"Section of Freedom": the route could not be coordinated

The opposition and the Moscow City Hall were not again able to agree on the route "Marsh of Freedom", which is scheduled for December 15. As the coordinator of the Left Front, Sergey Udaltsov, said on his Twitter, the city hall offered the organizers of the march from Trubnaya Square to Kropotkinskaya embankment. "The final proposal of the City Hall Trubnaya - Kropotkinskaya," he wrote. “The city hall has no other options along the march route. This does not suit us. So, the option remains - Lubyanka at 15:00. Everyone goes on his own,” Udaltsov added.

Earlier, Alexei Navalny, Sergey Parkhomenko, Ilya Yashin, other members of the CSR and protest activists announced their intention to reach the Lubyanka on December 15, despite the refusal of approval. The start of the action at 15 o’clock ( disruption of negotiations: responses ).

Negotiations with the mayor's office continued on Wednesday after refusing to agree on the Marsh of Freedom route. On the eve of the head of the regional security department, the Moscow City Hall, Alexei Mayorov, informed one of the applicants to Vladimir Toru that none of the proposed options will be agreed. Together with Thor, Mikhail Gelfand and Gennady Gudkov participated in the negotiations.

“If someone provokes people to take the streets and substitutes people, then the responsibility will be on them,” Maigers told Interfax. “If the situation does not change, then on Wednesday we will notify the prosecutor’s office, and all the organizers will be warned that the event cannot be carried out. We will convince people that we should not go into conflict with law enforcement officials.”

Initially, the applicants suggested a choice of two options for the route of the procession to Lubyanskaya Square, but the city hall abandoned both. Then the authorities rejected a repeated application - on any 4 -kilometer route ending on the Lubyanskaya, Manezhnaya, Slavic or Revolution Square. The authorities again refused to coordinate. On December 10, the applicants proposed a new set of route options with the final passage along Myasnitskaya, through the "Nizhny" edge of the Lubyanskaya Square.

The city hall, for its part, suggested holding a "march of freedom" from Pushkinskaya Square to Sakharov Avenue. As the applicants explained, this route is not suitable for them, since this time the rally is not planned at the end of the procession. Based on the results of the voting of the CSR voters, it was decided to disagree with the option proposed by the mayor and insist on the procession to Lubyanka.

Then the city hall proposed alternative options for the route - along the Yakimanka to Bolotnaya and in Boulevards from Pushkinskaya to Kropotkinskaya. “At the same time, it was emphasized: we still won’t let you go anywhere,” journalist Sergei Parkhomenko wrote on his blog. “We won’t even let you turn on the Volkhonka in the direction of Borovitskaya Square on Kropotkinskaya. We won’t give it all. The negotiations were inhabited by representatives of the city hall today brazenly and aggressively:“ There is no one, “We will not let you go anywhere,” “You will bluff anywhere, and no one and you are bluffing anywhere. It will not work. "This is the argument of Mayorov and the participating at the last stage of the vice-mayor Gorbenko. They parted with that."

The KSO working group on the organization of "Marsh of Freedom", having discussed the situation, instructed the Torah to inform the city hall that the applicants "have a clear mandate from the participants in the procession and will not come from it." “In response, Mayorov answered: no center, or go to the boulevards, or in any way,” Torah and the mayor retells Parkhomenko.