Rus walking

Regions adopt the format of city festivities from Moscow. Residents of different cities went for walks with songs, poems and white ribbons following the example of #Okopayabai. PublicPost found out where the walks were held, and asked the experts whether such a format would take root in Russian cities.

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Astrakhan

In Astrakhan on May 13, an unofficial rally rally was held, in which families with children took part. Participants with white ribbons walked along the embankment, met and talked. Former mayor candidate Oleg Shein, who was starving for re -election , treated the girls with ice cream. “They read poetry of Abai and Burns so relevant today. Local authors also read their works. Songs for the guitar created an even more cozy and friendly atmosphere,”writes blogger Denis Gavrikov. “All this was broadcast directly on the Internet, so that our friends from Moscow and other cities that evening were“ with us. ”He transmitted greetings, words of support and applause.

Barnaul

The inhabitants of Barnaul arranged an indefinite action "Okupayaltai" in the city center, where several dozen young people with white ribbons and balloons gathered. For an hour, the people talked and sang songs. The organizers were the activists of the civil movement "December". Police officers did not interfere with the promotion.

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Bryansk

Bryansk activists decided to fate on May 13 . The organizer was Yaroslav Kochergin, who launched a call to gather at the fountain in a round square on Karl Marx Square. The festivities quickly interrupted about 50 police officers who arrived at the gathering of 10 activists. As a result, the gathered Bryansk whiteworms were detained, accompanied to the station, but quickly released.

Tatarstan

Protest measures in Tatarstan, by analogy with the Moscow campaign, are called "occupytukai", because in Naberezhnye Chelny residents walk at the monument to Gabdullah Tukai at 18.50. Participants in the actionplan to gather every evening , but they will not break the camp. Residents of Kazan gather daily during the week at 18.50 on Bauman Street and walk around the city until 19.15 and distribute white ribbons. The action was called "White Week" and will last until May 18.

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Yekaterinburg

The protest action of the "Governor will choose ourselves!" It took place in Yekaterinburg on May 19 and gathered about 300 people at the monument to the founders of the city - Tatishchev and de Gennin. Dissatisfied citizens decided to hold a picket after the resignation of the Sverdlovsk governor Alexander Misharin with the slogans “I want to elect the mayor! I want to elect the Governor!”, “Governor! And not Gauliter!” Representatives of the local branch of the Communist Party took an active part in the action, who brought red banners with them, but at the request of the rest of the audience they were forced to fold the flags. The picket lasted about an hour.

Ivanovo

The festivities of the "Okupayivanovo" started on May 12 in the city square "fighters of the revolution." "And since then, every day, at 18-30, active Ivanovo bloggers and opposition are gathering in the square. For those who have come to the rally, they have lectures on various topics. About 20 people are gathering for the event," writes York-IV blogger .

Kalilingrad

The action "#occupying" is scheduled for May 25 . Kaliningrad activists are going to create an organizing committee to prepare for a rally planned on June 12 - on Russia Day. Thus, the Kaliningraders want to support the next Moscow "march of millions".

Krasnoyarsk

On May 12, about 150 Krasnoyarsk residents gathered at the Revolution Square at the monument to Lenin. “There were a lot of police officers in the square, everything in civilian clothes. The Center“ E ”, the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the FSB-all were. They conducted photos. But they behaved correctly, no one was delayed. Liberals, communists, and nationalists are working peacefully on the square. Discuss, play games, discuss the news. In general, Blogger Denis Styazhkin writes .

Novosibirsk

In Novosibirsk, Moscow protesters were also supported. On May 13, about a hundred people gathered in the city center, 15 of which remained on the square at night. The participants of the action were entertained by games in the "Mafia", "Guessing" and volleyball, as well as reading the structuralist Altusser and Neo -Marxist Vallestain. Protesters call what is happening "Okupai", writes blogger Konstantin Eremenko.

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In addition, an opposition camp formed in Novosibirsk, which was visited by Ilya Ponomarev. “There are a lot of people in the square for this city - more than 50 people. The audience is very active: the guys communicate, conduct lectures, sing songs and discuss what will happen next. But the difference between this camp and others is that people in it are looking for priority tasks for the opposition,” the opposition deputy wrote . A former senator from Novosibirsk Alexei Manannikov was detained in the camp. According to Ponomarev, "the police reported that he was wanted and took him to the department." The camp curled up on the evening of May 20 after the small action "Plum of Protest".

The Novosibirsk activists of the Solidarity movement decided to hold their "march of millions" on June 12 by analogy with the Moscow campaign. It is planned that the procession will pass from the Globus Theater to the State Public Scientific and Technical Library and will end in a rally in the square from 17.00 to 19.00. It is expected that two thousand people will come. The organizers are members of the "Solidarity" Viktor Polyakov, Bulat Barantaev and Vladimir Alekseytsev. It was hung that the applicants would include a representative from nationalists Andrei Afanasyev, a member of the Communist Party of the Communist Party Yaroslav Holodov and a member of the LDPR Kirill Bragin.

