A rally in Yekaterinburg gathered up to 12 thousand people: they talked about the "man of labor" and "strong president" Putin

In Yekaterinburg, a rally “Behind the Labor Ural” was held on Saturday Square on Saturday in support of the working people and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin. Earlier, "United Russia" had to explain that they had nothing to do with the rally, and no one had a forcibly there.

As Interfax told the spokesman for the Central Internal Affairs Directorate in the Sverdlovsk region Valery Gorelykh, the rally was calm, without violations of law and order. However, according to local media, after the action, about 10 people were detained . According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the rally gathered more than 12,000 people. According to the correspondent of the Ridus publication - no more than 6,000 people at the same time . According to the “On the eve” , only by trains from Nizhny Tagil, Kamensk of the Ural and other cities of the region 9 thousand workers arrived at the rally, and there were also those who got by buses, cars, as well as workers from Yekaterinburg itself.

The protesters held the posters “Ural for stability!”, “Man is glorious by labor”, “A man of labor - it sounds proud”, “For the Urals! For stability!”, “Development of the Urals - the development of our country!”, “The people are we” and shouted the slogans in support of the strong president. The workers of the Yekaterinburg “Uraltransmash” tried to deploy banners with the mention of Putin’s name, but the organizers asked them to remove it, since public campaigning for candidates was not yet allowed, and this could be interpreted as a violation of the election law, URA.ru reports. The banners were rolled up, but then, when the people were added, stretch marks with the name of the prime minister reappeared and they were no longer asked to remove them. In addition, the name of Vladimir Putin was mentioned many times from the stage - so there was no doubt left in whose benefit the event was held.

The rally itself was organized by a team of workers of the Nizhny Tagil "Uralvagonzavod", but workers of enterprises of the Chelyabinsk region and the Perm Territory also took part in the action. About 3 million rubles were spent on the organization of the event, the money for these purposes was allocated by trade unions of enterprises and the Federation of Trade Unions.

Recall that during the December “Direct Line” of Putin after the first campaign “For honest elections” on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow, it was the workers of the “Uralvagonzavod” who promised the prime minister to come to the capital and “deal” with the participants in protest actions.

Today, speaking at the station square of Yekaterinburg, an employee of the Uralvagonzavod scientific and production corporation Igor Kholmanski said that in early January he spoke "in support of the stability of our country, in support of the politics pursued by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, after which the Ural people were called cattle!" "We demand to protect the working people from insults, we do not want a return to the 90s, when the factories stood, did not pay salaries for months. The workers of the Urals - the supporting region of our power, cast their votes for economic stability in the country and for a strong president," ITAR -TASS reports it.

“Residents of Magnitogorsk join the Sverdlovsk workers, to the movement of people's labor in Russia. Today we smell steel, produce a number of products, provide the country with many necessary. We are against those who consider us savages. We have our own vote and today we declare ourselves,” said Igor Makagarov, an employee of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant.

Emotional at the rally also turned out to be a speech by a State Duma deputy from the Popular Front in the Perm Territory Valery Trapeznikov, who chanted "workers, Russia, Putin" for about five minutes from the stage.

At the end of the half -hour rally, the chairman of the Federation of Trade Unions of the Sverdlovsk Region Andrei Vetluzhsky announced the resolution.

"We advocate stability in the country and a strong economy, for the minimum salary equal to the cost of living, for a strong trade union and against insults of people's professions, for the resignation of unscrupulous officials and a merciless struggle with drug dealers, for strong president and strong Russia," the Vetluzhsky said.

The participants in the action decided to send a delegation of workers to the All -Russian rally to Moscow, which is planned to be held on February 25, and expressed their readiness to help in organizing an all -Russian action.

After the announcement of the resolution, a concert began, in which the people's artists of Russia Nadezhda Babkina and Nikolai Rastorguev took part. They performed a number of their hits for the workers. During the performance of the Russian stage, they noted that "people of labor are not alone, the whole country is with them."

As URA.RU notes, the sensations from the rally remained contradictory. From the point of view of propaganda, it was a fairly bright answer to performances in Moscow - although the Ural rally turned out to be not as large as performances on Bolotnaya and Sakharov. From the point of view of the campaign for Putin, the benefits were not obvious - many Yekaterinburgers reacted irritably, since the action was initially attempted to push the workers and the “creative class”, “chanson Russia” and “Iiphone”. And good political campaigns are not built in conflicts, they must consolidate society, and not disarm it.

Note that the station area in Yekaterinburg holds about 7 thousand people. However, on the eve, evaluating the estimated number of protesters, the general director of the agency of political and economic communications Dmitry Orlov explained that "the declared 15 thousand people will not be there from the beginning to the end, as well as on opposition shares, people will come and go."

The political scientist emphasized that, for example, the opposition leaders are not embarrassed that the Moscow action on February 4 will begin on Kaluga Square, which accommodates only 500 people. “Participants will not be there at the same time, but will be distributed along the route of the procession,” Orlov noted.

After the rally, about 10 people were detained

According to the "New Region" , after a rally of workers in Yekaterinburg, about ten people were detained. After the promotion on the station square, the detainees were taken to the police department No. 11.

According to the member of the public observation commission Vyacheslav Bashkov, who communicated with the detainees, the police did not explain the reasons for the detention.

One of the police officer had a caricature with the image of the fairy -tale heroes of Kot Basilio and Lisa Alice, who looked like the first persons of the state. In addition, as noted by Bashkov, several people of the detainees are representatives of nationalist groups. At the moment, almost all detainees are released.

The protesters explained why they came to voluntarily support Putin

A member of the rally on the station square, a locksmith of OJSC Uralvagonzavod, Alexander Osintsev, denied the statement that workers were driven into the action using an administrative resource. “I, like many of my colleagues, came to this rally according to my beliefs. Maybe for some of the critical representatives of the opposition this will be a discovery, but for a person of working professions - and there are many of us in the country, and there are always demand for us - the main requirement for politics was the stability, stability and guarantee of tomorrow,” the worker explained.

"Putin worked for the development of Russia for many years ... In fact, until his first presidential term, Russia was a completely different country. And therefore, it seems to me, no other advertising, except for the results of the work done, is not required Putin. Therefore, I will say directly: Putin is my president!" Osintsev said.

The graduate student of the Ural State Economic University Alexander Lyalikov clarified that "the story of all sorts of rallies was formed so that people mainly go outside with the" against "position, but in our case - this is an unprecedented situation - a rally on the station Square of Yekaterinburg takes place from the point of view of stability in the country. For the progressive development of Russia. For supporting the intended state Course for confidence in tomorrow.

A member of the rally, a student of the Ural State Economic University, Ekaterina Burdina, said that she was "strange and insulting to hear the words that people are allegedly chasing such events from under the stick."

"What kind of duress can be discussed when people who have come to the forecourt are guided by civil consciousness and pragmatic intentions, implying the connection of the development of Russia and public improvement ... If people like me, people from the opposition, consider a certain lower, who does not understand in the realities of life an intellectual class, then it is not interesting that these people think about a person of working professions," - said Burdina.

Explaining why she came to the rally, the student said: “I want to live in a worthy state, in a mature society, in a strong economy. I want my compatriots, coming abroad, proudly proud of:“ I am from Russia! ”I want to enjoy life, have a prestigious education and highly paid work, I want to raise in children an equipped country.”