Pervomaisian rallies in Moscow - the authorities scolded both right, left, and centrists

Mass shares organized by trade unions, as well as various political and public organizations, were held in the cities of Russia on the day of spring and labor. Most rallies had one common feature. And left, and right, and centrists criticized power.

The most massive was a demonstration organized in Moscow by trade unions and United Russia . About 25 thousand people took part in it. The tone of the rally was set by a member of United Russia, the mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov.

He accused the government of not providing support for the real sector of the economy. “For 15 years, the government’s policy has been going on, which can be formulated as follows: survive as you want, and we will create the conditions that complicate your life,” he said.

“We will not allow the Russian Federation that the Russian Federation has turned into a country swinging oil and gas. We will fight for our country to be a country of the highest level of production and high technology,” the Moscow mayor concluded.

The Party of the ATP conducted a demonstration under the slogans "Hope for power, but do not flatter it yourself," "oil will end, but the brains are not forgiven," "the official is a servant, not the owner." At the same time, the mood of the demonstrators was a festive - the orchestra played bravura melodies, and political slogans were accompanied by shouting jokes like: "Shame on the employees of the Moscow zoo, not reporting a tiger of meat."

About a thousand supporters of the “Union of Right Forces” under party and state flags, marching on Sunday the column in the center of Moscow, plunged into river tram to celebrate May Day in the Moscow River.

The Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov at a rally of the left praised Stalin and scolded the government and the Duma. According to him, over the past year, "the State Duma stamped the laws leading to the collapse of the state," in particular, allowing the sale of forests and lands.

“The authorities cannot fight crime,” Zyuganov said, reminding Beslan’s protesting tragedy. “Blood of Beslan’s children washed the whole country,” he said, noting that the report of the commission to investigate this terrorist attack has not yet been published.

The leader of the Communists also stated that "the power is helpless and from the point of view of the economy." "She is not able to stop the extinction of the nation," said the leader of the Communist Party. According to him. In recent years, Russia has lost 10 million people. He advocated the formation of a "government of national interests and holding a referendum on key issues" politics and economics.

At the communist rally for the first time in recent years, the word was given to the leader of the National Bolsheviks Eduard Limonov, who very emotionally declared the readiness of the National Bolsheviks "to become an advanced detachment and storm the heights." In St. Petersburg, Limonovtsy also staged a rally.

At demonstrations in the cities of the Far East and Siberia, the speakers said that the growth of salaries does not cover the high cost of the life of the Siberians, and every sixth hired worker and employee is generally lower than the subsistence level.

In large cities of the European part of Russia, protesters also talked about the difficult life of workers. Representatives of the trade unions, the Volgograd regional committee of the Communist Party of the Communist Party demanded that the local authorities and the government reduce the tariffs for utilities and ensure worthy salaries to the workers. In Yekaterinburg, the current May Day went under the slogan "A working person should not be poor."