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Demarch of consonant disabled people
The public action in support of wheelchair users outraged representatives of the Paralympic Committee of Russia, and nine public organizations of the disabled even sent a condemning letter to the Moscow government.
Ancient maxim of Russian public life: there are consonants on disagreements. "Official" disabled people were no exception. Their statements are reduced to two claims: they were not called to the action and did not mention the good deeds of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.
In early July, a promotion was held in Moscow in which famous healthy people sat on wheelchairs and drove along Kutuzovsky Prospekt, which is considered the most comfortable, in terms of the movement of disabled people, a place in the capital. Participants demonstrated that it is impossible to move along the streets of Moscow to strollers: there are stairs and high borders everywhere, but there are no ramps. If the ramps somewhere exist, they need to be redone: the slope is at a too large angle.
Then about twenty strollers drove along Kutuzovsky Prospekt. Among them were those who are constantly moving in a stroller. The action attracted public attention. Including - the Paralympic Committee of Russia and the so -called “official” public organizations of disabled people, which were outraged by the action. They formulated their complaints in an open letter to the Moscow government, which signed 24 people. Quotes from this letter appeared in information agencies:
“We all live in Moscow, but we live in different life. Someone gets a new feeling from visiting a fashion restaurant where the light is repaid and you have to eat blindly. Someone is blind. Someone“ plays ”in a wheelchair user and is surprised that city streets, transport, buildings are full of insurmountable obstacles. And someone in a carriage moves around the city for many years and knows that there are fewer the barriers.
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Moscow got a difficult inheritance: for many years the problems of people with disabilities in our country did not pay any attention at all. Now they are raised in Moscow to the city government level. The capital has yet to do a lot to ensure a comfortable life of people with disabilities, but show -off, mocking actions will not help to fulfill this task. ”
However, the letter was not entirely open. As one of the signatures explained to the Radio Radio, Georgy Galyamin, the vice -president of the Moscow Paralympic Committee, the full text of the letter was prepared by “other people from public organizations”, which is why this text is still unavailable. Galyamin could not clarify the names of organizations.
“In a letter that we sent to the Moscow government, nine public organizations of the disabled expressed their negative attitude to such shares,” said Georgy Galyamin Radio Liberty. - The action did not mention the good deeds of the Government of Moscow, the Department of Social Protection, the Department of Physical Culture, the Paralympic Committee. But we do a lot, and there are shifts in this regard.
Georgy Galyamin emphasized that the letter was sent to the Moscow government "is not for the purpose of hibing, but to show that there is order."
The order has developed dual, as in many other cases. For example, the Moscow metro has two trade unions: the official one who is satisfied with everything, and the unofficial, which speaks of the problems of the metro. For each march with something disagree, there are several rallies of consonants with everything. With the action of the disabled, it turned out similarly. Everyone, it would seem, is one: a barrier -free environment for the disabled. At the same time, some are freely talking about problems, others are afraid to do not go to the Moscow government. And, most importantly, the Moscow mayor.
Active support to opponents of the action was provided by the vice president of the Paralympic Committee of Russia Lev Seleznev .
“I did not know about the action,” he admitted to the Radio Liberty correspondent. - As neither the Paralympic Committee, nor the Federation of Physical Culture and Sports, did not know about it. Recently, about two hundred ramps have been made in Moscow buildings and crossings. Made quietly, without any PR, under the immediate leadership of Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov, whom I sincerely respect for his position in relation to the disabled. Last year, on Leninsky Prospekt, transitions were made that the disabled did not like. Reded! Yuri Mikhailovich on this occasion expressed his claims to the builders: do it as it should. For this, I take off my hat to Yuri Mikhailovich.
Lev Seleznev indicated how to properly hold the action:
- Recently, the head of the Sochi Center for Sports Preparation of the national teams asked me to express our proposals for building in the center of the ramp and, everything else, so that the disabled person was in chocolate. This is the state approach to business. Great people who sat in the wheelchairs would have won more if they invited specialists and disabled people and shouted loudly with them: guys, let's get involved in an accessible environment for the disabled!
If they called me, I would bow to them low at their feet and would bring our famous athletes without legs there, without arms who win gold medals at the Paralympic Games. Bakhmatova, for example (Natalya Bakhmatova, four -time Russian tennis champion for stroller, a rally participant. - RS), did not participate in any Paralympic Games. Not these athletes had to be invited. Bakhmatova is the strongest in large tennis, but tennis among the stroller only in the beginnings of its development ...
Participants in the action were extremely surprised by such statements.
“They probably were offended that they were not invited,” suggested Natalya Bakhmatova . - And PR participants were not needed. Three kilometers to drive for the first time in a stroller - is it a PR? And our government was mentioned by both I and other participants. Ready to repeat: it does something for us, but it is impossible to use it. The borders are too high. Low -platform buses were launched, but the driver should get out of them and throw off the platform so that the stroller can call. This does not happen. If the members of the government themselves sat in strollers, they would understand what exactly the disabled is necessary.
