In Lermontov's places

Since February 21, the hunger strike of the Lermontov City Council continues in the small town of the Stavropol Territory from February 21, the elections should be held on March 4. During the election campaign, the local election campaign not only refused to register almost all deputies of the last convocation, by decision of the court, the lists of the LDPR and “Just Russia” were shot from the elections. In the struggle against bureaucratic arbitrariness, unheard of arbitrariness happened: not only the opposition were announced by the hunger strike, and the excluded candidates from United Russia also joined them. Further - more. The city authorities twice ordered the police to free the administration captured by the starving, and twice the police refused to fulfill the order. OMON and riot police also stood on the side of the protesters.

At the time of signing this number, 13 people continued to print the hunger strike and among them not only candidates removed from the elections, but also ordinary townspeople. They left the city administration building, but for penetration there they shine a fine of 3 thousand to 100 thousand rubles. On the days remaining until March 4, protesters intend to challenge the legality of the early elections to the City Council, they require transferring voting the next day, the dissolution of the election commission in its current composition and registration in new early elections of all independent candidates. Will they achieve success - we will find out in the coming days. But the main lesson of this story is still that society, it turns out, is awakened not only within the garden ring. And the security forces are not at all ready to recklessly follow the orders of presumptuous officials, accustomed to lawlessness and permissiveness.