Photo: ReutersIn St. Petersburg, it was decided to rally against the "Law of the Plotsy". Moreover, the money for organizing a rally was collected among the people. “So that no one tells us that we were spending the money of the State Department,” the organizers said. At one in the afternoon, more than a thousand people gathered without any State Department on the Field of Mars. Perhaps this action on the field became the first protest event in a long time, which united such a different aging audience. Both schoolchildren and pensioners came against the ban on the adoption of Russian orphans. Especially a lot among the participants in the rally were blockade. They stood in a crowd with home -made posters: "Blocades against Putin", "There was no such blockade."
The rally, declared by the already self -exposed St. Petersburg Youth Apple, was opened by a deputy of the St. Petersburg Zaks, now the former member of Yabloko Maxim Reznik. On this, the "right" bias of the event was almost over. The speakers, like participants in the rally, represented a variety of strata of disagreements with the ruling party. They went out to the microphone and left -wing ("Committee for the working International"), and social activists ("St. Petersburg parents"), and fighters for the national autonomy of Ingermanland. Evgeny Petersburger emotionally shared his adoption experience, and Larisa Gromova’s blockade recalled that “there wasn’t such a blockade”, referring to the plight of Russian orphans and a huge number of social orphanages and homeless people. Larisa Semenovna called not to give orphans into offense, her Credo "No Pasaran" was vividly picked up by the crowd.
Following the blockade, the famous opposition singer and folk defender Mikhail Novitsky entered the scene. He spoke at the famous concert in support of the political prisoners at the "GlavClub", sang in the St. Petersburg column on the "Million Marsh" in Moscow. At a rally against the "scoundrels" Novitsky performed the Galich who had already become the anthem of the opposition "Dispersing Valch". The St. Petersburg intelligentsia almost sang to Novitsky in a voice: "If you want to get into the executioners, say silence, say silence, say silence."
They sang loudly: by that time, about two thousand people came to the square. This was said by PublicPost by one of the organizers of the rally, Alexei Volkov. He also hinted that he did not expect problems from the authorities: despite the fact that the rally agreed on 1000 participants, the applicants have already "agreed with the administration and the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs so that they would not fined." Indeed, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region counted exactly 1000 "anti-nuis", which announced to reporters immediately after the event.
The rally lasted about an hour and was closed due to frost. However, after the official completion of the organizers, active citizens, representatives of school parental committees and blockades attacked for a long time. "Why are we closing so early? In Moscow, up to four rally! We have not yet performed !!"
Many really wanted to perform this time. Petersburg has not seen a rally for a long time, where such different and such evil people are torn to the microphone. It was a rally without party slogans, political speculation and hypocrisy. A rally on which they spoke only about children and strong hatred of those who offend them. The Duma was called a fool, deputies - fools, and Vladimir Putin - a cannibal.
And if in Moscow all his hatred, poured out on posters and banners, was thrown into the container "for waste", then the Petersburgers collected the posters and promised to transfer to Smolny. In the coming days, Georgy Poltavchenko will receive a weighty parcel with lovingly packed messages: “Only terrorists exchange children for criminals,” “Mr. Putin, you are a savior or cannibal?”, “Deputies of the State Duma, burn in hell.”