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In the meantime, the source of information for the Moscow government is different - a letter of disabled people outraged by the action in support of the disabled. From this letter, the Moscow government learns that the Moscow government does everything correctly.
Ancient maxim of Russian public life: there are consonants on disagreements. "Official" disabled people were no exception. Their statements are reduced to two claims: they were not called to the action and did not mention the good deeds of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.
In early July, a promotion was held in Moscow in which famous healthy people sat on wheelchairs and drove along Kutuzovsky Prospekt, which is considered the most comfortable, in terms of the movement of disabled people, a place in the capital. Participants demonstrated that it is impossible to move along the streets of Moscow to strollers: there are stairs and high borders everywhere, but there are no ramps. If the ramps somewhere exist, they need to be redone: the slope is at a too large angle.
Then about twenty strollers drove along Kutuzovsky Prospekt. Among them were those who are constantly moving in a stroller. The action attracted public attention. Including - the Paralympic Committee of Russia and the so -called “official” public organizations of disabled people, which were outraged by the action. They formulated their complaints in an open letter to the Moscow government, which signed 24 people. Quotes from this letter appeared in information agencies:
“We all live in Moscow, but we live in different life. Someone gets a new feeling from visiting a fashion restaurant where the light is repaid and you have to eat blindly. Someone is blind. Someone“ plays ”in a wheelchair user and is surprised that city streets, transport, buildings are full of insurmountable obstacles. And someone in a carriage moves around the city for many years and knows that there are fewer the barriers.
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Moscow got a difficult inheritance: for many years the problems of people with disabilities in our country did not pay any attention at all. Now they are raised in Moscow to the city government level. The capital has yet to do a lot to ensure a comfortable life of people with disabilities, but show -off, mocking actions will not help to fulfill this task. ”
However, the letter was not entirely open. As one of the signatures explained to the Radio Radio, Georgy Galyamin, the vice -president of the Moscow Paralympic Committee, the full text of the letter was prepared by “other people from public organizations”, which is why this text is still unavailable. Galyamin could not clarify the names of organizations.
“In a letter that we sent to the Moscow government, nine public organizations of the disabled expressed their negative attitude to such shares,” said Georgy Galyamin Radio Liberty. - The action did not mention the good deeds of the Government of Moscow, the Department of Social Protection, the Department of Physical Culture, the Paralympic Committee. But we do a lot, and there are shifts in this regard.
Georgy Galyamin emphasized that the letter was sent to the Moscow government "is not for the purpose of hibing, but to show that there is order."
The order has developed dual, as in many other cases. For example, the Moscow metro has two trade unions: the official one who is satisfied with everything, and the unofficial, which speaks of the problems of the metro. For each march with something disagree, there are several rallies of consonants with everything. With the action of the disabled, it turned out similarly. Everyone, it would seem, is one: a barrier -free environment for the disabled. At the same time, some are freely talking about problems, others are afraid to do not go to the Moscow government. And, most importantly, the Moscow mayor.
Active support to opponents of the action was provided by the vice president of the Paralympic Committee of Russia Lev Seleznev .
“I did not know about the action,” he admitted to the Radio Liberty correspondent. - As neither the Paralympic Committee, nor the Federation of Physical Culture and Sports, did not know about it. Recently, about two hundred ramps have been made in Moscow buildings and crossings. Made quietly, without any PR, under the immediate leadership of Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov, whom I sincerely respect for his position in relation to the disabled. Last year, on Leninsky Prospekt, transitions were made that the disabled did not like. Reded! Yuri Mikhailovich on this occasion expressed his claims to the builders: do it as it should. For this, I take off my hat to Yuri Mikhailovich.
Lev Seleznev indicated how to properly hold the action:
- Recently, the head of the Sochi Center for Sports Preparation of the national teams asked me to express our proposals for building in the center of the ramp and, everything else, so that the disabled person was in chocolate. This is the state approach to business. Great people who sat in the wheelchairs would have won more if they invited specialists and disabled people and shouted loudly with them: guys, let's get involved in an accessible environment for the disabled!
If they called me, I would bow to them low at their feet and would bring our famous athletes without legs there, without arms who win gold medals at the Paralympic Games. Bakhmatova, for example (Natalya Bakhmatova, four -time Russian tennis champion for stroller, a rally participant. - RS), did not participate in any Paralympic Games. Not these athletes had to be invited. Bakhmatova is the strongest in large tennis, but tennis among the stroller only in the beginnings of its development ...
Participants in the action were extremely surprised by such statements.
“They probably were offended that they were not invited,” suggested Natalya Bakhmatova . - And PR participants were not needed. Three kilometers to drive for the first time in a stroller - is it a PR? And our government was mentioned by both I and other participants. Ready to repeat: it does something for us, but it is impossible to use it. The borders are too high. Low -platform buses were launched, but the driver should get out of them and throw off the platform so that the stroller can call. This does not happen. If the members of the government themselves sat in strollers, they would understand what exactly the disabled is necessary.
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In the meantime, the source of information for the Moscow government is different - a letter of disabled people outraged by the action in support of the disabled. From this letter, the Moscow government learns that the Moscow government does everything correctly.