In St. Petersburg, a march and a rally "For honest elections" with Udaltsov and Navalny were held

In St. Petersburg on Saturday, a march and a rally "For honest elections" were held. The marching people who came from the capital, oppositionists Alexei Navalny, Harry Kasparov, Sergey Udaltsov and others, as well as representatives of the St. Petersburg opposition, were led by the rally, Interfax reports. According to the organizers, this should show that there are no individual city shares in Moscow or St. Petersburg, but there is a all -Russian protest. In the procession, according to the media, about 10 thousand people took part. The organizers called the numbers up to 30 thousand, the GU Ministry of Internal Affairs - 2.5 thousand.

At the rally

On the stable square, a rally "for honest elections" began. Those present assess the number of participants of 10 thousand people. The St. Petersburg journalist Dmitry Gubin told the audience that he had just read on Twitter with Lykov and Kononenko (Maxim Kononenko, the host of the Real Policy program on NTV) that three thousand people gathered in the stable area. "Dear, Lykov reduced our children!" - said Gubin under the loud laughter of the crowd.

One of the first was the leader of the St. Petersburg branch of the other Russian Party, another Russia Andrei Dmitriev, he suggested, after an elected night to "breathe in the windows of the election committee."

Arriving from Moscow, Sergei Udaltsov, said that he came to transfer greetings to the Petersburgers from Muscovites and promised to soon return Putin to his hometown. “We will return Putin back to St. Petersburg, and do what you want with him ... We need to do everything to be a second round. They impose a struggle for us, but we will win. If the authorities deceive us on March 5 after the election, then we will begin an unlimited protest throughout the country. We all need to go outside. And we will not leave from there,” the Fontanka.ru quotes Udaltsova. If this is not enough, Udaltsov proposed to arrange an unlimited strike.

Harry Kasparov said: “If five years ago, the authorities showed us that the power is stronger than us, now everything has changed. We realized that we are free citizens and showed this. Now they know that we are many and there are few of them, they are fenced off with iron lattices, armor, helmets, because they know that without them they cannot win the elections.”

According to Kasparov, Putin’s election headquarters, which is led by Govorukhin, is engaged in a large -scale production: “We understand that we have no one to choose from, so March 4, Putin will not meet with opponents, but with the people of Russia,” Kasparov noted, adding that, in his opinion, on March 5, “it should be caught by the hand when it will falsify the results and parallel to conduct its independent personality votes ".

Writer German Sadulaev: “Remember this freedom, remember this spring. Maybe this will be the last free spring, because if we lose, Russia will plunge into darkness for 12 years. And after 12 years our children will ask, and what is a rally and what is the election? We must win for our children! For 12 years, even a good person will turn into a ghoul, and what will happen to it in 24 years? President, I'm not going to live forever. "

Alexei Navalny urged everyone to come to the elections and vote - only in this way, in his opinion, the current government can be defeated. "Let's show them that we are not for the bloody revolution, but for a peaceful revolution, for power to the people. We are for the red and green to receive as many votes in the election as people will give them, and not so much as they will be given crooks and thieves. They need to be afraid of us because they have been robbing us for almost 20 years. You do not want to call you to your relatives and friends who sits in the Kremlin in the Kremlin.

Fontanka.ru reports that after his performance, the rally participants began to massively leave the stable area, despite the fact that before the official end of the event was another half an hour.

The result of the Saturday action was the adoption of a resolution in which the participants demanded honest, open and free elections, the change of power and deep social reforms. There were no clashes with the police during the rally and the procession of the column. The event was quite calm, reports Interfax .

The next promotion of the opposition "For Fair Elections" will be held in St. Petersburg the day after the vote, said Andrei Dmitriev, the leader of the city branch of the Movement of another Russia. He promised that the opposition would go to Isaakievskaya Square in front of the city parliament and would demand a "bloodless change of power."

Procession

According to Fontanka.ru , by the beginning of the procession, three to four thousand people gathered at the BKZ. About 15 o’clock in the opposition column in St. Petersburg approached the end point of the procession - the stable area where the rally will take place, Rosbalt reports. According to the agency’s calculations, at this point, about 30 thousand people take part in the action. Interfax reports that the column stretched from the moika embankment to the Fontanka embankment, to Belinsky Square. People continue to approach the square.

Many of the audience hold white inflatable balls, flowers and various opposition posters. During the procession in different places, the columns from time to time began to chant the slogans of opposition content.

The procession passed without incidents. OMON fighters marched in front of the column, thus sharing the participants in the procession and journalists walking in front of them.

Before the procession: press conference "Moskovsky landing"

Before the procession, the oppositions who came from Moscow gave a joint press conference, and stated that on March 5 they were ready to reach a rally in Moscow and intend to take tens of thousands of people to it. They also intend to apply for public actions on March 8, 9, 10. Oppositionists would like to collect up to 500 thousand people for protest promotions in Moscow, and in St. Petersburg - up to 200 thousand people, reports Fontanka .

As for the election day, as Navalny said, Kasparov and Udaltsov, they will be at polling stations and observe the presidential election. Together, they called on citizens after the plots close, come to them and not allow them to "throw out the observers on the street, as was the case in the December 4 elections last year."

The opposition said that the vote on March 4 "is not elections." “This is a reassignment, not the election,” said Alexei Navalny. “This is an event that we must use. And who to vote does not matter. At least throw a coin.”

Udaltsov added: a decisive moment came in Russia when you can change the situation. “I think that not everything is predetermined,” he said. “We must all actively participate in the elections. There is a chance for the second round. We need to ensure normal election observation.”