Komsomolsk-on-Amur

City activists of Komsomolsk-on-Amur decided to organize daily walks, "to determine the point of no return when in our city it will be forbidden to walk along the streets, as is happening now in Moscow," the VKontakte group says . The time and place of the gathering is 19:00, daily, in the square of youth.

Eagle

On Sunday, May 20, about 100 people went to “white festivities” on Ermolov Square. The townspeople protested against the installation of the monument to General Alexei Ermolov. The indignation of the townspeople caused the fact that the city authorities decided to put the monument without coordination with the municipality. The cost of the monument is 11 million rubles, the money was collected by the regional authorities. The mayor of the eagle, Sergei Stupin, participated in the festivities, who ordered to suspend the installation of the monument. This caused dissatisfaction with local officials.

Pyatigorsk

In Pyatigorsk on May 12, activists of the Voters League of Pyatigorsk and Kavminvod distributed leaflets for the third term since the bloody resurrection! " On Lenin Square in front of the city administration building. The FSB police and employees tried to stop the event, calling it a prohibited rally. The coordinator of the Voters League Pyatigorsk and Kavminvod Mikhail Parshin managed to resolve the situation, explaining that the distribution of leaflets does not require an official notification.

Rostov-on-Don

About 30 Rostov activists gathered before the public library on May 13. Among the audience, members of the Communist Party and Fair Russia, the unregistered Parnas party, the Russian Unity, movements for honest elections, the Left Front, Solidarity, representatives of the United Civil Front, and just activists - participants of the VKontakte group Rostov_Protiv_2.0 were seen. Two hours later, the rally was stopped by the police, who detained the journalist Andrei Bukreev and the participant in the movement of the left front of Alexei Tretyakov. According to the police, Bukreev was taken to the department because of his similarity to a dangerous criminal. After interrogation, the activists were released.

Rostov activists gathered again at the public library on May 27 . According to the member of the Solidarity movement, Ecologist Elena Belan, about 30 people came to the "gatherings", including pensioners. The audience had a snack, sang songs to the guitar. The police followed the activists, but there were no detentions.

The next action in Rostov-on-Don with the participation of the co-founders of the voter league-political observer Sergey Parkhomenko and TV presenter Tatyana Lazareva-is planned on May 30 at the entrance to the Gorky Park.

Samara

Residents of Samara gathered at the fountains in Square of Glory. About 50 people read poetry, walked peacefully. According to Blogger Vladislav Volkov, "the police are watching nearby, but does not interfere."


Saint Petersburg

Here, protest festivities unfold on Isaacievskaya Square, where about 200 people gathered on May 13. According to oppositionist Olga Kurnosova , activists listened to the performance of musician Mikhail Novitsky, a lecture by a teacher of the Higher School of Economics (GSHE) Dmitry Nechiporuk about the foreign experience of the transition to democracy.

Participants in the “Narodnaya Golyaninna of Isaacievskaya Square” on May 20 arranged a walk along Nevsky Prospekt to the Arts Square . At the head of the column of 2000 people was a representative of the St. Petersburg branch of the OGF Olga Kurnosova. As a result, the column walked along the sidewalks of Nevsky Prospekt and crossing it near the Kazan Cathedral strictly to the green light along the Zebra, went past the European Square to the monument to Alexander Pushkin, near the Russian Museum. The gathered with white ribbons and songs under the guitar drove a round dance around the monument, until the police appeared festivities.

Yaroslavl

About 50 people gathered in Yaroslavl Square in Yaroslavl on May 10, who walked with white ribbons around the city. Activists of the protest movement thus supported the Moscow residents of the#Okupayabai camp. There were no detentions.

Nizhny Novogorod

On Saturday, May 19, festivities were held in the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin with the participation of 20 people. On Sunday, May 20, led by the coordinator of the local “Left Front” Alexander Krasnov, a walk called “Okupinn” was held. "We gathered at about 15:00 on Minin Square with red and white ribbons and badges and went to the Kremlin. Police officers did not close the gate this time. We walked past the buildings of the election commission, city hall, envoy, hung white ribbons on the doors," Krasnov said . On May 12, in Nizhny Novgorod it is planned to “march the millions”, which will be held along the route "Cinema" October " - Minin Square."

Mikhail Vinogradov, political scientist, head of the St. Petersburg Politics Foundation

"The regions have now formed a dual situation. On the one hand, protest activity there was clearly lower than in Moscow. On the other hand, Moscow remains the legislator of mod in various fields, including in moods. If we talk about" Occupyabai " - this is a serious legislator of fashion for young people. I think, the organizers managed to find those notes that are in demand by young generations all over the country. Walks, folk cassors. Political layers in the regions are used as an opportunity to somehow manifest in the conditions of uncertainty regarding the format of these walks and the unpreparedness of the authorities to prohibit them-this is a simple and aesthetically attractive way of protest.

So far, Moscow is the center of the protest movement in the country. In the regions, even after the situation in Astrakhan, there were no serious protest moods. In the future, I think, although with a delay, the spread of protests will occur. ”

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