
The opposition is preparing for mass rallies on May 6 on the eve of the inauguration of Vladimir Putin. This was announced during the picket in the Novopushkinsky square was announced by the leader of the Left Front Sergey Udaltsov and the co -chair of the unregistered Party of People's Freedom (Parnassus) Boris Nemtsov. At the beginning of the action, the Pushkin provocateur was expelled from the square, after which they picked peacefully, and the action was completed without incident.
According to Udaltsov, the requirements on new promotions will be the same as on the previous ones - holding early honest parliamentary and presidential elections. He emphasized that the shares should be held within the framework of the law, reports Radio Liberty . “The authorities react only to mass shares, so there should be many of us on May 6,” Udaltsov said. “Sounded the proposals to go out without notification. I don’t support it. We always act within the framework of the law, and on May 6 we also intend to act. We will determine the area for this action, it will be a folk standing, and I would not want to use the term" Maidan ".
Nemtsov said that on April 15 the so -called "White Week" will begin - conferences, concerts and "round tables" will be held to determine further actions of the opposition.
The opposition insists on continuing the reform of the political system, Udaltsov said. He recalled that the opposition demands to resolve the creation of election blocks, change the referendum law, and reform the system of election commissions and the judicial system.
Nemtsov, in turn, stated that the opposition insists on the release of political prisoners and the freedom of television. Nemtsov noted that many citizens of the country believe "the lies that are distributed by television channels." “This is more or less informed, and in the regions they believe that we had rallies for money. I swear that we did not pay any fees to anyone,” Interfax quoted Nemtsov.
Sergei Udaltsov, who supports the requirements "On the Freedom of Television", at the same time called for the boycott of the NTV channel. “I received an offer to participate in the Clean Monday talk show, but I refused it and I won’t go to NTV until they apologized (for the film“ Anatomy of Protest ”),” Udaltsov said.
Several dozens of people gathered for a picket in the Novopushkinsky square, a significant part of which are journalists, ITAR -TASS reports. Udaltsov and Nemtsov said that this is a new form of street shares, during which everyone will be given a word, and the Novopushkinsky square can become the capital's “Hyde Park”.
The action ended exactly at 16:00 in a voluntary and compulsory manner: the police officer asked to disperse the participants of the event. The coordinator of the "Left Front" Sergey Udaltsov, surrounded by journalists, moved to the exit from the square. Parnas Chairman Boris Nemtsov left the event an hour before its completion. Together with Udaltsov, ordinary participants in the action moved to the Pushkinskaya metro station.
In total, about 200 people gathered on Pushkinskaya Square, reports Ridus . The picket was attended by Evgenia Chirikov, Alexei Navalny, Gennady Gudkov and other politicians and civilian activists.
Pushkin - classic and provocateur
During the picket between supporters of the opposition and opponents, verbal skirmishes broke out. The young man dressed in the costume of Alexander Pushkin was washed the cylinder, tore off the glued bacenbard and tried to tear out the poster with the slogan "My Square is not for revolutionary conspiracies."
Later, in the Posoputinsky "headquarters of uniform actions" they announced that the man in the costume of the poet Pushkin was their activist. “The leader of the movement” of Russia Young Anton Demidov, dressed in Pushkin’s costume, came to this action with the poster “My Square is not for revolutionary conspiracies” and read the poem “The Slanderers of Russia”, written in 1831, ”the representatives of the Interfax movement said. The “headquarters” calls this project “White Glove” and promises to bring its made up activists to all opposition shares near the monuments of Russian classics.