
The organizing committee of the protest rally on December 24 on Sakharov Avenue in Moscow accepted at a meeting on Friday the event plan and announced a list of those who will perform on it, and in what order. The rating of the speakers was compiled by voting results.
According to the plan, the rally should be opened by the performance of the television journalist Leonid Parfenov, but in the form of the video that he has already made, journalist Sergei Parkhomenko said at a meeting of the rally.
Further, according to him, the blogger Alexei Navalny, musician Yuri Shevchuk (also in video format), writers Boris Akunin and Dmitry Bykov, etc., are in the lists of the speakers, Interfax reports.
- On the eve of the rally in Moscow, activists are delayed: distributing leaflets and participating in a flash mob
- Navalny threatens the authorities with the "year of political upheaval" and calls everyone to a rally
- On the eve of the rally, the authorities are preparing for provocations, and the organizers advise the participants how to avoid them
- the requirements will be the same as in the swamp, but they can add more
- Nationalists reassure: "We do not plan to capture the Kremlin on December 24"
- "New Gazeta": provocateurs are recruited in the regions for 500 rubles.
Among the politicians in the first thirty are the co -chair of the "solidarity" Boris Nemtsov and Harry Kasparov, who are also part of the organizing committee of the event and will certainly come to the rally.
Businessman Mikhail Prokhorov, who is now running for president of Russia and ex-president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, were also named as participants in the rally. At the same time, according to Interfax, the former Soviet leader will not be able to come to Sakharov Avenue on Saturday.
Parkhomenko, reading the list of alleged speakers, noticed that he includes one of the leaders of Yabloko Grigory Yavlinsky, "but we have not yet managed to get any concrete answer."
Soon after, the press secretary of Yabloko Igor Yakovlev said that the party would take part in the rally on Sakharov Avenue on Saturday, and Yavlinsky will speak to the audience.
In conclusion, Parkhomenko said that, according to the rating, the former Minister of Finance of Russia Alexei Kudrin is in 26th place in the list of speakers, which, however, is also known about the plans of which, however, is also known. "And the thirty Ksenia Sobchak closes. She will definitely come," Parkhomenko noted.
The requirements will be the same as in the swamp, but they can add more
In turn, the co -chairman of the Folk Freedom Party Vladimir Ryzhkov, speaking at the Organizing Committee, said that the resolution of the upcoming action "will essentially be the same that was adopted at a rally on Bolotnaya Square " on December 10.
However, it is planned to make a demand to adopt democratic legislation in its text until February 2012 and demand that both political prisoners and other, obviously unlawfully convicted.
At the end of the meeting of the committee, Boris Akunin, taking into account the cold weather, which is forecasted on Saturday, called for the participants of the action "to show humanity and speak briefly and energetically."
Oleg Orlov, head of the Memorial Human Rights Office, called on the rally organizers to be attentive and not give the floor to nationalists or extremists. “Unfortunately, such a mistake was made during the last action in Bolotnaya Square,” he said.
It was also announced at a meeting of the organizing committee that three co -hosts of the rally would be Ryzhkov, journalist Olga Romanova and sports journalist Vasily Utkin. In addition, the meeting announced that almost 4 million rubles received from 400 thousand depositors were collected for the rally.
Recall that Romanova was appointed an organizing committee responsible for the collection and spending of funds to organize a rally on the Internet.
In turn, the Prochrevsky Youth Movement "Our" demanded from the Prosecutor General’s Office to check the sources of financing the Saturday "Opposition Raying" for money laundering and compliance with electoral legislation. "
The organizers expect to collect 100 thousand participants
According to the organizing committee, about 100 thousand people should gather for the rally. Meanwhile, the number of potential participants in the action registered on Facebook has exceeded 50 thousand and is constantly increasing, and about 13 thousand in a similar group of VKontakte .
Recall that the city government agreed on rallies on Academician Sakharov Avenue with the number of participants of up to 50 thousand people, on a university square adjacent to Kosygin Street - up to 5 thousand, on Pushkinskaya Square - up to 2 thousand.
At the same time, the organizers of the protest actions strive to repeat the record of “peacefulness”, reached on December 10 on Bolotnaya Square, when, unlike the two previous shares - in pure ponds and on the triumphal square - there was only one detainee.
Nationalists reassure: "We do not plan to capture the Kremlin on December 24"
At the same time, one Russian Dmitry Demushkin’s uniformity of the capital's authorities about possible provocations by nationalists during the opposition rally on December 24 on Sakharov Avenue on December 24.
“Nationalists do not plan to capture the Kremlin on December 24,” he told Interfax on Friday. According to him, the right -handed opposition plans to organize at the venue of the opposition campaign and will be lined up in a separate column near the scene.
Demushkin stated that the organizers fear possible incidents, so on the eve they turned to the leadership of the metropolitan police with a request to pay special attention to the participation of nationalists.
"Liberals and democrats are afraid that the scene will be captured. As far as I know, they will somehow try to prevent the nationalists to participate in the actually general -degree rally," he said.
Meanwhile, he recalled that by the decision of the Organizing Committee of the Promotion, representatives of right -winging movements were given the possibility of speaking five representatives.
Earlier it was reported that the capital's authorities are preparing to stop possible provocations by nationalists during the opposition campaign on December 24 on Sakharov Avenue.
"Law enforcement agencies, together with the organizers of the rally, will take all measures to prevent violations of public order and possible provocations by participants in inconsistent measures," the Moscow regional security department said.
They recalled that the leaders of Russian nationalists Dmitry Demushkin, Vladimir Thor and Natalya Molomogorova sent letters to the city hall with an official abandonment of their own shares, which they planned to organize on this day.
Other nationalist organizers, in particular, the ex-leader of the DPNI prohibited by the court, Alexander Belov (Potkin), officially did not abandon the shares, but did not accept the proposal of the authorities to transfer the places.
"Given the available information, the participants in the inconsistent public events intend to reach a rally organized on Academician Sakharov Avenue," the capital department said.
"New Gazeta": provocateurs are recruited in the regions for 500 rubles
At the same time, the New Gazeta reports with reference to an unnamed, but “reliable and very high -ranking source” that a provocation is being prepared at the Moscow rally on December 24: a massive delivery of people from regions collected and paid allegedly by one of the parliamentary parties is expected.
In particular, cases of mobilization of the “protesters” for 500 rubles in Tula have been recorded, however, it is not yet clear on whose initiative this is done. At the same time, according to the source, information that Boris Nemtsov bought these people with American money ($ 20 million), some of which he had already stolen these people, the newspaper writes.
It should be noted that in the statement of "ours" to the prosecutor with a request to check the sources of financing the opposition rally, they also indicate Nemtsov. "Nemtsov in the telephone conversations published the other day admitted that financing of the action is carried out personally by them. If financing the rally is of a foreign origin, then the prescription of presidential candidates will be a violation of electoral legislation," the Norms believe.
It is worth noting that both Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev previously hinted in his speeches that Russian protests are “inspired” and paid from abroad.
Putin during the “direct line” called such people “Banderalogs” , and compared himself to the KAA boat from the “Mowgli” Kipling, which hypnotizes them and then devour.
Putin also stated on the same “direct line” that the students “small money paid” for participation in the rally at Bolotnaya on December 10. However, journalists found those who really pay them , and they offered to sue Putin to those students who did not pay anything for participation in protest events.