving. On Kirov Square, several dozen activists on inflatable mattresses are located. Among them are opposition from Moscow and two residents of the city of Lermonts of the Stavropol Territory, where a political hunger strike was also recently held. On Saturday in Astrakhan, a rally will be held for re -election with the participation of activists from different cities.
According to Twitter, the activist of the Blue Vederok Danila Lindel, there are many nurses in the city center. On Wednesday evening, a member of the Political Council of Solidarity, Ilya Yashin, fought with a provocateur-and-offer (
The coordinator of the Moscow Branch of the Federation of A car owners Andrei Eagle was detained by the road police in Astrakhan on suspicion of driving a stolen car, Interfax reports. According to the traffic police of the region, the message that the car driven by the eagle is on the wanted list entered the "trust phone". Police officers drew up a protocol, took an explanation and released it. According to the eagle, police officers detained three participants in the solidarity action on suspicion of disseminating illegal campaigning.
On the eve of the Astrakhan Governor Alexander Zhilkin offered Shein's position in the regional administration. "We are leading a hunger strike for the return of the Astrakhanians the right to choose power, and not for my position," Shein said.
On Wednesday, Vladimir Putin, answering the question of Astrakhan during a speech in the State Duma, said that he did not understand why Shein announced a hunger strike without appealing the election results in court. "My personal opinion lies in the fact that if the violations that can question the results themselves, then, accordingly, the court must decide on the cancellation. If the court does not find grounds for canceling, then you need to agree with its results," Putin said. "As far as I know, your colleague Shein began a hunger strike, but has not yet appealed to the court. Honestly, it’s even strange. What to starve if the court may still figure it out and everything will agree with the results of the proceedings. We must go to court," the prime minister said.
“Now we are discussing the possibility of elections of regional managers. I think that there will be a lot of such conflicts and disputes. But according to the President’s draft, the president does not have the right to cancel the election results. If you think that the president needs to be endowed with such a right, let's think about it. But it seems to me that the president will simply gnaw in constant disputes about whether the elections were held correctly or incorrectly,” Putin added.
After this statement by Putin, the deputies of Fair Russia left the State Duma meeting hall. Before the start of Putin’s performance, the Socialist -Revolutionaries refused to get up in greeting the prime minister.
Earlier, the CCIC OPEC Leonid Ivlev said that there is no reason to cancel the elections in Astrakhan. “Despite the violations of the mayor of Astrakhan, they were carried out in accordance with the law. The grounds in order to initiate their cancellation on the part of the CEC,” Ivlev said. According to the election commission, in the mayor’s elections, Mikhail Stolyarov won with 60 percent of the vote on March 4, Shein scored about 30 percent.
According to Ivlev, both the candidate himself and his party that nominated his vote can apply to the court to cancel the results of the results of the vote. “Return to the legal field, dear Oleg Vasilievich Shein and the respected Russian party,” Ivlev said. He added that this has not happened yet, "political tourism has intensified in Astrakhan."
The day before, the prosecutor’s office reported that five administrative cases were initiated following the election audit, but the bulk of the claims were not confirmed. The department said that the revealed violations "could not affect the reliability of the vote count."