
On Saturday throughout Russia, promotions were held for honest elections. In St. Petersburg, rallies took place on Pionerskaya Square and on Sakharov Square. According to Fontanka.ru in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, one and a half thousand people, according to the police, were rallying at the pioneer, another thousand on Sakharov Square. Both events passed without excesses. The rallies themselves say that the protesters were at least twice as much.
At a rally, the OGF on Sakharov Square sounded the slogan "Stop feeding Moscow!" The slogan was nominated at the rally by the former deputy of the city of the city Sergey Gulyaev.
In addition, Smolny detained 10 activists of another Russia who conducted an unauthorized action. Two activists were detained when the poster "Uncle Zhora, come out!" According to the leader of "another Russia" in St. Petersburg Andrei Dmitriev, another party was preventively detained.
In Nizhny Novgorod, the police detained about 20 participants of the Protest Protest "for honest elections" unauthorized with the city authorities, the Air Force reports. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the organizers and the most active participants in the rally were detained. They may be charged with disobedience to police officers and violation of the rules for holding rallies and processions. However, the rally participants did not disperse. How many people have gathered in the Square of Freedom is not reported.
The protest in Tomsk gathered more than a thousand people. Demonstrators on Novosobornaya Square shouted slogans for holding repeated elections and held posters in their hands, including "power to the people, not parties." About a thousand people gathered in the center of Chelyabinsk. According to the event organizer Andrei Linev, the rally was held without incident and detentions, activists, as in other Russian cities, demanded honest elections. The protest was also held in Magnitogorsk, on Sunday a rally in Zlatoust is scheduled.
According to the organizers, 150 activists of the Communist Party, Yabloko and the Tiger public movement gathered on the Ship embankment of Vladivostok, 30 people according to the police. The “Partnership of the Initiative Citizens of Russia” reported the detention of one participant in the movement by the police. On Komsomolskaya Square Khabarovsk, a rally organized by the Communists gathered about 300 people, the organizers report.
Hundreds of people took part in the protest against falsifications in Novosibirsk. According to Interfax, from 500 to 700 people participated in the action. However, the police say that no more than 250 activists came to the event. The protesters went through a procession, for which they partially blocked the movement of vehicles along the Oktyabrsky bridge.
In Yekaterinburg, several thousand people entered the rally against falsification of election results, the New Region reports. At the rally, the leading STS TV channel Tatyana Lazareva, Mikhail Shatz and Alexander Pushny.
At a rally in Krasnoyarsk, which gathered about a thousand people, a resolution was adopted with a proposal to Putin to abandon the third term. In addition, the participants in the action demanded the resignation of the head of the CEC Vladimir Churov, the investigation of falsifications, and the abolition of censorship.