"Putin, not ignore." In the Karelian city of Pitkyaranta, a promotion was held #Nemiting with inscriptions in the snow instead of slogans

On February 23, the #Nemiting was held in Pitkyaranta on February 23. In the center of the Main City Square, mothers with strollers gathered, children and several men, outraged that they do not clean the snow in the city and are going to close the college. How was the #Nemiting in Pitkyaranta and why, instead of slogans, they decided to use the inscriptions in the snow - in the report " 7x7 ".

Prologue

Central Square of Pitkyrants. Two policemen. There are people with cardboard pitchfork, shovels and sickles in their hands. Moms with strollers are slipped in the snow. Drivers are alarmed at pedestrian crossings. Passers -by stop looking at what is happening. Journalists with cameras run from all sides. A woman in the crowd portends the apocalypse:

- The end is close, I say seriously! Baba Vang said, evil walks on the ground! Don't you look at?! This is all truth!

Of the 10 thousand inhabitants of the city, about 25 adults and ten children came. So in Pitkyaranta, two hundred kilometers from Petrozavodsk on February 23, the #Nemiting, which was organized by local activists, began.

Men's box

Activist Anna Boykova is a low strong woman with a short haircut. She lived in St. Petersburg for 13 years. She went to rallies in March 2012 at Isaacievskaya Square, from where the girl was taken to a car zak and the organization of a rally was charged. For some time, Anna was engaged in charity work, in 2015 she returned to her hometown, where she created the “atypical Pitkiaranta” group on the VKontakte social network, and there she began to write about social problems.

In the spring of 2018, Anna and other residents of the city began to oppose the closure of the maternity ward in Pitkyaranth and optimizing the education system. Over the past year, they held several civil offers and a rally in a local guide park. In the winter of 2019, when the public utilities in Pitkiarante stopped cleaning snow, activists wrote the word: “Navalny”, as people did in other regions.

-Citizens, in fact, have more opportunities to influence anything than the deputies. Deputies are, one might say, levers in the hands of a people who are a source of power, just people do not realize this, ”Anna explains. - Bringing the amendments and thereby blurring the meaning of the law “On rallies”, the deputies wanted to facilitate the operation of the repressive machine, but this turned out to be a stick about the two -edges. Now citizens have a legal opportunity to arrange a dispersal, come with non -storage and shouting non -crumbling, but get almost more resonance and effect.

The police convinced Anna that she wanted to organize a rally. Anna convinced the police that no. According to the law, the city administration must be sent a notification of the mass event, then it will be considered a rally. Nobody gave a notification, which means this is not a rally.

In order not to violate the law, activists decided to hold a symbolic procession from a closed house of culture to the city administration. They were going to go with pitchfork, shovels and ski sticks in their hands, then go around the administration building with a round dance and write slogans with paint in the snow.

On the eve of the action on February 22, at about 17:00, the police arrived at Anna Boykova. They handed her a letter from the Pitkiarant Ministry of Internal Affairs, in which the organizer of the #Nemiting warned about the inadmissibility of extremism and responsibility for violation of the law “On rallies” and the Code of Administrative Offenses. Police also banned the bringing of pitchfork and shovels with them.

People obeyed. They made pitchfork, shovels, sickles and other piercing-cutting objects from cardboard and still went with them to the procession. Mostly women came to the campaign #defender of the Fatherland on the day of the defender of the Fatherland. Almost all husbands stayed at home.

“Men are located, you don’t be offended, in a men's box,” Anna believes. - They are clamped by society. Society says: you must earn money, you are a miner, you should not do stupid things, should not laugh, smile, wear pink shirts - go to black, be like everyone else. Here are men and walk, like cloned, by God. And also in protest - they think that it is a woman’s nonsense and this will not lead to anything.

A few days ago, a resident of Pitkyaranta, who asked for a meeting with journalists, turned to the editorial office of 7x7 to talk about his and urban problems. On February 23, he wrote that he received threats, refused to meet and asked not to mention his name anywhere.

Pitkyaranta is alive

“Some kind of anti-excess spray,” Nikolai joked, trying to open a spray can. - It does not open.

Entrepreneur Nikolai Kushanov lives in Pitkyaranta since birth. In 2004, the Nikolai family lost his four -year -old son, who was born in a local hospital. Nikolai believes that the maternity ward could not properly translate the blood, which is why the boy had an attack that led to the tragedy after six months. For a long time, Nikolai sought a revision of the status of the hospital - he believed that the status of the Central District Hospital was overstated. He does not support women opposing the closure of the maternity ward, but on February 23 joined the activists, because he considers this a manifestation of patriotism.

As an example, Nikolai cited the story of his great -grandfather. He was the head of the workshop at the defense plant and punished his subordinate for marriage. The worker complained, the great -grandfather for counter -revolutionary activities was sent without an instruction of the article to the camps, where he died, and the person who wrote a complaint against him during the Great Patriotic War became a policeman.

