Today will be held in support of the former candidate for mayor of Astrakhan Oleg Shein and his supporters, who announced a hunger strike in protest against the elections. The action will be held at the building of the representative office of the administration of the Astrakhan region. The organizers said they would stand until they are in touch with Governor Zhilkin and his representatives, and those, in turn, will not immediately start negotiations with the starving.
Oleg Shein in his LiveJournal wrote that he and his supporters did not declare a hunger strike to “get a movie”, their goal is honest elections: “The 24th day of the hunger strike is over. Tomorrow there will be 25th. We are not suicides and we do not set a goal to the mayor. We set the goal of honest elections that will put an end to the mafia system in Astrakhan. <...>

I am a lawyer, a representative of social movements, and always helped other people. In this I see the meaning of life. But today we were driven into one -dimensional space. Not me - the whole city, except for those who are fed to the administration.
We went to the polls. But the elections in Astrakhan were not in principle. That is, the marks in the ballots were not shown and did not count the voice. People were beaten and thrown out of the buildings of the election commission right in front of the OSCE observers. All of the foregoing is already confirmed by 22 state webcams .
We have not filed a lawsuit so far only for the reason that we have no data from the rest of the webcam in our hands. Otherwise, 10 falsifiers will speak against 2-3 of our witnesses, which will end. And the total sections in which the voices were not considered in principle are more than 120. I think they are so drawn for one reason: there were no records from a large number of sections at all. We are helped to get what is, but filing a lawsuit in court will not suspend a hunger strike. We didn’t start it to get a movie. ”
Astrakhan starving is supported by many famous journalists and public figures.
Aksana Panova , chief editor of URA.RU: “We fly to Astrakhan. Early in the morning, the first-Dimka Korzev and Vadim Akhmetov. We fly not to look at how 22 people die. We fly to act. I know what to do. I will keep in the course.”
Ekaterina Schulman warned that she could not be on stocks, but expressed her support and asked everyone who has the opportunity to come: “They would have been at home - I would certainly go, it’s very close to us. But we don’t have a house at home - because these people are not in the land. So these people are starving. So who else has the opportunity, come.”
Journalist Alexander Ryklin noted Shein’s dedication, but is surprised at the lack of support among the Astrakhan: “In all this wildest story with the Astrakhan hunger, one circumstance embarrasses me ... Oleg Shein, who was stolen by voters, along with their comrades now dies for these people. Well, that is, for those who voted for him ... And where are they?! Where are these thousands and tens of thousands of Astrakhan!? They still have not intervened?!
The secular observer Bozhena Rynsk wrote about the need for a large -scale rally, which she is ready to support if famous public figures perform by its organizers: “I think that you need to prepare an Astrakhan action, and that this is the most reason. A specific thing for a specific reason and you must again be taken to the streets of tens of thousands. Do not be harn. Creative, and in a specific business-to harness in Patsan, because they beat ours.
It seems to me that if I go to Astrakhan alone, it will be somehow funny, deliberate and ineffective. Action, sabotage. But if the team does not persuade Shein not to starve, but to support, picket, rally, I will interrupt the voyage and immediately cure Astrakhan. If Navalny (Akunin, Partenov) organize a rally in Moscow, but not carnival, not toothless, but hard, I will cure in Moscow b) I will agitate everyone through LiveJournal, Facebook (130,000 subscribers) and personally calling (as I did). "
The ideas of mass protest were supported by the blogger Oleg Kozyrev : "In vain, the events on Red Square are opposed to the events in Astrakhan. Unfortunately, guarantors are not moving in Moscow, nothing will happen in Astrakhan. And guarantors without mass protest are moved under their windows."
Alexei Navalny: “The man who was elected mayor of the city is starving for the 23rd day, because local bandits took this victory by lawlessness, which looks egreging even against the backdrop of ordinary widespread falsifications. The main bandit, which was recently transferred to a private plane, would celebrate a birthday in Italy in the company of 50 officials. Here .
Everything is clear to everyone. Even the United Russian part of the inter -parliamentary delegation was slightly taken aback by what was happening . Even a fraudster of Churov (!!!) expresses extreme concern, getting a beard. Videos from Putin's webcam has not been given for several weeks.
If the matter goes further, Shein will die in a few days.
Dr. Lisa, with whom I just spoke, said that the starving people could remain disabled even if they interrupt the hunger strike right now.
Where is it next? How much can you?
We are sitting, writing posts.
Well, if there are those who want to put up tent camps, then Astrakhan now is the very place for this.
In the literal sense: a question of life and death.
I believe that if tomorrow (Monday) all authorities (courts, CEC, prosecutor's office, etc.) will not do what they must do according to the law, then we all need to go to Astrakhan.
And to expect the denouement of this story there. "
Journalist Yevgeny Levkovich managed to talk with Dr. Lisa, who had just returned from Astrakhan. According to her stories, the starving are in a terrifying state:
"Friends. I am now sitting at Olga Romanov . Here is Dr. Lisa, who has just returned from Astrakhan. We do not know what to do. In Astrakhan, 21 people are starving against the illegally chosen mayor-pidaras (in a universal sense. So he is just unicorns). They are dying. This is not a figurative expression-they really die. Lisa tells them, they are already being written for themselves, they don’t go on a large for a week, they no longer have kidneys, they have the jaws, because the muscles that close their mouths are not working, they can hardly speak, they have hard to speak in the body, and they, if they can’t die), will certainly remain in the corner. Please renounce local authorities as soon as possible, and wherever we can do something-each other, the price of all these "white ribbons", "white weeks", walks in the fountain, and blocking the ships. Unfortunately, Leonid Parfyonov, and Lisa mentioned by me, have already been flying to the negotiations, have not been able to stop the starving hunger strikes. Evgeny Roizman joined the case, but he cannot affect anything. Let's try to save people. This can be done only in one way - by pressing the federal government with all our body. In our Russia, 21 people die. For now, distribute the information, and tomorrow I will inform you what can be done specifically. Here in Moscow. Please do not stay away. "
The chairman of the Foundation "Without Drugs" Evgeny Roizman is trying to remain in touch with the starving:
" Oleg_shein called - he doesn’t pick up the phone, communicates with short SMS. It seems bad. He scored doctor_liza . Lisa says:" There is not long left there. It may die in the near future, not even from exhaustion, but from a heart attack. It looks very bad. One of the six who starve from the first day began to swell.
The situation is idiotic. If the CEC provides a video from all sites, then in Astrakhan it is necessary to cancel the election of the mayor. And then you can honor the hunger strike with honor. But the CEC does not provide.
No problems. If you, the authorities, declare that everything was honest-there is no problem, provide the video-let everyone be convinced of this. But you do not give a video. So, you have something to go, false nales! ”