May Day without solidarity

The first to go to Moscow streets to celebrate May Day representatives of Russian trade unions and activists of the United Russia party. Their joint rally was literally near the walls of the city hall on Tverskaya. In his speech, the chairman of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia Mikhail Shmakov fell on not named by the name of the oligarchs who are trying to discredit Moscow, that is, presumably the current authorities of the capital:

- The most successful so -called "oligarchs" - their business is built on the blood, on the blood of those thousands of prisoners of the Gulag who built enterprises in the most profitable industries that were privatized for a pack of Mahorki, and then successfully transferred into money. And now it is called a successful business. This is not our business. Today, various political clowns are trying to undermine all those social conquests that are in Russia in general and in our Moscow. They do not want to see and want to shut up that Moscow is the most successfully developing region of Russia. We will not let them discredit the activities of Moscow, and we will not give them Moscow for reproach.

Concluding his performance, Mikhail Shmakov read out aloud Eugene in Russian translation aloud.

The leader of "United Russia", the State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov still named the name of the one whom the party of power supports in his struggle with the oligarchs:

- The future of Russia is in a real economy, in a real -developed industry, in modernization, and not in the financial pyramids that oligarchs build. Today in a single column with trade unions is the party "United Russia", the party of the parliamentary majority. We, the working people of Moscow, are you and I, the Moscow government, we, Yuri Nikolayevich Luzhkov!

Not far, on Pushkinskaya Square, a rally of the Fair Russia party was held. Its leader Sergei Mironov also read poetry:

A policy that destroys all real production and does not allow any business person to raise his head

- Following Vladimir Mayakovsky, today we can safely repeat: "Between the peoples, break the ice. Glory to the Union of Workers. This is May." Hooray! Long live May Day, the day of the solidarity of the workers! Long live a man of labor! Long live fair Russia! Happy holiday! Hooray!

The leader of the Communists Gennady Zyuganov spoke in the theater square in front of his supporters. Apparently, he does not see any significant difference between the oligarchs and the current Russian authorities:

“They do not want to do anything to stop the extinction of the state.” But they dragged the laws, according to which they turn their pockets further. Tell me, how can modern production work, if the price of energy carriers, a communal apartment over 10 years of Putin’s reign increased by 8-11 times? A policy that destroys all real production and does not make it possible to raise the head to any business person, whether it be a state -owned enterprise or small, medium -sized businesses.

And the Yabloko party organized its action "March of Changes" at the Solovetsky stone on Lubyanka. The authorities turned her into an intra -party business. The fact is that the procession of the party activists moved from the Maly Theater, and those who came from the Maly Theater, and passed to the Solovetsky stone. And many, including many correspondents, went from the metro, and police officers flatly refused to skip them. That is, the constitution for the Moscow authorities is not a decree. Many of those who would like to join the action could not get on it. A hundred person participated in this rally. The party leader Sergei Mitrokhin performed. Here they chanted the slogan "We want change."

Opposition activists, human rights activists and ecologists finally held the “Welly Day” campaign under the slogans Moscow without Luzhkov! Moscow Region without Gromov! ” The day before, information appeared that the action was once again prohibited by the authorities. One of its organizers, the coordinator of the Mossovet association Sergei Udaltsov , explained.

- In fact, the Moscow government made a small provocation, I think, deliberately. Because on Thursday we were issued a corresponding document on the coordination of the action, and on Friday the press service of the city hall began to declare that they did not agree on anything, there would be no “day of anger”. This is a special conscious misinformation in order to confuse people so that someone does not come because of this. This, in my opinion, is simply unworthy, it is baseness, meanness. In fact, everything is agreed.

The main goals of the shares remain the same, said Sergey Udaltsov:

- Our main requirements, I remind you, is a cardinal cleaning of the echelons of the authorities of Moscow and the Moscow region, the immediate resignation of Luzhkov and Gromov. And of course, we very loudly raise the question of the return of citizens, primarily Moscow, the region and all other regions, the right to choose the leaders of their regions, that is, governors, in Moscow this is the mayor. Because otherwise we cannot have any real control of the real power. In Moscow, a system of total lack of freedom, lack of self -government, corruption have developed. Therefore, it is time to carry out serious disinfection. Therefore, today we collect soap for Luzhkov, then send him a parcel. Let, if it considers it possible, is washed off.

Participants in the rally walked in a march in Tversky Boulevard. The action "Day of anger" ended with a rally concert on Pushkinskaya Square.

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  Vitaly Kamyshev

  Radio Office of Radio Liberty. Cooperates with the radio station since 1997. He worked in the journal The New Times, the newspaper Arguments and Facts, was a regular author of the newspaper Russian Thought (Paris) in 1995-2000. Kamyshevv@rferl.org