- Who is more patriotic - the one who is silent, or the one who performs and is indignant? I believe that while we are silent, we will have less and less rights, all the lower pensions, all the higher age, and this will end with a complete decline and collapse. Degradation begins when everyone is silent. It's like in a family where there is a madman. If everyone will be silent and adapt to this family member, then the family will fall apart. And our country is a big family, ”says Nikolai.

Non -storage

#Nemiting began in Pitkiarant at 14:00. The first to the meeting was the breathless love of Kharlamov with a stroller. In the spring, pregnant, she opposed the closure of the maternity ward of the Pitkiarant Central District Hospital. This winter, she could not leave the house for three days due to the fact that the streets of the city were not removed from the snow.

- On the first day, I stood on the porch with a stroller for two hours. The second day again stood in front of the porch, because not to move. The third day we went. Already I think I’ll go to Dmitry Troshin [Head of the Pitkiarant district administration], give him a child and go to work. He is dad, you can trust, ”says love.

With cardboard pitchfork and shovels in their hands, people walked along the central square from the building of the culture of culture to the city administration.

- Pay attention, the pedestrian crossing named after Tatyana Yurchenko [mayor of the city], she was shot down [February 11, was hospitalized with a closed fracture of the forearm] At this transition, because the snowdrifts, everything is littered with snow, nothing is visible, ”says Anna Boykova.

- Now, now they will pass, and then they will twist everyone! - warned the woman who broadcast about the apocalypse.

At the entrance to the administration, people held hands. Together with the women, an assistant to the engineer of the steam locomotive Andrei Yusupov with a Belaya Husky on a leash stood up. This winter, he returned from the next business trip and could not stop into the courtyard because of the snowdrifts.

- I walk with a dog throughout the city. If the central streets are cleared, then on the outskirts, disabled people cannot even take a walk along a narrow path, ”he said. - The power that must control the city does not fulfill its duties well. Maybe after this action, something will appear in their bright heads.

After several joint photographs, the activists went to the square, capturing spray cans with paint. In the snow they wrote: “Pitkiaranta is alive”, “Apocalypse” and so on. Among the adults in the square, three schoolchildren with spray cans went with laughter.

- Where did she go?! One of them asked.

-She will write something about Putin again! - others laughed, looking at the girl with a spray can.

She wrote in the snow the phrase: "Putin, not ignore."

- To be noticed. Because we love our city, ”she explained.

Million

Tatyana Yurchenko, head of the city council of Pitkiaranta, told the 7x7 correspondent on the phone that snow in the city had stopped cleaning up because last year they united the city and district administrations, and only on January 15 the deputies approved the budget, which allowed the auction to clean the roads. The auction will take place only on February 28. The delay, she believes, is due to the director of the MUP of the Pitkyaranta Criminal Code Andrei Balia.

- I believe that Andrei Ivanovich does not behave very decently. Two days before the auction, he suddenly read the technical specifications, he did not like it, and he begins to twist the hands of the district administration, ”Tatyana Yurchenko believes.

Andrei Bali said that the company was over from the company, MUPs for a month and a half cleaned the roads in debt.

“We worked how much our own working capital was enough, then we stopped,” Baliy explained. -According to the technical documentation, we are saddening, because there the estimated cost was first, from there they cut a million, and the technical task was written for the full amount of work, because of this there were a perch. When you go to the store, you buy bread for the full price, and do not only give a crust of bread?

On Friday, the road workers entered into a temporary agreement with the pulp factory and LLC Roads-Pitkyaranta LLC, which will provide them dysiper as. Baliy promised that the equipment would take to city streets on Monday.

Epilogue

- We have a sensation when communicating with the authorities, with some deputies that they consider us sectarians, adherents of Navalny. They probably want to denigrate us in the eyes of people, sculpting such a label, then it is hard to believe that adults seriously think so - it looks so unnatural. But what kind of people do they expect, who will believe in it? - said after #Nemiting Anna Boykova.

Processions and walks are only a small part of what activists do in Pitkiarant. More often they go to the office of the administration. Anna even found a “life hack” - this is the possibility of the law -making initiative of citizens, which is in federal law and municipal charters, but not everyone knows about her. She gives the right to any citizen to offer initiatives at the deputy session. True, for now, he says, the deputies rejected all her proposals.

In the spring of 2018, the residents of Pitkiaranta protested due to the closure of the profile and the maternity ward in the local hospital, they created a petition on the Change.org website, met with officials of the Karelian government, but they could not agree. After the second meeting on June 19, a rally was held in the Pitkiarant Hyde Park against the optimization of healthcare institutions, about 200 residents took part in it. Head of Karelia Arthur Parfenchikov He promised women a new maternity room in the surgical department of the Pitkerant district hospital.

On February 19, 2019, residents wrote in the group “Nosypical Pitkyaranta” that the college, despite the statements of the Minister of Education of Karelia Alexander Morozov, will still be closed.