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Vice-mayor of Barnaul banned workers' picket
On September 5, 2005, a picket of the workers of the Chemical Fiber Plant was to take place in Barnaul. The workers, whom the new owner plans to fire, intended to get a meeting with the new governor of the Altai Territory, Alexander Karlin.
On the morning of September 5, 2005, picket organizer Natalya Orlova was summoned to the Barnaul city police department, where people who introduced themselves as acting. the head of the city police and the head of the public security police (they declined to give their last names), said that the vice-mayor of Barnaul, Alexander Balabanov, had decided to ban the picket. According to police officers, they have a corresponding document, signed by Balabanov, which allegedly contains a request to law enforcement agencies to take measures to disperse the picketers, as extremist politicians may join them. If the picket was held, police officers threatened to disperse the picket with the use of special equipment.
According to N. Orlova, the mayor's office was notified about the picket, she did not receive any decision to refuse, except for a phone call from one of Balabanov's employees who threatened her.
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